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Maxima is a treasure! And yes, I think it is lacking a better UI (wxMaxima works but needs more polish I think) and particularly more appealing documentation. Your video is very interesting!

Mathematica is really good. If it were Open Source it might have a chance at competing with Jupyter and Python. As it isn't, nobody is going to build businesses around it and the community will b…

Also a common practice in Europe (Germany, France, Switzerland...), but frequently even worse: click to subscribe, send a fucking letter to cancel it. Le Monde and Der Spiegel both do it. I'm a n…

Used a lot by math students to check answers.

"Why isn't this a text file so that everybody can simply use their Unix shells to shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/baby-names".

That Hetzner cannot be sued for this is different from claiming this is acceptable behavior. Most people come from cultures where filling a form incorrectly does not entitle people to immediately dest…

Not everything is physical access though. Suppose someone comes up with a way to force S3 to read random storage blocks, or to make a virtualized storage device read past its boundaries in the underly…

That the GP post wasn't anihilated with downvotes is a great example of the continued memefication/ redditfication of HN. And this is a sad trend.

Vaguely related: in Brazil if you call the police and say you want to "order a pizza" they will play along, request your address, and send a police patrol to check on you.

Encryption is restricted from export in the US. I've had to submit forms to do things as trivial as buying microcontrollers from TI which happened to have AES instructions. No idea why I can go i…

Both morally and, in most countries, legally, patents can be broken in cases like this (severe undersupply, inaccessibility and urgency). The WHO should be more concerned about forcing hostile countri…

Why not?

Interesting. I am not a gamer at all: so there is a market for cheating tools? How "legit" is it? Where do players go to buy cheats?

I am a customer, and I just filter out providers that don't have IPv6 as I assume they are incompetent. I wouldn't waste time asking someone to support it. It's 2021.

Yes, I also thought the GP comment was strange. The picture I had in mind was this, which seems to be what William Gibson intended: http://www.sensesfive.com/wp-content/uploads&#x…

Use Firefox mobile then.

"providing a richer inbox experience" Nobody on the planet wants this.

Heh. I am so sick of all the movie apps and how hard it is to find which one has what, plus the fact that they all only have American superhero movies, that I started renting discs again. Turns out th…

Everything?

About 1/3 of Germans still don't bathe every day. 1/6 of the French don't bathe every day.

These are all commodities, the fact that you are being served by the closest producer does not mean that you are not generating demand that has to be compensated by someone else increasing their produ…

The problem there is just technological: the problem with movies and video was the unavailability of good enough codecs/large enough media+bandwidth. Otherwise BBS would have been a hell of a par…

Me too, it works. I wish it had whatever IMAP feature it is that makes server-side search possible in K9, that's a bit of an annoyance.

Alternatively: good thing it has a Civil Law system, so that this horrible precedent isn't binding.