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by yyyk 4y ago
On client systems, PDF readers are as ubiquitous as browsers. An encrypted PDF should do the job better than Word.
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by yyyk 4y ago
>Also the rise of radical Islam has more to do with Arab countries and Israel Not in that area of the world. The Deobandi school is an indigenous South-West Asian school, a radical version of that was wed to a Pakistan going off the rail
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by yyyk 4y ago
True, but we don't have to appoint everyone or even most positions that way. A small random element can actually help in keeping a system stable.
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by yyyk 4y ago
* Initiated deregulation and an inflation-hawkish Fed. * Very dubious energy policies - which were not dominated by environmentalism but by the search for alternate fossil fuel sources, all of them way more polluting than conventional fos
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by yyyk 4y ago
>My personal opinion is that, if you squint, his [Carter's] presidency is a lot like that of Trump The parallel goes further. Both of these presidents initiated a very different economic policy, and this was expanded on by the succe
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by yyyk 4y ago
It should first take the good parts from the previous 'classic' games: CIV IV's modability, CIV 2's Throne room, somewhat more random combat (a bit like original CIV but not as much), a half decent AI... and don't
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by yyyk 4y ago
DCSS would more be in your alley, since the devs actively try to simplify mechanics (perhaps too much IMHO).
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by yyyk 4y ago
The article's conclusion may be distasteful to some, but is in line with historical precedent. The 1973 Yom Kippur war and following oil embargo led to fuel economy standards, CFL research was started, search for alternate fuel sources
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by yyyk 4y ago
It's a slightly different from of eeeevil, up to you to decide which is lesser, or if the distinction has any meaning at all. Microsoft is the capitalist evil. Google is the technocratic AI evil. The first wants your money, as much of
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by yyyk 4y ago
Note this already happened with some software, e.g. Windows EU editions excluding Windows Media Player.
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by yyyk 4y ago
>what am I missing? Google currently controls ~90% of the search market. AI-driven chat/search is a serious threat to this dominance. It's likely that after the market settles it won't have the same marketshare. Given how
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Prof. Lampel passed away – the inventor who made the MP3 revolution possible(newsrnd.com)
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by yyyk 4y ago
Js churn is the result of Javascript having a weak standard library and the system not being entirely settled yet. Java is very-well established. Experimentalism nowadays is mostly in the JVM or in other JVM languages. Now, if Rust counts f
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by yyyk 4y ago
Web3 moniker is tainted. Let's just agree that version never existed and skip ahead to Web 5.0?
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by yyyk 4y ago
Since clang will never support VLAIS, your proposition is a non-starter.
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by yyyk 4y ago
malloc(0) return value is undefined by POSIX and can return NULL (IIRC it did on NetBSD).
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by yyyk 4y ago
Cars are rather important for radio listenership. So when AV cars finally arrive, the effect on radio should be large - former drivers would be more able to consume different forms of entertainment in the car, and I don't think many wo
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by yyyk 4y ago
It's amazing to see that we still have things to discover on Escherichia coli despite it being a reference organism which was researched so much.
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by yyyk 4y ago
Article: 'The average drug discovery and development process takes over a decade. AI does it in 30 days!' Also article: The vast majority of the time taken has nothing to do with candidate discovery.
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by yyyk 4y ago
I don't recall that. I do recall some ominous foreshadowing regarding aliens in the final book*, but nothing definitive. * Maybe D. should have thought about that possibility before embarking on a scheme that required hindering human
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by yyyk 4y ago
Contra common stereotype, as far as air pollution is concerned, Europeans are much less 'green' than the US - see dieselgate and diesel use in general.
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by yyyk 4y ago
IIRC, the Foundation series doesn't actually have any aliens, apart from (if we define it that way) some human-derived offshoots and the Robots?
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by yyyk 4y ago
If LLMs (etc.) had the same requirements and business models as AV cars they'd still be considered a failure. Nobody expects Stable Diffusion to have a 6-sigma accuracy rate*, nor do we expect ChatGPT to seamlessly integrate into a hum
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by yyyk 4y ago
Crashing is a problem with wrappers for wkhtmltopdf library when they run concurrently (you need the right locks, some wrappers have this but not dink apparently?). However, process-based wkhtmltopdf wrappers are also available and don&#x27
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by yyyk 4y ago
The various wkhtmltopdf wrappers (there are many for .NET) work, but note wkhtmltopdf itself (based on Qt 4/5) is abandoned and the general response for issues was always 'just hack the HTML until it sorta works'.
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by yyyk 4y ago
I'm referring to possible performance loss due to lack of parameterization. Yeah, one could enable forced parameterization and let parameter sniffing do its job, but that can be a double edged sword.
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by yyyk 4y ago
>template based There's a reason why the modern approach is parameterized: The old PHP-style templating led to galore SQL injections, and worse performance. Don't see any reason to ever go back.
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by yyyk 4y ago
>LINQ... made queries also compile time checked Alas, it's far from a complete solution. It's too easy to type an expression that compiles but blows up at runtime because the underlying provider doesn't support it or gets
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by yyyk 4y ago
All your arguments are correct, but are unrelated to the main motivations for ORMs. ORMs are about: - Convenience of using SQL from $LANGUAGE where mapping the result, (re)naming, etc. is handled for you. Do this manually, and eventually yo
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by yyyk 4y ago
There are two types of simulations: 'cheating' simulations and 'complete' simulations. Complete simulations give out a set of rules, and an initial condition which is evolved per the rules without significant external in

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