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by cgh 10y ago
I believe I read somewhere (Chaitin?) that what you stated implies a deterministic universe. It doesn't seem plausible.
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by cgh 10y ago
He is mentioned and also interviewed in the article. Did you read it?
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by cgh 10y ago
>> Bill Gates could see this coming though. Hence why he tried to dominate the webspace with Internet Explorer and platform specific web controls like ActiveX and it's predecessors. MS did not see the internet coming. I remember
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by cgh 10y ago
Late response, sorry. The answer is "rockclimbing".
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by cgh 10y ago
I'm not sure what "fundamentally" means in this context, but these certainly made a lasting impact upon my young mind: Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter Dune by Frank Herbert Post Office by Charles Bukowski V. by Thom
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by cgh 10y ago
I know this feeling. I am 47 and in probably close to the best shape of my life, which in my case is actually saying something as I've always been athletic. My dad was the same way, able to beat me in a running race well into his 50s.
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by cgh 10y ago
It's more of the same really except you have a choice of characters. I loved the original as well and I'm enjoying this one a lot.
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by cgh 10y ago
Same here, a few hours a week at most. It's nice to drop into an immersive, interactive world now and then and it feels more engaging than most movies. Currently trying to avoid a "High Chaos" rating in Dishonored 2...
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by cgh 10y ago
This is one basis of the fentanyl crisis in BC, eg http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/north-v...
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by cgh 10y ago
The much slower upload speed means your download is bottlenecked (tcp ACKs). A lot of providers offer such asymmetry because it works well for video (udp) but otherwise it's not the great deal you might think it is. As another point of
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by cgh 10y ago
Lifetimes can be confusing as hell, especially declaring them correctly. It looks like section 10.3 in this new book improves things.
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by cgh 10y ago
This will be huge for sports injuries, eg labrum tears. The cost and/or the wait for an MRI is often prohibitive.
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by cgh 10y ago
Not trying to sound arrogant, but this is simply false. Source: me. I climb 5.13/V10.
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by cgh 10y ago
Yes. I switched to remote-only in 2006 and never looked back. Like the submitter, I don't live in SV (small-town Canada) and I don't touch front-end work, but I do work for a SV BigCo. So while my salary isn't much more than
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by cgh 10y ago
While waiting for some JS-laden crapfest to load earlier, it occurred to me that I haven't heard the term "World Wide Wait" in many years. But here I am experiencing it all over again.
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by cgh 10y ago
Actually back in the day, it was Microsoft who was pushing SOAP the hardest. Don Box, one of SOAP's creators, is a "technical fellow" at Microsoft. This is the same guy who coined the term "COM is love". Dark days i
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by cgh 10y ago
Thank you for posting this link. Interesting stuff that parallels my own experiences with vegetarianism and veganism, the adoption of which I consider one of the great mistakes of my life. I've never gone 100% meat and water though I d
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by cgh 10y ago
You seem to be making the assumption that people who make their living on a computer are "geeks". I think you're wrong. My wife makes her living on her computer. She's a working artist and spends much of her time in Phot
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by cgh 10y ago
US dollars are made of cotton and linen.
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by cgh 10y ago
Douglas Hofstadter (Godel, Escher, Bach) refers to this as a "strange loop".
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by cgh 10y ago
I'm sure you've seen it before, but The Economist's style guide is my usual resource: http://www.economist.com/styleguide/introduction
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by cgh 10y ago
I use Webex from Chrome every day (macOS). It works great. It's the best conferencing software I've used. I didn't even know they had any kind of Linux support. Internally, Cisco only supports macOS and Windows on the desktop
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by cgh 10y ago
Your hockey setup is fantastic, nice work. And that is some sick stick handling. Watch the pullups. I fried my elbows by doing too many. Doing them on rings is much better (if you don't do them that way already, I don't know). Int
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by cgh 10y ago
Yes, the combo of read/data and poke was the preferred way to combine Basic and assembly on the C64 also. Technical magazines like The Transactor consisted of program listings that were nothing but these statements and lots of numbers.
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by cgh 10y ago
Yep, +1 for Fedora 25. The recent Ars review sums it up pretty well: probably the best Linux desktop ever.
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by cgh 10y ago
I want to learn: 1. Whether I can climb V11. 2. Rust well enough so it doesn't feel like a wrestling match any more. 3. How to do a handstand.
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by cgh 10y ago
I live in small-town BC and get 150/150 for $85 a month with no caps. Surely you, in the Centre of the Universe[0], can do better than what you have now. [0] How non-Torontonians sarcastically refer to Toronto
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by cgh 10y ago
I think this is a myth that gets propogated online without any citations. Giger's "Necronom IV" painting from 1976[0] was the inspiration of the xenomorph in "Alien". Is there any evidence this painting was in turn
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by cgh 10y ago
Nope, haven't read these but thanks for mentioning them. I'll have a look for sure.
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by cgh 10y ago
> 1. The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge - Poundstone, William Wonderful, I have never once in my life encountered another person who has read this book. I first read it as a student in the &#

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