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fsiefken
10y ago
Snow Crash
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10y ago
why hot water, I read that cold water burns some calories as well?
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10y ago
You could 'roll your own' with Dutton Speedwords and some selfchosen vocabulary, it also works with plain alphanumeric keyboard entry. If you realy want to enter text query Plover stenotype on youtube or our fav search engine
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10y ago
So now you can text entry without using a keyboard or your voice, good for rsi and good for faster entry, gesture based computing.
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10y ago
I'm not trolling. Perhaps you mean to say that his theory is difficult to falsify or even non-falsifiable. I disagree with that, it predicts a specific outcome under certain conditions. His experiments show results, these experiments a
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10y ago
Perhaps a river or lake can provide you with colder temperatures? I've got a similar issue, I practice outdoor swimming the year round and the temperature doesn't get below 4 degrees. I've got to move countries to swim in col
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10y ago
Ah, but Rupert Sheldrake observed this effect with rats running through a maze significantly faster after a previous group of rats did it before without any communication whatsoever. He tested it with humans and puzzles as well. You also ha
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10y ago
Yes, I didn't get why Annalee Newitz (Ars Technica) wrote: "the stele contains 70 legible letters and punctuation marks" and on the other hand writes: "Scientists believe it will be full of words and concepts they'
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10y ago
I thought I remember it was already announced years ago by Rusty Foster that updates were stopped. Still it's one of those classic internet sites I frequented - just like the orange black freshmeat.net
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11y ago
Great totally unpractical exercise. What about taking one step back and taking two steps forward in the practical range, using dosbox to get win3.11 to run with bluetooth keyboard and mouse. It will get you faster bootup for sure, and perha
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11y ago
Given enough memory it should be pretty usable I think (> 16 MB). Though I prefered to stick with Win3.11 on my 386 4 MB toshiba greyscale laptop(which ran pretty damn fast)...
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11y ago
wow thanks, that one works, very useful site. my play store version still isn't updated over here...
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11y ago
I'm in Europe as well, perhaps the stores are different. I know this is the case with Amazon, iTunes and Playstation. Well I'm not going to go through all the trouble of VPN'ing into the US to check for this new version. It m
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11y ago
The updated Google Calender version doesn't seem to be in the Play Store yet - version 5.3.8-117343094 updated 20160317 doesn't have the Goals feature (20160413 13:30 CET). Does anyone have access and if so how? The play store web
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11y ago
There are more voice-te-text apps, but Snowy is a good example, say "Take a note" and the Nuance library in Pebble recognizes the speech https://mydogsnowy.com/commands/
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11y ago
The argument is in the last two paragraphs, does Apple have these sleeper hit features, like for example extended battery life, waterproof, wifi and some killer app like facetime calling? It's already less intrusive then a smartphone f
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11y ago
I wear my Pebble all the time, I imagine I'm Michael Knight or Penny (the niece of Inspector Gadget). I use it for swim lap tracking, counting my steps, measuring my run, my sleep, whatsapp and e-mail alerts, monitoring cryptocoin val
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11y ago
In the Termux google group somebody reported an issue with it. I run spacemacs on android with Linux Deploy, Debian and a good ssh client.
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Hi Arm, that's a great combination. You might also want to check Linux Deploy to mount a full linux distro (and ssh or vnc into) running with the Android kernel.
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11y ago
yes, the last kingdom is better (2nd season end this year), it's based on a book series by bernard cornwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories
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11y ago
No but if you have the source you can recompile the zcode sources to glulx. But you could run z-machine with parchment (which supports zcode without images) http://iplayif.com/ Parchment doesn't support the rare z6 ima
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I use ubuntu on my phone the other way around, using Linux Deploy I chroot an ubuntu or debian root image and connect to it with ssh or vnc on android. It came in quite handy when streaming mp3 through icecast through the wifi accesspoint o
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Great news. We already had parchment.js - but with this you can use images in your interactive fiction. One day I made a website in parchment, it's a more narrative way of engaging the audience, I thought it would be nice to use pictur
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It seems like a variant of the Nemesis theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_%28hypothetical_star%2... which according to Adrain Mellott and Richard Bambach the regularity of the mass extinctions cannot be due
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11y ago
Great movie, novel and series. The terms in the movie are either rebirth, the promise of being reborn as a machine raised baby (a belief) or winning renewal when you touch the rainbow unharmed, extra time to your life. Rebirth is an eufemis
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There is a spike just after the Paris 20151113 attacks. I wonder if there will be a spike in the 20160322-23 data. For some odd reason the data just after the Charlie Hebdo attacks 8-9 January 2015 is gone. There are more gaps. https:/
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Who could be the real author if it's fiction? This Robin Sloan might certainly have the means and the motive. Either it is fiction, with a plot which is not to far fetched as any company with these kinds of databases can exploit it in
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Some people worry about the file size (which should be similar), but I worry about the speed. How much faster can we grep or sed with a Rust compiled grep vs a C compiled grep?
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11y ago
Not sure if Tezhi Luzhanqi or L'attaque (1910) qualify as ancient games, but let me play a heuristically tuned AlphaStratego mesosphere and I'll beat it 5-0, now and for the next 5 years at least! Jack6/Shark bridge AI doesn&
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11y ago
According to this it can handle more transactions per second: https://www.quora.com/How-scales-ethereum-in-comparison-to-b...
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