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by Udo 12y ago
I was expecting the particles to be done as a pure shader implementation, but when I looked at the source that's not the case. While a vertex shader is used to display the particles, the "physics" is done in a JavaScript loop
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by Udo 12y ago
If there was a submission quota, either time-based or karma-based, the "new" page would clear up rapidly, especially if obvious spam was not displayed as well (though that may be a result of my "show dead" setting).
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by Udo 12y ago
Ah, okay, sorry for the confusion. Sometimes I'm not sure if I manage to get my points across :)
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by Udo 12y ago
Good points, but I'd like to offer some counter arguments to the megascale engineering idea, hopefully without sounding too pedantic. The need for megascale projects is not as obvious as it's sometimes made out to be. There might
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by Udo 12y ago
You are certainly correct - but did I imply otherwise in my comment..?
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by Udo 12y ago
There is a disconnect between these two statements: " No alien civilizations have substantially colonized our solar system or systems nearby. Thus among the billion trillion stars in our past universe, none has reached the level of tec
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by Udo 12y ago
> It's more likely about enjoying the exertion of power over people. It depends on the political climate. I grant you - and as a German by birth I used to think about it a lot - that Germans are especially vulnerable to this. Hone
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by Udo 12y ago
My guess is if you have haters willing to expend the energy, it's very likely almost anyone who has a significant online presence can be doxxed. In some cases, it's as simple as making a WHOIS query - for example, they could locat
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by Udo 12y ago
> You mean, when people have guns? I mean when police officers refuse to identify as such, ignorantly or willfully creating a situation where civilians think they're in danger. It's not safe for anybody involved. > Especi
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by Udo 12y ago
Nope, I don't get what this is about, either. It's an error page that says Forbidden You are not allowed to access this!
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by Udo 12y ago
If police not identifying themselves is becoming a pattern, it's going to be very confusing and dangerous to ordinary people. I live in Germany, in a completely safe and virtually crimeless idyllic suburb. A couple of months ago I came
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by Udo 12y ago
I would like to say though that as someone who occasionally makes things, I do appreciate proper critique and I do like to hear about different view points. Voicing legitimate and non-pedantic disagreement in a polite manner is to me one of
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by Udo 12y ago
One of the most negative habits is in my opinion the failure to read a comment charitably (to make an effort to interpret it in the best possible light). Instead, people often tend to misread or miserunderstand what's being said, only
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by Udo 12y ago
Location: Mannheim, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Languages { PHP, JavaScript, Lua, Java, C } Interests { the web - primarily server-side programming, indie games, federated systems, home aut
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by Udo 12y ago
SEEKING WORK / remote or local engagements throughout Europe. I'm specializing in scalability consulting for web apps, refactoring, and bug hunting and I also make web app prototypes, MVPs, and proof-of-concepts. Languages: PHP, J
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by Udo 12y ago
> but as soon as you are working within a large, complex system that involves multiple teams, the benefits of using standards pays off. That depends a lot on the nature of the project and the standards involved. In my experience, int
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by Udo 12y ago
Same here, clicking on signup button doesn't do anything (not even the mouse pointer changes). Latest Firefox on OS X.
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by Udo 12y ago
Don't believe people when they say rubbish like this: Because they are so complicated, they are unlikely to have evolved twice. It's not like that complexity has spontaneously come into existence, it's the result of
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by Udo 12y ago
Would you consider funding a startup with an open source product/idea? If so, under what circumstances (if that's even answerable)?
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by Udo 12y ago
Take it from someone who went to medical school: you'd be hard-pressed to find people with an anti-aging/anti-death stance among a random sample of medical professionals. It's a social experiment you can actually do yourself:
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by Udo 12y ago
> because of political correctness it HAS to be true that there are no differences in intellectual capacity between men and women Saying that women are in principle as smart as men is not a statement from political correctness, I didn&
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by Udo 12y ago
> If I've actually committed a crime The article (and other such presentations on the subject) indicate very clearly that innocence is not a factor. It doesn't seem to matter if you've committed a crime or not - and whet
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by Udo 12y ago
> I'm seriously surprised at how many people here are fans of Yudkowsky In my (admittedly extremely limited) exposure to him as a person through videos of his talks and some of his transhumanist writing, I didn't really get t
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by Udo 12y ago
> I can't think of any actual reason why it would indeed be "wrong" to drug someone/something into happiness You switched out the original premise on me there ;) > You can't make any stronger claim than tha
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by Udo 12y ago
> You can't enslave something that has no preference towards whichever course reality takes. I'm adamant that this is not true. For example, you can drug a person with something that makes them not care about the course of re
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by Udo 12y ago
I think in the short term, human-AI corporate hybrids are especially dangerous because they're ruthless optimization engines with great power, no legal boundaries, and a few simple goals. Unlike true individual intelligences, they&#x27
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by Udo 12y ago
In some ways, pocket calculators are smarter than us. Intelligence is not a scalar attribute, it's a collection of capabilities. At some point, we refer to that collection as a person or an intelligent entity. Control becomes a problem
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NYTimes and the Web Console(creativepark.net)
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by Udo 12y ago
Some medical phenomena are not diseases, they're collective terms for symptoms with an unclear cause. "CFS", among others, is such a term. As underlying causes are identified, groups of patients ideally get moved off the labe
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by Udo 12y ago
SEEKING WORK / remote or local engagements throughout Europe. I'm specializing in scalability consulting, refactoring, and bug hunting and I also make web app prototypes, MVPs, and proof-of-concepts. Languages: PHP, Ruby, JavaScri

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