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by fnovd 9y ago
Your critique of my analogy reminds me of this web comic: http://imgur.com/a/BqPzT
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by fnovd 9y ago
If your child accidentally set himself on fire on your babysitter's watch, would you accept "I was asleep" as an excuse?
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by fnovd 9y ago
Sorry, I mean't manual memory management. It seems like I'm having some problems with DMA myself!
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by fnovd 9y ago
A fascinating document, but I find it far-fetched that every programmer needs be intimately familiar with capacitor timing to use RAM efficiently, let alone write efficacious programs. As languages without MMM become more popular, it&#x27
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by fnovd 9y ago
Very cool. I'm seeing a future where fonts are stored as a series of transformations rather than a bunch of bitmaps/glyphs/vectors. A client could have specifications for adapting any font to make it more readable for their p
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by fnovd 9y ago
A silly headline. According to the article, the average person doesn't exist, either. I don't know many people that are 13% fluent in Mandarin, 13% fluent in English, 9% fluent in Hindi... At the same time, having ~2 hands and ~
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by fnovd 9y ago
>Mr. Kalanick last week said he would take an indefinite leave of absence from Uber, partly to work on himself and to grieve for his mother, who died last month in a boating accident. He said Uber’s day-to-day management would fall to a
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by fnovd 9y ago
Twitch : EPSN :: Gamers : Jocks It's a new(ish) platform whose demographic (people who enjoy video games) is growing larger every year. Today's 40 and 50 year olds don't play nearly as many games as the next decade's wil
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by fnovd 9y ago
You can't blame a "careless programmer" when the real problem is organizations simply not committing any resources to security. It's like a hospital only employing 1 nurse and blaming her when patients inevitably die. Th
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by fnovd 9y ago
The man in this story is the central nervous system for a family unit. The wife and children are, in essence, an extension of himself. He knows his genes will die, but a portion his human body, in both flesh and spirit, will live on in his
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by fnovd 9y ago
It gives them a large stake in a company that is both currently successful and in a position to be a leader in new markets (automotive and data centers were mentioned in the article). It's hard to imagine a scenario where Nvidia is out
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by fnovd 9y ago
If PETA had billions of dollars and spent all of it on building animal shelters for every single dog and cat, breeders and feral animals would quickly replenish the missing "stock". There will simply never be enough "animal s
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by fnovd 9y ago
I'm hopeful that self-driving electric cars will become the norm in the next 10 years, but I don't think it will kill the fossil fuel industry. A 50% discount on crude, fueled by decreased demand for personal transportation, simpl
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by fnovd 9y ago
We don't have to give up being human. The cells in our body haven't changed drastically in the past few millennia. They perform a necessary function and are given the energy they need, in some convoluted way no cell need understan
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by fnovd 9y ago
When irrational actors are the ones making decisions, knowing facts won't necessarily help you and may end up coming back to bite you. As they say, the world around you can stay irrational longer than you can stay sane.
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by fnovd 9y ago
I think the difference here is that you see recharging as "not doing work" while the person you are responding to sees it as part of a natural work cycle.
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by fnovd 9y ago
It does matter. It's the same with Jews, for example. You can be religiously Jewish but not ethnically, or ethnically Jewish but atheist, or you can be both. But they remain distinct concepts.
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by fnovd 9y ago
I used to feel the same way before I went vegan. I don't try to push substitutes on non-vegans because I know their palettes aren't adjusted, but if I want to make a BLT, I have no choice but to use veggie-bacon. The rest of the s
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by fnovd 9y ago
Is it, though? I mean, I can see the similarity, but ethical veg*nism does exist outside of the dietary practice. You don't need to subscribe to the ethics to partake in the diet. We lack the words to distinguish between and ethical ve
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by fnovd 9y ago
The title seems misleading to me. According to the article: >A third-of people abandoned their animal-free diets in three months or less, and more than half abandoned it within the first year. Are you really a vegan or vegetarian if yo
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by fnovd 10y ago
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detai... Heading II
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by fnovd 10y ago
EPB wants to build the infrastructure for free. There would still be a monthly cost to use the infrastructure. With Comcast, it's the worst of both worlds.
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by fnovd 10y ago
Why do you assume that the AI of the future will share our emotional need for self-fulfillment? This anthropomorphization of AI would require explicit effort and I see no reason why AI scientists would pursue it as a goal. Our belief that w
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by fnovd 10y ago
>affordable universal EMR would significantly enhance the ability to deliver care for almost all sizes of healthcare providers. Additionally, it would open the door for EHR-based research on a massive scale. Getting different hospitals&#
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by fnovd 10y ago
>I feel that people have gotten more and more binary and we need more shades of gray What about people who think we need more binary thinking and fewer shades of gray? How do you even form a nuanced (gray) argument against that kind of
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by fnovd 10y ago
The performance bottleneck is not always where you think it is.
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by fnovd 10y ago
I couldn't help by roll my eyes at that title. ORMs and the like are great, but they still end up using SQL under the hood. LINQ is by no means the most aesthetic ORM, either (and half of the article is about much better LINQ looks t
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by fnovd 10y ago
To quote the headline of the article: >it’s easy to make enemies of people we only read about. Your entire post embodies this. Are you seriously comparing feminists to the KKK? Am I falling victim to Poe's Law here?
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by fnovd 10y ago
>It would not be hard to offer minor but relatively simple identity validation for users. Or dabble with the ability to create trust networks or reputation. Or offer basic mechanisms for safe transactional payments. And when users are lu
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by fnovd 10y ago
Or perhaps Craig simply understands his business better than you do. Are the loudest users the ones providing him with the most profit? If not, then why not ignore them? Would being involved as a true middleman leave them more open to lia

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