JanisErdmanis

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by JanisErdmanis 13d ago
Cool, can’t wait to try that out in a stable release.
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by JanisErdmanis 13d ago
What is this magic, how does it differ from PkgImages Julia already has?
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by JanisErdmanis 20d ago
I like the idea behind Flatpak and the ability to sandbox applications. What I don't understand is why they chose to lock the build process so tightly to Linux. I'm currently on macOS, and while I can cross-compile applications, I
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by JanisErdmanis 4mo ago
Sometimes I wonder why we don't just treat an installation script like curl https://alx.sh | sh as a universal option for distributing applications. The provenance is there via the HTTPS certificate, and if you're alre
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by JanisErdmanis 6mo ago
The remaining oil companies will profit tremendously from the high oil prices. I am sure they will have no problem allocating some of those extra profits to sabotage attempts to consider any alternative energy sources.
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by JanisErdmanis 6mo ago
Depends widely on the target audience. In my case, targeting Julia developers who want to package their applications into installers to reach 100 stars took 2 years - https://peacefounder.org/AppBundler.jl . If I were to tar
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by JanisErdmanis 6mo ago
This is really funny ;D Gives Tetris vibes and is executed beautifully.
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by JanisErdmanis 6mo ago
To put it simply if you have a function f(ctx) = ctx.a + ctx.b it is hard to see what are the arguments producing the output. Which are the elements in the datastructure you need to vary in order to have exhaustive tests. Whereas if one ref
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by JanisErdmanis 6mo ago
It’s about coupling and being able to maintain that in the long term. A narrow focus helps to test each individual unit in isolation from each other. It is true that a database appears to be a single datastructure with hundreds of methods f
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by JanisErdmanis 6mo ago
I still firmly believe that one ctx object and hundred functions/methods is as bad as programming with plain variables defined in the global scope. If the ctx is composed from smaller data structures with whom the functions are defined
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by JanisErdmanis 6mo ago
Separation of concerns is still a valid paradigm with a single global datastructure like GUI, Microservice, Database and etc. In such situation one can still seperate concerns via composing the global datastructure from a smaller units and
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by JanisErdmanis 6mo ago
One can always look as global variables equivalent to a context object that’s is passed in every function. It’s just a syntactic difference whether one constructs such data structure or uses it implicitly via globals. What I am getting at i
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by JanisErdmanis 6mo ago
With 100 functions and one datastructure it is almost as programming with a global variables where new instance is equivalent to a new process. Doesn’t seem like a good rule to follow.
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by JanisErdmanis 6mo ago
Yes, energy dissipates. Although one still needs to look out for the distance from the neighbours as your ground can be different from your neighbours ground potential.
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by JanisErdmanis 6mo ago
Yes, that puts it down perfectly. That’s why some don’t ever see the benefit of installing their surge protector whereas others install one way too small for their situation and find them useless anyway.
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by JanisErdmanis 6mo ago
If your close neighbours have surge protectors then you benefit little from installing your own.
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by JanisErdmanis 6mo ago
> Another reason ignoring the literature can be helpful is that sometimes a bunch of work tries to solve some problem, and so everyone assumes it must be hard---just because no one has solved it yet, even though no one has really tried a
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by JanisErdmanis 7mo ago
This is unlikelly because Iranian regime is going to execute false flag operations against their people to steer public opinion in their favour.
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by JanisErdmanis 7mo ago
As long as someone else does the porting and maintains the compatability between both subecosystems of thoose who prefer using Jax and thoose who prefer depending on the NumPy. Also not having zero overhead structs that one can in an array
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by JanisErdmanis 7mo ago
A significant obstacle to adoption is that cryptographic research aims for a perfect system that overshadows simpler, less private approaches. For instance, it does not seem that one should really need unlinkability across sessions. If that
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by JanisErdmanis 7mo ago
> It took me days to get that build to work; doing this compilation once in CI so you don't have to do it on every machine is trickier than it sounds in Julia You may be interested in looking into AppBundler. Apart from the full app
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by JanisErdmanis 7mo ago
Such tedious derivations used to be a work of poor PhD students who were instrumentalized for such tasks. I envy those who do PhDs in theoretical physics in the age of AI, people can learn so much about their field quicker via chat than rea
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by JanisErdmanis 7mo ago
In essence liquid democracy makes votes a transferable currency bringing it fairly close to what money already is. It would be really hard to prevent existence of an exchange rate between money and vote transfer making that a capitalist dre
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by JanisErdmanis 7mo ago
This is the best way to look on this. Furthermore these surveys are susceptible to bias introduced by the varying degrees of participant engagement. One application I could see for such tools is distill some of participant generated proposa
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by JanisErdmanis 7mo ago
Tangentially, does anyone use a stamping device to put dates in their notebook? I am looking for something that sets the date and, preferably, the time automatically so that I have less friction keeping my notebook timestamped.
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by JanisErdmanis 8mo ago
Isn’t it still possible for the voter to not cast this ballot paper and bring it to the coercer who waits outside? Then the coercer fill this ballot and ask the next voter to cast it and bring back a blank ballot paper?
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by JanisErdmanis 8mo ago
The definition is fine. It covers paper ballot security requirement where one shall not get any receipt at all.
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by JanisErdmanis 8mo ago
It seems you mean something simailar to Selene voting system where a tally board is published containing tracker vote pairs. Each voter can decrypt their tracker once the voting phase closes to check the vote and also means to fake the decr
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by JanisErdmanis 8mo ago
> This can easily solved be done via letting people forge receipts. Then anyone can forge a vote to give to someone offering to buy them. This is the literal definition of receipt freeness. It’s hard to ensure that the receipt you receiv
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by JanisErdmanis 8mo ago
> It’s difficult to make an E2E-VIV checking app that’s both trustworthy and receipt-free. The best solutions known allow checking only of votes that will be discarded, and casting of votes that haven’t been checked; this is highly count

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