halomru

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by halomru 9y ago
The accent you think you are speaking (or are emulating) https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues/242
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by halomru 9y ago
Or throw rocks from bridges into highway traffic. Teenagers occasionally do that
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by halomru 9y ago
By that line of reasoning, this proposal is great because not only the first but also the second and third candidate are elected, making an even later portion of the voters happy
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by halomru 9y ago
I can't speak for corporate lawyers, but I treat AGPL v3 similar to GPL v3 (a bit truer to the GPL spirit, but in consequence a bit stricter). Then again, GPL v3 is on many people's danger list
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by halomru 9y ago
>A potential patent applies to any implementation. Even if you write a clean-room clone of React, if it uses the same patent, Facebook has a patent claim. Sure, but that only rules out a reimplementation of React. The question most peopl
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by halomru 9y ago
A self-sufficient Mars colony isn't easy, but it doesn't seem impossible. And the lack of FTL doesn't really limit us to this solar system either: generational starships with nuclear pulse propulsion [1] could get us to the n
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by halomru 9y ago
What existential issues are you thinking about? The biggest issue I can think of is oil running out, but we're on a good trajectory to solving that. Other resources seem either abundant or replaceable. The threat of global nuclear war
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by halomru 9y ago
In any scenario where society or technology breaks down enough for these skills to be useful, the majority of the population still won't miss them. Without industrialised fishing and farming (which relies on oil and huge production cha
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by halomru 9y ago
I agree that throwing away the physical books would be stupid, but the index is ready enough to rebuild if we ever need it again. And in a post-computer world search times in the order of days or even weeks would be acceptable: when looking
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by halomru 9y ago
Everywhere? First provider I checked has a multiple server offerings with quadcore i7-6700 and 64Gb DDR4 RAM for 39€/month [1]. 1: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex41s?country=g...
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by halomru 9y ago
Punishing CAs for bad behavior (ie Security Problems) has more collateral damage the bigger a CA is. Right now, if a CA is bad enough browsers just stop accepting their certificates. After a certain size that becomes unfeasible, removing a
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by halomru 9y ago
>Is there any way to ask a gzip file which size it will be once unzipped, without needing to decompress it? The closest is uncompressing it and counting and immediately discarding the bytes in the output stream. But of course the proper
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by halomru 9y ago
>Id argue you're still at liberty to do it - you just have to be willing to accept any social prices associated with it. You can say that about almost anything. I'm at liberty to murder my neighbor, I just have to accept the pr
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by halomru 9y ago
You totally can. Technically sometimes you need a certain conjugation or a linking "s", but usually you just combine the words. I guess they meant that not every compound word is one that Germans actually use (as you would expect
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by halomru 9y ago
In a way a dishwasher is storing energy in the form of clean dishes. Now instead of storing electricity to run the dishwasher whenever, you simply run the dishwasher when there's an electricity surplus
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by halomru 9y ago
But there's no reason it can't be. So far there just wasn't a reason
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by halomru 9y ago
Today's washing machines already have timers to start in X hours (at least mine has, and it's not exactly top of the line). Once consumer electricity prices reflect the actual electricity price at that moment new models would quic
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by halomru 9y ago
all-you-can eat buffets work because each person has to pay seperately and the amount any person can eat in one setting has hard physical limits that are fairly low. Unlimited in the computing world usually has practical limits many orders
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by halomru 9y ago
I meant that more in terms of "widely deployed in sizes exceeding the most common paper size (A4/legal)". At the size of a smartphone you have to exceed the resolution of paper by a considerable margin to show the same amount
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by halomru 9y ago
Somewhere between 0.1nm and 1nm.
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by halomru 9y ago
In some applications paper will hold out for quite some time. Only recently screens with a resolution comparable to paper became practical, and it will take until the 2020s until they are widely deployed outside smartphones. And that scre
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by halomru 9y ago
But if a pipe-bending machine has a total cost of ownership of $100 per operating hour, your four pipe bending guys have a job as long as employing them costs less than $25/h. Where before they might be able get a higher wage, their wa
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by halomru 9y ago
Later on the article describes that they installed pumps and removed heat sources. Of course that doesn't solve the problem of operating without humans and without flooding, but I imagine getting funding for major changes is much easie
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by halomru 9y ago
> If elected, Theresa May will "take steps to protect the reliability and objectivity of information that is essential to our democracy" That's the kind of thing you usually hear from dictators. I hope she remembers to giv
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by halomru 9y ago
>Win-loss outcomes are zero-sum by definition. I don't see this discussion going anywhere productive from here. Only in a very restricted framework. If one side goes out of business and one side only makes a minor gain (and lots of
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by halomru 9y ago
How is Master/Slave discrimatory language? Who is discrimated there? In my eyes it is simply a factual description of an architecture: the master gives commands, the slave obeys. The slave doesn't act without permission from the m
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by halomru 9y ago
Which is logical if you consider likes and reshares as the goal of sharing the story: sheer volume makes it impossible for me to evaluate each post in my Facebook feed in depth, so even if we assumed that people would actually read the arti
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by halomru 9y ago
By that definition, in the real world you never do the same thing twice. Your environment always changes (in fact there are several natural laws dictating that it does). From the pedantic viewpoint the quote may be true, but then it doesn
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by halomru 9y ago
That question is a bit unspecific :D >NUMBER = atoi(argv[1]); argv is populated at runtime based on what the OS passed you. But you are right if you meant that my statement is too strong: you can't do arbitrary loop unrolling. Yo
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by halomru 9y ago
You can't really do loop unrolling and constant folding as some suggest because the number of iterations is determined at run time. But assuming his CPU takes one cycle for an addition and one cycle for a conditional jump, his CPU only

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