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by glymor 17y ago
Have a look at the Simulation Argument http://www.simulation-argument.com/ . Crude synopsis: if it is possible to create such an simulation then the probability that we in one is the number of possible simulated universes (v. large) vs the
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Fast Bytecodes for Funny Languages (JVM) (Cliff Click) (Video)(infoq.com)
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DSLs in Javascript(infoq.com)
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by glymor 17y ago
Valerie Aurora articles have gotten good reviews here before eg http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=735982 An SSD is already like a raid 0. This is a Samsung block diagram of what's going on inside http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/766
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by glymor 17y ago
Truck drivers maybe
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by glymor 17y ago
operative ( plural operatives) 1. An employee or other worker with some particular function or skill. 2. A spy, secret agent, or detective. I'm voting for number 2.
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by glymor 17y ago
No, at it's best it makes it an analysis of last weeks news.
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Billions Served: Norman Borlaug interview (2000)(reason.com)
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Norman Borlaug on Organic Farming(reason.com)
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by glymor 17y ago
It's called aquatic hypoxia: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2008/08/the-growing-prob...
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by glymor 17y ago
You can't feed 6 billon people on organic farming. http://www.reason.com/blog/show/132479.html
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by glymor 17y ago
But let’s not pretend Banks didn’t have quite some development to go as a writer when he put it together in the late 1980’s Considering how crap his review was this closing remark is staggering. He should read the Wasp Factory and then fo
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by glymor 17y ago
Anything out of BSD land would have a compatible licence with both commercial vendors and the GPL. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAMMER If your talking about writing something and being sure to be able to read it at some future
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by glymor 17y ago
I don't have xfce installed either. The sample app is perfectly complete, you don't need a GUI for a terminal.
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by glymor 17y ago
Are you talking about the backspace issue? There are some old patches from ubuntu that show how to fix it (though they they don't seem to use them themselves anymore): https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/vte/+bug/29787/com... rxvt a
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by glymor 17y ago
For those that don't run gnome you can run vte directly, just download the source and compile the demo app.
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by glymor 17y ago
There's a voice-over version and a video of him giving the talk at RailsConf 2008 here: http://gitcasts.com/git-talk (pdf version of the sides: http://s3.amazonaws.com/chacon/git-talk.pdf )
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by glymor 17y ago
They also spelt his name wrong which seems gratuitous. My guess is his TED presentation was similar to this one http://seedmagazine.com/designseries/henry-markram.html It's worth noting that he's attempting to construct physiological simu
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by glymor 17y ago
You can't prove there aren't more dimensions. After all you could be hiding them in your garage with your invisible dragon or you could of rolled them up in a Calabi-Yau manifold. Time is a unidirectional so it's considered to be a differen
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by glymor 17y ago
It's important to realize that this is mathematics not physics. This might give you an idea of what they can be used for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_set_method
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by glymor 17y ago
Presumably you could add this to your mailcap: text/*; firefox '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""
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by glymor 17y ago
They claim that firefox since 1.9.1 respects the needsterminal in mailcap so it shouldn't run/show less etc: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442629 if it doesn't you should reopen (also I wonder what it does if there are no l
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by glymor 17y ago
[Google's] Native Client is an open-source research technology for running _x86_ native code in web applications ( http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ ) As Ars noted ChromeOS's hardware parters are pretty heavy on the ARM side of the
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by glymor 17y ago
They didn't abuse anything, none of this actually happened. The article is a thought experiment written is a deliberately misleading style.
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by glymor 17y ago
Google Voice was originally GrandCentral so its founders Walker and Paquet would seem more deserving of your award of partial credit. Google has added some features but I think their main contribution can come from popularizing voip and for
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by glymor 17y ago
Alan Kay had a talk in which he claimed there were three ways of reasoning: kinesthetic, visual and symbolic. Presumably mapping the problem on to the various existing bits of hardware in the brain. If this is true multiple lecture streams
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by glymor 17y ago
The point is people didn't need to "drop out" because they weren't getting hurt. You have no evidence for this statement. The Lore of Running is a good reference if you're a runner I suggest getting it. One of the things the author deal
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by glymor 17y ago
and footwear for the previous year; as it turned out, 45 per cent had been hurt during that time. But what surprised Dr Marti was the fact that the most common variable [...] shoes that cost more than $95 were more than twice as likely to
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by glymor 17y ago
It's a tautology to say that people who could run before running shoes were invented didn't need running shoes, it ignores the possible runners that dropped out. Running is a mechanical process. If there is something wrong with your feet, s
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by glymor 18y ago
I was using Wordsworth as a proxy for Romantic poetry, which I consider to be (as a whole) overly-flowerly and trite. The article stuck me the same way. I don't rank Tennyson much as a poet. The inequality would hold on their performance as

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