Filligree

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by Filligree 14y ago
That would take a seriously powerful computer. I remember reading a short story along those lines.. it ended with the simulated beings hacking physics and dropping off into a pocket universe, without helping at all . Well, I guess they did
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by Filligree 14y ago
Most of those attributes turn out to have perfectly good explanations in evolutionary psychology. That being the case, there's no reason to expect a mind that isn't produced by the same process to possess them.
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by Filligree 14y ago
> Chaotic activity Well yes, the brain is demonstrably chaotic. Why does this matter? If you run a simulation of the brain, you'll soon get different output than the original would output, but does that mean the simulation isn't workin
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by Filligree 14y ago
> How does caching the files indefinitely lead to better ad targeting? It doesn't, of course. That's pure FUD; Chrome doesn't contribute to ad-serving in any form other browsers don't. The differences between Chrome and Chromium aren't
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by Filligree 14y ago
Welcome to 2013, 64-bit took over the world years ago. There are no 32-bit x86 processors for sale anymore. "x86" means x86_64 as well.
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by Filligree 14y ago
I wonder what they'll do about implants.
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by Filligree 14y ago
The old quantum suicide argument? It's not an especially cheerful idea, to be honest. Even if that argument works -- and to be fair, this is about the best possible scenario for it -- it's too easy to generalize. There's no particular reaso
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by Filligree 14y ago
..and a much larger chance that the scientists had made a mistake somewhere in the calculations.
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by Filligree 14y ago
You're also missing the "speed up to escape the yeti" binding. ;)
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by Filligree 14y ago
Cured djungarian hamsters, I believe.
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by Filligree 14y ago
Ha. If that was the engineering office, they would be. Since it's sales.. well.
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by Filligree 14y ago
No, no we aren't. Individuals try to maximize something quite different than money, money is mostly instrumental.
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by Filligree 14y ago
Yep, but not in that building. I prefer this one, though. It's cozy, and has engineer-oriented amenities like workshops. :-)
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by Filligree 14y ago
Surely you wouldn't buy a $65,000 vehicle based on a new technology without at least reading about the pros and cons of that technology first? Right?
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by Filligree 14y ago
##C on freenode?
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by Filligree 14y ago
Funny. I work at Google Dublin, and we consider IRC to be an invaluable business tool. There really isn't a replacement for it.
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by Filligree 14y ago
Advertisements don't cost nearly that much. My guess would be somewhere in the vicinity of $5-$10/month.. for all ads on all web pages you look at everywhere. Though I could be off by an order of magnitude, for some people.
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by Filligree 14y ago
The lack of a well-supported GUI equivalent.
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by Filligree 14y ago
It's basically about whether applications are DPI-aware or not. Applications that are get the full 2560x1600 resolution. Applications that don't, don't; instead, they get 1280x800 by default, for an 1:2 upscaling. If you want, you can chang
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by Filligree 14y ago
Fortunately, the Retina screen also has very good color accuracy, at least so long as you want sRGB. It's pretty nice.
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by Filligree 14y ago
Photography.
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by Filligree 14y ago
Fonts are clearer, it stops me from getting eyestrain (because I don't register everything as slightly blurred), and it is a great help when working on photos.