Udo

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by Udo 12y ago
Again, that's a personal preference, not a statement of fact. There is a cost associated with different type systems, and that cost can vary with the problem you are trying to solve. It's not that I argue against the benefits of h
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by Udo 12y ago
> Is that some law of nature, or merely a consequence in how we've designed languages thus far? It's a game of tradeoffs, same as everything else in nature, isn't it? I would rarely say that a given language's desig
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by Udo 12y ago
There are many decisions that influence language design, it's not just syntax. Differing decisions are made about runtime behavior, memory management, levels of abstraction, and the efficiency of idiomatic data structures. Even objecti
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by Udo 12y ago
JavaScript (or rather: a subset of it) is a fine teaching language too, especially since it's easy to publish runnable code - even for beginners. However, there is no language that can do everything equally well. It's a common rea
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by Udo 12y ago
> I'm curious to hear the viewpoint of an American on this. [...] From the perspective of a heathen foreigner Hey, that makes two of us ;) But I'm also European, that means apart from the religious aspect, we're pretty m
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by Udo 12y ago
> You don't object to innocent people being tortured to death? Yes, I do object to that. Every single point I made against torture, I obviously support. But hinging the entire anti-torture argument on innocents isn't going to
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by Udo 12y ago
A good person can still be "wrong" (for any given definition of it). Feinstein is wrong about AirBnB, and Conway is wrong about torture. I was a big fan of Christopher Hitchens' yet I think on balance he was wrong about the I
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by Udo 12y ago
> However, when building new technology Apple often unfortunately neglected their own design history. One might argue that good designers and designs move on as they co-evolve. This "new" design is a nice piece of borderline-
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by Udo 12y ago
Aside from its style, this seems like a valid criticism. How trivial can a permutation be and still be sufficiently interesting for someone to (justifiably) slap his name on it? That said, this was still a nice read and the guy is obviously
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by Udo 12y ago
> As in that you don't have to value the same things as society at large He's not from a rich background, is not well-connected, is not a business person, is not stunningly young or good looking, is not being sponsored by a m
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by Udo 12y ago
There are certain aspects about Notch's rise to fame and fortune that make his story more inspiring to me than practically any other celebrity. He got wealthy doing what he loved, he never bullied anyone or got into any kind of real dr
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by Udo 12y ago
This reminds me of the much, much less sophisticated simulations I did back when I got my Amiga. It's an inspiring talk in that it gets you into the mood to do these kinds of experiments, too. For example, I think complex inter-species
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by Udo 12y ago
I'm not sure how your argument applies to what you cited of my post, but you are not wrong. You don't even need to consider exotic FTL communication, it could just be low-power directional radio traffic. In fact, if a full clone o
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by Udo 12y ago
I pretty much went through the same thing, it sucks. There is definitely a social impact, especially when dating, but also in other areas. When you turn on the TV, how do you figure out whether a non-hero character is a bad guy? If he'
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by Udo 12y ago
Of course no one can now right now , it's not one of these things that can be solved by theoretical work alone. At some point - assuming we don't go extinct before reaching it - we will know. But it's still open to useful
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by Udo 12y ago
Heat from radioactive decay and primordial heat are each thought to be about half Earth's internal energy budget - tidal forces from the Moon, even though they're strong enough the change the elevation of the surface by up to half
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by Udo 12y ago
Earth's magnetic field is not powered by the moon. As far as we currently know, the dynamo effect is caused by the action of molten material against a rotating solid inner core. It's true that our magnetosphere keeps the atmospher
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by Udo 12y ago
In reality it's the other way around: Antifragile sounds like a lot of principles in nature, or rather: observations about nature that have been made a long time ago. However, this article sounds scientific but really isn't, as ot
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by Udo 12y ago
> it's got to be a pretty good business before it qualifies for VC equity funding [...] has the business take an equity check and suddenly owns 0% of the business, to start to get back some ownership The core value proposition of
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by Udo 12y ago
Yes, I'm using it as a mental representation of a process which I can't picture directly. How do you deal with such things? I mean aren't you ever tempted to use a tool like that? I don't think there is anything wrong wi
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by Udo 12y ago
> I don't think this really makes sense, because "normal space" is not a well-defined term. You are of course technically correct. > There's nothing in the actual math that corresponds to "new space being c
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by Udo 12y ago
> but in relativity dimensions do not "flow" in any conventional sense That is not really the point. You are concentrating on the word flow, and maybe I chose that foolishly, so bear in mind that I'm of course not a nati
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by Udo 12y ago
It's of course a matter of taste what expression sounds more fitting to you, precisely because time is such a fluid concept. Personally, when I think about a neutrino for example, I'd say that neutrinos go crazy fast , and they e
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by Udo 12y ago
Sort of. While being on the move at extreme speeds you would take advantage of the local slow-down you're experiencing. Of course, a lot of time will still pass in the meantime both at the origin and the destination locations. I'd
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by Udo 12y ago
Whenever two objects are in relative motion to one another, they each perceive a time dilation taking place at the other object. The flow of time is directly linked to the relative speed of an object. On an object that moves at the speed of
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by Udo 12y ago
The consensus interpretation is that FTL is not possible in normal space, since the speed of something is just another way of looking at how "fast" it travels through time - FTL becomes impossible by definition. However, there is
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by Udo 12y ago
I'd certainly be very interested in seeing how this could be made testable. I have to admit though that " throw away everything we know about the nature of the cosmos and start again with the assumption that humans are supernatura
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by Udo 12y ago
> reasonable response to the Fermi paradox, though I agree it's a pretty stupid one That leaves us with a very peculiar subset of certain values of "reasonable". There is nothing wrong in principle arguing that there mig
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by Udo 12y ago
[...] an expanding wave with its epicenter near the Earth could produce the dimming effects the two teams had observed [...] This is not science, it's geocentrism that borders on implicit mysticism. It not only violates the
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by Udo 12y ago
> or is it just being done out of an interest in programming languages That would be enough. I believe more people should be thinking about programming languages - even if it's just for fun or learning. > what this language is

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