falcrist

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by falcrist 4y ago
Decades. It looks like he started working on it in 1962. Just imagine being that intelligent and pouring 60 years of your life into something like this.
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by falcrist 4y ago
How is this not a limitation on freedom of speech? You have a piece of information that you aren't allowed to talk about. I think this is just a limitation that we're all mostly ok with.
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by falcrist 4y ago
My undergrad was electrical engineering. I work as an engineer. I'm not inclined to buy one of these (and not just because I could simply make one if I wanted).
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by falcrist 4y ago
Electricity is like magic to most people. If you ask around you'll find that folks don't have the vaguest idea how it works. All they know is "plug it in and it turns on". These people are eating and sleeping inches from
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by falcrist 4y ago
And being "banned" appears to mean "he wasn't invited to do the keynote presentation this year". > Hi David, > Hope you’ve been well. > With you having been mostly offline the last year, the program committ
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by falcrist 4y ago
Human-created science carries human biases and so does engineering and even math which is supposed to be pure and objective. James Burke presented this idea really well in episode 10 of The Day The Universe Changed. Biases sneak in when you
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by falcrist 4y ago
You could have the home button that was placed on the back of the phone wake it up. I still enjoy my S9+ because of it's well-positioned fingerprint sensor on the back that wakes the phone and bypasses the lock screen. I suppose when y
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by falcrist 4y ago
He also has a vastly different take on privacy than most of us seem to have. He thinks it'll eventually go away and it won't be bad when it does. I believe he talked about it in one of his quakecon keynotes. As a LONG time admirer
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by falcrist 4y ago
Lab equipment does the same thing. Decades ago, oscilloscopes started having banks of buttons corresponding to an area of the screen, and knobs that have context sensitive functionality. Those can be placed side by side with buttons that ha
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by falcrist 4y ago
> Death is necessary part of life. Death is inevitable maybe, but whether it's necessary is a philosophical question without a satisfying answer.
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by falcrist 4y ago
This applies to most natural resources including gas and oil. There's never going to be a moment when we squeeze the last drop of oil out of the Earth's crust. It's just going to keep getting more expensive as we drain the ea
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by falcrist 4y ago
No. I'm clearly not confused. I know who you replied to. I'm not responding to them. I'm tired of the disingenuous way you've approached this conversation, and your awful attitude. As I said in my last comment, you need
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by falcrist 4y ago
> Every database I listed is not the "Butlerian Jihad," I didn't say what you listed amounted to the "Butlerian Jihad," but you were clearly and deliberately implying that I said we should get rid of every databa
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by falcrist 4y ago
I'm glad people remember the Equifax leaks. It seems like the media dropped that story like a hot potato as soon as they felt they could do so.
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by falcrist 4y ago
No. You did exactly that. I'm asking you politely to please stop that and the condescension. It's ineffective and rude.
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by falcrist 4y ago
I haven't lost track of anything. You asked a question and I replied to that. As far as your rhetorical device, I'm sorry but theft isn't the only way firearms get into that market. You're trying to attribute arguments t
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by falcrist 4y ago
You seem to have responded to me in error. I didn't make the statement you quoted. I merely responded to the question regarding where else the black market could have acquired those guns.
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by falcrist 4y ago
It's true. Not all databases have equal impact, but you have to admit that we all have some incredibly sensitive information exposed to various different kinds of leaks and breaches. And on one hand, your relationship with your governm
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by falcrist 4y ago
Why are you coming at me with strawman arguments. Did I say we should stop using databases altogether? No. I said this is a reason to dislike them. Did I say we should go back to using paper recordkeeping for everything? No. Again, that was
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by falcrist 4y ago
You misunderstand my statement. I was answering your question, not arguing that the leak was good. I don't subscribe to the argument that firearms serve as an effective deterrent to robbery, so it almost certainly can't help . Bu
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by falcrist 4y ago
By "a lot of opinions" you seem to mean that I gave two suggestions of possible sources of firearms, and then openly admitted I don't know how they compare to theft. Would you rather I have simply stated those two sources a
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by falcrist 4y ago
As has been stated elsewhere, straw purchases are probably a major source. Smuggling is possible too. I couldn't say how these compare to theft, because I've never seen any solid data on the topic.
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by falcrist 4y ago
This seems like a reason to dislike all databases that hold this kind of information. These days, your personal info is at the mercy of your bank, your ISP, and a number of other entities who could leak data at any time just by being slig
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by falcrist 4y ago
If you look at the word count and movie runtime of LOTR, then compare it to the word count of The Hobbit, you'll find that a similar treatment of The Hobbit would result in probably around 90 minutes of film. There are complications wi
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by falcrist 4y ago
You can actually purchase facsimile editions of the original (pre-LOTR) published version of The Hobbit.
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by falcrist 4y ago
Yea the ones in the articles have been used as cover art for certain editions of his books. The images on the website are rarely published.
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by falcrist 4y ago
Despite the Peter Jackson movies, The Hobbit was actually written as a childrens' story rather than a grand epic. I'd wager a lot that the cartoonish nature of his pictures was an accurate reflection of how he saw that story. If y
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by falcrist 4y ago
I would argue that the first major failure was with the Articles of Confederation, which had to be replaced in part because states couldn't even agree to pay soldiers. Everything has to be unanimous. It didn't work. You need a cen
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by falcrist 4y ago
Depending on his method, he probably saw the problem immediately when he got to the last layer.
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by falcrist 4y ago
Particularly good solvers are able to see potential skips or favorable arrangements and alter their solve to "force" a particular arrangement in a later stage. Preserving an F2L pair during the cross, or choosing a better OLL algo

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