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Comment · 2 years ago
By 2028, not 2008.
Comment · 3 years ago
There are copy/paste buttons on Gboard, but they're kind of hidden. Press the 4 squares in the top left of the keyboard and select Text Editing. You get arrow keys, a button for toggling select, and cut/copy/paste. In a way it's like switching out of insert mode in vim.
Comment · 5 years ago
The language is Dutch, the collection of dialects spoken in the Flanders region is Flemish. If you're feeling charitable, you can refer to it as a language variant.

Here is the constitution of Belgium: https://www.senate.be/doc/const_nl.html Articles 2 and 3 define the Flemish (Vlaamse) community and region. Article 4 defines the language areas and specifically mentions Dutch (Nederlands), not Flemish.

See also: the Dutch Language Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Language_Union) being founded on a treaty between the Netherlands and Belgium.

For a language that's derived from Dutch but now its own proper language, try Afrikaans.

Comment · 6 years ago
The big difference here is that the bloom filter implementation runs entirely client-side. It saves a roudtrip per search.
Comment · 7 years ago
You may have Gateron Clears, which are lighter than Gateron Browns. Gateron Browns are basically equivalent to Cherry MX Browns, but Gateron Clears are entirely different from Cherry MX Clears. This has tripped me up more than once.
Comment · 9 years ago
Regardless of how the court case turns out, I can't see this whole affair ending well for Grsecurity. They need good PR with the exact people that are likely to side against them in this matter.
Comment · 9 years ago
That's how the Snapchat Spectacles work: one side contains the camera, bluetooth and other electronics, the other side contains the battery.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
The trick of entering a dummy username and password, which is then modified in the post request sounds a whole lot better than playing clipboard roulette or messing with the DOM.
Comment · 9 years ago
vim-airline requires you to use a patched font that replaces certain little-used unicode characters with shapes that airline uses to draw its UI. Specifically, those < and > looking dividers in the airline statusline. Although it's totally possible to use airline without this and it will look only slightly less fancy.
Comment · 9 years ago
>electron based text editor, music player, terminal, 2 - 3 chat apps, git browser

So... Atom, Spotify, Black Screen, Slack & Discord, GitKraken. "Soon" is now.

Comment · 9 years ago
Interesting concept, but I don't expect it to be used commercially anytime soon, because of how slow it makes the page load.

Then again, maybe your site being annoyingly slow for people who block ads is a feature rather than a bug.

Comment · 10 years ago
We already have software that can change on its own. Neural nets are software too, and with things like backpropagation they can update their weights, essentially changing themselves.

I'm not saying that this level of change is enough to get the disaster scenarios that Bostrom talks about, but it's a folly to say that self-changing software can't possibly exist.

Comment · 10 years ago
>Have you ever programmed any piece of software that suddenly implemented features of its own?

I'm not sure what particular fear mongers you're talking about, but Bostrom and the like are talking about software that's specifically made to change and improve itself on a fundamental level.

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