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by 74ls00 2y ago
I’m sorry but this comment just highlights how mind bogglingly bad we in tech are at documentation and knowledge transfer. The very idea that a single project can only survive as long as the same individuals are working on it is insane. For
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by 74ls00 4y ago
I agree. Sometimes I'm prototyping something or feeling my way down one possible implementation -- it's a lot more efficient to go deep in one area of the codebase and come back to fix up everywhere else later once I'm sure t
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by 74ls00 4y ago
Lots of mine (like git and vim) have already been mentioned, so here's some different ones The Elm compiler, for giving me a welcoming on-ramp into functional programming. It's not the best nor my favourite, but its by far the mos
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by 74ls00 4y ago
What are you talking about? Of course they do! Try performing any of the operations listed in this article, or making a reply to this comment, by only twiddling the state of the transistors in your CPU.
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by 74ls00 4y ago
Several years ago, to learn about machine learning, I wrote an algorithm that learnt what the best links in a Wikipedia article are to click in order to find the shortest route between two random articles. The answer was pretty much what yo
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by 74ls00 4y ago
It's only tangentially related, but I just wanted to say that being able to programmatically hack around with the minecraft world via python on the raspberry pi is what first made programming fun for me. I distinctly remember building
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by 74ls00 4y ago
I've recently taken up basketry for much the same reasons, but it has the added bonus that you don't really need any special equipment and the cost of materials is pretty low. Just so satisfying holding a thing in your hand that s
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by 74ls00 4y ago
I believe that my current work has a positive social impact. I work for ResearchSpace ( https://www.researchspace.com/ ) where we make software for bio-med research labs. Its no change-the-world kind of endeavour, but is is s
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by 74ls00 4y ago
Used to be the same in the UK (was my first language), but now they've revamped computing education up and down the country I'd be very surprised if it's still used anywhere
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by 74ls00 5y ago
Yes, going back and understanding why something broke/has changed is incredibly valuable. Often it's not because of one singular decision but a collection of decisions over time that resulted in some behavioural regression. Bein
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by 74ls00 5y ago
I find this debate interesting, but I can see this argument being used by both sides. Is your point that you don’t foresee external issues by buying like the supplier going under/the product becoming unmaintained or that you don’t fore
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by 74ls00 5y ago
Neither. All you get is in effect a certificate that says you “own” it. Nothing more, nothing less.
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by 74ls00 6y ago
ZSA, the mechanical keyboard company, has layout.new —- that’s the smallest institution owning one of the .new domains I’d seen prior to this. Not exactly a global brand
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by 74ls00 6y ago
IIRC tin was one of main motivating factors for the Roman invasion of Britain
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by 74ls00 6y ago
I don’t know, seems reasonable to me. How many people on the street would know when asked what the safe dosage of liquorice is? Guess most would say it’s no worse than any sugary candy. Is it not similar to an allergy?
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by 74ls00 6y ago
The problem is that a lot of the specialist machines weren't designed with security in mind — it’s not so easy to do as you describe
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by 74ls00 6y ago
The main thing I’ve never understood is why online voting is even desirable. Even if it were as secure what’s wrong with going to a polling station? If it’s inaccessible to many busy people then let’s make it a public holiday. What problem
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by 74ls00 6y ago
Had the same idea just before seeing your comment as I pondered over another discussing the horrendous environmental cost.
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by 74ls00 6y ago
Precise means lots of fine-grained information; accurate means close to the truth. If the weather is 20° exactly and one thermometer reads 20.2° and another 20.562° the first can be described as more accurate and the latter as more precise.
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by 74ls00 6y ago
That’s what it means for a legislature to be sovereign — you kind of need the ability for future people to reverse past decisions to have a functioning democracy
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by 74ls00 6y ago
Great idea - very poor implementation. Most of us here could have seen this coming and designed a better solution.
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by 74ls00 6y ago
If it does then it’s evidently not dangerous if it’s interfering with WiFi
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by 74ls00 7y ago
From the long term view, it seems reasonable to assume that the high economic growth rates of the 20th century are not going to be something we’ll see again anytime soon. An environmentally-sustainable economic outlook for the future is lik
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by 74ls00 7y ago
Encryption isn’t like using a mask - we can still see who is communicating with who, we just can’t see what they’re saying. Banning encryption is like banning envelopes.
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by 74ls00 7y ago
I do - assuming there’s actually something to show off then I put it up. I have static websites only half full of content, repositories with just an assortment of scripts and configs, libraries that are just enough to meet the use case, etc
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by 74ls00 7y ago
4. Aesthetics Some of us just prefer the look of e-ink displays.
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by 74ls00 7y ago
The Second World War is certainly the most tumultuous time in Japanese history but it was still an era of relative stability when compared to civil wars, revolutions, and invasions in most parts of the world E.g. the monarchy prevails
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by 74ls00 7y ago
This is the exact curve that is described by an academic in a recent episode of planet money https://pca.st/episode/d1397f9e-49f0-425c-8b10-3c4adb039f3f
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by 74ls00 7y ago
Whilst I have no doubt that computerised spelling checking is standardising spelling, this has been a trend going back centuries. As writing has becoming more widespread, spelling and grammar has become more fixed. Shakespeare signed his na
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by 74ls00 7y ago
You make an interesting point, but I’m not sure I find it entirely convincing. To feel out the limits of your argument, what is it that you see as fundamentally different between the Internet and the dawn of recorded sound? The ubiquity, th

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