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by gnarmis 11y ago
How do they survive a mass dying?
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by gnarmis 11y ago
True, absent the consideration of enclosed habitats on Mars that are self sufficient. But I see your point, it's easier to survive on Earth in many such scenarios, perhaps even unaided by tech, and on Mars you absolutely need to rely o
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by gnarmis 11y ago
Let's downshift. > In every single one of those cases, including the Cretaceous–Paleogene asteroid situation, you would be better off on earth than on mars as it is today by a mile. In that hypothetical, Earth is what's hit by
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by gnarmis 11y ago
Well, what about things that are low-likelihood but have happened in the past? For example, the asteroid impact ~65 m. years ago. There's other relatively higher likelihood events that could cause modern civilization to collapse, like
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by gnarmis 11y ago
We don't at present, yeah. That's a challenge. But it makes sense to have a goal to create a self-sustaining colony of humans (and plants/microbes/etc) on a different planet. Imagine that it did exist. It would be valuab
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by gnarmis 11y ago
The point is to improve existential odds. What about non-human threats, like asteroid hits, pandemics, etc? And even with largely human-caused threats, a Mars colony would improve existential odds. An improvement by degrees is still an imp
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Visualizing Chernoff Faces with D3 and React.js(kilotau.com)
4 points by gnarmis 12y ago|0 comments
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by gnarmis 12y ago
Nope. Battery life and stability has been way better for me. And the UI improvements help a bunch. Also, the tight integration with iOS is so great. Stability is not "completely lost"
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by gnarmis 12y ago
It informs me when the package it's installing is a duplicate of an OSX package; I can decide if it's worth it on a case-by-case basis. By installing in a separate directory and symlinking into `/usr/local/bin`, it&
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Terminals Shouldn't Be Scary – basics and a list of things to remember(kilotau.com)
2 points by gnarmis 12y ago|0 comments
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by gnarmis 12y ago
points of view aren't all equally valid. Example: any pov about something that can be factually checked.
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by gnarmis 13y ago
You can also use emoticons as a sort of simple, multi-lingual signal about the emotion expressed in a tweet. :) -> happy, :( -> sad, and so on. I found out about this while researching sentiment analysis techniques last summer; here&#
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by gnarmis 13y ago
This is great! "office hours for the tech industry" explains itself.
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Evernote As A Neural Prosthetic(medium.com)
2 points by gnarmis 13y ago|0 comments
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by gnarmis 13y ago
Kademlia is also quite fun to implement! It's a great example of a distributed system, and me and a couple of friends actually made our own in golang ( https://github.com/maxsnew/kademlia-go ). We also decided to bu
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Show HN: RepoMap - track your local git repositories(kilotau.com)
1 points by gnarmis 14y ago|1 comments
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by gnarmis 14y ago
I just tried this out with a project I'm working on. Finally upgraded to Leiningen 2 as well. In all, took about 3 minutes to get everything setup! I'm just loving this instarepl. The most direct benefit for now is having a few of the funct
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by gnarmis 14y ago
This is great! I'm doing some stuff with SICP in Clojure, and this should be helpful for that. Btw, I was wondering if Dr. Racket's style of automatic parens-closing by just repeatedly pressing ']' (regardless of '(','{','[') makes anyone e