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I think I much prefer Haskell DSLs over Lisp macros as the basis for APIs in foreign code. That might be due to my relative inexperience with Lisps, but macros just seem to make al…

> You’re aware Arch its policy is to release packages in a broken state and just put it in the release log? They even very publicly state that. Can you please provide some sources/…

I use Nix on an ARM single-board computer to host a personal Matrix homeserver (and a bunch of bridges), and I absolutely love it. It's invaluable to have a reproducible specificat…

There would definitely be issues with the keyring being outdated which you have to know/search how to work around. And from time to time Arch also requires some manual intervention…

Doesn't match my experience at all. I love that packages are always up to date. Also, in my experience, having a rolling release cycle leads to significantly fewer issues than havi…

Latvian eID also provides cryptographic signing, and it's widely used when communicating with governmental institutions, because it's mandated by law that they must accept such dig…

Most of the times when I've tried finding stuff in (Firefox) history, I wasn't able to. Unless it's in the last week or so. In my experience, history filtering and search options a…

I wanted to preorder the updated 13 inch model but it turned out that in EU Framework sells their products only in a selected few countries (also they are actively preventing peopl…

I feel like many of the issues people are complaining about here would instantly dissapear if there was regulation preventing content producers and content distributors be the same…

What is the context here? What are the mentioned standards that the open source developers will need to comply to? Edit: from the linked article https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/e…

Say there is a quantum system – a particle or something – that has an equal probability to collapse in either of two classical states if measured. Say there are two scientists in a…

Do you account for the fact that probability distributions can have multiple peaks with equal probability? If multiple brains were involved, they'd somehow have to coordinate on wh…

I'm curious, shouldn't the "charge only" mode, that's the default, when connecting usb stuff to Android phones, be enough to protect users? Is it really that difficult to implement…

The "pure utilitarian" viewpoint never made much sense to me because it seems to usually imply accounting for only first order effects, when calculating some costs and gains, and s…

I think you could create a system that's resilient to such issues even with federation (not saying it's easy, though), and Matrix actually has a solution in the works for this – de…

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I've seen a lot of praise for F# but trying it out left me somewhat disapointed. Overall, it was nice to program in but there was a constant feeling of awkwardness which, it seems,…

> Fixing the hardware, which is to say surgically removing the two or three tiny microphones hidden inside, is only the first step of an arduous process, and yet even after days of…

I don't know enough to think that violation of causality is not possible. It just just seems very unlikely. I can't imagine how the world would look like if it wasn't the case beca…

Ah, i somehow read the subluminal as superluminal in the abstract and got all excited. But the subluminal restriction makes the paper's findings make more sense.

Does an Alcubierre warp drive violate causality? From my understanding, it's no different than regular FTL travel, which implies time travel, which implies violation of causality. …

In principle, there is a way for you to have U2F backup keys. Here's a great write-up https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/backup_u2f_token The basic idea is to have two U2F devices wi…

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Emacs is available on Windows so just install it and then clone the Spacemacs GitHub repository to C:\Users\ \AppData\Roaming\ and rename it to .emacs.d\ As i remember, though, i t…