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This is cool! Did you document the format or is it really limited to what we see on the front page?
This didn't got enough attention, there are still companies marketing their own binary obfuscated ones.
Re:Bounty Fund for Open-Source Digital Contact Tracing on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:40AM (#23322284)
And theyade a huge emphasis on protecting privacy.
Re:Bounty Fund for Open-Source Digital Contact Tracing on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:40AM (#23322280)
The French stopcovid released everything for theirs, client, server, protocols. https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19
Flask (Python) for super simple stuff with no db (I have a custom ldap user and groups manager for example) with semantic ui frontend and crude html. Ktor in kotlin for any API thing that needs to last. Spring boot in kotlin for stuff that require auth and db with vue.js in front using type script. (Makes developing one week viable products doable)
Re:Fast high-level programming languages on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:32PM (#23230408)
Bioinformaticians use Python,R,Java,Julia,Groovy,Js and more (I use kotlin and python mostly but that's in a niche of bioinformatics I don't touch genes nor proteins)... Same as in software dev, there are a lot of beliefs. So you have the club of the js people that hate java, the club of pythoners that hate R, and people that just use what allow them to solve their problem and they are the ones that achieve the most but also that you hear about the less.
Re:Fast high-level programming languages on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:24PM (#23230366)
I wonder how the jvm (be it with kotlin, java,...) would behave on these algorithms.
What happens when network drops? Do you have a chance to merge conflicts? Or one version wins?
That looks nice, however for those interested, only the plugins are opensource and usage is not free. The good thing is that it shows what is possible.
I wish we would have the equivalent of the language servers but for collaborative editing. That way you could edit with one user in emacs, one in vscode, one in intellij etc.
I could find one source here with such a ranking (didn't dig in their method though): https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.inst.nbcites.html
The throughout is fast but nvme drives have much more latency than RAM.
Memory initialization is really slow. On servers there is that, plus the fact that you usually don't want to do a fast ram check like you can afford on a laptop. Add to that initialization of the remote management, SAS/raid,... A server does a pretty thorough quality control when it boots. Also if you have a lot of mechanical drives, there may not be enough power budget to spin them all up at the same time, so they start progressively.
Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:02AM (#23178946)
Absolutely. And it is already the case, look closely at movies, TV shows, podcasts...
Re:Create Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:09AM (#23142956)
Yes I've been using it offline with the electron app and on my phone as an offline website. It works really well that way. The advantage of the electron version is that for local files, it doesn't ask Everytime you want to save, where to save and if you want to overwrite, or save in downloads depending on browser settings.
Could someone familiar with how those systems are made explain how time and ordering of events work in these?
Re:!!Con 2020 Livestream [video] on Sunday May 10, 2020 @09:26PM (#23138004)
So what would work better? Video proposals of an excerpt of the talk in front of a webcam? If you make sure the jury isn't biased why not (they could also be biased with written proposals of course)
+1 I've been using makefiles more and more. And the nice thing is, if you don't have hidden dependencies you can just do a make -jn and get parallelism.
Re:Bringing a decade old vector editor back to life on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:48PM (#23026658)
This was an entertaining read and well explained.
Re:I3wm and Ubuntu 20.04 server without any useless packages on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:48AM (#23019110)
I3 supports compositing, I used it to have semi transparent floating windows (heresy for a tiling wm isn't it) and it also greatly improved some stuff such as smooth scrolling that was all teary.
Re:I3wm and Ubuntu 20.04 server without any useless packages on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:45AM (#23019065)
It is still installing Bluetooth support, ansible, terraform and all kind of things. Maybe you could group these so they can be disabled individually. I guess the notion of "useless" package really differs from users to user and doesn't really allow for a "standardized minimalistic experience".
Some jobs are not just about getting enough money to retire, they can also be about making the world a better place (or sometimes just believing that's the case), just living a passion, just having a social activity and many other reasons.
How would one merge updates from all those offline clients?
same here it works well and I use it to do share screen with my video on it and stuff like that. the only thing is that many video places are degrading video so much that text is impossible to read (zoom for example). I wish they would allow the use of the same encoding they use for share in these cases... another way is to have a single virtual window shared but it doesn't work well with wayland for example which made me wish about the ability to have a virtual screen managed by OBS.
Who would have expected them to help the world in any way? First they profit from it, then run away and will be back to reap benefits...
Re:Knowledge Graphs on Friday March 06, 2020 @10:09PM (#22509468)
to which extent does it scale? are we limited to in memory graphs?
Re:Knowledge Graphs on Friday March 06, 2020 @10:04PM (#22509453)
Where can we find information about how Google is using KGs? All I can find is pretty old info (freebase etc). there are details of what they do with it (those boxes in searches, but no technical explanation)

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