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by SolarNet 10y ago
One of my jobs as the person usually responsible for setting up and writing the core bits of new projects at my company is to make a build that just works . All most all of our core (e.g. serious) projects consist of the following steps: *
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by SolarNet 10y ago
> “[Watson could be used] for the mission to Mars,” he said. After all, that small crew will be crammed together on a spaceship for a few years at least, and getting along will be essential. “You can’t make changes once they’re up there.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
By definition regular expressions are not Turing complete... There is an ordering relationship between turing machines and regular expressions which explicitly states regular expressions are strictly a subset of turning machines. This is au
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Our bodies are more complex than we can design for yet. Most organ replicating machines will start to fail after a couple of hours due to complications like clots. The heart is probably the simplest due to it's very simple function. We
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by SolarNet 10y ago
> by most of the intellectuals (mostly humanities professors) in USA who are very keen on criticizing USA for whatever perceived/projected censorship and violation of human rights in USA. Because they are U.S. citizens, they live he
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Yea, this would never get past my university's ethics department. I'm actually surprised he was allowed to do this. Maybe it's partially due to the fact our ethics department is also worried about liability.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Except in this case it's the parents arguing for these traffic abatements, how about instead of faffing around with taxpayer money they be better parents.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
> Judges are supposed to use some digression. Yes, and they do, however sometimes their hands are tied. In this case by rule 36 of a series of peer approved rules which states what action the judge in this case has to take . When submit
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Magnet links are basically just deterministically computed ISBNs for arbitrary data. Here is the magnet link for a zero length file. magnet:?xt=urn:ed2k:31D6CFE0D16AE931B73C59D7E0C089C0&xl=0&dn=zero_len.fil How is that diff
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by SolarNet 10y ago
You're right it's not a dichotomy, but the property free-as-in-speech is the one that helps here, free-as-in-beer doesn't matter either way in this case (besides it's initial popularity).
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Linux is free-as-in-speech software. That means I could clone it in a week and sell a competing product when, say Ubuntu, starts to implode. Free-as-in-beer software doesn't have that.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
The Nairobi study is working on that thankfully.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Do you think our current government safety nets provide for this already? If so you are living in a dream world. Besides we already have the answer, payday lending, while often predatory in the current system, becomes easier when you consid
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Windows has this.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
This actually probably has more to do with the fidelity of rendering in the Vive apps. It's important to remember that due to hunter/gatherer specializations men and women (testosterone and estrogen dominant individuals actually,
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Hype, people don't want to up-vote nay-saying (if they even bother to report it), would be my guess (assuming the nausea is actually a serious problem, this would be my explanation).
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Glad I made that decision my self, I had a chance to switch to WPF in 2010, two years later it was on the out.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Another solution, besides the natural one of bringing grandparents back into the equation, for solving overworked parents, could be larger mixed age family units, e.g. polyamory (to preempt, you use the same incest rule as for existing pare
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by SolarNet 10y ago
But considering our evolution from similar ancestors, that may have been a quirk our evolution ended up expanding on.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Probably has a few grandparents around...
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by SolarNet 10y ago
It's a learning system, power sliding is a result of the entirety of it's learning.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Pretty sure this is just a stunt for his political campaign.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
The sarcasm was that the great-great-grandparent didn't use it.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Vulkan is brand new it's going to take a while to filter down. This is the first "advanced" level tutorial I've even seen for it. And it doesn't even talk about rendering with Vulkan, which is way more complicated t
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Wait, there is sarcasm on the internet? What's the markdown for that?
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by SolarNet 10y ago
You realize edit timers are a thing right?
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by SolarNet 10y ago
I'm referring to one specific core dev. However they all know each other from MIT so it makes it difficult for them to deal with that fact. I can point to 3 public examples, in addition to a couple of private reports about problems whi
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by SolarNet 10y ago
> I do think HN is not the right forum to link to individual comments and call out people for their behavior. Fair enough, my problem is that the project continually looses what appear to be serious contributors to a toxic developer (adm
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by SolarNet 10y ago
> There are several recent examples where people have suggested such things That's great but amount to a couple of functions, the larger issues addressing more serious refactorings never get off the ground (Base contains multiple th
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by SolarNet 10y ago
I remember plenty of cases I got simply from observing the Julia repo for a few months, I could list them if you like... But I've been told by Julia contributors before that discussing this on HN is not an appropriate place. So we can

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