JohnStrange

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by JohnStrange 9y ago
In my experience from organizing conferences people who self-identify as vegetarians eat milk products and eggs, though sometimes reluctantly. Vegans don't.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
It will make things way worse, since politicians from now on can and will plausibly deny any video evidence about them. Candidates will literally rewrite history instead of merely suffering from amnesia and any real evidence will end up in
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Interesting blog entry but I was a bit disappointed not to hear about Solomonoff induction, as it is often taken to determine quite rigidly what is in principle learnable by induction. What's the connection of the approach mentioned in
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Insecure defaults are always bad. The other way round would be the right choice. Let users downgrade their security for performance, if they insist.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
It contains all the information you need, loads immediately, etc. It's a perfect web page.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I'm changing my system soon and I can tell you that I'm very, very happy that most of my games are on Steam. I remember that manual installation from DVD used to take minutes to hours, and I just don't have the time for this
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
That's correct, and I should mention that Schadenfreude can sometimes even be used with a positive connotation, namely when a bad person suffers some misfortune due to his own wrongdoings.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
What about microwave beams? Wasn't one of the theories that these could have been used for surveillance and caused brain damage with similar symptoms?
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Gmail also drops sent mails occasionally for no apparent reason. They don't even bounce back, they simply disappear and never reach their destination.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Yandex is pretty good but I haven't found a use case for DDG yet. Whenever I set it for "privacy" reasons (not that I really believe them), I have to go back to Google to get reasonable results. I can confirm the memory loss,
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I believe Brexit is a loose-loose deal. It's bad for the UK because it causes a lot of complications without producing real benefits. Basically, the UK will loose lot of political influence and control while having to abide to the EU&#
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I wish they would still make calculators as beautiful as that one instead of all the cheap plastic we get today. All the Casio FX-880P would need is a slightly faster processor and a slightly more modern programming language with structures
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
You mean those eternally scrolling pages whose main purpose is to hide content that belongs to the user in the first place? These sites are a pest.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I can speak for CommonLisp, scheme and Racket. Someone else will have to answer for Haskell. Generally, LISPs are extremely flexible, reasonably fast, compiled languages with macro systems that allow you to develop a domain specific dialect
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Ahhhh ... it doesn't suffice to simply do your work without slacking, we need no less than the best and brightest for mostly boring office jobs in the government! Maybe some groups within the NSA need the best and brightest, but the
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I agree that browser-based password managers and password managers on Android are insecure. These platforms have huge attack surfaces. I'm using ForgotIt? [1] because I'm its author. It doesn't have a browser interface and
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Some contemporary mathematical theories such as " Inter-universal Teichmüller theory "[1] are so complicated that only one or two dozen people in the world can understand them. Proof assistants like Coq do not help with those kind
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
It's not just that, people spend way more time going through mathematical proofs, finding, and formulating them. If you give programmers time to muse about every function for weeks and write no more than 50-100 pages of program text pe
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I can see the difference, but I think in reality these cases are way less clear and the lines are way more blurry. I also wasn't really discussing the legality of his actions, I was rather addressing the way in which some of these peop
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
People loose millions every year without consequences. It's only considered a crime under certain circumstances and if you don't fulfill the general expectations in terms of behavior, dress codes, legal structures, etc. Maybe this
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Don't you have to run your own IMAP server for that to work? Although my mail provider is fairly generous about storage space, it's not unlimited.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Are you sure about your noncompliance status? IANAL, but aren't there treaties between the US and all EU countries that avoid any double taxation? You have to pay income tax wherever you live most of the time and conduct your business.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I'd like to see a return to semantic markup, accompanied by pragmatic information about the purpose of the data and its intended size. The data should also be strongly typed. Then leave it to the client how to display, how to edit, and
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
No big surprise here. The US is a member of the UN, of course, and the US and the UK were the driving forces behind the inception of the UN, which was first conceived by the US State Department and later worked out in more detail by Frankli
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Bitcoin and other crypto coins are a neat idea until their underlying cryptographic primitives are broken. Then they will immediately loose all of their value. Every cryptosystem of the past has been broken at some time.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Maybe in hindsight due to a certain perceived technological superiority, but that's far from clear and from the perspective of the 80s the Warsaw Pact was far superior in conventional force by numbers in Europe. See e.g. https:/&
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
If you look at the figures you'll find out that such a defense network could never have worked as a deterrent and wouldn't work today either. Russia had and still has a gigantic amount of conventional troops including heavy artill
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
No it's not the tracker, it also works for magnet links and people get letters for downloading. There are companies who join the download swarm and register all other downloading parties. That's very easy with bittorrent, since th
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
This lawsuit won't help them a bit, though. They're struggling because they gained a persistent reputation among gamers that games built with their engine are beautiful but unplayable on any normal hardware. Whenever I hear "
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
PocketChip: only 5 h battery life, not durable, but otherwise would be ideal - but with 5h battery life it's nothing but a useless gimmick DM42: no alarm, too limited programming (basically a HP42 clone), no CAS, otherwise it would be

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