Crito

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by Crito 12y ago
> "I think that you and cbsmith significantly underestimate the sophistication of these algorithms." Let's remember that this discussion was kicked off by some of these algorithms being tricked by a blatant April Fools j
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by Crito 12y ago
Downvotes not being for disagreement is an absurd redditism. Upvotes are used for agreement, so it is only natural that downvotes are used for disagreement. PG has stated in the past that downvoting things you disagree with is proper usage
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by Crito 12y ago
"Correct price" is not boolean. Speed and accuracy both have degrees and they trade off. High frequency traders use algorithms which are not as accurate as possible, but are fast. They knowingly use algorithms which have comp
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by Crito 12y ago
> "it's enough to find any human that looking at the announcement can't tell that it's false." I have no doubt that you could find such a person. Similarly, I can find people who believe that the earth is flat
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by Crito 12y ago
Could it be done with a non-DOD site? If not, why not? Could I make a website that immediately drops you onto a landing page that says "The rest of this website may only be accessed using Safari. Use of Firefox, Chrome, or any oth
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by Crito 12y ago
> "People have posted nasty stuff because I didn't provide them phone support at 3am for a GPL open source utility that I released." I've found a way to mitigate this is to never release pre-built binaries. Just di
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by Crito 12y ago
Does any American website enumerate in their terms of use the software that you are allowed to use to access them? Could they?
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by Crito 12y ago
Oregon would make much more sense than Alaska. The distance between Los Angeles and the southernmost point of Alaska's panhandle down the side of Canada^ is comparable to the distance between Los Angeles and New Orleans. Terrain aside
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by Crito 12y ago
Because that would be ridiculous? The distance between Alaska and California is huge ; there is tons of fresh water that is closer to California than Alaska.
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by Crito 12y ago
Yeah, in particular I'd be interested to know if CoD still uses Quake 3's VM model.
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by Crito 12y ago
I seriously doubt it. I have never seen a non-Thinkpad branded Lenovo laptop that would satisfy somebody who liked the R60's keyboard.
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by Crito 12y ago
In my experience, the difficult part is getting people to understand it.
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by Crito 12y ago
> "it's just better not to have to configure every system to interpret tabs to your given number of spaces" The entire point of "tabs to indent; spaces to align" is that you don't need to make sure eve
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by Crito 12y ago
No, it is a way of telling people in cities "This is all your fault, so stop giving farmers a hard time."
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by Crito 12y ago
The touchpad on the Chromebook Pixel (the annoyingly expensive one) is high end. Large glass multitouch touchpad. I doubt you'd be satisfied with the keyboard though. So I think the answer is probably "No." The most expens
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by Crito 12y ago
People with power almost invariably attended a history class or two sometime in their lives, and remember what can happen to the Marie Antoinette's and Nicolae Ceaușescu's of this world. If you were in power, and you feared civil
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by Crito 12y ago
> "Bernie Madoff didn't think he was doing anything wrong either." Do you have a source for that? I would have expected that he knew that what he was doing was wrong, but did not care because he was greedy. Disagreeing
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by Crito 12y ago
Which really drives home the point that we as a society have decided to accept a certain level of risk. That, at a certain point, we don't allow safety concerns to get in the way of getting shit done. I mean, we could make stairs sa
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by Crito 12y ago
Now we know why they hated that rug so much.
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by Crito 12y ago
Far weirder things have been blogged about before. Not to mention that if you are not already familiar with the company, you probably would not know what sort of blog it was just by looking at what was presented on the HN frontpage. Could
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by Crito 12y ago
Unfortunately that does seems to be a delusion has been gaining traction in some circles recently.
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by Crito 12y ago
Yeah, I seem to remember a very similar project (resurrecting this game in HD) being DMCA'd to hell and back a few years ago. Has Nintendo eased up in recent years?
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by Crito 12y ago
> "Lots of great software happens to be difficult for a lot of people to intuitively understand." For real. Maybe it is just me, but I find programs like Photoshop and nearly every CAD program I've ever encountered to b
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by Crito 12y ago
I am well aware of that. Let's take a step back: >>> For (B), that's a good thing. Nowadays, the GPL merely prevents software from having widespread use. >> Bizarre claim. Doesn't seem to have affected Linux&#
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by Crito 12y ago
Either I need more sleep, or you are being deliberately obtuse, because I have no fucking idea what that comment is supposed to mean. Three orders of magnitude of what ? What is being measured? Do you mean that platforms are bigger than
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by Crito 12y ago
I think you might be responding to the wrong comment? I didn't say anything about proprietary software, or about one being better or worse than another.
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by Crito 12y ago
I did not say that GPL is better. I am confused about what you mean by "Platforms versus modules." You seem to be distinguishing between two things, but I cannot see what they are.
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by Crito 12y ago
What is that supposed to mean? Software is software, and a great deal of GPL software is currently in the hands of consumers.
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by Crito 12y ago
I feel like actually creating a fork of vim that is viable for the community is a much higher bar. If that first bar stops somebody, is it likely that they would have cleared the second bar?
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by Crito 12y ago
In case anybody hasn't tried it yet: It is pretty cool to check out the first copy of git that was committed to git. It is incredibly simple, yet was sufficient to create a commit that is still in the same git repo as modern git. htt

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