Zarathustra30

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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
I can't help but be reminded of the "Neckbelt Recall" clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiuOQHTsNg The engineers will have to fight Murphy tooth and nail to make this safe.
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
There ARE some HOAs that fine home owners for lacking green lawns. There's still the option of zero-scaping (covering your yard with gravel), but that is a big up-front investment.
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
And yet, Californians still grow rice, a pound of which requires about 300 gallons of water to grow. The 11.8 million gallons the kingpen used is enough to grow about 40 thousand pounds of rice, which is worth about $20,000. That is less th
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
What airline are YOU flying? I am usually on a 737 built before cell phones were invented. I consider myself lucky if the SkyMall hasn't been stolen, let alone in-flight Wi-Fi.
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
No mention of Islandwood (the iOS bridge), which is probably more important, if less ambitious. The missing apps preventing Windows Phone adoption are not Android-only.
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
What is the false-positive rate like? It would be terrible if it blocked people like Garak and Dukat. Just a note: the "How does K-blocker work?" link just goes back to features, instead of actually telling how it works.
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
(Safe) Rust provides some nice guarantees. It (should be) impossible to have use-after-free, buffer overruns, race conditions, etc. in 100% Safe Rust. A pure Rust OS could provide a safe interface to build safe programs. While mostly a nove
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
I am just learning to program, and I chose Rust as my first language. I now realize how spoiled I am.
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
How much does real-life identity actually matter online? There are only a few situations (e.g. interviews) where identity should affect the outcome of interactions, yet face-to-face meeting is impossible. Most interactions online are not
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
Do the words "Wild" and "Child" have one syllable or two?
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
I hope Firefox isn't running on most of those.
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
That just seems... idiotic. Not only would it raise taxes across the board and deflate currency, that money could _at least_ go to some charity.
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
Just plot "Effort Needed" by "Skill Wanted". You get a nice, steep curve.
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
Another issue that nobody talks about: how to pick up dog poop without plastic bags.
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
Toyota already made a prototype solid-state last year. https://ecs.confex.com/ecs/imlb2014/webprogram/Paper33467.ht...
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
Wait.. "cot" and "caught" have different pronunciations?
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
If I like a site enough, I turn ad block off. If the ads aren't annoying, I leave ad block off.
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
I had never even thought of this argument before. Ensuring Hobson's choice is an actual choice. (Though I take issue with the term "income". That implies it can be used for luxury goods. I'll pay for people's toilet
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by Zarathustra30 11y ago
They only mention offensive weaponry, which is a good thing. Humans aren't fast enough to intercept incoming missiles, even those controlled by humans. The problem is preventing defensive weaponry from becoming offensive weaponry.