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by Udo 11y ago
If you're scared of putting your actual opinions on here, why do it in the first place? Why even have an account? I'm sure if you searched through most people's comment history here, including mine, any given future boss coul
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by Udo 11y ago
I'm in my forties now, I've been working as a programmer since I was 18. I love writing code, I love doing it as a job and in private projects. I could not imagine my life without having this skill. I haven't gotten rich off
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by Udo 11y ago
> " Your eyes actually take in multiple words at a time and parse the sentence based on the words you've taken in. This also means that unless a particular particle is deadly important to the sentence, your brain ignores it &qu
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by Udo 11y ago
It's been a while since I last wrote C# code, does it really allow for heterogeneous value types? If so, that's cool. However, from my recollection, the C# API itself is all about opaque objects and behaviors. That's not a cr
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by Udo 11y ago
It depends on the language and it depends on how it's idiomatically used. In theory, you can make capability claims about most languages interchangeably, but the question is if the language really affords it or not. For example, I woul
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by Udo 11y ago
Having worked with (and sometimes implemented) different flavors of both static and dynamic languages over the course of my 20+ years in programming, I still feel a little guilty about not coming down on one extreme side like most of my col
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by Udo 11y ago
HTTPS does nothing for you in this case. The passwords are generated locally with JavaScript, and there is an option you can check to prevent them being sent back to the server. But even if they actually were generated on the server, HTTPS
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by Udo 11y ago
Not really. The problem is there are many unknown factors. Consulting the list of likely explanation candidates, I think so far they haven't even ruled out whether it's a signal artifact as opposed to an actual speedup.
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by Udo 11y ago
When I took a test drive of the Model S recently, one thing that struck me about the autopilot was that it's not (in my opinion) sufficiently clear what mode the car is operating in at the moment. Semiautomatic mode should be a glaring
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I'd imagine the rate of false positives was also quite high.
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I'm sorry to hear that it's closing down, hearing this for the first time. I get why you're moving on. Overall, I think there is still an opportunity for a "best of HN" publication, and I would probably subscribe if
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by Udo 11y ago
It's a bit offtopic, but: as a German, the german source comments amused me slightly, and there are words in there I have never heard before as a native-speaking programmer, such as "Datenhaltung". It never occurred to me to
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by Udo 11y ago
I agree about most of these points, but I really don't understand this one: > Do a DirectX implementation (having DirectX on your resume helps a lot) You post this as a reaction to someone doing a Show HN on a Linux-based OpenGL
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by Udo 11y ago
If you're really after those 3 Kelvin, you might be happier selecting a host star that is 3 degrees hotter instead, especially considering the practical efficiencies of heat exchange systems near absolute zero temperatures.
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by Udo 11y ago
Sorry, I was still editing my text, but I think I preserved the original meaning. Just in the interest of openness.
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> Udo, this is an honest, sincere question because I really didn't expect this strict of a response to my words from the community I pointed it out because I was surprised to see it had been added to the post when we actually had
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by Udo 11y ago
> may be tens of thousands of years - absolutely not enough to have overlaps between tech civilizations to listen/watch radio/TV of each other From what we know, that is a reasonable assumption. > Space expansion is diffe
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by Udo 11y ago
Also, cnp's post has been edited to add that rhetorical "how is it not clear" and the reference to the Strassmann study after I already replied to it, otherwise it would have been addressed.
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by Udo 11y ago
> It's not like a fence is required; the area simply has to be avoided. That might not be enough. It depends on your criteria for isolation. At the very least you need to prevent us from passively detecting you. How hard that is c
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by Udo 11y ago
> We really don't know if there's some branch of physics that allows FTL travel I agree, and I didn't mean to come down on either side of the opinion spectrum on FTL. Personally, I consider it a strong possibility that s
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by Udo 11y ago
> wouldn't it make sense for such a culture to live near a black hole? Technically the black hole doesn't offer anything beyond what a sun of comparable output would offer. > and other species might avoid the neighborhood
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> when you ingest N,N-Dimethyltryptamine certain strange contact-like phenomena tend to occur That's not in question. > occur within the biological-psychological interface known as Consciousness This sentence includes a littl
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by Udo 11y ago
> I'm not claiming anything, I'm saying: its possible that there is more to consciousness than it appears That is not correct. In the post above you said, literally, " you don't need to travel far to reach the outer
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by Udo 11y ago
> As anyone who has worked with DMT or Ayahuasca can tell you, you don't need to travel far to reach the outer limits of space or even have contact experiences The effects of drug-induced illusions are scientifically interesting
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There are two propositions here: One, that some UFO sightings are due to the activities of extraterrestrial intelligences. This seems very unlikely at this point. Second, that the Fermi Paradox exists at least partly due to aliens avoiding
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by Udo 11y ago
There is still a lot about the formation of galaxies and star systems that we don't know. The reason why we assume a lower probability for rocky planets in globular clusters is the general environment of the typical cluster: a small
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> and radiate all waste heat toward a black hole (maximum cooling). It's comparatively inefficient to radiate heat into a narrow cone, and there is little advantage to radiating it into a black hole. On the contrary, matter fallin
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They're only dangerous if they happen within the same galaxy and your planet happens to be right on the axis of the narrow burst cone. In that case there might still be a statistical advantage to being nearer to the core of the galaxy
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by Udo 11y ago
I feel the same way. I'm also in my 40s, and most of my life goals have passed me by. I spent some time and life energy on a doomed startup in my 20s, spent my 30s recovering from the fallout, and now - working as a freelancing nomad p
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by Udo 11y ago
Ibrutinib is neither miraculous, nor is it a cure for anything. Like any cytostatic, it has severe side effects, but it does disrupt a critical signaling path in certain types of B-cell cancers. It's an expensive drug that cancer patie

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