BruceIV

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by BruceIV 14y ago
Fair enough - but you'd need a charging station at your destination to make the OP's argument work, because if you charge your car at home every night like your phone, you're on the hook for the electricity (which probably costs more per mi
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by BruceIV 14y ago
What got me is a charge rate of "150 miles of drive time in an hour" - so it takes an hour to charge for every 2.5 hours of driving?
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Agreed. It just takes time to explain how any computer system works (at least at a high level). One of my friends asked me once "what is code?" after I came home from work - I spent two hours talking with him, and at the end he had a rudime
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Agreed, but it's likely more useful for Markdown sources - when I was writing my thesis my supervisor and I kept the LaTeX source in a shared git repository, and added a couple macros for comments - it wasn't quite this slick, but combined
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by BruceIV 14y ago
If you're looking for something a little less nerdy than some of those suggestions, why not names of streets or neighbourhoods in your city? The main key is that you want a theme with some headroom (you don't want to run out of names at fiv
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I name all my computers after Tolkien characters, I have a friend who names all of his after breakfast foods, my alma mater named their servers after Norse gods, all the computers where my wife worked were named after sci-fi starships. If y
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by BruceIV 14y ago
The article makes sense - the only thing I'd add is "go to sleep at a consistent time at night, and you'll wake up at a consistent time in the morning" (also, avoid caffeine, it throws your sleep schedule off like mad)
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Kids tend to compare grades anyway, though - they want to have a rough idea where they fell on the curve, if they beat "the smart kid", etc.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
If you're out of contract, why can't you just ditch them for another carrier? (or at least threaten to - it may make them more amenable to your very reasonable requests)
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by BruceIV 14y ago
hckrnews.com - when I'm really bored, I'll go to the main site and scan down the "new" page.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Perhaps the newsfeed isn't useful, but Facebook has largely replaced email for personal communication for me - you know people actually check their Facebook inbox, as opposed to their 3/6/more email inboxes, and you can easily set up mailin
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Agreed, this is no more a "Linux distro" than Cygwin is, but it does sound useful (much like Cygwin's bash shell).
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I meant that the users that currently upgrade every 6 months would move over to the rolling release system. Also, I don't think LTS would have to be completely separate from the rolling release. IIRC Debian stable is basically just a freeze
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Sounds like Debian sid/testing/stable...
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I think it's a win, as long as they make rolling releases between LTS releases optional. That way the LTS users keep their current status quo, and the 6-month release users get a more even distribution of new features and OS updates (they c
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by BruceIV 14y ago
To provide a more concrete objection, I'll say that a human-level AI would have to have a general and expandable framework for learning , and I don't think we really have any idea how to build one. Watson is cool and all (and probably the
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by BruceIV 14y ago
The hardware may be exponentially better, faster, stronger, but you've still got the same people writing the software. I don't buy the whole "Moore's Law will give us strong AI." - it just feels a bit like Asimov-era sci-fi with "nuclear po
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I do favors for people, but it's one thing to help your friend paint walls and another to pay your employees to help your corporate competitor.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Hope springs eternal ... and I've still got a couple months left on my (terrible Canadian) 3-year contract - rocking the original Samsung Galaxy, obsolete OS, broken headphone jack and all.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I've got the Nexus 4 page bookmarked, and have been checking it so often that it's hit my new tab page in Chrome ...
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by BruceIV 14y ago
What's in it for him?
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Fun story: I was trying to get Windows 8 and Linux Mint to dual boot before Christmas, and to use the Windows 8 bootloader (what can I say, it's pretty). Now, the Windows 8 bootloader is a mini-OS itself, containing a fairly sophisticated r
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I suspect it'll mostly be crappy Farmville clones and big corporate pages trying to do "social marketing", but we can hope...
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Given that many of the people I know use Facebook messaging for the sorts of personal messages they used to use email for, this new policy is very much like Google allowing mail senders to pay them to bypass their spam filters; I know Faceb
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People can pay to spam your Facebook inbox now.(facebook.com)
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by BruceIV 14y ago
As some of the other commenters have said, some of the language here is a little strong, but it does do a good job covering the nature of grad school - people do seem to think that it's like undergrad (likely because many of them know what
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I use Cygwin bash with git installed - it doesn't work as well as git bash out of the box (some extra configuration to do), nor will it actually launch git gui without reconfiguring its startup scripts to start an X-server (slow start and s
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Yes, there's lots of great math in programming languages research (it's my field, and I quite enjoy it), but I think the point was that it's only being used to solve "our" problems, not the domain problems that people fund CS to solve.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Thanks, good catch (my code probably would have been better if I had an actual use-case instead of a contrived example).
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by BruceIV 14y ago
To more directly answer your question, it's more a problem of needing to remember an unnecessarily large number of names - in addition to the class variables numberOfElves and reindeerArray from my example, I now need to keep track of twice

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