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10 years ago, I'd said "at least third normal form"... but today: Whatever gets the job done. When the application is not really dependent on weird queries (e.g. just a blog), scre…

No, its not. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_surfing

No it doesn't. Surfing had it's boom and bust and now is a normal sport/hobby like skiing or everything else. In the future one could also argue: tech industry contradicts basic ca…

on my reading list so far: D. Huff et al - How to Lie with Statistics J. Ellenberg - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking IIRC Bill Gates recommended them.

I see a lot phrases like "studies show that" these days. Somehow in our science-based, sophisticated society everybody likes to throw studies at each other to prove their own narra…

Understanding statistics (and how to cheat with them).

That is a nice take on digital minimalism, but in my opinion you could also just delete most of the attention-sink-apps and enable black-and-white-screen on the smart phone you're …

So he's $200M in debt now?

Whats the advantage over just writing vanilla html5? Regarding your mental model: This looks quite similar to IEC 61499

I've never understood all this excitement about REST. If you need a special service, just code a small shell program and register it at /etc/inetd.conf. if you need security, pipe …

>You need the right inventives to tackle these challenges. And frankly governments need to reduce the friction in terms of money allocation and regulations to get things done. Chur…

What about the software side? Fairphone 3 supports Android 9, Fairphone 2 supports Android 7. I see no use in a smartphone with replaceble hardware parts if I cannot install at lea…

These packages are already implemented in emacs.

As far as I read https://posithub.org/docs/Posits4.pdf there are FPGA implementations. Also in systems where floating point arithmetic isn't supported in hardware (i.e. Arduino Uno…

whats the advantage over declaring register_device as a functor object from an anon class? for example: class Device; class VFS { public: class { friend Device; void operator()(int…

If Youtube blocks their content, they can move to another video hosting site or start their own. No big deal nowadays.

At least Google and Apple are big contributors to open source software (e.g. Chromium, CUPS). Instead of roasting big companies (because... privacy?) we should work together. This …

tramp supports a great amount of protocols, but only ssh is on active support. I worked in a greater company for a while and used it to access remote files shared via windows file …

Figure 1 looks weird. At day 0 the ranges for the bacterias in the evaluated groups (C, G-5, G-10) differ a lot - Is this noise? Why? If i interpret this graphic right the study di…