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by zeptomu 8y ago
So ... how long until Windows becomes just a Linux distribution similar to Android? 8 years? Sooner, later?
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by zeptomu 8y ago
It is true that at the moment a conventional (non-electric) vehicle is cheaper. However some people do want to own a car that has a lower negative impact on the environment and are willing to pay more money for that (which is a good thing
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by zeptomu 8y ago
Or https://cr.yp.to ...
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by zeptomu 8y ago
> NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. What does that even mean? That description fits nearly every commonly used programming language and runtime.
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by zeptomu 8y ago
> I mean, _just_ basing your impression off of the name is not going to get you very far. There are so many neural networks libraries now and I don't find the time to test all of them - dismissing libraries that use .ai in their web
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by zeptomu 8y ago
The name fastai sounds suspicious. There is "fast" and "AI" in it, so I fear that it makes the easy things easier and the hard things harder. It just sounds like too much fluff. We obviously don't have AI yet (but p
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by zeptomu 8y ago
"Applied Type System" - a language built for correct low-level programming inspired by functional programming and theorem proving. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ats+language If I remember correctly there were plans to impl
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by zeptomu 8y ago
Agreed. I don't really get the love for swagger, everything about it seems so meta. People say you get documentation for free, but auto generating some fancy webpage out of code (or the swagger spec) is not really documentation. You ha
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by zeptomu 8y ago
Nice! How is the legal situation with these paintings? They are from well known artists (van Gogh, Monet, ...) - is it now possible to sell them because the artists are dead for a long time - I thought that maybe some descendants hold the (
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by zeptomu 8y ago
That does not really matter I think. The cool part is that they very able to build a cube that looks similar like Rubik's but has electronics and motors embedded that are able to turn it. Solving the cube with a computer is a solved pr
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by zeptomu 8y ago
Wow, how did they get 850k? They have like 2 things, a cube that measures its configuration and some matchmaking platform where you can cube against others. If one wants to learn how to solve the cube using instructions (although I think fi
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by zeptomu 8y ago
It's a space station.
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by zeptomu 8y ago
Unfortunately, yes, e.g. Google Earth: https://www.google.com/earth/
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by zeptomu 8y ago
Don't forget about `-F`, the field delimator (which is WHITE by default). Obviously an option of awk, but some people disregard some *nix tools, because there data is not space delimited (and delimiter choice flags differ between tools
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Ask HN: When do you expect there to be a table tennis robot beating a human?
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by zeptomu 8y ago
We already have the software (git) and it is distributed by design - some people (and companies) prefer a central authority with some additional features (most importantly some issue management system I guess) that is the "upstream&quo
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by zeptomu 8y ago
Hey, nice work. What would you say differentiates this service from say, Zapier?
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by zeptomu 8y ago
RIP John Bain/TotalBiscuit/CynicalBrit. For me the most kind, reasonable and elaborated voice in and around computer gaming.
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by zeptomu 8y ago
> "That server makes decisions on if lights should be on [...]" Why would you even want such a system? My flat uses the Button-Framework which provides a really convenient UI/UX. The edge between 2 nodes (rooms) has a butt
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by zeptomu 8y ago
Landsat is 30m. There is also Sentinel2 (which is 10m) that can be used commercially. Obviously DigitalGlobe (and recently Planet) do better with <1m resolution but it seems to be more expensive and (sub)licensing might be non-trivial (a
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by zeptomu 8y ago
> But then, What stops SaaS providers from Hosting in their own environment? You mean why SaaS providers are reluctant to provide their stack on-premise? If your main tech is providing a web daemon that "just works" it is simpl
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Hm ... I like the design and it's cool maybe for a product video or commercial, but I don't think it's a good landing page - not much information and too many moving parts. People can also get disengaged by too much distracti
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Fun fact: Apparently this is based on a discovery by Tom Rokicki who was also able to prove God's number to be 20 (the maximum number of moves to solve the Rubik cube).
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by zeptomu 9y ago
But you do not have to build the image while developing (in Python). Just map your project into the image using `-v`.
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Although I mostly use the system's numpy package (usually shipped with the distribution), I just tried installing it via pip and had no problem (obviously just one data point).
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Some years ago I tried (and admittedly failed) to do something similar (a Jupyter notebook as an app) when trying to build a domain specific application for water resource management - we ended up building a "classic" web applicat
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by zeptomu 9y ago
It's also worth noting that the creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was shocked that the software was suggested as a replacement for real psychiatrists - so history repeating itself? Quote from your wiki-source: > Lay responses to ELIZA wer
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Yeah, I meant vi(m)-mode in Bash/readline as mentioned in this discussion. When editing or correcting a command it may be inconvenient to destroy the whole line when switching to movement-mode (which does not happen, if it is not ctr
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Doesn't ctrl-c clear the whole line (maybe SIGINT related?) in vi-mode?
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Bash. Actually it depends if the program uses libreadline - which should be the case for Python's REPL? You may try `rlwrap` which wraps programs without readline support.

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