ElectronCharge

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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
Primary: Survival. Secondary: Vast opulence. Tertiary: Interplanetary travel. I hope you have a great year as well!
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
A couple of points: First, the 5K iMac isn't a "professional workstation" by most measures. In particular, it doesn't include ECC RAM or a "pro level" GPU. I wish ECC would become ubiquitous across all PCs, but
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
"It feels somehow unjust that such an ugly language basically took over the web." That's not really right, though. There are a ton of languages fighting for the server side web development crown. I'd argue that if you li
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
"It's an awkward, haphazardly designed, weirdly implemented and frankly ugly beast of a language" You should have stopped there. :-) Viva Scala!
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
"Again, it's the motivations you have to pay attention to. Why do people want to be smarter?" So they can know and understand everything possible in the Universe, make great contributions to humanity and the future, and live
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
"Not the old terminator theory again that the machine exceeds human intelligence, it seems that everybody misses the point of DNA, once we understand how it really works and how our brains are built we can build things that will exceed
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
This essay almost accidentally touches on the actual truth: "Another moral of this story is that a healthy amount of cynicism about human nature is probably an indispensable defense mechanism in this world—because people suck, and they
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
Perhaps, if an "Einstein" were to run the economy, state ownership of the means of production, and central planning, would be workable. The problem is that eventually the "Einstein" would perish or be replaced, and the l
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
Well, I'd not run across that particular harpy before. I can't say I feel deprived... What a waste of brain cells and oxygen. The article made many good points about how pointless and destructive her approach is.
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
I'm not sure that syntax was available in Lush. The line I cited was from a Lush example program. http://lush.sourceforge.net/lander04.txt
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
Snowden did the citizens of the US a huge favor by bringing to light pervasive government snooping. In the long run, it will be good for freedom* ! * That is, unless the citizens get too distracted by Honey Boo Boo, the Kardashians and so o
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
"No, unless by "excessive regulation" you mean the fact that the industry is exposed to the same liability for unconsented harms done to third parties that every other industry is; because exemption from that liability is wha
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
There are probably a few reasons. Julia has roots with MIT which immediately lends it some cachet, and probably made it easier to grow a vibrant community. Lush (which is an unfortunate name btw) used Lisp syntax, which has never been favor
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
As I understand it there's a plan to produce stand-alone binaries downstream, with no compiler needed at runtime. It's using LLVM on the backed, so it should be quite possible.
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
The reason it's less economical than it could be is because of excessive regulation. We've come a long way with automation and safety engineering. Next-gen nuclear plants could produce energy far less expensively than coal if hand
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
The way to go is nuclear desalination. The nuclear industry needs to be incentivized, and is badly in need of a SpaceX type company.
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
"The journalist was slacking some here, The Nexus 5 (and, the LGs and Motorola this last year) are the closest / only competitors to the iPhone that cost $300." The comparable phones (current flagship Samsung, HTC, LG etc.) a
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
"They tried this in the '90s. Remember PowerComputing? Or UMAX? Apple is ultimately, a hardware company. The fact they put a lot of effort into crafting OS' for their hardware that give the average user a very seamless and ex
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
Despite nemoniac's post, I think you're on the right track with Java. There's plenty of Java work out there, and modern Java is a better than average language to work with. Given that you've done some functional programm
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
Right. I understand that neither is "perfect". However, the imperfections are in such wildly divergent areas that the comparison is irrelevant to the main issues. I like Linux, and use it on a regular basis. I do think, though, th
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
"It's far from perfect but so's OS X." That's a ridiculous comparison. One is "imperfect" due to open source failings and a wildly divergent UI, the other is "imperfect" due to (I suppose) some d
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
The major issue with Linux only development is the lack of proprietary software. Photoshop, for instance. There is also some great Mac-only software, meaning a Mac runs the widest variety of software of any OS - since you can run Linux, Win
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
BTW, here is a related article from some folks at Google who were involved with its "moonshot" renewable energy program, "What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change". The main thesis: "Today’s renewable ene
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
The one point I think most can agree on: coal is not a desirable power source. What we need is a crash program to replace baseline coal power with next-gen nuclear, and ideally before too long, LFTR. That would clean up the air a great deal
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
The first diagram in the "Ego/Nature" diagram is in fact the correct one. Humans are the pinnacle of the food chain. Our evolution has made us into the ultimate predator. Hunting is a great thing. It preserves the environment
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
I was referring to the Oracle servers for large in-memory databases. They may have new models out, or I wasn't aware of the highest end model...the current high-end model will address 32 terabytes of RAM: http://www.oracle.c
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
Hi, just FYI the AVX instructions are on Intel CPUs. They're the latest incarnation of SSE basically, and are for scientific, multimedia, and other other FP heavy SIMD amenable problems. I didn't diverge into GPU territory since t
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
There are actually two different sides to this question. When people refer to "64-bit" CPUs, generally they're referring to the address space. 64 bits of address space increased the addressable memory by a factor of 2^32 over
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by ElectronCharge 12y ago
Yes, a much more recent reference point is the Google benchmark featuring C++, Java, Scala and Go. http://readwrite.com/2011/06/06/cpp-go-java-scala-performanc... I'd love to see a few more languages inc