D-Coder

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by D-Coder 8y ago
Can we send Comcast a bowling ball? An undrilled one? I'd love to see how they fsck that up.
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by D-Coder 8y ago
But you're seeing a selection bias. The people who are doing just fine don't contact you.
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Heads up: the oral history of Iron Man’s original HUD(vfxblog.com)
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by D-Coder 8y ago
I know I have some OCD. But this... just a bit much.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
"relativity easily" is my favorite typo of the week.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
"what's the point of having a self-driving car with a wheel you can't access in case of a self-driving system breakdown?" If you sent your seven-year-old to baseball practice in your self-driving car, or you got wasted a
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by D-Coder 9y ago
Call the President. PHONE NUMBERS: Comments: 202-456-1111. Switchboard: 202-456-1414.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
"I've had business people tell me I should stop writing tests so I could go faster" Maybe tell them that double-entry bookkeeping doubles their workload and they could go faster with single-entry bookkeeping.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
Prof. Sidney Culbert of the University of Washington estimated 1 million to 2 million fluent Esperanto speakers about a decade ago. He is the only person I've heard of who has done actual research (he produced the number-of-speakers fi
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by D-Coder 9y ago
Believe it or not, I first heard about Esperanto in a Man From UNCLE book ( The Monster Wheel Affair ), where the bad guys used Esperanto so no one would know what country they came from.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
"Esperanto is also much harder to learn for people without western language backgrounds." Harder than what? At least the grammar, pronunciation, and word-building are very regular. Almost any national language will be harder than
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by D-Coder 9y ago
"Swerve" ha. I think the typical driver in this situation will scream a bad word, jam on the brakes, and skid into whatever is straight ahead. If an autonomous vehicle does better than this at all, it's a win.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
Or hire some dumbshits to be the sacrificial firings.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
Knees. What half-competent engineer would hold a weight-bearing joint together with soft tissues? Teeth. Replacing these with a new set every 10 or 20 years would be pretty nice.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
Because they feel the United States might take the risk of damage to South Korea. As long as US citizens aren't involved (other than a few tourists and business people in Seoul), the US has less skin in the game. If NK can directly thr
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by D-Coder 9y ago
Oh absolutely (and not just journalists, but all the Apple-haters). Every year since at least 1984, "Apple hasn't come out with a new product in _weeks_! They're doooomed!" Every single year. For at least 30 years. &quot
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by D-Coder 9y ago
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-npr-and-pbs-should-stop-ta... Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets $450 million/year. PBS: “less than 1%” of its “operating budget comes in the form of grants from CPB and federal
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by D-Coder 9y ago
Does anyone remember Basic-4 systems? I transferred several programs, in those days and on that system with a maximum of six characters for the name, from one machine to another via magtape. One was named "CR" (customer report or
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by D-Coder 9y ago
Typo? Wonder Woman is 76 on a 0-100 scale.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
I'm reading it as, "What have the Romans ever done for us? Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health."
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by D-Coder 9y ago
Based on recent history, Martin Shkreli has good odds. :-)
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by D-Coder 9y ago
I'm reading Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog articles from 2006. Most of the links that I try (75%?) are dead.
533.
by D-Coder 9y ago
Deceiving the citizens is also a very important tactic of war.
534.
by D-Coder 9y ago
LiveCode (livecode.com) (ex Runtime Revolution) is a pretty good descendant of HyperCard. Cards, controls, scripts are mostly compatible. I migrated many of my old stacks to LiveCode.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
If a metaclass is a way to make classes, can you have a meta-metaclass that makes metaclasses? Meta-meta-metaclasses to make meta-metaclasses? (etc)
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by D-Coder 9y ago
That's at current levels of fatal accidents. Some kinds of accidents have already been significantly reduced, others probably will be.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
"...all of these genes have been vetted by millions of years of evolution, so we know they're rock solid." You haven't talked with my knees recently, have you.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
TL;DR: Did read it. Excellent and amazing article. Do read it.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
Esperanto is certainly easier for someone who already knows a Romance language. However, even for a non-Romance speaker, it will be easier to learn than other Romance languages.
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by D-Coder 9y ago
Cost is part of the value. If I can't afford a BMW, it has no value to me. If I will never become fluent in a language, it has no value to me (at least in some senses).

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