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Show HN: HP Jornada 545 Emulator(lapocket.neocities.org)
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by eafer 7mo ago
You think it's nitpicking because you don't care much about truth when it comes to history, and that's perfectly fine. But it's weird to complain about other people's baloney while spreading your own, and I think in
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by eafer 7mo ago
Damn that lying Joel... who is Joel lol? Of course human directed selection is a thing, when did I ever say otherwise? This is the problem with the Sagan types, you actually think that baloney is fine as long as it's sciencey-sounding
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by eafer 7mo ago
>> Eh, hard to say what is magic and what is not. > I don't think it is? I think there's a difference between the plausible but wrong and the impossible. I find that the word "magic" is very overused by smart pe
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by eafer 7mo ago
I actually kinda like Sagan, Cosmos is seriously gorgeous (though Vangelis does a lot of the heavy lifting there). I'm just kinda tired of the whole "Library of Alexandria" myth that comes up constantly around nerdy forums su
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by eafer 7mo ago
People like Sagan have a worldview in which we are all either rational robots that only believe in "science", or else silly magic-believers that can't think by themselves. Of course Sagan himself proves that this is wrong: yo
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by eafer 7mo ago
I think "made up" is fair. I can't know what his process was and everybody makes mistakes, but almost every single thing he said about history was wrong in a way that was convenient to his narrative, and it's not like he
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by eafer 7mo ago
I just found out that his story about the Heike Crabs is also complete baloney. That makes me sad, it was really such a great story.
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by eafer 7mo ago
I wonder how well Sagan's own "baloney" holds up against his kit. Historians despise the guy for all the stuff he made up about the library of Alexandria, Hypatia, Eratosthenes, etc... People still repeat a lot of that to thi
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by eafer 2y ago
It won't be Lebesgue integrable because it won't be measurable. Your function is actually a good (though not rigorous) argument for the existence of non-measurable sets.
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by eafer 2y ago
> yet its integral over any interval is exactly zero That function doesn't actually have an integral in any sense that I know of. The Riemann integral doesn't work because, for every interval in every possible partition, the fu
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by eafer 2y ago
That's for uniform distributions. We don't know the distribution here, that's part of the problem, but I would expect early cave art to be more sparse and worse preserved.
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by eafer 3y ago
The rotation is not reversed though (at least not with the same speed), that's why it's always been interesting.
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by eafer 3y ago
> If that were the case why did humans not evolve to have 17 times more female babies than male? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle
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by eafer 4y ago
This seems to cover it: https://web.archive.org/web/20181123085448/http://www.contro...
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by eafer 5y ago
> And milk can get pretty expensive pretty fast in this country: It always come in 1 litre recipients, and the cheapest one (The one that is within the mentioned program) is right now at ~70 pesos (Some 73 dollar cents at the official do
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by eafer 5y ago
OK, I thought you meant rust because that's the only other language with chances of getting support inside the Linux kernel right now. > I'm simply disputing your general claim that moving away from C would not help I never sai
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by eafer 5y ago
Not sure why you are telling me this, I don't know anything about Apple's internal development process. I assume they did run a lot of tests. But I recall at least one serious bug early on too[0]. [0] https://www.thereg
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by eafer 5y ago
If you are thinking about rust, we don't have any data about it in the context of the kernel yet, not even for device drivers. It may prevent some exploitable bugs, but those aren't a big concern for filesystems - otherwise they w
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by eafer 5y ago
Shims in the kernel seem a bit anti-social, since all module developers are expected to contribute to the shared core code. Of course it can be done, and it has been done. But I think FUSE is better if all you care about is portability, and
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by eafer 5y ago
> C being a shitty language that does not force or even encourage programmers to handle errors I don't see where this is coming from. Most of the world's top filesystems are written in C, and they work just fine. Maybe other la
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by eafer 5y ago
I don't think I can, I'm using gpl code from other parts of the kernel. I'm not sure I would want to either, I put a lot of work into this and the gpl gives me more of a feeling of ownership. That said, there's nothing s
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by eafer 5y ago
The main problem is simply that people really really really don't like losing their data after they saved it to disk. A simple app that corrupts its in-memory state once a year is probably acceptable. A filesystem that corrupts its on-
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by eafer 5y ago
Oh, I wasn't trying to diss FreeBSD. It would probably have been better to write my driver for fuse to make it portable, but it's too far along at this point.
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by eafer 5y ago
> compatible with macOS filesystems (HFS+ and APFS) How far along is this? I think she's underestimating how hard it is to implement a modern filesystem that won't eat users' data. I've been working on a Linux APFS dr
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by eafer 6y ago
Sure, but there's plenty of starving people in Argentina as well, not all the country is as wealthy as Buenos Aires. So the question is, why do they come here instead of going to a bigger chinese city? My guess is that they already hav
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by eafer 6y ago
I've never been to Sao Paulo, but it has a reputation for being very violent and controlled by gangs. Buenos Aires is actually pretty safe (at least the city itself, the suburbs are worse, but still nowhere near the number of murders t
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by eafer 6y ago
I don't think you should get downvoted, it's a good question. I live in Buenos Aires, and there is definitely a general perception that the country is hopeless. But for some reason we do get a fair share of immigrants from more pr
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by eafer 6y ago
I noticed that too, it has to be a mistake right? The price of the dollar should act like any other price, I think.
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by eafer 6y ago
SEEKING WORK | Argentina | Remote Email: hn.eafer@gmail.com I'm a programmer, most familiar with C on Linux and Win32. I'll be happy to start a project from scratch, or to help support any old codebase. For a sample of my work ple

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