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by Udo 10y ago
I know, but I worry about giving children misleading information. Especially given the possibility that they might grow into a world where radical life extension may become available for the first time, I believe we shouldn't give them
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by Udo 10y ago
For reference, sambeau linked to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_water_on_Earth - and specifically asked about more info on that. I know it was meant as a snarky comment, but yes, we're talking dif
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by Udo 10y ago
Hydrogen is very, very abundant, so the creation of water is always going to be a thing as long as there is oxygen. We also know that the period referred to as the Late Heavy Bombardment is likely to have showered the already formed Earth w
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by Udo 10y ago
> I am stealing this. You shouldn't. I have seen this ideology come up on HN a lot (strangely almost never anywhere else), as an argument against human life extension. If this is your ideology, it's of course not productive
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by Udo 11y ago
It's apparently from a muslim religious text. I found this very interesting because it's a rule that covers both self-preservation ("don't enter the infected zone") and quarantine ("if infected, stay where you
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by Udo 11y ago
Bloat happens when programmers don't care about (or don't understand) what code actually does and what the tradeoffs down the line are going to be. Bloat happens when code is produced cheaply and quickly. Bloat happens when there
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by Udo 11y ago
SEEKING WORK / based in Germany / remote or on-site (Europe/US preferred) I'm a generalist developer with two decades of experience. I also have a background in biosciences and have worked for advertising agencies, resea
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by Udo 11y ago
> That's because Turks are treated in Germany the same way Moroccans are in Netherlands. I think the experience of this particular group-based conflict varies wildly depending on life circumstances. In particular, living in a nice
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by Udo 11y ago
> However, I feel more attached to Germany, to be honest As a fellow German, it's encouraging to hear that immigrants sometimes still feel they can identify with Germany as their new country, despite all the obvious hurdles. My ex
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by Udo 11y ago
Honestly, this makes me reconsider my future OS choices. I've been an OS X user for a decade now, but getting increasingly dissatisfied with Apple's stance on hardware and software, I have been thinking about moving to Ubuntu for
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by Udo 11y ago
I've been using Gogs now for a few months and can't recommend it enough as opposed to GitLab. It does have some rough edges (for example the many instances where its CSRF protection feature misfires), but generally it's a ver
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by Udo 11y ago
> I think this was just an ill-judged offhand comment. I don't think you have provided sufficient information as to why you think my comment was bad. You say the 'get' different use cases better than most in the industry
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by Udo 11y ago
I'm an Apple-only user at the moment, both mobile and desktop. When Apple asserts that a desktop computer should be replaced by a locked-down handheld device with very limited capabilities, the odd thing seems to me is they don't
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by Udo 11y ago
"[...] with these old media companies (in this case channeled through Netflix) [...]"
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by Udo 11y ago
The ability for and dedication to self sabotage is really astonishing with these old media companies (in this case channeled through Netflix). The sad thing is this affects only people who are still somehow determined to actually buy their
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by Udo 11y ago
I'm afraid you misunderstood my comment entirely.
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by Udo 11y ago
The problem I see here is that it's a complete re-invention of everything , from the transport protocols to the UI, everything gets redone. He didn't talk about how the client will be implemented yet, but it's certain that i
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by Udo 11y ago
> If you’re interested in what we’re doing, we’d love you to check out our process. Well, I say this as someone who was apparently blacklisted on TripleByte despite ostensibly getting a perfect result on the programming taks, getting
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by Udo 11y ago
> may be because a breakthrough is most likely going to be revolutionary when it occurs Not in this case, no. I realize your argument is mostly generic, too. Everybody understands that some problems are expected to have these kinds of
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by Udo 11y ago
I consider myself a transhumanist, though even I can't help but notice that these advances always seem just close enough so the author might manage to benefit from them shortly before he expects to die. Kurzweil did the same thing. I
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by Udo 11y ago
There have to be open protocols and control needs to happen locally (as in: on the home network). The good news is, you can absolutely have that, today. The bad news is, it's not as easy to set up as a Nest. People have to understand t
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by Udo 11y ago
PS: if you post here, please remember to upvote the freelancer thread itself!
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by Udo 11y ago
SEEKING WORK / based in Germany / remote or on-site (Europe/US preferred) I'm a generalist developer with two decades of experience. I also have a background in biosciences and have worked for advertising agencies, resea
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by Udo 11y ago
Is this project even alive? The last forum posts seem to be about a year old and there doesn't seem to be any development on the OS X / Linux front despite them saying it was right around the corner in 2012.
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by Udo 11y ago
I saw a documentary about the company behind Minecraft, and when they interviewed the owner about what kind of advice he would give to a game developer starting out, he replied: "don't listen to advice". I became an instant f
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by Udo 11y ago
This chart sums it up pretty well: https://twitter.com/renderpipeline/status/699346348651507713 There is no reason why any given app developer would want to talk to Vulkan directly. It's basically only suitab
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by Udo 11y ago
That's true. In the EU, it's the context of the relationship itself that determines exclusivity, I have never seen people needing to declare it explicitly. > Whether a meeting has a romantic interest is never really expressed
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by Udo 11y ago
I'm a (german) DB customer as well, and I can't say I share a lot of these experiences. > Buggy app and web interface, sometimes the login fails or hangs randomly This never happened to me, maybe I'm just lucky. There us
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by Udo 11y ago
SEEKING WORK / based in Germany / remote or on-site (Europe/US preferred) I'm a generalist developer with two decades of experience. I also have a background in biosciences and have worked for advertising agencies, resea
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by Udo 11y ago
That was my first thought, too. A cursory search didn't yield anything. I'm tempted to suggest it to my friend as our next project - we're going to do a game project every month this year (or at least: trying to, already behi

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