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by dsign 5y ago
> If it were up to me, we would be devoting to it at least as many resources as were devoted to COVID, indefinitely until it's fixed. That. Governments around the world didn't hesitate on committing huge amounts of money and dr
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by dsign 5y ago
I watched their video, and I tend to agree. With the amount of computing they use, ray-tracing is probably going to be just as good and probably higher frame-rate. But maybe this technique, in due time, will result in an alternative class o
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by dsign 5y ago
I can't wrap my head around environmentalists. If they really understand that anything we do perturbs the environment--and it does--, why are they not openly advocating for evacuating all humans from Earth as soon as possible and cre
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by dsign 6y ago
Smashwords comes to mind: https://www.smashwords.com/ . Once you buy a book, you get a DRM-free epub that you can open in whichever e-book reader you fancy. There are in fact more of such stores, but this is the one that I
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by dsign 6y ago
IMO, an atomic-resolution cell simulator would be extremely useful. If you have an atomic-resolution cell simulator, you can add lots of automatic interpretation to layer up the information. For example, you can use relatively basic inferen
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by dsign 6y ago
>> But the future seen from the past is weird even when it includes only actually-realizable technologies. Amen. You can freeze technological advance and let only society develop on its own, and the future will still look weird. Take
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by dsign 6y ago
I recently read "Red Sky-Ceiling" by one such Kein Ouzunupi. It's near-future about seculars having fun in a space habitat after some sort of ideological cataclysm (social media? polarization?) brings back the middle ages on
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by dsign 6y ago
I have nothing against this law of course. But I'm sad this makes it to the news, and it's a huge deal, and everybody is talking about it. We should really be making a huge deal about cancer and aging in general, and what our scie
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by dsign 6y ago
That's the entire state of bio-medicine; nothing is known for sure and everything is too complicated to understand. And all treatments are based on general statistics. I can't wait for this stage to end.
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by dsign 6y ago
If it weren't for computers, my hobby artistic endeavors would still be about acquiring a steady pulse so that the lines just look right...
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by dsign 6y ago
There is a simple solution to short-termism: create strong incentives for people to learn in depth about the topics they will press the politicians about. Even better, down that same road you can get effective direct democracy where everybo
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by dsign 6y ago
> "Marriage", according to anthropologists .... There is a very interesting discussion about that in "Sex at dawn". Shortly put, anthropologists are very biased, and they will use their data selectively. Today, there
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by dsign 6y ago
I'm kind of concerned that our gold standard in medical practice is "this needs to work for everybody". We should really be more intent on doing personalized medicine.
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by dsign 6y ago
I'm pretty sure we have way more than 175 different antigens at any given time putting our immune system to work. Or we would, if we were still living in nature. In fact, I often think the issue with Covid is more than anything else ou
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by dsign 6y ago
Amen to that. I love dearly both C++ and Haskell, but I remember those times when I wanted to cry because the C++ error message broke the OS clipboard when I was trying to copy it to a text editor so that I could write a program to analyze
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by dsign 6y ago
That's what happens when you employ over-enthusiastic developers obsessed with their Javascript-framework-legacy. Things worked fast when HTML was the UI, and the logic was in the server.
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by dsign 6y ago
Many reasons: - Eliminate a competitor - Absorb another company's team Not all the reasons are as macabre as they sound; sometimes the bought company failed to monetize properly whatever they were doing, and their developers decided it
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by dsign 6y ago
We kind of need this yesterday... what's the point of having a decentralized git if the issues are centralized at Github? (which, not to make too fine a point of it, is owned by Microsoft). Even if you host your own Gitlab, there is al
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by dsign 6y ago
> I'm tired of meeting friends and family in person and listening to them spend 20mins one-way unloading all the shit they read on the internet... One data point: I have family who have never logged in into Facebook or used the Inte
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by dsign 6y ago
The world is complicated and very difficult to understand. Worst, most people have no motivation whatsoever to even try... and it's not just about politics or social policies. I wonder if we would be better off by building incentives f
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by dsign 6y ago
Five years ago, we built a company around HTTP/2 server push. Here is what we learned: - The interaction of HTTP/2 push with browser caches were left unspecified for the most part, and browsers implemented different ad-hoc policie
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by dsign 6y ago
You pegged it mate! I always knew I was full of shit, and often received gentle and not so gentle reminders about it. But I didn't realize how much more full of shit was my father until a few years ago. It's a hard life.
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by dsign 6y ago
More often than not, success in the real world is about keeping focus and avoiding burn out.
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by dsign 6y ago
Those are incredible results. I wonder what the next three decades will produce in medicine. More precise CRISPR and more computing power and better machine learning to simulate as much as possible before trial. And the 2020 pandemic which
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by dsign 6y ago
> Finally: we are continuing to hire a dedicated Reputation Team to work full time on building this. This sucks. A group of friends and I have been running Matrix for a year and we would gladly like more money dedicated to bug-fixing. Ha
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by dsign 6y ago
That's is essentially correct. But even if we discount the steroids this "origami machine" is on, and assume is an un-fancy origami machine, it still defies easy reasoning. Or at least, the kind of reasoning we are used to w
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by dsign 6y ago
While I share your appreciation of Krita and FOSS in general (long live Gimp and Inkscape), I have to point out that there are good commercial software that are not a total subscription rip-off (I'm looking at you Adobe). Here are some
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by dsign 6y ago
It's that one then, it was already called Krita by then.
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by dsign 6y ago
Is this the same Krita I tried for the first time when I was a junior at college almost twenty years ago? Oh my, I'm so glad it all worked out!
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by dsign 6y ago
Yes, just as CGI. For example, the HTTP header Proxy may be converted to "HTTP_PROXY" and some application servers may interpret it as the environment variable HTTP_PROXY (I seem to remember HHVM did it). Good servers have measure

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