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by SiVal 7y ago
Agreed (unfortunately). I gave up on SF decades ago, and The Martian is the only SF book I think I've liked this century. I liked it a lot and occasionally search for others like it. In vain, it seems. I think it is an ill omen that po
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by SiVal 7y ago
Any recommendations for good hard sci-fi in the last generation or so? I'm asking because your comment strongly suggests I'd like what you like. I'm one of the very few who think that "Science Fiction and Fantasy" a
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by SiVal 7y ago
Pretend your computer screen is a window with text printed on it. Look through the text, through the window at the distant mountains on the horizon. The text blurs and you see it with double vision because your eyes are focused at infinity.
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It's the same model if you are trying to get through the cheese.
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I wish I could remap my MBP arrowkeys to grow up and be full-sized keys...
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Your question is a reasonable one, but you're misunderstanding the bigger picture. The bigger picture is that you are offered something specific for a specified price. You can accept the deal, reject it, or make a counter offer. What y
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by SiVal 7y ago
This is exactly the topic that made me read this thread. I have been wondering whether one sqlite file per customer was a good option for an online service where each customer needed only his own, private data but wanted to work on it fro
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by SiVal 7y ago
Seems as though robots would do a much better job. I'm imagining a giant spider that walks into a minefield with its armored body fairly high above the ground. The body very methodically scans, probes, digs, ...whatever works. Its prob
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by SiVal 7y ago
There are multiple models (markets) even in today's world, and they have different needs and constraints. When you have lots of space but not a lot of money, you probably optimize for least money per unit of energy. When you have money
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by SiVal 7y ago
Yes, I think we'd be better off if we had equivalents of much of Facebook or Twitter implemented as distributed protocols like email rather than as a centralized system. You'd have your own @fred@example.com rather than just @fred
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by SiVal 7y ago
Yes, major desktop GUIs 20 yrs ago had more in common with each other than they have with web apps. They also had more in common with each other than with iOS and Android phones. Yet today, most people in the more-developed economies use de
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by SiVal 7y ago
In much of "flyover country", Americans routinely greet, chat with, and interact with strangers in public. Ironically, it's one of the American traits often criticized by Europeans. "How rude, how intrusive, to invade my
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by SiVal 7y ago
artificial: "made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally"
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by SiVal 7y ago
Right, the math is the same. We face this in physics all the time. You drop a ball and it accelerates downward. Should the distance it covers be a negative number? Well, it seems linear distance should be positive, but if it is, then does d
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by SiVal 7y ago
Yes, I find there are two kinds of books, those that would work as audio books and those that wouldn't. Those that work as audio books also work well as ePub and, in fact, are better in ePub form than as PDF, because I have more cont
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by SiVal 7y ago
Yes, the words of the authors. But the final accounting according to the data of the authors: during incarceration they commit no crimes against society and after incarceration they resume committing crime at the same rate as if they had
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by SiVal 7y ago
"Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun!" I hadn't thought of that one for decades. I could feel bad about not memorizing Shakespeare instead, but I also have MANY numerical
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by SiVal 7y ago
"I couldn't care less" is the proper American form and the only form I heard growing up in the US. In recent decades, I have of course encountered the "could care less" form many times, but it's like "same
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by SiVal 7y ago
What phone do you use for this or is it multiple phones, and what SIM or is it multiple SIMs?
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+1. Thanks for that. I've heard it was QT many times, but Jon is the ultimate authority.
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by SiVal 7y ago
Maybe good for me. The glass is half full but rising. Like many devs, I prefer a *nix-based client, one whose features are already working (not partially left as an exercise for the user), and that has a full range of available software. Ma
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by SiVal 7y ago
Just in case you mean the question literally, yes, some people on HN have said they dislike using it. I'm not one of them. I like it. But you're probably asking for people who dislike it to tell you what it is about VS Code they d
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by SiVal 7y ago
Microsoft made the switch from DOS-based with Windows as a layer to full Windows-based ("NT") operating systems by having both for several years. They could probably offer a Linux kernel with whatever Windows OS services mattered
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by SiVal 7y ago
I would love to see Facebook, Twitter, and (much harder but maybe even) YouTube replaced by distributed systems, so they would be more like email, RSS, or the web. You would have many different options for hosts, including self-hosting, and
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I haven't heard of this "new ACM format", but for years I've wished for a PDF2 that incorporated lessons learned from PDF and web pages for print, ebooks, web on multiple screen sizes, and non-visual readers (for the bli
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by SiVal 7y ago
It's the New Republic, an intellectual fashion magazine for the American Left. As it says at the bottom of the article, the author is one of their staff writers. Comments about American hegemony and how other countries can't be bl
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I had to deal with the previous transition, and that one was going to be the result of the death of the emperor. Therefore, software was not allowed to include any provision for transition to a new date system, because doing so would impl
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I think this claim is true in its explicit sense. The Tolkien connection makes an interesting story even more interesting, which probably increases media attention by some non-zero value. But it would be an interesting story for many of us
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by SiVal 8y ago
I totally agree, and they can take care of the last mile problem for trains at both ends, making trains more practical. And GP said, "If the solution is flawed even a little bit, people will die." Well, yes, and if humans drive, p
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by SiVal 8y ago
I was driving south on 101 in Mt. View and a car came out of the left lane and cut me off to take the 85S exit. Was that your code? (The responsible thing is to use a linter to catch these things so they don't become "runtime&quot

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