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by bnegreve 7y ago
For the record, you can do this with C-x C-e without vi keybindings
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by bnegreve 7y ago
When I saw the video, I thought "wow there are so many crazy things that I could do with this". Now I realize: probably not so much that I cannot already do with a bloody trackpad. This is just something I wanted to share. Of cour
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by bnegreve 7y ago
Oh come on it is not that obvious. At least it took me a while to realize that this was not a superpower. But you're right, I know I'm missing the point. I don't care, I can't help, I need to know: can this guy do so
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by bnegreve 7y ago
I know I'm not fun, but everything is "mind control". When you turn the knobs on a synthesizer you control the music with your mind (not your hands). You can also mind control the music with other devices such as an xy-pad h
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by bnegreve 7y ago
Mutation is a random process, so individuals that can mutate are more entropic than the ones that can't. If we agree that mutations are desirable (in some cases) then this contradict the idea that individuals are only propagate the inf
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by bnegreve 7y ago
> Many organisms have a stable superstructure within which controlled change is accommodated--the seasonal timing of reproduction, the outer protein coat of a virus, the plasticity of the brain. Ok for the seasonal change, but I don&#x27
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by bnegreve 7y ago
Fun read. But wouldn't we reluctant to change if the only goal of individuals was to preserve/propagate information to the future? Mutations, increase entropy, yet some of them are beneficial. How does it fit in this theory?
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by bnegreve 7y ago
> I never realized there was one person essentially responsive for spreading that kind of manipulation. Maybe the others have been forgotten ... Bernays was most probably at managing his own publicity as well.
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by bnegreve 7y ago
I am not sure I understand, it doesn't seem to be the first transatlantic contact made at a frequency above 30Mhz. (e.g.[1]) So what makes this historical? That it was never done at a frequency as high as 432 Mhz? [1] https:/&#x2
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by bnegreve 7y ago
It would be nice to know what assumptions can be made, instead of having an ever increasing list of ones that cannot be made.
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by bnegreve 7y ago
I knew nothing about Waterfox or System1 before reading this submission. So I should not be too biased. When I browse waterfox's website I see that it is built by an independent developer and that the two first selling points are &quot
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by bnegreve 7y ago
Apparently by General Motors, Google Waymo, Toyota, Honda and Tesla.
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by bnegreve 7y ago
This new title misses the point of the story. The article is about science and social norms, no so much about Newton's work.
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by bnegreve 7y ago
When you write a sequential program, you are essentially specifying one order of instructions that will produce the correct output. With parallel program, you need to consider every possible orders and add the correct synchronization to pre
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by bnegreve 7y ago
In the first one you can see details.
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by bnegreve 7y ago
But it was only possible because EA can terminate their service anytime with a 30 days notice [1]. What if they had not added this in their TOS? Can N3TWORK force EA to break their TOS? [1] from the article: > But buried deep in the game
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by bnegreve 7y ago
But is this a new thing?
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by bnegreve 7y ago
As a response to whoever thinks ftvy was arming HN community by doing unreasonable speculation (and downvoted both our comments), let me quote the first, most upvoted comment on another thread, currently on the main page. > I agree in p
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by bnegreve 7y ago
You're being unfair. Speculation is how you create new hypothesis and it is perfectly ok as long as you don't confuse your hypothesis with a theory. (which GP did not) This particular hypothesis seems to be invalidated by the fact
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by bnegreve 7y ago
You're right, I doubt that the current models are enough to capture the complexity of the brain. But models based on incredibly simple neurons can already produce quite complex behaviors. They show how many simple computing units inter
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by bnegreve 7y ago
> The risk is that we've developed a formalism and ecosystem that works on entirely different principles [...] It's a possibility, but I sometime have the feeling that people dismiss the idea that such a simple model of the bra
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by bnegreve 7y ago
I don't think interactive tools such as broot are meant to replace standard shell commands. Interactive tools are more user-friendly, but classical shell commands are easier to script and pipe together.
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by bnegreve 7y ago
Developers primarily use sorted maps because the sorted map is the default map type in C++, by name. (I would be different if you had map/sorted_map instead). The real question, is why C++ designers chose to prioritize sorted maps (RB
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by bnegreve 7y ago
GP's point is that the transcript did help. > The shock and surprise of the accused was palpable from the transcript and believeable.
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by bnegreve 7y ago
> How hard exactly is it to use Firefox instead of Chrome? I don't understand, you're saying these discussions are useless because anyone can switch to Firefox anytime? But why would anyone decide to switch to Firefox if it wer
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by bnegreve 7y ago
> So rather than be alarmist [..] we should be pushing for changes that make this workable If, as the author suspects, the intent is to break popular adblockers, I have no interest in trying to make this workable. Personally, I think t
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by bnegreve 7y ago
From what I understand, there's only a limited number of times you can perform cellular division without getting erroneous DNA copies (cancerous cells). Like humans, elephants start their life with one cell, which is then replicated ov
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by bnegreve 7y ago
I'm not sure linear algebra is the best way to get into 3D graphics. I'd suggest, starting with old fashioned 3D renderers such as ray casters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_casting Of course it has more
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by bnegreve 7y ago
> What’s quite elegant about Ruby is how consistently it is implemented using its own simple set of core features, with very little magic or syntactic sugar. Honestly, I don't think this has much to do with Ruby. This a consequence
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by bnegreve 7y ago
Quotes are made by people and it is often relevant to know who these people were to understand the quote. It applies in this particular case: I'm not very familiar with Smith's work, and I am a bit puzzled that this quote is from

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