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I always assumed it was because it was a Subsystem for Linux that allowed it to be run as a guest on a Windows host. But your version works too. Microsoft ist really terrible at na…

What if you want to write the name of an ESL speaker, who might well come from a country where names often don't only consist of ASCII characters? Or do they tell you to knock that…

If you call a pseudo-random number generator, you get the next random number in a strictly defined sequence of numbers derived from the seed. So the generator has state, and needs …

It's not infeasible. The smart contract in the block chain just pays a third party to access real world data. The business model of the oracle provider is to provide accurate data …

My solution: Increase taxes on all alcoholic beverages. Make pharmacies able to sell 20% by volume alcohol mixed with water that is drinkable in non-branded, medical-looking bottle…

You must realise that many people use desktop applications for their work. The Office suite, the Adobe suite, AutoCAD, ArcGIS: whatever program is in use in the industry you are in…

It's not the same. There really IS footage of USA police shooting innocent black people. There exists no such footage in Switzerland. Swiss people protesting against Swiss police b…

It's interesting. Microsoft agreed with this philosophy and fought tooth and nail against tabbing in browsers, opting instead that each browser tab be it's own window and accessibl…

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Then why aren't we programming in English? Why aren't we expressing mathematical expressions in English?

If you have an unregistered version of Windows, they impose some restrictions. One of them is that you can't change your wallpaper.

This cannot be overstated. 90% of the advantages of VIM is the modal editing interface, which can be used beautifully in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA, and other…

Managing large businesses is complex, and requires complex software. Spreading the complexity between various codebases does not make the software less complex. Large codebases in …

You can save the window arrangement, and restore it with a key chord.

It works for the label, but does it enable the artists to live off of their music? I doubt it.

You can use VIM style keybindings in an IDE. I have been using VsVim in Visual Studio for years, it's great!

No, CUDA is not supported by WSL. They hope they can support it at some point, though. Use Conda on Linux.

Email is a decentralized system.

Yes, this is a selfish opinion. Traffic kills a lot of people, and it's not just the ones doing the driving. Traffic is terrible for the environment, causes noise pollution and res…

Resolving scalability issues is not as simple as "rent more servers".

Oh, so if you don't pay for a tool you can't control the development of it? How unexpected!

The assembly code might well have been created with lots of macros.

> it is a computer algorithm, so by definition it is trivial to reproduce results, you just run the program again. Not really. Deep learning is still quite a lot of dark voodoo whe…

I always wondered why companies don't try to catch each other cheating. If would seem that if Ford wanted to, they could easily figure out VW was cheating, and go to the press and …

Windows has millions of users. If Microsoft went out and said: "Hey, this game you all like has a bug in 64-bit versions, here's the source, any ideas?", I bet tons of people would…