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leisesprecher

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  • Glass Antenna Turns Windows Into 5G Base Stations - IEEE Spectrum

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  • Public private partnership ♥️♥️♥️

  • How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40%

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  • Yeah, but with our cutting edge AI model we can disrupt the wet market by leveraging hydrofoil effects on molecular clusters to provide pervasive distribution of fluids. All powered by AI blockchains in the cloud.

    We take VC, 100million minimum per investor.

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  • So you feel like you're an imposter syndrome imposter?

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  • You'd have to overhaul the funding system drastically.

    Measuring scientific output by publications and citations is useless at best, but it's easy so that's how you're measured.

    Writing grant proposals is 95% useless bullshit, there's no useful content in the proposals, but it gives a false sense of objectivity and competitiveness, so that's how you're funded.

    Thing is, most of the world operates like that. Corporations measure useless KPIs and demand empty reports. There's an entire caste of administrators whose entire existence is founded on this overhead to exist. I don't see a way to change that without a very very serious disruption (that is, a major war, not a startup).

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  • Many professionals (not only scientists) are really bad at crafting sentences and texts, even without jargon.

    I get jargon, but even if you replace all of the jargon in a typical paper with simple words, the writing style is often horrible. It's often weirdly repetitive, has fluff-pieces and empty phrases, and just doesn't get to the point. (I'll ignore the inherent worthlessness of many articles here, since this is a symptom of funding policy)

    I don't expect a scientific article to be understandable for someone outside the field, but do yourself the disfavour and ask a random scientist, what it is they're actually doing and to explain it in simple terms. Most can't. And that says to me, that these people never learned (or were taught) how to actually boil a concept down to its essence. And that I think is pretty bad.

    As an example, two scientists from different fields could work on almost the same problem from different angles, but they would never know that if they talked to each other, because they are unable to express their work in a way the other person can understand.

  • Redox OS 0.9.0 - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS

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  • Linux filled a gap. There was hardly any way to get something unixy running on commodity hardware.

    What gap does Redox fill? What's its USP? Just being written in rust can't be it.

  • Redox OS 0.9.0 - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS

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  • But why?

    Which company can justify the expense for an esoteric OS with probably just philosophical benefits?

    Google maybe, they have Fuchsia, but that's also completely in their control.

    Linux is not perfect, but for most companies and products, absolutely fine.

  • When happy teams are an issue

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  • That might very well be the case, however, why are all of these apps so incredibly bad?

    Jira especially seems like the definition of feature creep. It's more bloated than a lactose intolerant child after a tub of ice cream.

  • Redox OS 0.9.0 - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS

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  • None of this drama affects those people who could reasonably be expected to support any OS.

    Maybe a handful disgruntled devs will look into Redox, but ultimately, it's a toy project without any real use case. Not that that's bad, but it's not exactly the best motivation to invest your free time into.

  • The Wobbly Future of the Hard Disk Drive Industry

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  • Don't let scammers hear that. They'll sell 16TB "SSDs" for cheap and defraud thousands of people.

  • What do you block people for?

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  • Some people are just completely deranged, like, pathologically deranged. Those people just annoy me, and I don't want to get annoyed/angered every time I read their bullshit.

  • Trump bemoans lack of support from Jewish voters and blames ‘Democrat curse’

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  • He's already at Haitians eating cats, it's not that far to Voodoo.

  • Trump bemoans lack of support from Jewish voters and blames ‘Democrat curse’

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  • .. because the evil leftists destroyed your beautiful airlines, the best airlines, the biggest planes. And now you can't afford the trip to Europe.

    /s, just in case.

  • Sometimes the grass is greener

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  • I'd prefer not to have any smell, but that is apparently really hard to do.

    And why do all products for men have to look like I'm cosplaying a sci-fi tactical commando?

  • Python has a library for everything but..

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  • I feel like there's a very fine balance for the effort required to publish a package.

    Too easy and you get npm.

    Too hard and you get an empty repo.

    I feel like Java is actually doing a relatively good job here. Most packages are at least documented a bit, though obviously many are outdated.

  • Who indeed

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  • The best argument against Rand is just listening to her for 5min.

    Very rarely do you see such a mixture of arrogance, self-righteousness and utter lack of logic in a single person.

  • Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

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  • And who does that?

    I think you don't really get my point. I'm not arguing that there are no ways to archive data. I'm arguing that there are no technologies available for average Joe.

    It is hardly a good strategy to basically set up half a datacenter at home.

  • Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

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  • Thin concrete slabs are extremely brittle.

  • Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

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  • Is it? It's rather expensive and would you really know, if the data is gone or corrupted?

    You'd have to download every single file in certain intervals and check it. That's not really low complexity.