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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Carrier's hypothesis is interesting and well argued, but only time will tell if it stands up to further scrutiny. I have experience of martial arts, on and off, for fifteen years. A few months ago I was having a go on a punch ba
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Tim did a damn good job of the rug on the table.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> The first step toward the modern automobile was the 'horseless carriage' not the Countach. Lamborghini makes shit cars. The only reason people rave about them is because they have giant engines. A car without a reverse gear
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> That's terminology straight from Turing's paper introducing the game. Hi DanBC. My choice of words was coincidental. I was not aware that Turing used the same terminology, so I am pleasantly surprised. Recently, I have been
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I would get tired of typing "Invalid syntax." Good point, but put yourself in the computer's shoes. If I were an artificial computer, talking to a human would drive me insane.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I would like to see the Turing Test turned on its head ... the human has to convince the computer it is talking to another computer.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Please God tell me they've at least tried compressing the DNA to account for actual fundamental string complexity rather than just length. I was thinking about this a couple of months ago, and I've been browsing a load of v
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Regarding the Heptarchy, please look at [0] .. [3]. [0] && [2] refer to members of the original Heptarchy, the other two are regions of our current era. My hood, Gloucester, is mentioned in all four articles. Doctor Foster went
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I whacked Chinese Room's prose in LibreOffice, then performed a spellcheck. Most examples of written English that I see on the Internet contain mistakes, yet CR is pretty much perfect.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> And while we're at it we can eradicate all software and biological viruses, since that would be nice to have too, and about as difficult. Regarding biological viruses, your comment seems to assume that all viruses are detrimenta
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> ... for up to a year after a nuclear strike After 30 minutes in this hell hole, I would probably walk outside and take a deep breath.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Not exactly a comic, but MATT from the telegraph often cracks me up no end: http://telegraph.newsprints.co.uk/view/14935264/tg3482987_ma...
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I was wondering how easy/difficult this phenomenon is to study in depth. If I wanted to examine any organisms in the jar, I would have trouble doing it while simultaneously maintaining the ecosystem's independence.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
The article mentions 'The Ambassadors' by Hans Holbein The Younger. Around 15 years ago it received some restoration, to replace the restoration work believed to be performed in the 19th Century. Until the recent work was complete
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
You don't have to do that, I read your other comment about 'Bob' being a common placeholder. Therefore I decided to gooooooooooooooooooooooooogle it [0]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
That made me a bit paranoid at first, since my name is Robert.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I'm 100% native English Same here regarding habitat (Gloucester), my results were: Dialect: 0. English 1. Welsh 2. South African Native: 0. English 1. Finnish 2. Romanian But my mother is Welsh, and I lived in Cardiff for three
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> There are two kinds of programming languages: those that have been used to create horrible messy codebases, and those that haven't been widely used. I think Bjarne's original statement, "There are only two kinds of lan
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> It makes me wonder, why is it that our eye in real life sees straight lines as straight, the way this demo renders the image? Not always. Next time the Sun and the Moon happen to be in view at the same time, look at the dividing line
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Same here. Reading x64 assembly... Let the good times roll.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
You can do this with ONE photo. Pick an urban scene that doesn't have an electronic goods store in sight, then wait for the release of the next iPhone.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> There is no other view that is compatible with logic. Exactly, the Obama Administration took the bait (then let go). Occasionally you have to remind other people and yourself that sometimes your opinion is not your opinion, but someo
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I'm a limey myself, I was just thinking... If you really want to find differences in political opinion, bring up a really volatile subject. I would be interested to hear the views of HN readers on the Falkland Islands.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
One of the original aims of the Brainfuck language was to implement an interpreter that had a tiny memory footprint (one Brainfuck interpreter took up 186 bytes of memory). This has been a big concern among programmers for decades, although
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Don't judge if people are oppressed (or better, repressed) if you have never been, please, either because at that age YOU had the occasions or guidance, or because you hadn't that curiosity or talent. I'm about four ye
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
The other film: "The UNIX System: Making Computers Easier to Use" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDZLjaCJuw
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
At exactly 7 minutes into the video, you glimpse Brian Kernighan's pair of walking boots, sporting some fabulous purple bootstraps.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Looking at the wikipedia article on Ritchie, I found this photo of attendees of the 1984 Usenix Conference [0]. At the bottom of the page it points out some faces. There is a tall guy to Dennis' right, named as Erik Fair (not familiar
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> The phrase "standing on the shoulders of giants" comes to mind when watching the video. Isaac Newton used the same phrase, but it was suspected he was referring to the short stature of his contemporary Robert Hooke. Ritchie
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Neurologists who study the brain's wiring are just as fascinated by the missile guidance system that top table tennis players have behind their eyes just as much as world class chess players.

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