3chelon

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by 3chelon 10y ago
It is blindingly obvious from an evolutionary standpoint that this is happening. I have thought about it a fair bit, as it has directly impacted my own family, and I've no doubt it will continue to do so in subsequent generations. I do
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by 3chelon 10y ago
If you don't mind sharing the details, what was your job on a beach in Thailand? ;)
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Yeah, who said skeuomorphism was dead? Oh yeah, Apple did...
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Working on a desktop is just so limiting. I cannot imagine doing it in this day and age. I work at home, in cafes, on the train and yes, sometimes at the office too. At home and at the office I have a couple of big monitors to plug in and -
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Yes, I used to find that too. It's because, pre-optimization, on older architectures, the compiler outputs chunks of asm as if from a recipe book. Loads of unnecessary memory access, pointless moving data between registers, etc. A prof
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by 3chelon 10y ago
It's not just shorter, it's also faster. But see my answer also: there are condition flag implications of using XOR and sometimes MOV will be preferable. The optimiser will always know best :)
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Sure, things have moved on a lot since those days. I think in modern RISC architectures you can even specify whether the instruction should set the condition flags.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I used to be a native asm programmer in Z80 and 680x0, and one reason for using XOR rather than MOV is to do with condition codes: the XOR operation will most likely update the condition codes (notably, the Zero flag), whereas MOV will prob
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Maybe people will actively sign up to be part of botnets launching DDoS attacks continuously, just to generate enough noise.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I may be wrong but my understanding was that the Renaissance painters would use their assistants/apprentices to perform all the more tedious and time consuming tasks, which in those days including making the paint itself. And in terms
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Yes, the process is irrelevant to the "fine art" quality (whatever that is).
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I think most artists would agree that the line is drawn when a customer gives you a picture of their pet and says "paint that, exactly like the picture." Certainly many, many artists throughout the centuries have painted commissio
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by 3chelon 10y ago
It may well have been a village as recently as 20 years ago. Shenzhen is a huge conurbation that has swallowed countless towns and villages.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
You're right, but I mention those two because I believe Warhol was the most famous early adopter, and Hirst is the most notorious, being the richest artist in the world.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
You're absolutely right. It must still be cheaper to use human skill, but I see no technical reason this cannot be done using image processing (e.g. a Photoshop filter), robotics and/or 3D printing. Clearly, the whole question of
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by 3chelon 10y ago
At the other end of the price spectrum, albeit at a much smaller scale, Andy Warhol used this business model quite successfully. He even called his studio the Factory. And in Damien Hirst's studio, his "assistants" (i.e. arti
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by 3chelon 10y ago
As others have said, the biggest culprit here is the law that allows prescription drugs to be pushed in this way. Was the drug in question an SSRI by any chance? If so, that is terrifying.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
The Phase 1 effects remind me of the first time I got behind the wheel of a car immediately after playing GTA. I was barely able to drive because I was afraid of doing something stupid.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
It's even more shoddy reporting if, as some commenters are suggesting, he in fact took his own life (which seems especially likely if he was indeed bipolar). Turning tragedy into a sensationalist story purely for the sake of it.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I can _so_ see that! They'll be developing iOS emulators that run in a VM inside a browser on your insect-sized cleaning drone.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
In fact, on the subject of fundamental stuff... when I first started out, version control was a drawer full of audio cassette tapes that I cycled through, overwriting old tapes with new versions! Collaborative working? The postal service. S
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Absolutely right. Git will not last forever. We've already had had VCS, SourceSafe, Perforce, SVN...
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by 3chelon 10y ago
What @adrianN said. Some other version control system.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
No, but I think it's unnecessary noise and let's face it, git will be ancient history 10 years from now so kids should focus on learning fundamental concepts rather than a particular tool that's fashionable now.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Thanks for that, I'll look into it.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Interesting project, but I actually think BASIC is a retrograde step, even with modern tweaks. Each to their own though... as I said in my original post, it's the spark of interest that matters I think, and they can forge their own pat
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Because I fell out with Jetbrains over their pricing model :) Also, in school they have some pretty serious restrictions on what they can access. And git might be a bit hard for a kid to learn.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I think it's important to teach kids that achievement takes serious effort, and that making a blob move around the screen is so much more important than reaching the top of the leaderboard in Call of Duty - which according to my son, m
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I'm a veteran of the UK's Golden Age of Computing too, teaching myself first BASIC and then rapidly advancing to assembler on the ZX Spectrum as a teenager. Without that experience I shudder to think what I might have ended up doi
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I thought it was powering everything with coal again.

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