Cushman

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by Cushman 11y ago
Maybe it's just me -- and I never met the man -- but I've never had someone convince me they understood what it's like to be terminally depressed as completely as the writing of DFW. It boggles my mind that someone could miss
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by Cushman 11y ago
All of what you're saying is true, about the speed of real algorithms running on real hardware with real problem sizes . But if you're talking about big-O, you are explicitly not talking about that. You're talking about how
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by Cushman 11y ago
Or maybe, since O(1) is in O(log n ), you can cover your bases by just calling everything logarithmic regardless :)
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by Cushman 11y ago
That example may have misfired-- perhaps consider that sorting an array of n elements requires addressing n elements, which requires arithmetic on words of log n bits, which are therefore log time operations. Limiting the size of each
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by Cushman 11y ago
Just speaking for myself, it seemed like a pretty good-natured mix of thoughtful musing on the nature of universal computation, and gentle mockery of the idea that universal computation means there's one right answer for anything. I&#x
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by Cushman 11y ago
This is mostly an issue with terms. Most (all?) of the operations we call constant-time, say, comparison, are technically logarithmic in the number of bits on real computers. Since that's usually not relevant to big-O analysis, we ca
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by Cushman 11y ago
You don't need a license to write code for a hair-cutting robot either, but I'll bet you want one before you put it on somebody's head.
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by Cushman 11y ago
This is a perfect example of the kind of humor that belongs on HN. Actually had me nodding along in parts, then screwing up my face at others. By the time I was sure it was satire, I was committed enough to see it through to the end. Best o
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by Cushman 11y ago
In ES3 you'd need destructors, I think. But yes, agreed on all points :) And yet-- is the Symbol approach not metaprogramming? It's clearly a much saner way to shoehorn this feature in, but it's still a shoehorn. And the unde
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by Cushman 11y ago
Np! Mind it is technically possible to do, check out my sibling comment if you haven't already.
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by Cushman 11y ago
This isn't quite the same; the parent is pointing out that you can implement `sameFirstName` without exposing `firstName` publicly at all , not even as a getter.
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by Cushman 11y ago
Er, to be clear, your example uses a closure. Your real question is, can this be done without `Symbol`? And it can, since the symbol is just a secret stored in a closure and there are other sorts of secrets. Aside from the "Math.random
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by Cushman 11y ago
So then, you don't believe that harm reduction doesn't justify illegal activity, you just think what Silk Road specifically did doesn't qualify as "harm reduction"? That's fine; I disagree, but I'm not int
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by Cushman 11y ago
It really is. If the law is hurting people, and breaking the law helps people, it's completely reasonable to use that argument to morally justify your illegal behavior. I'd be interested to hear your argument why it is not. Edit
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by Cushman 11y ago
This comment defines the middlebrow dismissal. Unless you live in a jurisdiction where the purchase of narcotics is legal (Mars?) the meaning of "People have a right to buy drugs" is quite clear. In a world where the laws you invo
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by Cushman 11y ago
Sure, but there isn't much of a difference there. Again, in 2014 we knew we'd be looking at something like 2x1080p with 90hz vsync. Nobody would tell you you'd need something less than a high-end gaming PC to spit all those f
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by Cushman 11y ago
Eh, I feel like we're just talking past each other at this point. Just to clarify exactly what my position is: We posit that it makes sense to have a "backup": A physically isolated, self-sufficient ecosystem in which human c
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by Cushman 11y ago
> specs and requirements keep getting bumped This is a (common) misperception based on hype. In fact, the release Rift hardware is more or less the Crescent Bay prototype they started demoing last September, and that was pretty close to
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by Cushman 11y ago
That sounds like a contradiction in terms. How does a Mars colony survive event X? An isolated population in an engineered ecosystem on Earth survives X with higher probability. I'll even make a positive case for Earth being safer: Out
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by Cushman 11y ago
> In that hypothetical, Earth is what's hit by such an event. Let's say you have a self-sufficient colony of Mars of around 10,000 people. Let's say a civilization-destroying and mass-dying event happens on Earth. Would yo
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by Cushman 11y ago
Yeah, I'm not buying that. If your goal is to have a cache of humanity that survives x-risk scenarios, a dependent Mars colony is by definition not MVP because it is not V. For the enormous cost of building a human habitat in a distant
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by Cushman 11y ago
Many do. People eat official Soylent because the convenience, specifically, is worth it to them. However easy your recipe is, mixing a bag of powder with a pitcher of water is still faster, easier, and less to pay attention to.
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by Cushman 11y ago
Just in case you aren't aware, the latest update of Soylent (v1.4) has upped the fat. Carbs now account for 43% of the calorie count, which is (slightly) less than you'll see any mainstream source recommending. Still nothing that
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by Cushman 11y ago
Technically, they don't even qualify for safe harbor protection since there's no registered agent, and their policy seems to be "we won't or can't remove anything for any reason". So they might get a DMCA tak
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by Cushman 11y ago
> Our devotion to this goal is further accentuated by our Public Legal License, which stipulates that all the content on Frizbee is in the public domain, making us as a governing entity irresponsible for its propagation. Well, whatever i
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by Cushman 11y ago
Except we don't need to stop burning fuel, right? We just need to stop using it for net energy. With enough "free" electricity we can "buy" fuels via carbon sequestration, and you can run your (somewhat pricier) c
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by Cushman 11y ago
Would it be overly pedantic to point out that the syntax is CSS syntax? You seem to have an issue with vocabulary and semantics, not syntax.
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by Cushman 11y ago
Slight correction, it is amazing. https://share.oculus.com/app/minecrift
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by Cushman 11y ago
Yeah, it actually would not be a big deal except that after you move hjkl, you need to move dhtn, and then... I wound up with a couple of slightly different mnemonics, but not enough to be really confusing if I sit down at a strange termina
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by Cushman 11y ago
This really shouldn't be downvoted, it's basically the only thing keeping folks from switching. Talking as someone with a super-custom Dvorak vim layout, here-- you'll run into software that just won't work without switc

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