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by Udo 7y ago
OctoPrint user here. I'm surprised that unattended printing is somehow supposed to be the primary use case for OctoPrint. For me the point of the software is not to leave a printer unattended for long periods of time. To be honest, I
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by Udo 7y ago
Home automation : it's an offline system I wrote myself to tie together all the different systems where I would normally need separate (always online) controller for each. That includes several soldered-to-GPIO-pins remote controls, a
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by Udo 7y ago
The problem is that he's not wrong, and I really do see this as a massive problem, he wouldn't even be wrong if the word "Chinese" would be replaced by most Western demonyms. It's a straight-forward, honest, and w
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by Udo 7y ago
When I was about 17, one evening a friend from school with suspected borderline personality disorder called me and told me that she had "taken some pills, a lot of pills". I immediately went over to her house since it was in the n
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by Udo 7y ago
If I was GitHub, I'd make a distinction between two random people shuffling 10 bucks back and forth and two people shoving hundreds or thousands around. The first scenario is probably an accident, the second is not. Come to think of it
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by Udo 7y ago
Discord is eating the (chat) world, in the same way that Facebook has eaten social blogging, and Google has eaten email. I'm running a small site where people can play pen&paper-style roleplaying games together in small groups, fea
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by Udo 7y ago
> For a lot of people who take religion seriously, I feel like this could be a major upset. I don't think it would change anything for them. We're living in a golden age of science, and that did not change anything for them.
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by Udo 7y ago
Why though? If you're an advanced race that built a thought-extracting brain scanner specifically for a random race they encountered on a random planet (which it would have to be), is reading waypoints off a random pilot's bra
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by Udo 7y ago
> why not also assume they are on the internet? Not many people assume they're "here" to begin with, but yes, if anyone is here it makes sense to scour the internet. Evaluating the data might be more difficult for them t
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by Udo 7y ago
But what would be accomplished by that? Why do it in the first place?
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by Udo 7y ago
The space nerd in me says, yes, maybe it's time. Maybe the Fermi paradox is about to be resolved. Maybe we're "just" seeing drones, but at least we're seeing something. However, the realist in me has lots of reasons
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by Udo 7y ago
There are trade-offs involved with any paradigm, be it squares, hexes, even with continuous movement. The question is rather: what fits your design intent best? The player's experience is what counts in the end. Squares and hexes are d
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by Udo 8y ago
It seems a bit as if you're not reading my comment in the context it was intended for. > Mars is more livable than the moon because it has atmospheric CO2, (more) water, and a better mineral story. The post I was answering posited
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by Udo 8y ago
> Current Mars fever is a distraction. Yes, but it's a distraction from doing absolutely nothing at all with humans in space. I agree in a saner world we'd have built a Moon base first, and then moved on from there. But it&#x
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by Udo 8y ago
I completely agree with the sentiment. Even if you're not going to do it as a job, knowing how to program enables you to think about problems in a different way, plus you occasionally still get to solve problems that other people canno
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by Udo 8y ago
I'm having trouble imagining that Google would be more limited by the ratio of hardware power vs data size today than it was in the early days. If keeping the whole index in DRAM is now a requirement, then yes, I'd expect a hugely
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by Udo 8y ago
The assertion that this is because " indexing the whole Web is crushingly expensive, and getting more so every day " is a bit flawed. Since old content is very unlikely to be updated, it doesn't have to be re-crawled a lot. I
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by Udo 8y ago
> there a lot of good paying jobs in using programs to manipulate data There are even better-paying jobs in managing those people who are using programs to manipulate data. > Maybe those kids are too young for that to be relevant,
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by Udo 8y ago
When a friend attempted to teach basic programming to his kids, I realized we're in trouble (for some definition of trouble, see below). First of all, the article is right in opining that the pathways to computer literacy in general, a
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by Udo 8y ago
> “You all did everything you could, didn’t you?” he asked hopefully. This may have been misunderstood by the author. The patient's loved one may have asked that question in a more general context, to achieve some form of closure.
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by Udo 8y ago
Any paradigm can be formalized to the point of perversion. I think that's what the OP meant when they said that the hallmark of that group is how they obsess about standards and processes. The existence of cowboy-style code such as the
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by Udo 8y ago
A data point: speaking as someone who would require major surgery to even be considered "average", I think it's indeed an effect that comes from many different factors all pointing one into the same direction (I would also as
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by Udo 9y ago
In a discussion where one side freely makes stuff up as they go along and attempts to put the burden of proof on everybody else, I stand by these characterizations. When someone asserts in an authoritative tone that quantum gravity is the k
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by Udo 9y ago
You misunderstand what I'm talking about. What dang criticized me for is a correct summary of your position. Let me elaborate: > " We proposed [...] that consciousness depends on biologically ‘orchestrated’ coherent quantum
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by Udo 9y ago
No, it means I think a human mathematician is capable of working within a formal structure by following the rules of that formalism. It's a way of saying that humans can do formal math. Of course you are correct in suspecting I do as
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by Udo 9y ago
It's not an incorrect summary of his position. I agree it may not look like a totally objective characterization on my part, but you're saying this in a discussion where I was literally told to "go home" , by the same
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by Udo 9y ago
I suspect the argument manyoso is setting up here is based on sophistry around the concept of "physical laws". His stance is most likely that quantum woo is part of the physical laws, in the same way a fundamentalist religious p
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by Udo 9y ago
I'm not making a claim, I argue based on what we already know. Penrose is the one claiming something here. > Do you think Penrose disagrees that the Human mind is bound by physical laws?? Yes. Having read his work in the past, I
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by Udo 9y ago
That's a loaded argument. Human biology, and by extension human minds, follow a myriad of rules that are a result of biological processes being played out. Likewise "machines" also follow the rules laid out by their physical
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by Udo 9y ago
> Now suppose that we construct the Gödel sentence for this formal system. Since the Gödel sentence cannot be proven in the system, the machine will be unable to produce this sentence as a truth of arithmetic. However, a human can loo

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