Millennium

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by Millennium 10y ago
>Why can't Silicon Valley counter speech with speech? That's basically what happened. Thiel empowered other speakers: the sort of thing that, if it had happened on social media, would have been called signal-boosting. He did it
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by Millennium 10y ago
This is true, but it's important not to lose sight of the difference between "questioning if there may be a better way" and bikeshedding. The former is often useful; the latter usually isn't.
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by Millennium 10y ago
Too much about the UK's status in the EU is subjective and opinion-based for us, or anyone else, to give you an objective answer. I'm afraid that this is an answer that's going to have to come from you. I can only recommend t
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by Millennium 10y ago
I'm not sure it's either one. I doubt that McDonald's has put much if any particular effort toward building their restaurants into community centers. Without that, I'm not I'm comfortable calling it an achievement o
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by Millennium 10y ago
Without privacy, there can be no trust. Without trust, there can be no freedom, no access, and no opportunity. Even learning is hampered severely in a changing world, where the question of what society demands remain private changes from on
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by Millennium 10y ago
They can't. Not the way we typically think of "cracking", anyway. What they CAN do is try to trick the PC's user into putting a server of some kind onto the PC. If they succeed, then they can just use that. This is essen
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by Millennium 10y ago
As long as Avenue Q continues to run, the Internet will always be really, really great.
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by Millennium 10y ago
Would showing the picture post-booking only really help, though? I admit that I'm not familiar with the booking process on AirBNB, but I'd be really surprised to hear that a booking, once completed, can't be cancelled. Wouldn
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by Millennium 10y ago
That acronym has some... unfortunate... plausible pronunciations.
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by Millennium 10y ago
One wonders what Donald Knuth is going to have to say about this.
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by Millennium 10y ago
Careful. Anything that calls creepiness anything but arbitrary -and especially those that say it originates in the one being called creepy- is bound to draw the ire of the bitter untouchables (even though this only provides more evidence fo
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by Millennium 10y ago
I miss 4:3 screens for coding on laptops and all-in-ones. But on anything where the screen can be rotated, I love them.
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by Millennium 10y ago
Umm... is this supposed to be a parody of antivaxxers or something? I'm having a lot of trouble with Poe's Law here.
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by Millennium 11y ago
Photorealism in video games has arrived. It's arrived at least 6-7 times, depending on how you count console generations. Even 16-bit consoles were called photorealistic in their day, and then their successors were, and then THEIR succ
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by Millennium 12y ago
For that matter, iOS isn't based on Linux: they share some common ancestry, but it's much closer to a BSD derivative.
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by Millennium 12y ago
In this new global age, the International Date Line interferes somewhat with nailing down specific dates. In some parts of the world, it's already April 1.
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by Millennium 12y ago
AS3 is an implementation, not a standard. Large parts of AS3's feature set actually were considered for standardization, back in the days of the "ECMAScript 4" standard (in quotes because it was never released). That standard
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by Millennium 12y ago
My first thouvht on hearing the name "libOS" was that someone had gotten Linux running on an exokernel, which is in some ways a variation on the microkernel theme. Linux on a microkernel has been done before. The MkLinux projext i
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by Millennium 12y ago
Classes != OOP. JavaScript has had OOP, not quite since its inception, but quite close to it; it merely follows a different paradigm when doing so. In fact, ECMAScript 6's notion of classes is explicitly defined as being not much more
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by Millennium 12y ago
Website != API. A cleverly-written API can exist in the same space as a Website (even the same URLs, if you differentiate by things like Accept: headers), but they're not the same thing. It's perfectly acceptable for Websites to i
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by Millennium 12y ago
XSLT was an interesting language that unfortunately tried to solve the wrong problem. What we needed was AWK for the DOM. Instead we got a vision where XML would be used to transform other forms XML into yet OTHER forms of XML, and the resu
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by Millennium 12y ago
It's not so much portability as optimization. Valid asm.js is also valid JavaScript, so it can run in V8 unmodified, but it runs without the asm.js modifications.
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by Millennium 12y ago
The HTTPS-only folks mean well, and I support it as a stopgap solution, but it is useful only in that it can probably be implemented more quickly than IPSec-everywhere (or, if IPSec proves to be unsuitable, then some successor standard with
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by Millennium 12y ago
It makes sense to me that depressed people are just as accurate at judging time as non-depressed people. In cases where depression has a sudden onset, that "slower" rate of time passing might take some getting used to. But eventua
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by Millennium 12y ago
It strikes me that perhaps the simplest way to kill plagiarism is to simply require a handwritten rough draft. Take the copy/paste convenience out of cheating, and far fewer students will cheat: writing your own thoughts is a lot less
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by Millennium 12y ago
It is true that few students have thoughts that have not already occurred to others. This is not the important part of honest research. The important part is that the student actually HAVE these thoughts, and actually EXPRESS them, rather t
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by Millennium 12y ago
What language was this article originally written in?
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by Millennium 12y ago
There are two problems with this approach. One is the classic paradox of hiding something and revealing it at the same time: the vote must be secret to prevent social chilling effects, but it must also be strongly authenticated to preserve
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by Millennium 12y ago
I can see how a white-and-gold dress, shot under strong blue light, might look a lot like the dress in the picture. But the lighting in the picture itself is clearly not blue: there are several white objects very close to the dress -one is
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by Millennium 12y ago
The object tag can be used for this.

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