HisGraceTheDuck

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by HisGraceTheDuck 9y ago
Until I read this I was more or less pro-UBI but this article makes some excellent points. UBI essentially assumes that everyone is a rational actor and that they will not succumb to spending the basic income on non-productive things (drugs
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by HisGraceTheDuck 9y ago
I do like my humour dry.
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by HisGraceTheDuck 9y ago
After a quick look at the code (I'm probably missing subtleties): The "state" array stores the state of the cells in the life simulation in the lowest bit of each int in the array. The rest of the bits are used to store the c
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by HisGraceTheDuck 10y ago
The holographic principle proposes a much more complex relationship between the 3 dimensional (plus 1 time dimension) universe we experience and a 2 dimensional (plus 1 time dimension) model that could provide insights into many interesting
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by HisGraceTheDuck 10y ago
That used to be the case but recent updates do the processing on the device now. I don't know how they managed it but they did.
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by HisGraceTheDuck 10y ago
Sometimes people have to do what they believe is right.
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by HisGraceTheDuck 10y ago
Here's the list of compatible laptops: https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html#supported_laptops_... Nothing recent but on the plus side, you should be able to pick one up without spending too much.
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by HisGraceTheDuck 10y ago
That's true and if it works for you that's great. Getting preachy about it isn't going to win you friends or change anyone's mind.
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by HisGraceTheDuck 10y ago
These are all excellent points and we should definitely be pursuing all available avenues. I don't think this is and either/or proposition - we should look into anything that can help. Things like genome therapy are unfortunately
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by HisGraceTheDuck 10y ago
To answer my own question, it's in ES6: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9813277
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by HisGraceTheDuck 10y ago
This is cool. It also raises the possibility of adding tail call optimisation to JavaScript interpreters. Anyone know if that would be feasible?
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by HisGraceTheDuck 10y ago
I think competition has been good for all smartphone consumers so keep up the good work Samsung! (speaking as an iPhone user)
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by HisGraceTheDuck 10y ago
"it could be argued to be less efficient for certain types of data" This is true of all lossless compression.