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by Udo 12y ago
A quick heads-up: These requests do not show up in developer consoles and cannot be blocked by browser plugins I'm using FF with a WebRTC-blocking plugin, and it does successfully block the proof-of-concept exploit (it's
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by Udo 12y ago
In case it wasn't clear from my comment: that was my point. I agree with you.
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by Udo 12y ago
Whenever someone asserts that mammalian-equivalent intelligence is incredibly unlikely to arise twice, I like to point towards very intelligent and social birds, like crows - who are capable of performing advanced mental feats without a ne
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by Udo 12y ago
in an effort to accomplish some other goal (most goals, if you think about them long enough, could make use of resources currently being used by humans) wipes us out This is a line of reasoning put forward a lot, not only in r
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by Udo 12y ago
Digital media are failing, especially eBooks are, and it to me it feels like a huge cultural regression. In the nineties, I digitized my CD collection and haven't looked back. I did the same with my DVDs, and eventually I got (DRM-free
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by Udo 12y ago
Something's still missing. Peanut allergies seem to be very common in the US, but almost unheard-of in the EU. Yet, I would say the US is the country with way more peanut products and more peanut exposure. In northern Europe (my main e
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by Udo 12y ago
I found the icons distracting on OS X as well - luckily, LibreOffice ships with alternative icon sets. Go to Preferences > LibreOffice > View, choose "Sifr" as your icon style. That's the look they should have shipped i
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by Udo 12y ago
Isn't that a UI problem? Punish people who do noise answers and bad edits, and see to it that garbage isn't featured prominently. Closing pages down is a desperate, blunt measure and in the long run it decays the value of your con
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by Udo 12y ago
This is framework fatigue. Ruby on Rails for example made, and still makes, front and back end web development tenable for people who don't necessarily know what happens behind the scenes. The same goes for Angular in the front end. Wh
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by Udo 12y ago
What I remember about Svbtle may well be completely false, but these are the impressions I got from it at the time: it's an exclusive club for bloggers who see themselves as elite, enough so for that perception to get in the way of per
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by Udo 12y ago
> that it'll never be a good use of resources. Never is a long time ;) > Woah! Links? Any university with a neuroscience department does this. Go to your local university's website and browse what they're doing in t
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by Udo 12y ago
I think you might be misunderstanding the intent of my argument a bit. > I'm a little amazed people aren't seeing the uses of this. That's not the issue - I imagine everyone here would like to see these goals reached. No
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by Udo 12y ago
That was the right decision. Not only because of the grotesque incident itself, but because it reflects very poorly on that guy's personality. One can only imagine how badly future interactions might have turned out, or what he would h
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by Udo 12y ago
The Human Brain Project is a brute force attempt at solving AI (and biological) research problems, and as such it's certainly not alone. I recall supercomputers being put to use in simulating just one neuron at the molecular level. The
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by Udo 12y ago
I don't think it's that bad. It sounds like you could counter that perception of yourself by simply giving future employers a link to your Github profile. If you don't have one, make one!
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by Udo 12y ago
> I really don't think a logical, academic review of what I think the reality is of much use [...] If the line of reasoning precludes itself from factual considerations, there might be very little point in discussing it other than
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by Udo 12y ago
> There is always hope of figuring it out given enough time. Well, there could be a message embedded into some basic universal structure, left there in case any intelligent life forms might come across it. But other than that, I don&#x
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by Udo 12y ago
:D That's a very funny story! When I imagine an intelligent life form simulating the universe, it might as well be a simple creature just pushing little stones from cell to cell across a coordinate system drawn into the sand of an impo
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by Udo 12y ago
The simulation argument is an interesting intellectual exercise, and I'd charitably expand the definition of such simulations to universes of an artificial nature in general, but it's still just a thought experiment about somethin
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by Udo 12y ago
> I think I am the only one who think humans will never manage to build something that complex. The universe is impossibly large , but it's not fundamentally complex. All complexity is emergent, not built in. The universe may ver
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by Udo 12y ago
> For example, I believe that conciousness can transcend to anything. That's a religious argument unconnected to the question of whether our universe is simulated or not. > When we are born we have no memory of our previous li
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by Udo 12y ago
This is a good idea. Myself, I noticed that almost all my websockets projects could easily share one single code base, and finally I just made a Websockets boilerplate repo that I can pull from for any given project. This is what node.js re
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by Udo 12y ago
> Then why does HN have a 500 karma limit on voting? Occasionally getting downvoted not withstanding, a user's karma tends to only go up over time, as long as the account isn't flagged in any way. It's generally not a ba
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by Udo 12y ago
To do that, "the other team" person would have to make a calculation based on keeping a certain account they don't like below 500 points. I don't think it's even possible to achieve that if anyone tried, and the pro
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by Udo 12y ago
Apparently HN takes a very dim view on people talking about rolling their own home automation - but as someone who's done it, I say: go for it! It's fun and as a hacker you'll have an easy time making something not achievable
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by Udo 12y ago
> but I think everyone's opportunities are diminished by this I share your frustration, but I've also become very cynical about this. If people didn't want it this way, they wouldn't do it. It seems to me in my soci
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by Udo 12y ago
The standard perception is that women are scarce and men are dime-a-dozen. I strongly suspect this might be true even in the gay dating scene (maybe someone qualified might weigh in on this hunch). Like in many social conventions, this sche
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by Udo 12y ago
I like this idea! Having the option to watch people code their games live is also a feature I enjoy on the Ludum Dare site. I often tune in to Twitch channels to watch people write code, only for a few minutes mostly, but it does make me fe
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by Udo 12y ago
> I only mentioned it because of the "Docker for the client" line, You're right. I corrected the original comment to make it clearer I'm talking about Firefox. The point was to call out the sandbox argument a bit, s
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by Udo 12y ago
That's Chrome, does Firefox have anything like this? And if it does, why do we need an extra sandbox format for the DRM stuff again?

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