georgeorwell

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by georgeorwell 14y ago
This related article on accurate hardware emulation by byuu is great: http://byuu.org/articles/emulation/snes-coprocessors The process required an electron microscope!
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Craigslist, phone calls, a camera, and enough cash to secure a lease. Depending on how picky you are, finding the listings isn't the bottleneck, it's going and visiting 30 different places. Sometimes walking around outside in the area you
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Ask HN: Why Not Upvote Civil Disagreement?
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
> And, as I have said twice already tonight on hn, I really need to go now. > Later. Go to wherever it is you need to go, Michele. By the way, I'm George, and I'm a hackaholic. P.S. I'm social engineering you.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
> "Thomas" comes to mind, but I imagine it is a rather small club. I think this is a very interesting observation. One possible way to find this club might be to look at tptacek's profile: "Must-read list: 'patio11, 'gruseom, 'anigbrow
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I know that there are sociopaths and psychopaths, I just don't believe that they're purely genetic conditions, but rather ones that develop due to being the victim of abuse. There may be genetic predisposition, I wouldn't be surprised. I
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
We can all agree that the police are doing a good job by warning people about the problem, right?
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
We seem to have incompatible worldviews. I understand and agree with your points about what science is and can do. But I do not share what appears to be an absolute devotion to science. I'm really quite confused, I cannot even fathom exi
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Wikipedia says you can collapse two balls into one, so doesn't that mean you can cut your ball in half, mold the halves into balls, and then merge those two half-volume balls into one half-volume ball? And if you can do that, can't you get
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Is Banach-Tarski* a valid answer? (Kleene star.)
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Code is best written as text because it is logic. Sometimes we can embed data in logic or use logic to create data, and then things can get a bit messy. Sometimes it can help to visualize the logic, e.g. with flowcharts, but I don't perso
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Yeah, it's just tragic isn't it... the video is hard to watch. I'd say it's a dog with a spiritual dis-ease that did something violent.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Nothing is really anybody's fault. People only do abusive things because somebody else previously did something abusive to them. This is not likely provable, it's just a belief I have. Of course victims still need to express their anger
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
The risk in non-restrictive custody of destroying evidence or tampering with an investigation is something that applies to all prisoners. The flight risk in non-restrictive custody is zero, there are plenty of inescapable non-solitary cells
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I believe it's also harder on you if you're mentally ill, and so because the torture is likely to provoke or worsen mental illness, it becomes worse torture the longer it continues. To be fair, most if not all tortures have this quality. T
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Any dismissal on my part was probably in response to your near-wholesale dismissal of intuition. I thought I was being clever by using my intuition directly as a case in point relevant to the conversation to demonstrate that it is useful f
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
The original question was, "What are some [legitimate] examples of non-science ways of understanding the world?" and the answers given were largely things that aren't very useful as validating mechanisms under the scientific method, e.g. dr
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
In the midst of beating so mercilessly on that drum, you're missing the more interesting question being asked here: will science ever include emotions and intuition (and other neurologically explainable phenomena such as dreams) as a means
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
How are you feeling right now?
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I was answering honestly. I receive strong cues from my intuition about other people's feelings.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Well, science is based on the rational interpretation of our five senses. Other ways of understanding the world include our five senses but also rely on other phenomena, such as our dreams and emotions, and then are subject to somewhat rat
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
My intuition says you have angry feelings.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Questions don't lead to answers, they lead to more questions. It is the asking of questions and the process of trying to answer them that is valuable.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I'd possibly like the same thing, but I don't have much in the way of hope that it will materialize. I see you're a Chem Eng grad student. I'd say for programming language design, read the computer science papers from top conferences that
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
It's okay, you can atone by writing a survey of programming languages and using the title "On the Use of English in Software Development".
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
This article is not "On Programming Languages", it's "On the Use of English in Software Development". Has anybody coined the term "linkbait-and-switch" yet? I'm not against the inclusivity proposed, I just don't like the overloading of th
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
The man's point is simply that in his view charity is supposed to be an act of selflessness, and selflessness is supported by namelessness. He is allowed to have this view of what constitutes charity; many people do. I disagree that "I pai
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
He could have set the entire thing up and then said, "I found out there are free flu shots at Target."
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I largely agree. If you're making a donation and you aren't anonymous to everyone but the people who have some control over the money being donated, your ego is involved somewhere. I wouldn't say that non-anonymous donations aren't charit
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I recommend Cave Story+, Bastion, Terraria, Spelunky, Legend of Grimrock, and Machinarium from that list. I would also add Dungeons of Dredmor and La Mulana. Merry Christmas.

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