SeanDav

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by SeanDav 10y ago
I believe it is a case of: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", although it certainly appears that some went too far with too little evidence in their criticism of the the original idea.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Counterpoint: > " I’ve had hundreds of people brought to me in the emergency room after getting CPR. Exactly one, a healthy man who’d had no heart troubles (for those who want specifics, he had a “tension pneumothorax”), walked out
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by SeanDav 10y ago
One of the biggest causes of poor dog behaviour is failure by the breeder to properly socialize the puppy. Puppies should be handled frequently, starting from newborn and preferably by as many people as possible. This imprints the dog with
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by SeanDav 10y ago
The signature scene did not make it to the film I saw, and the whole scene where she writes unaided and which is explained afterwards was a bit lacking. It should have been a pivotal moment, but was too easy to miss the significance of it.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
I am very anti-tracking, but to be fair IF Uber is being above board with their intentions, this is exactly the type of question they could answer.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
8068 just became far more popular!
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by SeanDav 10y ago
I wouldn't have thought a minimal interface is required for YouTube. If your internet connection is too slow to handle a more detailed interface, how on earth is it going to cope with doing something like streaming video and sound?
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by SeanDav 10y ago
I have nothing against Python 3, but right now Python 2.7 is more than good enough for all my current requirements, and is used by every client I work with that uses Python. At some point that might start applying to Python 3, in which case
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by SeanDav 10y ago
This agrees with my own experience. I learned programming with people that would do things like write their own graphics library, in Assembly language , or device drivers, just because they wanted to see if they could. I thought every prog
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Just curious, what are us C apologists supposed to be apologizing for: - A lack of suitable replacement for C? - C is too ubiquitous? - C has been an integral part of most of the best software ever written?
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by SeanDav 10y ago
It turns out that for several reasons, creating an exact emulation of even much older gaming technology can be very computationally intensive. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-o...
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by SeanDav 10y ago
In my day I wrote a fair amount of x86 assembly language. I found it fairly easy and straight forward. There are probably even less reasons to learn it these days but nothing gives you a better idea of how a computer works (arguably, beside
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by SeanDav 10y ago
It is a shortcoming, but not one that can be addressed any time soon
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Thanks for that link - only 35k signatures so far. People are sleepwalking into 1984.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Of course it is easy to be wise after the fact, but surely this is the sort of thing that should have been exhaustively tested (What happens if one sensor malfunctions and sends incorrect data)? Massive cudo's for being public about th
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by SeanDav 10y ago
The article also goes into some detail on false memories. There have been some horrific instances of injustices caused by this, particularly false memories of child abuse and sex abuse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fal
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by SeanDav 10y ago
This is a similar warning to "Don't eat the yellow snow". It makes very good sense but probably many will not pay attention until they actually get burned.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
The diamond cartels love this kind of thinking. It should be about value, not price. With a diamond, you are not getting value (except in some rare circumstances involving unusual stones).
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Just recently there was a report in a national newspaper of a patient going from officially "Brain dead" to recovering and going on to live fairly normally. I will try find the link to this. EDIT: Not the specific link I was think
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by SeanDav 10y ago
It is a temporary aberration. In due course, people will come to realize that they can't believe everything they read on the internet (duh), especially where provenance is not clear, and Facebook will improve their algorithms. Some kin
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by SeanDav 10y ago
There are numerous good reasons to buy a truck or SUV that supersede the question of emissions. Absolutely, the question of emissions should be on the list of considerations, but unless one can understand all the buying reasons/decisio
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by SeanDav 10y ago
A lot of this looks solvable with a good editor. Think about how much boiler plate java code is generated by decent editors these days.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Am I hearing a volunteer to migrate the project?
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by SeanDav 10y ago
I predict overseas tourists will ruin Burning Man soon™
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by SeanDav 10y ago
> "... the reason why there's so much churn is because smart, inventive people are constantly finding better ways to do things." It also follows that at some point, these smart, inventive people will come up with fairly
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by SeanDav 10y ago
I can recommend the book: The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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by SeanDav 10y ago
> "Because of the immunity it grants to publishers who act as intermediaries for this flow of information and commentary, “Section 230 is the backbone of the Internet,” says Thomas Burke" If Yelp was a pure intermediary, perh
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by SeanDav 10y ago
This post is overly optimistic and largely fails to address the 800 pound gorilla in the room: Tesla is selling cars at a loss . Once Tesla has to operate like a normal company and sell cars to make a profit, it is almost certain that pric
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Effectively one is comparing library performance here and not language performance. Granted, that line can get very blurry indeed, but in this case this says very little about golang the language and far more about a current implementation
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by SeanDav 10y ago
What options are available to connect to the internet, if your ISP is forced to shutdown in circumstances like this? Some years ago, one could use phone lines and dial up modems. Are these still viable? What about Ham radio?

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