SiVal

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by SiVal 12y ago
I have a relatively simple rule about what is and isn't art. It doesn't have to be everyone's rule--it's just my rule: Nothing is objectively art; art is always in the eye of the beholder, but it's only real art to
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by SiVal 12y ago
That's not quite right. The advantage is that you (and others) are ALLOWED to do what you want with it (within license limits), but there's no guarantee that you have the resources to make use of that right. Even maintaining the s
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by SiVal 12y ago
And I upvoted his still-grayed-out original post. This is what figuring things out looks like. It was a reasonable thing to bring up when examining something this bizarre.
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by SiVal 12y ago
It's just that Belmont's on bedrock. Take Ralston east toward the bay, out on the landfill a few blocks past Oracle, and you won't be sleeping through it. It shakes like Jello out here.
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by SiVal 12y ago
I learned of Dweck's findings before I had kids, and I faced that challenge, too: Others tell my kids that they're smart, but they want reassurance that Daddy thinks they are, too. When they were younger, I told them that they wer
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by SiVal 12y ago
Yeah, it's a thing. I'm not Asian either, and I also taught myself to do it when living in Korea as a teenager long ago. Koreans took for granted that the ground was filthy--with good reason in those days. They would never touch i
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by SiVal 12y ago
And that's why, in my original post, I wrote, "The benefit to the end user only shows up when building custom hardware, repurposing old hardware, or using a VM--things I care about but the average consumer doesn't."
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by SiVal 12y ago
Always having problems getting it working entirely with desktop services and not being able to run many of the most popular desktop apps (the whole Office suite, Lightroom, Photoshop, TurboTax, most PC games, all sorts of vertical apps that
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by SiVal 12y ago
That's why the marginal cost of Windows or OS X is zero. If the cost of the OS is "baked in", rather than offered as an optional add-on, that policy makes the price with or without the OS the same to you, which by definition
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by SiVal 12y ago
The problem with Linux on the desktop is that it doesn't have any significant, practical advantage to offset the significant, practical disadvantages. BENEFITS: -- Costs $0: But that is also the marginal cost of Windows and OS X. When
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by SiVal 12y ago
Okay, here's some feedback: you mention that you're using "real" vim, yet refer to the file browser controls as that "hjkl" thing. No app that isn't vim or isn't trying to partially resemble vim has u
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by SiVal 12y ago
There is an infrastructure beyond the usual technical sort, an infrastructure of skills, habits, and assumptions. Windows matches this infrastructure extremely well, because this infrastructure was almost entirely built on Windows over the
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by SiVal 12y ago
Yes, "robot" isn't the point. "Non-human" is the point. Non-humans replacing humans probably began with animal domestication technology and has accelerated dramatically since then. Once a non-human replaces a human,
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by SiVal 12y ago
There is enormous energy "embodied" in uranium, too. If (when?) the time comes that we can no longer sustain our economies on fossil fuels, we will increasingly turn to nuclear power, which should last us for several more generati
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by SiVal 12y ago
realizes that returning to their roots as a PC gamer is the way to go. Of course it remains to be seen whether even that is the way to go. He might enjoy the work more, but that won't matter much if this business turns out to be unsu
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by SiVal 12y ago
While the transfer of the assets after a sale may take several days, the buying and selling takes place in milliseconds. If something is offered for sale at a bargain price, and 8ms later I accept while a Go user is stuck in a 10ms GC run,
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by SiVal 12y ago
+1 for this interesting suggestion. Thanks. I've never heard of it and would love to try one. Apparently, it doesn't scroll, but I'm sure scrolling takes a lot of energy to do all the refreshes. I assume that a large, hi-rez
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by SiVal 12y ago
If a book isn't technical, I can usually read it in audio format as I do something otherwise mindless like washing dishes, so most of what I need to read (with my eyes) contains equations, code listings (like this JavaScript book), dia
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by SiVal 12y ago
As I see the data in those green bars (the chart in your linked article), the chance of your marriage surviving ten years falls with each non-marital sexual partner you had before marriage in the way you might expect if your current partner
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by SiVal 12y ago
Having amazing string capabilities is more important now than ever. But that actually argues against including regex in the language syntax itself. You want regular expressions to be able to evolve to become ever more powerful and useful. S
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by SiVal 12y ago
I thought it was becoming more universal, but now I'm not so sure. grep on the Mac used to use PCRE regexes if you used the -P option (`grep -P ....`), but beginning with OS X 10.8 the -P option was removed, so an important place that
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by SiVal 12y ago
No one is going to fucking make the US into some 1984 clone because that's in no one's incentive. Many countries---China, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, North Korea---were increasingly influenced by fervent advocates of utopian Big
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by SiVal 13y ago
because it's inevitably a leaky abstraction
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by SiVal 13y ago
Thescrewdriver is absolutely correct about Java. Many years ago, I participated in several Java user groups here in Silicon Valley. We frequently had members of the Java team from Sun as guest speakers. It always went roughly the same: we p
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by SiVal 13y ago
email him
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by SiVal 13y ago
What has changed? (Not advocacy; I'm curious.)
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by SiVal 13y ago
If you're ever in China you can pick up cheap microscopes Where exactly? I might want to check them out...
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by SiVal 13y ago
It will make more sense if you know that, by "amateur", I mean someone who knows something about image processing, but not enough to build an image processor--someone whose expertise is in something else: photography, public prese
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by SiVal 13y ago
Instead of the GIMP limping along behind PhotoShop, both dragging their decades-old legacy baggage, monolithic architectures, 1990s pricing models, etc., into the foreseeable future, I wish we had something more like Octave, SQLite, or Pyth
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by SiVal 13y ago
Would Firefox be better (more secure and with no performance handicap) if written in Rust? I realize that there is an enormous amount of existing code that shouldn't be thrown away, but if Mozilla wanted to create a browser from scratc

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