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by drostie 14y ago
I don't know. On the one hand, it's also not nice for people to fish for my email address, which is why services like Mailinator are so wildly popular. On the other hand, it doesn't always justify not-nice behaviour to note that it's in res
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by drostie 14y ago
I remember a great comment from a talk by John Searle about the scariest way that this could happen. Imagine that you get just such an implant, and suddenly, you just feel woozy or tired, as if something is really going royally wrong, as if
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by drostie 14y ago
I didn't see it on their forum, so I submitted it there, under the "Historical 'Fact' Myths" section. With hope it will make it into next season.
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by drostie 14y ago
Maybe. But I upvoted it instead because it reminds us that this happens to people . More precisely: it happens to people who are rich, and people who are poor. It happens to big people as well as small people. Being harassed, and giving in
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by drostie 14y ago
Several are claiming that HTTPS still works, which means it's not DNS-level or IP-level. It may be IP+port level, or the only thing that I can really think which is left is deep-packet inspection: a Linux user in India could easily test t
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by drostie 14y ago
I can see a usage case especially in the native environment for Facebook -- college students. So, you tell someone, "Hey, remember, you're playing with us in the Frisbee competition tomorrow over in Rochester. Meet me at 9am, North Campus."
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by drostie 14y ago
Working on it myself, after having read what the code does and being committed to re-implementing it myself, it took me 3.5 minutes and there were 2 bugs. (I needed to look at the original code again to determine that to == length and to ==
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by drostie 14y ago
It's slightly more nuanced than "eat less and eat healthier," because the article is pointing the finger at some general abundance. If you like, look at this researcher's perspective directly. It's not why is this person obese but rather
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by drostie 14y ago
While this is true, it is not particularly enlightening. The problem is that earlier a definite assertion was made that obese people burn fewer calories per day when staying at the same weight, and colomon was saying that this is known to b
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by drostie 14y ago
Aww, when I saw the title of the link I thought that the World Time Format[1] was going to solicit some sort of public advice on adding time zones and other things which need streamlining. [1] see e.g. http://www.alphabetclock.com/fulldate
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by drostie 14y ago
I should probably disagree. The point of code being a life skill is not that we want more people to write code on a day-to-day basis. You should think about teaching kids to paint, rather than teaching them to read. It's not because we
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by drostie 14y ago
Then you get to go to heaven. Which might sound better at first, but you might have to agree to an even stricter TOS to stay there.
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by drostie 14y ago
The copyright issue that they've raised is actually one of the parts of copyright that I consider mind-blowing. The idea that memory is copying changes a great deal of the discussion -- for example, when the movie industry says "oh man, we'
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by drostie 14y ago
As someone who tends to release on more-permissive licenses, I just want to clarify the causal model here. It's not "doing something extra" to release with BSD; the "doing something extra" comes when you want to properly release with GNU. A
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by drostie 14y ago
My first thought when I read that was, "I can't remember the last time I heard someone rate it positively." I would probably have to go back to the days when everyone expected a transition to XHTML, which would end the tyranny of broken HTM
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by drostie 14y ago
Yeah. As it says on the bottom, "Copyright 2011 Richard Stallman released under Creative Commons Attribution Noderivs 3.0 unported". It's a surprising statement for many reasons. First, I have traditionally thought of CC as somehow opposed
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by drostie 14y ago
Well, it depends in what ways you're competing against Comp Sci majors, but even in their own major there is a lot of competition from competent physicists -- especially as we try to understand more and more about what quantum computers c
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by drostie 14y ago
There's a problem with "search" in particular because I just have too many ideas. Almost all of them suck. What's the most iconic image of search? Finding a needle in a haystack. Well, that won't do. Second most iconic image of search? Poli
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by drostie 14y ago
I actually spent fifteen minutes or so going back and forth on that. My old cell phone had one, perhaps for style, yet my new phone doesn't. And I was thinking a lot about that bizarre V-shaped TV antenna, too. ^_^
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by drostie 14y ago
This "nothing we can replace it with" sounded wrong to me, so I spent a moment trying to quickly draw on my tablet some possible alternate metaphors for many of the things used in this article, and I came up with these: http://drostie.org/
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by drostie 14y ago
Well, no, you could have done all of these things synchronously, and in fact JS would have preferred it because JS is intrinsically single-threaded. Ryan Dahl's stated inspiration for Node was that he struggled with a certain slowness i
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by drostie 14y ago
I agree somewhat and I disagree somewhat. At one point, I helped to moderate a religious discussion community, several hundred listed members. The Community Founders had set up a bunch of odd rules which sort of made sense given the history
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by drostie 14y ago
Just for reference since a lot of people get this backwards as you did, i.e. is Latin for "which is to say" (literally id est , "that is"), while e.g. is Latin for "for example" (literally exempli gratia , "free example"). There is anothe
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by drostie 14y ago
(3) To solve your first problem, remember that a definition is independent of its rhetorical purpose: that is, it tells you what we're talking about, but it does not force or "backdoor" any sort of metaphysics upon you. To solve your second
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by drostie 14y ago
(1) I believe we just said the same thing. I agree. The hard part to understand is this "we describe it that way, we live it this way." I should hasten to add that there is a slight problem with what you've said, called the "preferred basis
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by drostie 14y ago
(1) There is no firm distinction between the "quantum level" and the rest of our universe; a "Heisenberg cut" needs to be placed, but where it occurs doesn't matter. And quantum mechanics is multiparticle, so rather than "countless quantum
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by drostie 15y ago
Okay, so, let me try to enumerate these. (1) The hardest part of quantum mechanics to understand is intimately tied to our nature as subjects. Quantum mechanics is an entirely deterministic theory about waves in superpositions which even ex
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by drostie 15y ago
According to the Marvel Wikia he can easily lift 90-100 tons. Tons in all their forms are about 1000 kg and on Earth weights go like ~10 Newtons = 1 kg, so he can easily muster 1000 kN of force when lifting. This suggests that he's plenty c
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by drostie 15y ago
Sorry if I offended. The article said 300kg and I "toned it down" to 250kg to better match with the idea that the Hulk in the picture basically looks like two heavyweight boxers in one. I see that the official number is closer to four heavy
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by drostie 15y ago
That is probably the classiest way I've seen yet to do the second problem. Since I gave Python code above, here it is for your version: >>> from random import shuffle >>> def test(n, missing, extra): ..

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