david_draco

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by david_draco 10d ago
The US pressured Europe last time, in 2019, into aligning with their sanctions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_in_Support_of_Trade... The Iran situation could have gone better if trade and JCPOA nuclear over
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by david_draco 1mo ago
Unfortunately patent offices are using loopholes that reintroduce software patents. Patent law says that a pure software patent is not possible, it has to be combined with a specific hardware application to make it an invention. So they fil
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by david_draco 2mo ago
JabRef before version 3 was pretty compact and snappy. It's essentially editing a text file for taking notes, except you can search through, download arxiv and journal articles (with LocalCopy extension), launch the associated PDFs.
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by david_draco 2mo ago
It's interesting that the male voices are all so much worse than the female voices (several are quite good). There is bias in machine learning, but I wonder whether there is also systematically more training data of female speech?
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by david_draco 4mo ago
I'd be interesting to quantify the cost of inconsistent funding to the supply chain.
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by david_draco 5mo ago
That there were 0 equivalent products to the first iPhone is just a blatent lie. But repeated often enough, it overrides memory and becomes true, I guess.
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by david_draco 7mo ago
> What does it mean that that I feel my anxiety in my gut? And that I clearly feel when I’m speaking from my head or my heart (or both)? [...] What does it mean that that I feel my anxiety in my gut? And that I clearly feel when I’m spea
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by david_draco 8mo ago
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visted Europe and openly said to Kaja Kallas, the European Union's foreign-policy chief and other EU ministers: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does not want to see Russia defeated in Ukraine, fearing
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by david_draco 11mo ago
Now apply to each topic at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_characterized_a...
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by david_draco 11mo ago
A browser using 32 GB for 8 tab isn't necessarily wasteful, there is a lot of caching one can do to make back/forward buttons extremely fast. It would be wasteful to not allocate that memory if it is otherwise free and unused. Usu
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by david_draco 1y ago
And if I don't know, can I know?
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by david_draco 1y ago
I'm surprised Firefox Multi-Account Containers isn't mentioned. Seems ideal to me to keep Web Universes separate.
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by david_draco 1y ago
Unit and Integration testing is great for decreasing cognitive load too. When you are staring at an error stack trace of a complex code base, and go through mentally what could have played out to cause this, it's great to have confiden
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by david_draco 1y ago
The words "good" and "very bad" indicate that the world is less important to that person than themselves. I'd be okay with a bit of personal harm if it helps against climate change. Ultra-processed food does not hav
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by david_draco 1y ago
Looking at the code, this converts PDF pages to images, then transcribes each image. I might have expected a pdftotext post-processor. The complexity of PDF I guess ...
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by david_draco 1y ago
> there’s also an official, built-in map of the planet, carefully crafted Is there a mathematical framework for how to optimize a map for gameplay to be most enjoyable?
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by david_draco 1y ago
I don't know if I should trust and run this code. If it was associated to Mozilla I would. It says it is a Mozilla Builders project, but https://builders.mozilla.org/projects/ does not list it. I don't see a
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by david_draco 2y ago
Yes. Meteorites are being systematically collected to get impact statistics in areas that are tectonically undisturbed. They seem equally good places: Antarctica, Atacama desert, Greenland. In terms of bandwidth and maintainance they seem
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by david_draco 2y ago
and MINIX is the most common operating system, thanks to Intel https://www.networkworld.com/article/964650/minix-the-most-p... :)
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by david_draco 2y ago
As far as I am aware, there is no symbolic computing tool yet for probability distributions? For example, multiplying two multivariate Gaussian PDFs together and getting the covariance matrix out. Or defining all the ingredients for a Kalma
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by david_draco 2y ago
Step 10, add the bug as a test to the CI to prevent regressions? Make sure the CI fails before the fix and works after the fix.
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by david_draco 2y ago
Wake me up when it supports numpy&scipy.
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by david_draco 2y ago
I guess this implies that rescaling the window, or rotating your phone, will not update the view. Then you'd have to reload the page. That trade-off seems okay to me.
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by david_draco 2y ago
Doesn't seem to be open source: https://opensource.org/licenses?ls=affinity
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by david_draco 2y ago
In addition to the copy_file_range discussion at the end, it would be great to be able to applying deduplication to selected files, identified by searching the filesystem for say >1MB files which have identical hash.
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by david_draco 2y ago
A recent similar example is dying of "Excited Delirium" https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4951 , which was made up by police and the taser manufacturer
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by david_draco 2y ago
> What isn’t clear, in retrospect or otherwise, is why companies/apps/services need to keep learning this lesson. They are trying to find a funding model that makes them independent from Google. - Building a fast, privacy-orien
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by david_draco 2y ago
It is obvious why Firefox does this though; they have no income otherwise like Google does. Firefox users somehow think that using is "supporting" Mozilla/Firefox, but it is not, and they would not pay for the browser, or pay
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by david_draco 2y ago
The thread does not explain whether the behaviour of Firefox was actually changed when they added the check box, or if it is a new option to opt-out of something that could not be opted-out before.
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by david_draco 2y ago
There was a very short window of time when you could make very advanced queries over your Facebook friends graph. It was awesome.

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