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by dgregd 2y ago
A question for people who have already switched to the fish shell: What is the biggest drawback of using fish? For example, you get accustomed to it on your system and then have to work with Bash or Zsh on your company’s server systems. And
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by dgregd 2y ago
How is that different from Apple Pay or Google Pay, where you click one button and provide all your card details to a new merchant?
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by dgregd 2y ago
For me, the Dark Forest hypothesis is very probable. However, the whole book series assumes that interstellar travel is possible for advanced civilizations. What if no new physics is discovered, and the only way to accelerate/decelerat
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A game theory behind the dark forest strategy?(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by dgregd 2y ago|13 comments
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by dgregd 2y ago
What do you think about the dark forest hypothesis from The Three-Body Problem book? It seems reasonable to me. Are there any sociologist or math papers that describe the game theory behind the dark forest strategy and prove it?
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Russian lab head supporting hypersonic missile program held for treason(reuters.com)
6 points by dgregd 4y ago|2 comments
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by dgregd 4y ago
It looks like russian hypersonic missiles do not work as expected and what was promissed to Putin.
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by dgregd 5y ago
Serbia is not a part of Russia. It wasn't even in Soviet Union. Yugoslavia was an independent country.
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by dgregd 5y ago
I would love to see a keyboard with an ortholinear layout [1] for the Framework Laptop. After switch to a dactyl manuform keyboard it is really painful to go back to a typical staggered layout. Touch typing is much easier and more natural w
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by dgregd 5y ago
How a such hypersonic missile locks a target? Does it use a radar or some optic system? I guess that plasma around the body might disrupt conventional guiding systems.
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by dgregd 5y ago
How this is different from what Apple is going to do with that on-device image hash algos? The other big story on HN last few days is that a Google Drive account was blocked [1] because of a "terrorist" content. Why should I repla
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by dgregd 5y ago
Every time I mention this here on HN I am down-voted. But I really think that in a next few decades sending (dangerous) cargo to (deep) space will become cheap and reliable. Space tourism just started this month and that will fund thousands
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by dgregd 5y ago
It is worth to add the Joseph Conrad was a Pole whose family fought against Russian colonialism.
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by dgregd 5y ago
In two decades we’ll be sending nuclear waste into deep space.
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by dgregd 6y ago
You can have two keyboards. A first ergonomic split keyboard for the alpha keys. A second keyboard _only_ for function keys (placed between the split keyboard), an ortholinear planck keyboard with QMK firmware would be ideal. With QMK you c
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by dgregd 6y ago
Kudos for Microsoft for that keyboard. Compared to the previous 4000 model they made the 2019 model more ortholinear. Notice the offset between the A key and the Z key. It is not pure ortholinear but it makes possible to type with your pink
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by dgregd 6y ago
> I’m glad that I don’t have a direct relationship with shady 3rd party developers. To enable background locations update, a sales rep has to open a check-in screen, wait 10 seconds to see their location on the map and then press the big
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by dgregd 6y ago
I run a small company and offer an app to monitor sales reps work. Managers use it also to see how much time employees spend in the field. To count how much time is spend in some specific location my app uses background location updates. 10
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by dgregd 6y ago
Ruby started as a shell scripting language so I agree that it is good for that purpose. However the question is how much time one spends writing shell scripting code for personal use. If someone already knows Python and only occasionally wr
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by dgregd 6y ago
Only if you are going to use Rails. It seems that in all other domains Ruby have lost to Python, Kotlin, Go and others. Personally I love Ruby and Rails, I prefer clean Ruby syntax over Python syntax, however except Rails all other activity
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by dgregd 6y ago
Apple car is a terrible idea. Apple is good at selling luxury products to ordinary people. An ordinary person can buy a good enough headphones for $40 or spend $550 for the AirPods Max mainly as status symbol. But an ordinary person won&#x2
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by dgregd 6y ago
Lattice C occupied two 3.5 disks so when I was compiling a program I had to switch the disks many times. Then I bought a second external disk drive and it was 10x improvement. As far I remember an executable was very slow for some reason. A
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by dgregd 6y ago
The price is very disappointing. Similarly spec'd Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite 5G will cost about $300.
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by dgregd 6y ago
> Actually, just people in general these days This is how people almost always behaved. In the Middle Ages the term "heresy" was used, today only slogans have changed, the social mechanisms are the same. Of course there is a gr
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by dgregd 6y ago
It is also a good solution for the US. The blue states are much more richer and should block money transfers to the red states. Punish financially until the red states will vote for the correct party and establish more progressive laws.
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by dgregd 6y ago
That state funded radio station has 4,7% of the market share. Thanks to that censor action the song became very popular in other stations and YT.
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by dgregd 7y ago
In Ruby on Rails one can add just one line of code to achieve the same result. class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_paper_trail end That solution is good enough for most use cases and doesn't require highly skilled archi
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by dgregd 7y ago
As a long time Android user I bought in May iPad Mini for CPU speed, high DPI screen and OS updates. I was shocked to learn that it was impossible to increase the text size in Safari. So I wasn't using my iPad Mini as often as I intend
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by dgregd 7y ago
Car companies develop platforms on which they build many different models. For example in VW cars you can find exactly the same parts in Golf, Touran, Passat, Tiguan and many other models. All these 3 separate plains probably could share 90
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by dgregd 7y ago
Regarding housing problem in the US, well known here on HN patio11 has a simple solution: build homes [1]. Does this mean that he is a populist? Or do politicians just call themselves left-wing or right-wing, and in reality both of them rep

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