TophWells

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by TophWells 13y ago
Originally, yes, but it's been two decades since Alpha. I think by now they have a pretty good idea of what they're doing and why it works.
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by TophWells 13y ago
Fascinating post. The title of this submission is incorrect: it should be "What is the shortest string length that requires a delete to create most efficiently?". That is, find X such that the shortest sequence of operations tha
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by TophWells 13y ago
An average person can't write "hello world" in an average web page, because to an average person that sort of technical ability is the province of mysterious web nerds. I'm assuming you mean "an average web designer
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by TophWells 13y ago
I just tried both of those. 3 minutes sounds about right to me, if you don't bother with any of the customisations.
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by TophWells 13y ago
>This will potentially preserve the information for millions of years. Not true. Outside the body, DNA has a half-life of about 500 years. If you want your writing to last for millions of years, carve some stone tablets.
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by TophWells 13y ago
How does Tineye make money at the moment? I'm sure there's a business model somewhere that would work.
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by TophWells 13y ago
And by interested, you mean lazy. Thanks!
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by TophWells 13y ago
I red it as satirizing Facebook, not least because some of the messages are over Twitter's character limit.
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by TophWells 13y ago
I can understand if he loses the bitcoins because he doesn't qualify for seller protection. Terms and Conditions are annoying like that. But what's the story with Paypal saying he owes them £1500? What is that supposed to pay for?
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by TophWells 13y ago
Sometimes, yes. Not always - it depends on how the transactions inside the wallet are organised, which is not usually displayed unless you go looking for it. Not that it matters - if 100BTC go into a wallet, and an hour later 100BTC comes o
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by TophWells 13y ago
I've done that!
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by TophWells 13y ago
You're right. Firefox's "View Source" button doesn't do what I thought it did. Curl gives a page with a "Please wait" message and a pile of Javascript. I learned something today.
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by TophWells 13y ago
Wait, I refreshed the page a few times, and once, I got: <html> <head> <title>MtGox.com</title> <script type="text/javascript"> var AKSB=AKSB||{};AKSB.q=[];AKSB.mark=function(b
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by TophWells 13y ago
It's fertile breeding grounds for conspiracy theories, so I'm not going to post my elaborate speculation here. I'll just summarise it as "there are several people working at Mt. Gox and they're probably not very goo
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by TophWells 13y ago
Probably not. But don't give up hope yet.
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by TophWells 13y ago
I don't see anything like that. Here's the page source for me: <html> <head> <title>MtGox.com</title> </head> <body> <p><img src="/img/mtgox_logo_mail.pn
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by TophWells 13y ago
Processing power is cheaper than programmer time. If it were really as easy as coding the desired result instead of coding the desired process, we'd already be doing it. And in some specialised cases, we already are: see https:/&
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by TophWells 13y ago
Well, he wouldn't have gotten more than any other early adopter. And nobody accuses them of being scammers - just taking a heck of a gamble and it paying off. Edit: Apologies, I did more research after posting this comment. Apparently
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by TophWells 13y ago
Clarification: MTGOX was intended to stand for that, but the card exchange was never finished, probably for lack of interest.
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by TophWells 13y ago
Playing with the settings on the left is a good way to frighten small children.
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by TophWells 13y ago
The residents of the googoolplexth universe would like to know what they're supposed to do when the number is too big to fit on the screen of the people below them.
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by TophWells 13y ago
I don't think that's right. Nothing outside Earth(2014)'s past light-cone can affect anything inside it, nor can anything outside Earth(2015)'s past light-cone affect anything inside it. Expanding the light-cone into the
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by TophWells 13y ago
I don't know any high-profile cases, but this random Reddit user did: https://pay.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1r88vl/need_advice...
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by TophWells 13y ago
Reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg Only more colourful and interactive.
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by TophWells 13y ago
>if I own a device, No-one should legally be allowed control over it? Then tech companies might start leasing out their devices: you technically don't own it, so you're not allowed to do what you want to it. Not that the Right
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by TophWells 13y ago
I wish I'd known about Branch And Bound when I was a student - it would have probably come in handy a few times.
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by TophWells 13y ago
Here's the application I thought was immediately obvious: memory palaces. Based on the old mnemonic trick of taking a real physical location that you know well, and associating memories with objects in that space. The digital version o
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by TophWells 13y ago
Probably. I doubt it's possible to look at a piece of code and evaluate whether it's worth feeding it the equivalent of ten years of basic education. If we ever write a program that exhibits "creativity, or desire, or whateve
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by TophWells 13y ago
>“You’ve been in a human for the last 48 years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, you’d start remembering everything. But there’s no point to doing that
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Automatically generating and annotating 3D models of famous tourist sites(youtube.com)
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