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by chipsy 15y ago
The ways in which an anti-authoritarian outlook manifest can vary widely. I mean, we stereotype it as a "smash the system, direct action now" thing, but creativity, intellectual curiosity, and a sincere desire to reorganize the system(even
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I really appreciate the work that power supply makers do to improve efficiency. Besides the direct costs of energy usage, the PSU is a major source of heat and noise in desktops, so better efficiency can also directly benefit the user exper
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There's already a bill to change the law to accommodate. http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/08/faq-what-the-new-u-s-crowd... Kickstarter et al. have been project-focused and artist-centric primarily in order to get around the "motivations to
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by chipsy 15y ago
I use a combination of IRC(active) and Twitter/Tweetdeck(passive) for most of my online "reading" these days. It tracks the most social things: people, global topics, and "meeting places," rather than "bloggers", "pop news", or "discussion
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If your spec is good, it's rare, because you're most likely to see a showstopper appear 10% or 20% of the way into making the 80% solution - and that's early enough that you can rearchitect and continue. The cases where it becomes almost im
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by chipsy 15y ago
If memristors pan out they're likely to be the "next step forward" for the near future. There are some very big single-threaded wins to be had by incorporating them into CPU design, even if it's a relatively brute-force integration into exi
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by chipsy 15y ago
A quick perusal of the source indicates that the algorithm hinges on the predictive encoding strategies in this file: http://gitorious.org/imagezero/imagezero/blobs/master/pixel.... Without comments the specifics are still somewhat myster
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I think the more interesting thing is that the bureaucratic problems not solvable by startups still do get solved over time, just not with a grand launch day flourish or ample press coverage. They generally have to be solved by the people i
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Real-life situation(my own family): 1 adult, 2 seniors. In an apartment on a steep hill in the city. No car since 2008 - a rental is done maybe once or twice per year. There are definitely drawbacks, however, most of the large items, and th
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by chipsy 15y ago
How to learn things quickly, without trying: 1. Find a large number of technical IRC channels. 2. Idle in all of them.
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Ludum Dare 22 - Top 5 Games(ludumdare.com)
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Stallman's arguments are not strictly against market forces. He also attacks authoritarianism, which has a long history of using any justification to control information; so long as we have an authoritarian impulse in our politics, his dyst
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If the vocabulary doesn't exist(or isn't predominant), it becomes hard to point out the distinctions. Certainly, humans recognized from pre-civilized times that there were children, but expectations of children were going to be different -
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Agreement; the more I code the more I want to find "quick iteration" solutions and minimize deliberate engineering of complexity. I know a few coders who have spun their wheels for a decade or possibly longer because they're still idealizin
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First you will have to explain why specificity is important to someone going from "untrained" to "some lean muscle mass."
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I never made substantial progress with strength training until I switched to isometric training, which has several lifestyle advantages: -Easy scheduling - only a 5 minute daily routine is necessary, making it more like brushing your teeth
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It's usually just a sign of low optimization or polish when the background needs a visible rendering process before gameplay resumes. Most 8-bit games written in BASIC did this, and at a glacial rate. In assembly games it was usually fast e
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by chipsy 15y ago
There was a huge jump between the 8-bit and 16-bit hardware in particular - more memory to play with, faster CPU, and better graphics hardware all at once. (Of course, not all the platforms were equal, but the general trend was evident) So
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by chipsy 15y ago
Maybe the ISO committee is conspiring to destroy C with mediocrity so that a shiny new systems language can take its place, correcting C's deeper warts in the process. That would be nice, if only I believed it.
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A sort of myopia seems to be rife through all the specialist fields - STEM, medicine, law, and politics all host individuals with a nasty combination of elitism and borderline-religious opinions. Whether or not they've actually studied the
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by chipsy 15y ago
One way I think of it is that friendship of yore was designed for a harsher, crueler world, with serious limits on how much one could broadcast. Today the opportunities to connect are plentiful; going online can feel like you're at a 24/7 p
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by chipsy 15y ago
Yes, I noticed that assumption too, and a few others(for example the assumption of "car parked outside home" - now you have to value either the cost of car ownership and parking, or the time cost for an on-demand fleet to reach the passenge
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by chipsy 15y ago
Encapsulation is only somewhat more protective than simply adding a version number on the file format. Not that it isn't helpful from a project-management standpoint, but in the really complicated cases(real world example: serializing the
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Serialization has a very interesting influence on types; when variables are disposable you can use very expressive types and complex relationships without major consequences. But when it comes time to serialize, the effort to map all the pr
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by chipsy 15y ago
W/R to low-res voxel and octree engines, I think we can develop their visual detail considerably further without throwing over the table and trying to eliminate polygons. Nadeo has been taking the "large model blocks" approach and refining
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by chipsy 15y ago
This sounds like something I want to use. Some impressions: The first thing I did was edit my profile, but I found that it doesn't give me enough feedback about errors. I tried changing everything all at once(of course) and then got greeted
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by chipsy 15y ago
It's definitely a people problem more than it is a technology one. I don't think a direct social networking approach is right. Consider the following: If your friends' idea of a meal requires pizza and Coke(and not that "pussy diet stuff"),
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I would direct anger at the notion of "authenticity" in commerce, which repackages modern, progressive themes and topics like organic food into a romanticized form.
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We had an IRV election(under the name "ranked choice voting") in SF. It had some problems: 1. Anecdotes of people thinking it was literally three votes, or people who only voted for the first round, still came up. 2. Voting was too tactical

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