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by anon4 11y ago
The most shocking thing to me from this article was that Big Bird is actually male. I always saw her as an older sister character. It could have something to do with the fact that "bird" is feminine in my language. That would also
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by anon4 11y ago
Except Sesame Street is (was) designed to teach children, rather than be just funny.
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by anon4 11y ago
Kind of like saying it's awful how people paint Hitler and Nazism in general in such a dehumanizing evil light, when they rebuilt a war-torn Germany into a well-oiled prosperous country (To be fair, they genocided some minorities¹. But
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by anon4 11y ago
You can get the exact same increase in profits by investing 10 million a year in a talented group of developers and having them produce mobile games. Or a fleet of truck drivers. Or anything, really. 10mil/yr is enough to finance a sma
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by anon4 11y ago
> Istanbul Constantinople⁎
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by anon4 11y ago
Hitler's only two failings were genocide on an ethnic group and going on a land war against Russia in winter. If the new one doesn't try to kill off European citizens and doesn't declare war on Russia, I fail to see the probl
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by anon4 11y ago
Maybe someone will revive the Datahand.
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by anon4 11y ago
In true (original) Matrix fashion, you should make it a matrix inside of a matrix, where in the inner matrix, they're simply simulations, but in the outer matrix, half their cpu time is taken up to compute the inner matrix.
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by anon4 11y ago
> The real fantasy is centralization and taxonomies of everything Precisely. Currently there are plenty of graph-based databases to choose from - GraphDB, ArangoDB, Neo4j, Allegro, etc etc. They are all pretty good, and some also support
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by anon4 11y ago
What if you rent a room with a whiteboard somewhere and put in telepresence robots for everyone? You'll save on food and... Actually, a virtual reality persistent world would be more economical. Just buy Second Life licenses.
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by anon4 11y ago
Yes, exactly. The modern world of intellectual "property" (and there aren't quotes scary enough to put around the word) is fucking insane and kind of sad.
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by anon4 11y ago
Each individual knows what's best for themselves and also what's best for the people, duh. And the more money you have the more you know what's bester.
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by anon4 11y ago
No single man should wield so much power. That's part of the foundation of modern democracy -- we don't want any single person having unchecked power to do as he or she wants. Krämer's solution is the state taking the place
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by anon4 11y ago
There is no real explanation for why the article is "bad" except for the tired argument that private foundations imitating the state are good and the state is bad . There is no further clarification or explanation; We are suppo
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by anon4 11y ago
I suppose it's the fact you won't have legislation between you and the state, i.e. you will have mayor powers over the rest of the population (if you ever get any) and whatever that entails.
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by anon4 11y ago
I think it's the overuse of gradient. Shadow, etc. gradients make everything look poorly made.
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by anon4 11y ago
12bit will be pretty awful to work with though. That will mean 36 bits per pixel, which doesn't fit into a whole number of 8-bit-bytes. Best to just bite the bullet and go 16bit for internal representation.
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by anon4 11y ago
I was pretty amazed by the spot-on references and actually working game of life animation when I saw that.
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by anon4 11y ago
I agree with his conclusion that Python has great tools to help performance, but the GIL makes it impossible to effectively make use of separate cores, so I have to wonder just how badly the Java version was written. Properly written high-p
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by anon4 11y ago
Let me just add Numba to the list. It compiles numpy-using code to native via llvm and can remove temporary arrays in the process. I tried a very simple toy program the other day and while I had to write some things slightly un-pythonically
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by anon4 11y ago
It's time we have a moral panic over moral panics.
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by anon4 11y ago
Shouldn't the FPGA do a validation step before loading the bitstream? Or maybe the vendor can give you a validation tool that you have to run before loading the code and if the tool says "this will damage your board", you&#x2
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by anon4 11y ago
That's so unprofessional, my bow-tie came off! He should be hanged! You do still have hangings in the colonies, right? Nothing gets the rabble in line like a good hanging, I always say. Oh, I'm late for my croquet game. Toodles.
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by anon4 11y ago
A very important point is that we have very good approximations for the TSP problem when embedded in an euclidean metric space .
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by anon4 11y ago
Xinul Is Not (your) Uncle's Linux
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by anon4 11y ago
That's weird. I have pretty much the opposite experience from the author. I'm talking with americans, canadians, english people, australians and a few slavic europeans in english (myself being from a slavic country) and the only o
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by anon4 11y ago
The USA were a democracy while slavery was still legal.
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by anon4 11y ago
HA! ha... oh I made myself sad.
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by anon4 11y ago
The cherry on top would have been if he were to make the sign for "speech under duress" or however it was called in the video.
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by anon4 11y ago
The thing is, the general public will never see sharing of media as a criminal act. The only difference to a normal person between lending a book and letting someone copy a movie is that you both can watch it at the same time. To most copyr

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