MarsAscendant

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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
What I'd love is to have Firefox dev tools functionality in Chrome. Firefox highlights the edge lines of the selected element automatically, and in all directions (if I recall correctly). I have to use an extension – VisBug – to achiev
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Thank you.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
In the list of useful functions I'd accumulated over a few years of JS, there are `[].last` and `[].lastIndex()`. The former is a property getter/setter implanted into the Array object¹. The latter is a function that returns `[].l
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I was wondering about the book. It sounded promising, either way. Thank you for the recommendation. Any other resource on the topic of system design that you, or anyone reading, could recommend?
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Sounds like the plot of Condor , the recent TV series, waiting to happen.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Do you have any more info or reading on Google and copylefts?
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I believe that's the recipe for the Philosopher's Stone, from the old books. That's why the Middle-Age alchemists couldn't make one. Now we can .
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I wonder if it's possible to "roughen up" smooth sand for this purpose. Shoot it against itself in a special machine, thus breaking it to smaller, sharp-edged pieces... or something. "Large Saharan Collider – not what yo
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> However, both values don't exclude each other, that's why I'm not really a fan of a spectrum. I see what you mean. It reminds me of the way modern computer RPGs handle character morality. It used to be ( Star Wars: Knigh
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> A radar chart with both being pretty much opposite each other should work better, right? Not when there's only two values measured. What else do you have in mind? I'd never encountered people who experience separate influence
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
"Divide" is bad choice of words on my part. I meant to suggest that the two instances of a hypothetical student are extremes on a spectrum, upon which we all lie somewhere. I know I burn out quickly if I'm disinterested, but
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Highlights from the article, pertaining to the Okinawans' lifestyle and diet: * little smoking among population * strong social bonds → observed to be beneficial to bodily defence against stress * high engagement in agriculture and fis
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> If one has great work ethics, the connection to the teacher doesn't really matter because one would learn regardless. That doesn't sound right to me, but I'm not to question it, since I realize how different people can b
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> I guess the ideal option here is to have an expert that can give you advice that you just go along with, so if you tell them "I just want to build a clicker" they can just tell you "Just learn javascript and html and css
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I'm not trying to argue about relative effectiveness behind Vue et al. I'm saying that, as a newbie, you wouldn't be able to know the difference. "Just try it" isn't a good argument when all you see are big, un
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> That being said, you don't have to use the newer technologies if you don't want to. When you're new to the scene, how on Earth would you know? Seemingly everybody's doing it, there's no sane source on whether i
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> Regulating this space without allowing people to realize its harmful effects and make the decision for themselves will only further polarize our society. I find that you can't make people adopt better habits and views on things (n
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Microsoft Xunil?
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Ooh! Pretty! Nice work there.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
So, did they effectively invent scalable natural-mechanism synthetic amino acid production? Is it at all as cool and biopunk as I imagine?
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> recorded <..> watching porn What a damning position to be in, in 2019.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I see what you mean. Do those two areas provide similar technological challenges? Obviously, they're both about coding the backbone of the product, and I understand that visuals are, often, a big part of a game engine, which could tran
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I think you're right. Nobody lets themselves be worked into dust just so they could R&D in wider capacity. From what I understand (comparing my knowledge of the younger brother and the younger brother's gushing over the older&
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> During one assessment many years ago I was accused of not being sufficiently "loyal", and I (ah, youth!) responded, "You want loyalty? Get a dog." Never grow up, I'd say.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Used to know a guy: brilliant young man, excelling in the fields of physics and mathematics, and not a slouch in many others – at an amateur level driven by curiousity, but with an intelligence base nevertheless. He had an older brother, wh
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Let me see if I understand you correctly... Your conviction comes from the fact that you've read, almost daily, and contemplated over the Bible and the Book of Mormons, as well as read a good number of comments for and arguments agains
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
You're seriously overestimating my ability to operate command line. I'm only here for a serious discussion.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> Honestly the Microsoft Band being worn on the underside of the wrist was brilliant (I may be biased). It is much easier to hold up in a comfortable reading position I used to wear a watch every day to uni. It rested on the underside of
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
So... like... what happened, exactly? It sounds astonishing, but I can't make heads or tails of it. Rosemberg and his team managed to add new letters ("letters") to DNA encoding, and that allows them to make new proteins... h
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Downloads are programmatically disallowed while you're viewing the page under an ad blocker. Of course, it only disallows the downloads via clicking the link. Easily circumventable.

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