LeoSolaris

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by LeoSolaris 9y ago
All naturally evolved species, including humans, are extremely complex machines. There isn't anything supernatural involved. That means that a general AI, with the capacity to learn and interact with the world, would easily be a thinki
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by LeoSolaris 9y ago
What makes you think that ants cannot perceive humans? We show up just fine to their senses, as evidenced by their consumption of our flesh when given a chance. Leave a body close to the right ant mound, and you will have a skeleton in fair
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by LeoSolaris 9y ago
There are a few open source Facebook and Twitter clients. Frost (Facebook) - https://github.com/AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook Twidere (Twitter) - https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android
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by LeoSolaris 9y ago
It is a trend in non-technical positions to ask faux coding problems that sound like tech questions from a CS class, then ask a technical expert if the answer is better than the original code. Originally it was supposed to be for developers
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by LeoSolaris 9y ago
Well... Let's put it this way: The current administration fired all of its science advisors, is actively defunding the Environmental Protection Agency after putting an oil industry lawyer in charge, and walked away from the Paris Agree
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by LeoSolaris 9y ago
Why would anyone rent out a dedicated mining machine for less than the return it would make mining, rather than mining with it for profit?
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by LeoSolaris 9y ago
Standing desks are good for the afternoon, but like anything, too much in one position is going to eventually cause issues. Don't forget the sturdy, reinforced rubber floor mats for standing. If you don't, your feet will start hur
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
The way that title is worded makes me think that the author thinks that "Young White America" believes they should despair more!
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
There are entire industries built around programming and IT. There are precisely zero industries built around pure management. Any loud idiot with a smattering of charm can be a manager. Children at McDonald's get promoted to manager a
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
All you do is escape the "jail" and ls -r the whole system. Chroot is a shell trick that basically creates an alias for / pointing at an arbitrary folder. Any process that is spawned in that aliased environment have the folde
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
Generally, it is not the technical side of the ISP that gets a lot of hate. Anyone in IT should have a reasonable grasp of just how hard networking really is, so IT people should have a good feeling of how much harder than that it would be
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/news/20170215/imaging-study-co... Neurological studies of developmental difference between children with ADHD and baseline give physical evidence that the psychologist interviewe
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
I prefer three 10-12 hour days for 100% pay. Purely answering the question... The pay, unless you bill by the hour. If you bill hourly and you can comfortably live on 80%, then you can aim for 4 days and flex if needed. It will give you tim
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
You could contact Flexport, and let them know that someone is spamming the HN boards with random "hiring" post that point to news articles about Flexport. If you politely point out that it looks like another company is trying to s
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
Depends entirely upon the agreements you signed when you were hired. Most companies will not claim ownership of an invention or IP if it was not created on company time or with company resources. Some companies also employ a non-compete con
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
First generation e-cigs... Wow, how long were they holding on to those old things? That's a bit like saying that someone discovered a new potential security hole in the first gen iPhones. Conversely, yes regulators should ban toxic met
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
I don't see is as a reality, merely a common perception. Having worked with several French software devs... I can say that the US devs are far more innovative. The impression that I have formed is that there is a major cultural differe
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
There are a few reasons I have seen. The US has a higher cost of living than most other countries. Those who are comparable pay somewhat more competitively with US jobs. This becomes really clear with remote work. Outside of the major tech
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
With Marie Le Pen about to be crowned, how is that going to help with the escape from an oppressive regime? The amount of virtue signalling is starting to feel a little bit forced at this point. The courts are pushing back appropriately, an
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
I would have assumed that they are secretaries, but I suppose, in this case, they are more likely to be independent researchers who report directly to the CTO in an organization that is hierarchically structured. Too intelligent or useful t
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
In addition to Blender there is MakeHuman: http://www.makehuman.org/ Pixar also open sourced OpenSubDiv: https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenSubdiv They also offer a commercial and non-commerc
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
http://www.archdaily.com/160892/the-pros-and-cons-of-cargo-c... Most of the hazardous materials are safe enough for packaged goods because they offgas slowly. The goods may pick up trace amounts, but not in the quantit
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
So... effectively, a tiny house that you don't have to drive yourself? Look into mobile tiny houses. I already live in one and travel around at will. It is very freeing, being able to work anywhere and travel on a whim. There are conta
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
Cryptography is a pure mathematic construct that is difficult for computer based algorithms to solve. Math formulae are not patentable. The implementation may be patentable, but no serious IT security trust closed source cryptography. The m
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
That was the broad strokes sales pitch of an obvious strategy for a disinformation campaign coupled with a hope of cracking encryptions that they haven't yet found a way around. If they had, it would have been a part of the sales pitch
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
It persists because JavaScript had always been a toy language for the front end devs to make web sites "pretty" rather than useful. Generally all of that pretty broke the site, and it was always blamed on the back end. Node may be
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
Start something first. When you have earned enough over a year to live on, give your two weeks notice. For me, I am aiming for 80% of my salary in a year's profit from my business before I leave the day job. Never expect your job to ed
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
Heart(s) | Life | Health Bar or Meter can be easily appended to any of the terms.
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
http://www.foodandnutritionresearch.net/index.php/fnr/articl... Found it today on /r/science. A low correlation between animal meat/saturated fat and elevated cholesterol in men was found, but not s
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by LeoSolaris 10y ago
There is painfully little on regular FM radio anymore in the US. It is becoming the new AM radio. HD FM is difficult to support with a tiny antenna, I would presume by the lack of support already. Besides, most US carriers blocked the radio

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