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by _greim_ 9y ago
Yes, all us front-rangers are envious of you, Longmont :) I'm guessing word-of-mouth helped defeat incumbents' efforts to kill this, as much as anything. It's almost become a standard conversation piece around here: "I&#
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by _greim_ 9y ago
My thoughts exactly. If I ever write a hard sci-fi novel I want to adapt this setting somehow.
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> It was probably fine; microwaves are fairly easily blocked by even a very thin metal screening. That makes sense in retrospect, given we humans routinely stand with our noses pressed against thinly-screened microwave oven windows waiti
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I think that's essentially what they did. I got to go into the transmitter room and see the 1' diameter copper pipe which I was told carried the radiation out and up to the tower, and which not to approach too closely.
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> He lived in a house like this? ... Append a giant concrete warehouse to the side and move the tower into the back yard and, yes. > Your description makes it sound like the most bizarre mixed use building. Agreed on all points :) I s
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by _greim_ 9y ago
This reminds me of a story; a buddy of mine during my college days lived in a solitary townhome adjoining a million-watt microwave emitter room. The thing produced enough waste heat to warm the apartment in the dead of winter, even with all
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by _greim_ 9y ago
There's also speed gains to be had from re-using frames instead of creating new ones in some languages, but this is a fair point.
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Nit regarding proper tail calls versus tail call optimization: As I understand, JS maybe will be getting the former but not necessarily the latter. I.e., you'd avoid blowing the call stack, but not necessarily get a dramatic speed boos
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by _greim_ 9y ago
> Animating nearly everything on a page is like putting 4 inches of frosting on top of a cake that is only 4 inches thick. I love this analogy. In my view, animation (in non-game apps) should be felt rather than seen. It should be used t
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That's actually where I got the idea!
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Yes. It's basically the idea that as you plot points around the circle using this formula, at every iteration you'll have close-to-even spacing between points, no matter how many points you've plotted, without redistributin
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by _greim_ 9y ago
I've grappled with this problem multiple times in data-vis programming. A related problem is, once you have a uniform color space, how do you color code a list of things such that: A) Color are maximally distinguishable from each other
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Foot-gun control. Ha!
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> Why can't the runtime automatically leverage multiple cores and speed up the process? Do any runtimes actually do this? (Honest question)
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With async/await now landing in mainstream engines, Koa instead of Express, the new Turbofan+Ignition optimization pipeline "evening out" V8's performance characteristics, and ES6 enjoying reasonably broad support, I fee
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by _greim_ 9y ago
Agreed. Elm+SVG is also a dream.
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Nothing conclusive, but: 1. If we look at rate of change over the last few thousand years, it doesn't seem completely unreasonable to extrapolate that forward. 2. It's hard to argue that no more breakthroughs can possibly be made
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In my view, we should avoid terms like "progress" and "intelligence" in these conversations, since they make implicit value judgments and tend to draw us irresistibly into certain unproductive patterns of argument. The t
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by _greim_ 9y ago
Shameless self-plug. I developed a design pattern I call "vacancy observers" that solves a subset of the Ajax problem. Basically, fetching data for display; AKA the "R" in CRUD. My POC implementation is on Github. https
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by _greim_ 9y ago
> annoying I like React's ethos of avoiding complexity until you need it, but these smug attitudes are starting to get really tiresome.
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Only half joking. Team up and find a way to force Apple to allow competing rendering engines on iOS.
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by _greim_ 9y ago
> Facebook, despite the fact that they know she’s my mom, doesn’t take this fact into account in their algorithm. Wouldn't it also be possible to analyze the content of the post to determine if it's family-related? It seems lik
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by _greim_ 9y ago
Koa.js provides a promise-based API that's well-suited to be used with async functions. It has the distinction of being the official successor to Express (created by the same people). Having used it for several years now, I find Expres
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by _greim_ 9y ago
Something that annoys me about developing for V8 is that if you just write to the language spec, you'll hit all kinds of de-optimization cases. There's this constant voice nagging at the back of my mind saying "don't use
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by _greim_ 9y ago
Not sure, maybe. A lot of it might be that simple games are fun and relatively easy, so well suited for learning new stuff in your spare time. Then again, the electron golf game re-renders SVG DOM at 60fps. Building web apps that way hadn&#
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by _greim_ 9y ago
I don't spend a lot of time advocating, but here are my first two attempts at building stuff in Elm. https://greim.github.io/elmsweeper/ https://greim.github.io/electron-golf/ Honestly I thin
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Exactly. From a skeptical POV, it's much harder to argue something can't be the case than it is to argue something could be the case. Especially for a complex and multi-faceted concept of intelligence levels, which the author admi
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by _greim_ 9y ago
> This assumes that all the processing that human brain does is by sending signals across the neurons. Which we really don't know. Right? It doesn't need to assume all, just some non-trivial amount. I don't know the ratio
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> Do we yet have an airplane yet that can come close to the efficiency of the most clumsiest of the birds? The author makes a good point about intelligence not being one-dimensional, and I think the same thing holds for flying ability. E
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> Temperature is not infinite [...] There is finite space and time. Finite speed. Just want to point out this is true, however these things go astronomically high. > what evidence do we have that the limit is not us? We can measure th

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