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by grego 3mo ago
I'm sure I read that 30% will be immortal there, but suddenly the blog post changed... :)
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by grego 4mo ago
Is anyone familiar with gotree? That was mentioned as the most complex piece of code, but the metric was LOC. Based on the high level description gotree might be closer to a set of small programs / algorithms. Interesting anyway. I
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by grego 11mo ago
Well, depends on your definition of high risk. Basic research is definitely high risk, in that return for investment may happen generations from now if ever. I'd argue that funding of basic research through universities etc. is part
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by grego 1y ago
I've spent all my working life in jobs with the rule that the commute should not be more than 30 minutes by bike. I'm now 62, and that's one life choice I've never regretted.
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by grego 1y ago
In Finland there is a profession called dental hygienist, whom I visit once a year. They clean up my teeth with an ultrasound device since many years, removing tartar. I would not call it exactly painless though.
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by grego 6y ago
I can be argued that Trump inherited the good economy from Obama. But there is so much more to life than just economy.
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by grego 7y ago
Well, if you read factcheck.org or any other fact checker, or just read transcripts of Trumps speeches you can see that the negative spin is usually there for a reason.
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by grego 7y ago
In the old days a project would often start in Lisp (Common Lisp for example), and then later be rewritten in C. This is the same pattern, and one should embrace it. Write the first cut, explore the problem space and prototype in a dynamic
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by grego 7y ago
What would be the off the self hardware (CPU) to use for this problem today? Still Intel, or AMD, or does ARM architecture do squaring fast? Or something else entirely, like GPU?
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by grego 9y ago
I keep "loaning" my finger to family members all the time, when I'm driving, watching TV, and they want to borrow my phone. Not really sure Apple thought through this from every angle...
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by grego 11y ago
After figuring out how to deploy to device (see AppDelegate.m), I tested accessibility and it seems there is virtually none. At least in the Movies example app, VoiceOver reads practically nothing. How would one go about making the Movies
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by grego 12y ago
Btw. what braille do you use for reading code? 8-dot us-computer braille, or something else? (I'm the author of MBraille, now working on Vietnamese braille table for liblouis, so braille is in my mind...)
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by grego 12y ago
Krita is great. https://krita.org
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Real world phone reception compared(devicereception.com)
1 points by grego 12y ago|0 comments
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by grego 13y ago
Hey, this is just one of the necessary steps towards Marvin the Paranoid Android, or perhaps the sentient door...
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by grego 13y ago
To me hnriot sounds like a Manager. :) Devil is in the details and managers hate those.
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by grego 13y ago
If we draw something like an air-field on sand, it is reasonable to believe that the planes will start to land again... Sounds like that "cargo cult" variety of science.
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by grego 14y ago
I'm pretty old myself, started coding with Commodore Pet, 16Kb of memory, C-casette for mass memory. Cost something like $1000 at a time. You can still do somewhat impressive things yourself because the tools have gotten so much better. On
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by grego 14y ago
Exercise is a chemical intervention. It is not a panacea and it will take time, typically weeks before it has a significant effect, but it does have an effect. The body is the temple of the soul, you should not ignore either.
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by grego 14y ago
I had something similar in my home network, but my network foo is not good enough and I did not have to time to debug for days and weeks. Basically one linux box with NVidia embedded gigabit controller could take down the whole segment. It
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by grego 14y ago
Petitions are like polls. And politicians certainly follow polls. Big ships turn slowly, some patience is required to see the effect of steering. Many changes in society look quick and immediate only when clouded by the shortened perspect
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by grego 14y ago
Reading https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget it seems he was thinking of suicide already many years ago.
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by grego 14y ago
Well, GDP/capita in Slovakia is quite a bit lower than in France or Sweden, and that is a common trait across Eastern Europe. As he is asking for hosting, money enters the equation.
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by grego 14y ago
In my opinion Varsavsky's blog post was ok. Sure it mostly covered Spain and France, but that's where he's worked at. It conveyed actual experience from one person's perspective. Some responsibility always lies with the reader: http://en
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by grego 14y ago
As a European myself, I think it is fine to generalize* about Europe. Many points in Varsavsky's blog post were correct and it raised awareness of some things to consider. Sure, it had its omissions and errors, but also remember it was a
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by grego 14y ago
Indeed, many who extol the virtues of cloud computing somehow have a blind spot to the fact that network coverage on this globe is not even. Actually it would be nice to see a color coded world map of network strength, is there one? Bad n
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by grego 14y ago
Prisoners in the US serving lifetime without parole: 41000, prisoners in the UK serving lifetime without parole: 41 When imprisoning people so easily is the new normal, it is no wonder the public is not so alert about new laws.
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by grego 14y ago
Going off in a tangent, it isn't necessarily the taxes that keep startups down: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/think-we...
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by grego 14y ago
Usually when comparing speeds of trains and airplanes you factor in the transit time from city center to airport + security checks etc. So the time measured is total travel time. Railway stations are already at city center, and security is
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by grego 14y ago
But social networks provide a sensory overload that was not there before. Go back some years to time without even sms, and you would get other peoples opinion practically only when you saw them. I'm sure there are many personality types ev

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