baltoo

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by baltoo 1mo ago
tools as an artifact can be contraposed to art as artifact? the juxtaposition hints to a challenge of the article's claims about the dualities of art?
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by baltoo 4y ago
They did. Or at least I got it
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by baltoo 4y ago
i assume they mean something along the lines of https://ghostintheshell.fandom.com/wiki/Autistic_mode
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by baltoo 5y ago
think you can email most researchers and get a copy. doesn't count as publishing
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by baltoo 7y ago
Fascinating. I think I might be one of those of the older generation. Do you have any pointers to get to start to learn more about the modern progressives? I'd really like to learn more.
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by baltoo 11y ago
DH2. Responding to Tone.
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by baltoo 11y ago
"Noone wants backup; They want restore."
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by baltoo 15y ago
http://eis.ucsc.edu/StarCraftAICompetition
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by baltoo 15y ago
You could check out https://countermail.com/ .
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by baltoo 16y ago
While trying to find the article I stumbled across Straight dope ( http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2831/was-pink-origi... ), that claims that this idea might well be wrong. I does however, I think, speak out against the idea that p
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by baltoo 16y ago
I actually remember reading, recently, that the color division is cultural. Point in fact is that around 1900 and earlier, if color had any meaning at all, it was reversed. Pink, being close to red, was manly. Blue, being close to violet,
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by baltoo 16y ago
Somewhat, perhaps, more cumbersome, but very workable, is to hire yourself a personal shopper for a day. Those are available at all major cities. That person will guide you throughout the day while you go out and buy the stuff society at la
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by baltoo 16y ago
Aren't URI:s an attempt to encode this type of hydra-like schema? Not that URI:s are that great for showing to humans, but if we added some visualizations template plug-in system for parts of it (similar to how many web servers map URLs to
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by baltoo 16y ago
I have a pair of Vibram Five Fingers and while my toes are rather normal it can be difficult when running off-trail. Grass keeps getting stuck between the toes and if you get tired and slow and then happen to glance a rock with the pinkie i
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by baltoo 16y ago
Perhaps I'm misreading you, but this comes across to me like "if you don't have kids yourself you could not possibly understand". That is, I believe, a thoroughly wrong position to take about most anything in life. Exposure to phenomena lik
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by baltoo 17y ago
I've flown Ryanair several times and they routinely stop people from boarding with masses of carry-on. Really, if have a lot of stuff they'll tell you to go back to check-in and handle it there. This truly seems to cost both aggravation and
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by baltoo 17y ago
I feel that there seems to be a, albeit perhaps weak, correlation between hackers/geeks and some kinds of physical activity. Mostly I'm thinking of running and mountain climbing. While of course I'm biased and base my observations upon the
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by baltoo 17y ago
I guess they use cookies, yes. Personally I'm an opera fan, so I haven't tried getting it to work but a quick search brought up: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/51000 , https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12625
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by baltoo 17y ago
I realize you probably already know this, and perhaps even don't need this, but I often use http://google.com/ncr . The "/ncr" bit ensures that no localization redirection is done. (At least with regards to the language for the UI and sear
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by baltoo 17y ago
Dunno, but from the top of my head: one-way streets, no-left-turn-allowed-here-signs, prolonged roadworks. Perhaps the map data doesn't even map up actual streets that well (does this road go over that one, or is it the other way around?).
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by baltoo 17y ago
Status will always be defined by scarcity. Perhaps blue eyes where novel and scares, which could be enough?
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by baltoo 17y ago
As I've heard it, the development of both blue eyes and blond hair is thought of as mainly being driven by sexual preferences, i.e. status of novelty. Sexual preferences are pretty strong drivers and combined with periods of harsh environme
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by baltoo 17y ago
Yes, but an honest question from a non-American: Isn't that much/more/most/greater/grander of "everything" rather than over-the-top? Over-the-top, to me, implies a taking something to-the-extreme-and-then-some, and it's in this latter phase
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by baltoo 17y ago
In graphical design I've heard this being mentioned as the "Pink Elephant", i.e. "obvious misses" that the client can easily clank down on. This makes it easier to keep the integrity of the overall design.
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by baltoo 17y ago
I was under the impression that while C3 wasn't finished when the project was terminated it was used productively after only two years. Also, it the project replaced one that had tried to make something work for even longer, without produci
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by baltoo 17y ago
Isn't this very similar to a lot of (differently modelled) business propositions backing OSS?
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1% preferential access outweighs the cost of helping others(physorg.com)
3 points by baltoo 17y ago|2 comments
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by baltoo 18y ago
> You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem - Edward's law The problem, I think, is precisely the one you highlight: > If only more people dared to put up servers "Society" can make it so that it's "dangero
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by baltoo 18y ago
Mercurial is still better supported under Windows. Anecdotal evidence: compare the Eclipse plug-ins (under Windows) for git and hg. (And before there's flak about Eclipse: it is a widely used tool, under Windows at least).
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by baltoo 18y ago
Perphaps I'm misreading you, but isn't that directly against the main gist of the article. Historical events happened in a certain manner, there is no probability involved. It's all 1. Presented with partially unknowns about historical even

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