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by cmyr 10y ago
on the point of recursive loops: The most amazing thing about IJ, to me, is how the book itself _does_ recurse; chronologically the first scene in the book takes place after the last, and when you reach then end you could reasonably start a
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by cmyr 10y ago
I always find it surprising when people, imagining some large change, pick on some current reality and how it would have trouble fitting into the imagined future as some sort of indictment of that future. I would suggest that roads closed t
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by cmyr 10y ago
'progress' in the sense of 'changes that occur over time' is distinct from 'progress' in the sense of 'an overall improvement in human quality of life'. When we talk about progress we normally intend
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by cmyr 10y ago
A problem I have with systems of such complexity is that it feels basically unknowable whether or not this is true. It totally may be. On the otherhand, it might just be that we're basically subsidizing an incredibly expansive practice
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by cmyr 10y ago
Here's an explanation from a physics professor (cited in the original article) that might help explain what "save energy" means. http://nacto.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Fajans-J.-and-M.
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by cmyr 10y ago
From the article: >If a cyclist approaches a red light, meanwhile, he or she needs to stop fully. Again, if there's any oncoming traffic or a pedestrian, it has the right of way. If there's not, the cyclist can proceed cautious
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by cmyr 10y ago
Fwiw this took ten years. Apple tried to migrate to zfs and had to back off over license issues. We've been waiting since then.
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by cmyr 10y ago
There is going to be some absolutely crazy sex in the Siracusa household this evening.
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by cmyr 10y ago
It would be helpful if something in your post hinted at what you _do_.
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by cmyr 10y ago
would you describe it as being more or less unfair then being born into poverty?
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Is Anything Worth Maximizing?(nxhx.org)
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The Voyeur's Motel(newyorker.com)
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by cmyr 11y ago
"I automated my role in a social experiment and didn't have fun, AMA."
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by cmyr 11y ago
You sorely misremember IE6.
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by cmyr 11y ago
And I heard a while ago that Microsoft is working on bringing their keyboard to iOS. The 3rd party keyboard APIs on iOS are still awful, which would explain any delay/hesitance on their part. :(
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by cmyr 11y ago
For a long time twitter has offered specific developers who were doing projects they thought were interesting the ability to consumer a higher volume of traffic using the standard streaming endpoints.
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by cmyr 11y ago
I think you could assume better of people. His response was maybe a bit tone deaf, but text is a very poor way of communicating mood and circumstance. There are any number of creditable explanations from tiredness to language skills that co
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by cmyr 11y ago
This is a reality of conceptual art. The _art_, in this context, resides in the implicit criticism the artists are making about the ownership of antiquities. The actual objects/files/documentation involved is more akin to the arti
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by cmyr 11y ago
This is super interesting— I have an obsessive streak and haven't been thrilled about the seemingly slow progress in bringing new materials to use in the apparel market. I was actually looking into aerogel yesterday (it's availabl
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by cmyr 11y ago
This wasn't a national security letter; the request comes from a judge on a circuit court, as part of a regular pre-trail ruling in a 'normal' criminal trial. Nothing about this is unusual.
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by cmyr 11y ago
Where have you heard about the erase-on-update feature?
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by cmyr 11y ago
This is very true. A sad reality of market competition is that it incentivizes creating things that take advantage of human instincts and low level responses, which are frequently misaligned with human-intelligent want. It's a pretty t
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by cmyr 11y ago
enlighten us. :)
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by cmyr 11y ago
A significant role of the SoundCloud that I'm most familiar with is as a distribution platform for mixes and performances by musicians for whom the _sale_ of their music is not a significant revenue source; these performers (and I&#x27
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by cmyr 11y ago
Yes, the majority of people I know who are 'professional' electronic musicians/DJs have a pro account.
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by cmyr 11y ago
Soundcloud is absolutely ubiquitous in the electronic music community. I was talking about this with a friend recently who is a programmer and a (relatively) well known composer, and she made the point that soundcloud actually represents a
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by cmyr 11y ago
For more on this see the American Society of Civil Engineer's Infrastructure Report Card ( http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org )
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by cmyr 11y ago
There is a massive export market in Africa and the middle east for vehicles from North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, certainly other places as well. Most of the importing nations have far less restrictive (or any) restrictions on thing
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by cmyr 11y ago
Looks like they need to port GCD/libdispatch so they can implement a native concurrency model on top of it in Swift 3(?).
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by cmyr 11y ago
Yea that's great; he's has a clear understanding of what it means to write and maintain a third party package[1] and he's also exceptionally good at writing documentation and code samples[2]. 1: https://github.com&

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