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by mablap 9y ago
I needed gcc 6 for testing and decided to upgrade the whole system about three weeks ago. It was very easy and it's still pretty stable. I might do a fresh reinstall now...
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by mablap 9y ago
Haha yes, it was a typo.
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by mablap 9y ago
That is my first reaction. "Mozart without sound of music notation."
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by mablap 9y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not... Edit: Wow a lot of bs going on in the comments. First of all, there's an immense number of ways a DNA strand can degrade, and only one of them splits the strand in two. The r
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by mablap 9y ago
Standard SMTP and IMAP but only plaintext is allowed, no attachments. If it works out it will be encrypted by default with a privkey + passphrase upon account creation, and you can of course encrypt on your own on top of the defaults.
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by mablap 9y ago
Hey, I know someone working on a plaintext email service which should be encrypted by default, without attachments. I can post to HN if/when it's public.
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by mablap 9y ago
With due respect, shouldn't you be the one filing the report? I mean, that's a potential loss of quite a few clients there...
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by mablap 9y ago
Agreed to an extent, but I think we're going to have to wait and see what the next four years have in store for us. A lot of being Canadian has to do with... not being American. The only place in Canada where I feel there is a definite
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by mablap 9y ago
I've often wondered how long Canada can stay an independent country. I doubt it can last 100 more years, unfortunately. Some patriots in 1837 asked this very question as well, wondering why we shouldn't just join the USA and benef
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by mablap 9y ago
The thing with thinking outside the box is that you never really know if you're doing it right unless you hit the "jackpot". I.e. an idea seems obvious to you, but not to your co-workers/friends/bosses/whatever
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by mablap 9y ago
The hour at which you wake up has (unless proven otherwise) no incidence on your quality as a person, professionnal or personal.
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by mablap 9y ago
As a moderately good emacs&vim user, what can I do with this that I cannot already do in a base spacemacs install?
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by mablap 10y ago
Would you consider mathematics to help you in everyday life? I'm wondering because I know some people who argue that it doesn't, while I argue that it does. We might be confronted to a similar issue here?
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by mablap 10y ago
An Elo score of 1500 is not considered being "really good" at chess. In real life, you have to make choices. Some choices preclude certain futures while enabling others. Sometimes you can make a sacrifice now in order to "win
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by mablap 10y ago
Here's a start: http://wiki.c2.com/?ChessIsLife
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by mablap 10y ago
It is indeed, because "time" is not an operator in QM, unlike H or x or p. But from my limited understanding of the time-energy uncertainty relation, you could (as you say) consider it a measure of lifetime - the time it takes for
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by mablap 10y ago
I'm a neophyte player (1250), actively learning. I can definitely see how learning chess to a respectable level (~1500) can help you make decisions in everyday life. I could elaborate a bit but this is a subject about which much has al
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by mablap 10y ago
Hey, thank you. I have updated my comment :)
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by mablap 10y ago
You might have heard of the Uncertainty Principle? Basically it says that ΔxΔp ≥ ℏ/2. Well the principle is more general (look up Fourier analysis) and it can be shown that ΔtΔE ≥ ℏ/2 as well.
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by mablap 10y ago
It all makes sense now! This is much more pertinent than the code if you don't know much about the subject matter.
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by mablap 10y ago
So if I understand you correctly, if I need an appendectomy I shouldn't consult a doctor, but rather open up an anatomy book and do the procedure myself?
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by mablap 10y ago
There's a reasonable argument that we're fairly clueless about how most natural systems actually work. That's kind of my point. To a certain extent you are right that everybody, including scientists, are "c
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by mablap 10y ago
Here's some food for thought: What type of cancers are you talking about? What subtype? What population are we talking about? What subpopulation? What is the difference between an early diagnostic and prevention? Are CTs and MRIs the r
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by mablap 10y ago
If you think this is not science, your conception of what science is is flawed. People deny anthropogenic global warming because they don't want to look at the details, take the time to really understand the issues. Most people have
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by mablap 10y ago
The scroll highjacking is making it hard for me to properly read the article on Google Chrome.
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by mablap 10y ago
Oooh! I just arrived at work and things are calm, this will be interesting reading! We use sqlite for mostly every tool we develop.
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by mablap 10y ago
The trend over the last 10 years here in Canada has been exactly that. There are now multiple tests one has to take before med school admissions, all of which are designed to weed out "bad" candidates. The desired candidate seems
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by mablap 10y ago
I set up a private gogs server at work in about 1 hour (most of that time was spent learning how vagrant works with ansible). My first reaction looking at Gitea is how similar it looks to gogs. The landing page seems identical.
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by mablap 10y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=superbug&sort=byPopularity&pre... This story has been posted a handful of times now. See link for other discussions ^.
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by mablap 10y ago
I appreciate that I may come across as personally irritated - I am indeed a bit. Quebec bashing does get tiring, and your condescending tone and seemingly facile arguments did annoy me. I don't understand the logic of people who hold t

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