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by dwringer 9y ago
"A gene" ... what gene? The article itself states: > we are all “a bit autistic,” and we all fit somewhere along a spectrum of traits.
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by dwringer 9y ago
Something OCD in me is rather disturbed by the "release stench gas" being located to the right of the "anti-stench gas".
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by dwringer 9y ago
Well, might as well just bill me the $200 dollar puke charge right now then, since I read that.
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by dwringer 9y ago
I think I might have cracked that one... I configured my .emacs to randomly choose from a selection of 20 or so monospace fonts (filtered by local-machine availability) and ~35 different color themes each time it starts up.
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by dwringer 9y ago
It might sound a little odd, but I slightly prefer programming in a harsh-on-the-eyes environment from time to time. I think it keeps one out of one's "comfort zone" and thus more focused on immediate problem-solving. How do
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by dwringer 9y ago
I know this type of comment is often frowned on here, but let's be honest - this is the reason EVERYONE came to the comment section.
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by dwringer 9y ago
The real question on everyone's mind is when he's gonna start talking about his 4D ones.
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by dwringer 9y ago
The word "dog" already has a well-standardized diminutive form in English, it's just gained a bit of a risque connotation (especially when read online). It is interesting though that "doggo" is seen as a replacemen
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by dwringer 10y ago
FWIW, I've been using Steam since the release of Half-Life 2, and in my limited personal experience it has been a far better investment than buying software on physical media. Steam has let me migrate software from machine to machine
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by dwringer 10y ago
Ah, but don't forget Clarke's three laws: 1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2) Th
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by dwringer 10y ago
Oui, I think Monsieur Candie would agree with you there.
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by dwringer 10y ago
One wonders, though, about the flash units in modern digital mirrorless/SLR's. They can be quite bright, and since the cameras have UV filters on the sensor already (and many people use additional UV filters over the lens) there&
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by dwringer 10y ago
I'm not sure it's an entirely apt comparison to put inefficient assembly programmers up against efficient C programmers. It may be much more difficult to get a skilled assembly programmer than it is to get a skilled C programmer,
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by dwringer 10y ago
Thanks for bringing this up. I was recalling more recent articles that did state there were modifications each night between matches. Perhaps those were in error; I would not have commented in that case. It's a shame nobody pointed
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by dwringer 10y ago
I am not clear on what you mean by "no net effect", and not entirely sure how tears are comparable with blood since tears are expelled from the body; blood (and any sodium it carries away from the brain) hopefully remains in the b
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by dwringer 10y ago
Could tears be there for some kind of moderating effect on cellular action potentials? Tears are notoriously salty; "salty" has even become synonymous with bitterness, angst, or remorse. I think their production does seem to hav
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by dwringer 10y ago
That's the sort of thing I have wondered about. Chess continues to evolve since the famous Kasparov vs. Deep Blue matches, and from a quick look around human players do continue to draw matches against the strongest computers (even th
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by dwringer 10y ago
Thank you for this information, it will definitely be interesting to see how the future of Go plays out. For example, will players be able to train with AlphaGo to the point of being able to beat it?
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by dwringer 10y ago
I wouldn't say the challenge has been "solved" - the system may have only been able to win consistently because the programmers made adjustments and improvements to it between each game. Fitting its heuristics to a specific
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by dwringer 10y ago
I think this was part of Google's long game all along. Although it seemed to be marketed initially as some sort of lifestyle or social media device, there are striking parallels between the Glass and some of Vannevar Bush's conce
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by dwringer 10y ago
Perhaps instead of considering students to have different learning styles, it would be more appropriate to say they are more or less resistant to various "teaching styles" (used as a catch-all term for teachers' cognitive bia
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by dwringer 10y ago
I dealt with that very issue in my comment - "it relies on abbreviation conventions that different programmers may not use consistently". Different programmers at different times follow different conventions, no matter how overwhe
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by dwringer 10y ago
"Other purposes of criticism don't seem appropriate here" - on that I will take your word; you've demonstrated quite an aptitude for inappropriate criticism. "Ridiculously huge" ? MaximumPhysicalAddress vs maxp
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by dwringer 10y ago
That's exactly my point. I did not offer MaximumPhysicalAddress originally as an alternative, because as you said it is not really any less ambiguous in this case. However, a new programmer approaching the codebase still has to remem
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by dwringer 10y ago
Well, maxPA, or MaximumPhysicalAddress both satisfy different goals more effectively. maxphysaddr is almost an example in my mind of how not to name things, in that it relies on abbreviation conventions that different programmers may not u
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by dwringer 10y ago
Really, "infinite wisdom"? Is that really necessary? I never claimed to have a better name, just that I remain unconvinced that it is a good example. Next time you are writing such a comment, consider cutting it off after the fir
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by dwringer 10y ago
Nobody's ever gonna convince me that "maxphysaddr" is a good example of a well-named variable.
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by dwringer 10y ago
I know it's not an Intel problem but CUDA support from nvidia would also be nice :P
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by dwringer 10y ago
I backed out after the first page after it kept telling me what to do and didn't appear to reward disobeying.
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by dwringer 10y ago
I didn't think there was any question; HAL was simply following the orders of Dr. Langley.

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