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by aaronem 12y ago
No trouble here. FF 31.1.0esr.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Texture mapping has come a long, long way. It's a shame AAA game mechanics haven't kept up, but, hey, that's a hard problem. (I just bought Alien: Isolation the other day, and found it disappointing -- silly me, thinking
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by aaronem 12y ago
I gather Yosemite brings Siri to OS X, which I expect will be an interesting evolution, especially once people start figuring out how to add new capabilities and integrations. I saw Rudd's demo and have been tantalized by its possibili
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Easy there, tiger. I'm just trying to point out the conflation of imagination and reality that's cheerfully running rampant both here and in the article which spawned this discussion.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Ceci n'est pas une pipe, but by all means feel free to go on imagining that it is.
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by aaronem 12y ago
> I think there's definitely something uncanny about being able to look a dead person in the eyes. Not really. It's also not like looking at a photograph.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Who said anything about nihilism?
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by aaronem 12y ago
> This is what Roland Barthes called photography’s “catastrophe,” the photograph’s unique ability to make a viewer “observe with horror an anterior future of which death is the stake.” But this catastrophe is not the brutal performance o
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by aaronem 12y ago
Mathematical notation is text. Speech isn't.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Why?
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by aaronem 12y ago
I doubt their teeth are any less sharp.
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by aaronem 12y ago
I like your reasoning; it's always nice to encounter someone who doesn't confuse "ought" with "is". (Also, anent voting patterns, anecdotal but perhaps still of interest: I've noticed, when expressing on H
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by aaronem 12y ago
Which inquiries, by whom, of whom, and in what context? Links, please; that doesn't accord with any history of WWII I've ever read, and while I don't assume that makes what you're saying false, I would very much like to
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by aaronem 12y ago
Speaking as a former ferret owner, I would advise very strongly against trying to domesticate a wild mustelid. Given the right circumstances, even pet ferrets can be dangerous, and they have a nasty bite; running foul of a wild one would
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by aaronem 12y ago
It's not exactly true that ferrets need other ferrets around to keep from going crazy; frequent, interesting interaction with humans easily suffices to satisfy their need for stimulation. Between the tunnel runs, and the fact that happ
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by aaronem 12y ago
Instead of going for the quick win, you'd rather we had risked an invasion with five- to seven-figure casualties to each side, followed by years of necessarily yet insufficiently brutal occupation, followed in its turn by another war a
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by aaronem 12y ago
The paperclip stuff is a hackneyed cliché, old gray goo in new nanobottles, the sort of thing high-flown thinkers do when they want to explain the meat of their high-flown thinking to the intellectual hoi polloi, who can't be expected
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by aaronem 12y ago
You assume both that this notional AI is intelligent beyond the limits of human capability, hence 'super-', and that this same AI is not intelligent enough to realize that making paper clips for human use is pointless if it recycl
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, the ones who survive would be fine, eventually. In the short term there'd be a horrible Malthusian die-off of those many cattle which were in excess of the post-agricultural carrying capacity, and which had theretofore lived pu
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by aaronem 12y ago
I wish I'd turned up before the grandparent comment got downvoted to deletion, in order to point out that what we're discussing here could just as easily, and rather more accurately, be considered the result of "a natural com
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by aaronem 12y ago
> “Being born into a moment when the fate of the universe is at stake is a lot of fun.” Hubris, like heroin, offers an approximation of ecstasy. Therein lies its danger.
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by aaronem 12y ago
It's not really a new idea. Seen any homo neanderthalensis around lately?
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More so now than they were yesterday, I imagine.
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by aaronem 12y ago
It probably ensures that you get the Linode-customized flavors of packages where such exist, so that, for example, you don't inadvertently upgrade your kernel to a build without the ability to mount Linode disks.
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by aaronem 12y ago
"Peanuts" in terms of value to the customer, but not in terms of value to the service provider. There's more than one perspective here.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Hey, non-Clinkle engineer here. I don't blame you for trying to defend the pivot, even when you can't possibly have much confidence in the offering -- who would? But personal attacks really aren't going to help you make your
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by aaronem 12y ago
It's "cogwheel", and your dong is backward -- very 4chan, that. (I'd have something more substantive to say, only the "cogweels" seem to be grinding teeth off one another at the moment, so there's not much
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by aaronem 12y ago
> no reason it can't be on my phone and buzz my leg instead of my wrist There's a much higher density of tactile nerve endings in your wrist than in your thigh; even if you can reliably feel your phone vibrating in your pocket
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by aaronem 12y ago
Has Gruber opined on Seibel's (IMHO good) idea? If he claims he'd be OK with "Common Markdown", I'll have to revise my opinion of him in a much more favorable direction. (And, amusingly, Common Lisp is itself a stan
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by aaronem 12y ago
Vanilla Markdown last versioned in December of 2004. He has moved on; it's just that, now that someone wants to pick up the baton he discarded so long ago, he's fussed about someone else getting the benefit of what has heretofor

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