wolfgke

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by wolfgke 6y ago
> I've believed since college that math is the worst taught of all academic subjects. I never had a math professor that engaged the class, and practical applications were never mentioned. Nearly all math textbooks and lectures menti
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by wolfgke 6y ago
A quite similar game in Steam: MHRD https://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD/
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Make exams that are harder to cheat. For example: - oral exams via video call - written exams where students are distributed over a larger area (e.g. the university rents a warehouse for the examination time) so that the COVID-19 spreading
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> (but is still available in 16-bit (“real mode”) and 32-bit (“protected mode”) for compatibility). There exists both 16 bit protected mode (available since the 80286) and 32 bit protected mode (available since the 80386).
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Indeed - but then the person asking should better look in the systems/browser settings; this has nothing to do with the website.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> A big "Yes" to proportional scroll bars. I didn't have an Amiga, but rather an ST. The ST also had proportional scroll bars and for years, I could not understand why the major platforms (Windows, MacOS) did not. It was a
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Can you add an indicator so that people will know to scroll down for rules and stuff. It's called a "scrollbar" and shown in the browser.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> I do think one core aspect of the practice of mathematics has been in increasing human understanding of it, not merely compute things with symbols. The road towards better (in the sense that they can be "more trusted") comput
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Hobby Lobby refused to pay for any health insurance plan that covered contraception because they believed them to be abortifacients and contrary to the christian values of the corporation. This is rather an argument why not the employ
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Straight couples can get married without any plans to have a child. Why is is different for gay couples? This is rather an argument for a change in taxation laws instead of gay marriage.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
There is a talk by Jonathan Blow about this topic: Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> A pitfall of this mentality, at least in my experience, is that people I hurt are usually much better judges of whether I hurt them than I am. But these people are very biased judges.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> This is not the usual "Google kills product", it's the type of thing that HN loves to say they would be happy to pay for ("Just give me something that does A B C and doesn't show me ads and I would be happy to
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by wolfgke 6y ago
"Shared source" was an umbrella term by Microsoft for its licenses that allows access to the source code. Among these licenses were ones that were also open-source licenses, but also ones that were not. https://en.wikip
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by wolfgke 6y ago
As far as I am aware, a usual term of art is also "shared source" (this term was in particular used by Microsoft in the past).
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by wolfgke 6y ago
It is often not clear what is a bug and what is "unexpected/surprising (but 'correct') behavior". Also, many bug fixes of authors that don't have a good understanding of the code cause lots of additional regres
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by wolfgke 6y ago
The source code has to be provided. From this, one can easily generate a diff. The only thing that such a clause will do is having to inform the original maintainer of this. But I don't think that such a clause is a good idea: very oft
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Opportunity cost. Here, two cartoons of SMBC on this concept: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-12-29 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-04-20
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Indeed it has. But the DMCA takeout request nevertheless shows that the legality of the youtube-dl itself is not clear.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Is is good for name recognition if you contribute to software of somewhat dubious legal status such as youtube-dl?
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Wait, that's just Git with extra steps But the extra steps are not completely trivial to do right if strong anonymity has to be ensured.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Of course Microsoft (the company behind Github) will not give up respecting DMCA and copyright infringement. The question rather is: how much will developers continue to respect Microsoft?
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by wolfgke 6y ago
If developers are afraid, they will be tempted to program a solution for censorship-resistant hosting of open source software that additionally allows to contribute anonymously (not just pseudonymously).
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by wolfgke 6y ago
In my youth, I was inspired by different systems than very closed workstations.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Gifted people can be (and often are) introverts. Otherwise I agree with the sentiment of your statement.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
This will probably not be a very open system. In this sense: no, it won't restore my faith.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Also back in the day, people who liked Computers were likely to become outcasts in society. They were not the cool kids. That is what I liked about computers.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
GPG signature only ensures that the package was signed by the owner of the key. It does not by itself ensure that the owner of the key is who he claims to be.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Legality is not an option. It is a necessity, by definition. Publishing the software anonymously on hidden servers (say, Tor onion Services) is not an option. It is a necessity, by definition, because the legal system will f*k you up
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by wolfgke 6y ago
A question to physicists: These three quark colors and the leptops are the four vertices of one of the two tetrahedra of the 3d model at the end of the article. All three colors of quarks come with 3 generations and 2 different charges (+2&

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