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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...

Haha yes, it was a typo.

That is my first reaction. "Mozart without sound of music notation."

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 …

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…

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.

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...

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. Th…

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, wond…

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-w…

The hour at which you wake up has (unless proven otherwise) no incidence on your quality as a person, professionnal or personal.

As a moderately good emacs&vim user, what can I do with this that I cannot already do in a base spacemacs install?

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 …

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 …

Here's a start: http://wiki.c2.com/?ChessIsLife

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) conside…

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 elabor…

Hey, thank you. I have updated my comment :)

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 ≥ …

It all makes sense now! This is much more pertinent than the code if you don't know much about the subject matter.

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?

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, in…

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 …

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 ti…

The scroll highjacking is making it hard for me to properly read the article on Google Chrome.