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by Periodic 17y ago
Robots--for the foreseeable future--don't have a psyche, and thus cannot become psychopathic.
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by Periodic 17y ago
Asimov's stories also pointed out that when we really do create conscious AI we can't expect them to obey simple laws as if they were tools. They will be just the same as we are and we'll either have to treat them as such or destroy them.
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by Periodic 17y ago
Damnit! I should have built that moral and conscious sense into my Roomba! It is a sociopath for not feeling regret when it repeatedly runs into the dog while she is trying to sleep? For that matter, I probably should build this into my ca
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by Periodic 17y ago
I think we make the mistake of thinking everything made in China is cheap. You might be surprised to find out that some expensive and quality items are made in China. Somehow we have come to expect everything made in China to be cheap, th
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by Periodic 17y ago
How many other things did you have that broke? Oh, you probably don't remember them because they weren't around very long and don't evoke strong happy memories. You can't rebut an argument about lack of data and selective memory with anecd
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by Periodic 17y ago
The problem with the meetings PG is talking about is they tend to be in the middle of productive blocks and they are long. The idea of an Agile standup is usually it is right at the start of the day, when people are still drinking their cof
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by Periodic 17y ago
I sort of did this during my undergrad. But instead it was essentially 9-5 minus whatever classes I had. I would just spend any time not in class during the work day to work on class work unless I had every assignment done. It helped me
668.
by Periodic 17y ago
I work an odd job. It is approximately equal parts system administration, programming, and tech support. Can you guess which part I dread most? I relish the days I can lock myself in a basement laboratory and hide out with my code. Some
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by Periodic 17y ago
I think you'd be surprised how easily you can put Drupal on a resume without putting PHP. I know a few web design firms where the "Drupal programmers" really are just the ones who just know enough about Drupal to get the things working the
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by Periodic 17y ago
I'm not really sure what you mean about best at solving problems in this domain. This was a brute force problem, so the only real skill was in making it as fast as possible. I don't think it was any secret techniques, but rather that they
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by Periodic 17y ago
Get out, see the world, look at other peoples' code (particularly the stuff they don't release publicly), and I can guarantee you will be surprised at what people can make run. I believe there is a saying that there will always be [code] be
672.
by Periodic 17y ago
This is a pattern I tend to use as well because it lets you reference known working code when changing things, and easily switch between development and stable code. However, usually it's just one line, so "copy, paste, comment, move" work
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by Periodic 17y ago
The headline really doesn't hint at the nuances of this. Microsoft released code to help Linux run in Microsoft's HyperV virtualization system. Linux would run, just slower, without these drivers. Releasing these drivers is likely a crucia
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by Periodic 17y ago
I have to give this site some props for that sweet little graph they have of throughput. I want to use it to profile various browsers and operating systems, which has the nice side effect of helping them out.
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by Periodic 17y ago
I would have preferred they released both, just so people could be sure nothing got lost in translation (e.g. they added a null accidentally or something).
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by Periodic 17y ago
It's going to be a lot slower, particularly with the goal of not slowing down a person's browser. By default, at least for me, their page is doing 1 hash per 200ms, or 5/second. On the other hand, a quick Haskell implementation using Data.
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by Periodic 17y ago
Except the interviewee is not plural. We lack a singular gender-neutral pronoun in English that it is acceptable to apply to people, and appropriating "they" doesn't seem like the right fix. Personally, I vote we either appropriate "he" to
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by Periodic 17y ago
I still find it hard to believe that someone would apply for a programming job without being able to write fizzbuzz in the language of the position.
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by Periodic 17y ago
I think this is very important to take into consideration. I've heard a lot of stories about like-hiring-like and ending up with an imbalanced team. Part of that is the interview process, part of it is the interviewers. Good interviewers
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by Periodic 17y ago
It has to be pretty basic, as you obviously can't give him all your production frameworks and libraries to work with. A reasonably competent program will be able to create reasonable code without the perfect environment. You probably don't
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by Periodic 17y ago
I hate to to have to say this, but could we please have more descriptive titles? You can tell from some of the comments that a lot of people, myself included, are trying to figure out what would is so concerning on that page. Also, the pos
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by Periodic 17y ago
That's correct. it's 6/8 bits per color. Note that an image that uses 6-bit color with an alpha channel will have 24 bits per pixel, which shouldn't be confused with the 32 bites per pixel of 8-bit color.
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by Periodic 17y ago
It seems like a lot of these "rules" for systems were created decades ago with different hardware. Not only has the hardware design changed since then, but the economics have changed as well. With a single big-iron mainframe it probably ma
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by Periodic 17y ago
For the companies with global data centers it may prove more profitable to create more data centers around the world and shift workloads than to build one monolithic data center in the midwest (for example). Costs of hardware have fallen en
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by Periodic 17y ago
You've done a lot to increase his reputation. Look, you just said that the web server he wrote was good enough for your production work and that you believe other web servers to be inferior. By mentioning Mongrel you increase the visibilit
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by Periodic 17y ago
This is just a teenager stating his opinions based on what he observes in his peer group. It does not include any real data. That said, his argument seems to almost boil down to, "on Twitter you can't choose your friends". There is no wa
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by Periodic 17y ago
That's pretty neat. However, I can't help asking myself if this real adds any real value to the world. Not that it has to. It's like mental candy. Pleasing, but ultimately lacking in substance.
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by Periodic 17y ago
In general I'd support that we have medical professionals to make these decisions for us. I would prefer to have someone I trust, is well educated on the subject, and keeps up with the literature who can point me in the right direction. O
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by Periodic 17y ago
I think his point would be best supported by the note that the study has not found a statistically significant difference in mortality between the restricted and unrestricted diets. It found that aging-related causes of death (cancer and h
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by Periodic 17y ago
On food availability: many animals, such as mice and dogs, are less able to restrain their own diet and will overeat if allowed to do so. This would lead to the control group overeating, not eating only the number of calories they need, an

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