FranOntanaya

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   by FranOntanaya 12y ago

   This would be the first time they state there's liquid water naturally under one of our machines. For a starter, this is a huge problem regarding environmental protection. Regardless of the other factors against letting something like
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   by FranOntanaya 12y ago

   I joined a few months ago. It's not terribly active, but a lot of the active users are FOSS people, which makes for a very high signal to noise ratio. It's the only network nowadays where I don't just autopost from the blog a
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   by FranOntanaya 12y ago

   Mmh, considering automatic cars are more likely to carry a dashcam, I'm not sure anyone would want to do something illegal in front of them.
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   by FranOntanaya 12y ago

   My brain keeps blocking that bit -- apparently we can land rovers on Mars but we can't do collision checks on an airliner's autopilot.
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   by FranOntanaya 12y ago

   Perhaps any crew member should be able to switch on the autopilot from any part of the plane, then ground control or a timer would restore it. It couldn't be that hard either to track the position of the crew in the plane and change th
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   by FranOntanaya 12y ago

   Miles per passenger depend on too many factors. I'd stick with 1 death per 6,200 driver's licenses (US, 2009)
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   by FranOntanaya 12y ago

   ffmpeg doesn't get nearly enough credit. As long as you can grok the various settings, it makes you feel like McGyver with a paperclip. We work often with media from unusual sources, and after the first "can we do this with ffmpeg
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   by FranOntanaya 12y ago

   Good luck finding a pickup in Valencia, though.
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   by FranOntanaya 12y ago

   I keep asking Santa for regex email filters.
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    Firefox on Ubuntu 14.10, same effect here.
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    "The data are still being analyzed and have not yet been submitted to a journal for peer review" Maybe the NewYorker could have waited for that to happen.
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    I think the problem could be water. The fraction of water vapor on Venus' atmosphere is ~200 times lower, although I don't know if that should factor that Venus' atmosphere would have many times Earth's mass.
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    Trying to wrap my mind around the number -- 6 employees per 100,000 people worldwide is equal or higher than the number of physicians per 100,000 in Benin, Ethiopia, Niger, Burkina Faso, Central Africa Republic, Chad, Malawi, Mozambique, Pa
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    I would think people conceived in warm weather are more likely to be from less stable relationships...
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    You can see this with a sim called DarwinBots. Hand-crafted code is as clever as it can be. Code evolved from zero is a bunch of gibberish that just happens to hit the right spots here and there. The key is reverse engineering what effect t
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    DF is one of the top games at creating emergent scenarios, and yet not very good at it. Many parts are tedious, broken or not very fledged. I really wish more games opened their AI, including conversation. Using them for little Turing exper
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    That doesn't match with the headline "top 1% owns nearly 50% of wealth." If 50% of wealth couldn't sustain the government for more than a few weeks, then that government would be running already on lollipops and rainbows
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    Probably to delete subfolders.
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    I was wondering why your writing sounded so much as Aubrey's, then I found out you are supporters of SENS. I hope things aren't really too confrontational and damage repair can actually use some of the knowledge generated from epi
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    > Less glibly, humans never have to deal with it As long as it works, unless we categorize programmers debugging XML issues as non-human drones.
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    Still begs to reason why wouldn't they provide a stripped down industrial Windows for these cases, rather than just a layer of Enterprise apps on top of the regular thing. Even their "Enterprise for Manufacturing" page is all
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    > Basically, it's just way too cold or way too hot everywhere but Earth. That's not really true. Only a thin layer of Earth's crust and atmosphere are great for life. Such Goldilocks layers aren't that uncommon if we
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    Clever application method.
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    See also PHPDesktop: https://code.google.com/p/phpdesktop/
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    Friday nights and weekends, although I haven't played it in years, basically since I switched to Linux.
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    How do we know the universe hasn't decided?
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    The content is an essential good, but the container is just a container.
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    And for further reference: http://www.freeallegiance.org/forums/index.php?act=home This game has really great mechanics with a really huge emphasis on teamwork. It was probably ahead of its time when it was released.
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    Everybody expects a greater fool will move in after them, it's the standard response.
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    by FranOntanaya 12y ago

    All I want from the Semantic Web is to know if I see that an API follows the standard, things with the same name will be the same kind. For all I care, that API's underlying model could output to HTML, rendered PNGs, ASCII art or 3D pl