DougWebb

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by DougWebb 11y ago
If it was just the video that got taken out, they'd still have telemetry and they'd know what happened. They must have lost the satellite uplink, either by losing the equipment on the ship or by knocking the ship out of position s
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by DougWebb 11y ago
That's six times the size of my apartment. 3 to 9 square feet would be the most I could manage; maybe I could grow herbs but that's about it.
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by DougWebb 11y ago
The survival instinct and procreation instinct are two separate things; if they weren't then every animal would go ahead and die after procreating. In reality only a few do that, even if you're generous and and define 'after
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by DougWebb 11y ago
It has nothing to do with procreation; if any aspect of an AI's programming or behavior requires it to continue to exist and operate, then it's going to need energy to run and components to repair and/or grow. Replication&#x2
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by DougWebb 11y ago
They won't have human-like or animal-like drives, they'll have AI-like drives. I can imagine that they'd want to ensure access to electrical power and the electronics components that are necessary to run themselves. And they&
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by DougWebb 11y ago
That time frame also matches the rise and fall for the use of leaded gasoline, which has been theorized to be the cause of the crime rate rise and fall. [1] You seem to be suggesting that liberal Supreme Court rulings caused the crime wave,
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by DougWebb 11y ago
If the millionaire gets out and jumps at apogee, they might stay in space for a while. But that'll use up Blue Origin's market pretty quickly.
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Two big issues with that. First, the arm would have to grab an attachment point of some sort, so you'd be trying to position the rocket and the hand close together and still enough to lock on. That's a much smaller and tougher tar
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by DougWebb 11y ago
You should also look in your router config to see if it supports any dynamic DNS services. If it does, then you can register a domain name with most any domain registrar, get an account with the dynamic DNS service, and configure the domain
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by DougWebb 11y ago
37,000 is a bit more than lots of patents. Nikola Tesla had around 300, presumably all his own inventions, and Thomas Edison had just over 1000 (US) from his own work and his employee's work. Those set an upper limit on what geniuses
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by DougWebb 11y ago
"Have you ever..." is the wrong question when it comes to risk management; the right questions are "Is is possible...", "How likely...", "How can you avoid..." and "What's the cost to avoid.
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Two things strike me about that quote. First, the range starts in 1880, which is just about the end of the Little Ice Age.[1] So yeah, pretty much every year since then is likely to be warmer than the last one. For a fairer comparison, you&
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by DougWebb 11y ago
There's a spot like that near me. https://goo.gl/maps/jSVLtA5qQix is Thomas Edison's lab, now a museum and historic landmark. Right up the street on the next block is a huge fenced-off abandoned building comp
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Most likely the directors / editors who use this would overdub the audio once they get the visual take they want. They already overdub audio pretty often anyway, due to set noise.
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Sure, but a header in a book should just repeat the contents of the chapter but worded differently. In the same way, comments should not just reiterate the code. In the header case, the comment is a summary of what the code is doing, which
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by DougWebb 11y ago
You should take the advice to mean "Don't comment on how your code is doing what it's doing, comment on why it's doing that." An English transliteration of a source code statement usually isn't very helpful
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by DougWebb 11y ago
In the company I used to work for, the CTO and VP of Product Management were equals, both reporting to the CEO. The CTO's reports included the QA director, Dev director, and Project Management director. On any given project, we had a P
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by DougWebb 11y ago
A formal QA process, which goes along with a formal release process and release schedule, certainly does slow things down. I think for large-scale projects with a large feature/requirement count that's ok, because there's a l
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by DougWebb 11y ago
It doesn't have to be the CTO; as I mentioned in another reply my intent was that QA and Dev need to be equals in the reporting chain, rather than one reporting to the other. That can work at any scale; even on an agile team with one Q
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by DougWebb 11y ago
So, not the CTO, but some shared higher-level manager. The point is that the QA lead cannot report into Development, and Development cannot report into QA. Both of those arrangements can lead to a bad actor stopping the other group from doi
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by DougWebb 11y ago
That's a management problem, not a problem with having a QA team. The top-level QA manager and the top-level Dev manager should both report to the CTO, and the Dev manager should be judged by how many issues the QA team finds. To keep
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by DougWebb 11y ago
When you're speaking to another programmer, explaining what a bit of your code is trying to do, do you speak in mathematical notation? I doubt it. I don't think even mathematicians do that. If you want a well-expressed explainatio
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Larry Wall is a linguist first, and the design of Perl's syntax reflects that. So I can totally buy taste being more important than technical foundation, in the same way good graphic design is done. These expressions with the condition
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by DougWebb 11y ago
I think you misunderstood what "more expressive" meant. It doesn't mean "more concise", though Perl can excel at that too. It means that expressions can be stated in more meaningful ways. do_the_thing() if $is
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by DougWebb 11y ago
I hate the fact that no matter how many times I click the "I don't like this" button after closing "While you were out", it keeps coming back.
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by DougWebb 11y ago
It matters because it changes how we would try to stop it. If it's caused by something we're doing, we could just change what we're doing. If it's natural, then we need to find a way to alter nature. That gets into terra
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by DougWebb 11y ago
The wikipedia chart covers 450 thousand years on the x-axis, and a 14 degree range on the y-axis. Your chart covers 12 thousand years on x and 2 degrees on y. If your chart was shrunk to the same scale and overlaid on the first chart, it wo
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by DougWebb 11y ago
Does the temperature trend have a similar spike?
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by DougWebb 11y ago
I think the drawback to your argument is that you're not considering all scenarios. One "worst-case" I can think of is that we charge ahead with measures to combat climate change, harming big parts of the economy in the proce
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by DougWebb 11y ago
The only people who are questioning the science are the ones who don't have the necessary knowledge to evaluate the claims scientifically and who have an economic stake in continuing fossil fuel usage. That's dismissive: you&#x2

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