adavies42

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   by adavies42 15y ago

   it's doable, but not terribly easy, at least as of last report. see retty http://pasky.or.cz/dev/retty/ or screenify http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2008/msg00421.html .
2. 152.▲
   by adavies42 15y ago

   that's one down. next up: world hunger, then the warrior robot race.
3. 153.▲
   by adavies42 15y ago

   yo dawg....
4. 154.▲
   by adavies42 15y ago

   > For every 1018 photons shot at the moon, only a single photon returns to the telescope. Is that really 1018, or did 10^18 get mangled on its way onto the web?
5. 155.▲
   by adavies42 15y ago

   i saw someone once compare chomsky to freud, as a foundational figure whose discipline can't/couldn't progress during his lifetime.
6. 156.▲
   by adavies42 15y ago

   Yeah, they're very interesting. I have to say though that I find the way they flick in and out of existence as the section header itself moves on and off screen a bit distracting. I'd have gone with something a bit more like iOS sticky scro
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   by adavies42 15y ago

   > It's possible to emulate every aspect of an organic brain. It's also pointless (unless you intend to become immortal through backups) it may turn out to be easier than writing an intelligence directly. uploading requires only sufficie
8. 158.▲
   by adavies42 15y ago

   anyone who thinks he knows exactly what he's told all his programs to do hasn't programmed much.
9. 159.▲
   by adavies42 15y ago

   clarke-hanlon: any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
10. 160.▲
    by adavies42 15y ago

    yes, the new yorker always uses tremata/diaereses where most people would use hyphens (if anything).
11. 161.▲
    by adavies42 16y ago

    Holy shit, Brian May's one more Ph.D. away from being Buckaroo Banzai!
12. 162.▲
    by adavies42 16y ago

    i've been "inbox zero" since i was introduced to email (c. 1994, on my dad's university vms account). my inbox contains only messages requiring some action (either reply or something external). everything else goes into the trash ("bacn", e
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    by adavies42 16y ago

    for the record, i'm an ADHD tech type, an iPhone and iPad owner (and the sort to pre-order the iPad and stand in line for the original iPhone) and I knew perfectly well that my DodoCase (yes i ordered one) wasn't coming anytime soon. anyone