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I'm sure I read that 30% will be immortal there, but suddenly the blog post changed... :)

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…

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…

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.

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 …

I can be argued that Trump inherited the good economy from Obama. But there is so much more to life than just economy.

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.

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 firs…

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?

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 an…

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 pra…

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 b…

Krita is great. https://krita.org

Hey, this is just one of the necessary steps towards Marvin the Paranoid Android, or perhaps the sentient door...

To me hnriot sounds like a Manager. :) Devil is in the details and managers hate those.

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.

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 thing…

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 temp…

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 embedd…

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…

Reading https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget it seems he was thinking of suicide already many years 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…

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. S…

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…