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by greatquux 6y ago
My nearly 7yo loves Minecraft too - both Java and Bedrock! He keeps asking me about Roblox but I've also heard of the whole monetizing thing and I keep telling him to stick to Minecraft as well.
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When did Linux/x86 overtake proprietary Unix/RISC?
2 points by greatquux 6y ago|1 comments
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by greatquux 6y ago
I had a case of insomnia last night that was only cured when I finally reached the end of this great article. :)
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by greatquux 6y ago
I'm going to need someone to come along and write up a layman's summary of this article. :) Does it change the end result of Gödel? Or is it basically the equivalent of saying what some restricted programming languages are doing,
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by greatquux 6y ago
This is why I wish we'd done more basic research on the immune system long ago. Maybe if we'd invested more time and money into a vaccine for HIV/AIDS, a disease which attacks the immune system directly, we'd realize we
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by greatquux 6y ago
I don't think we can reject it though. We may not / shouldn't "like" it, and we can sort of shove it to the background and try to come up with other explanations or theories that are more explanatory, but we do have
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by greatquux 6y ago
Yes, "Fall" was really great! It was after reading it that I decided I didn't want to emulate my mind anymore. :)
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by greatquux 6y ago
We can only hope (as we always have) that our ability to evolve (our software first, hardware next) will stay just ahead of our ability and desire to destroy ourselves. I sure hope I didn’t make a huge mistake having two kids. But I hope th
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by greatquux 6y ago
I'm sure most Chinese don't think like Liu's books either, because most humans don't. God, those books were unrelentingly DARK a.f. Really good though, the trilogy is big but totally worth it.
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by greatquux 7y ago
I just read this classic so this makes sense to me: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19071718
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by greatquux 7y ago
I don’t know. He really floated away into his own sea at the end there. I sort of get his point, just not how he got there, or whether it’s really the case at all.
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by greatquux 7y ago
Exactly. The "point" is enjoying it. If you enjoy it, it hardly matters what it's about or trying to say, and vice versa. I enjoyed it, so that's why I kept reading and rated it 5 stars.
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by greatquux 7y ago
Um sorry but I really liked Dhalgren and Gravity’s Rainbow and Infinite Jest. I may actually use this list to find some new books to read.
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by greatquux 7y ago
It turns out that predictions are hard to get right, especially ones about the future.
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by greatquux 7y ago
Regarding availability of an ebook version, I just wrote to bwk and got back a reply within a few minutes: -----Original Message----- From: Brian Kernighan <bwk@cs.princeton.edu> To: Mike Russo <mike@papersolve.com> Subject: Re:
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by greatquux 7y ago
nice! but what's holding me back also is the lack of a digital version, otherwise i'd already have bought it. edit: he replied to me to say he's uploaded a version today that has to be approved.
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by greatquux 7y ago
The universe may not see any difference between the two states!
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by greatquux 7y ago
I'm actually reading Stars in My Pocket right now and really enjoying it. And I loved all his early works and Triton was great too. But I can totally relate to someone not wanting to read straight up pornography which is what he descr
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by greatquux 7y ago
Just send to instapaper or use reader mode (although footnotes don't work so well). I've escaped a lot of egregious ads that way.
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by greatquux 7y ago
Pretty sure Firefox can use this too even though it's a proprietary binary blob.
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by greatquux 8y ago
It's so easy I've got a client who runs old production Solaris/Sparc code that way!
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by greatquux 8y ago
I actually do prefer font rendering on Linux to Windows. It strikes a good balance between Mac and Windows rendering.
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by greatquux 8y ago
Dropbox will work if you just create a local loopback file for an ext4 filesystem and mount the Dropbox folder on it.
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by greatquux 8y ago
It was worthless when they bought it!
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by greatquux 8y ago
I'm intrigued by that phrase you just mentioned. Never heard it before... "Night in which all cows are black"?
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by greatquux 8y ago
I haven't rebooted in the week I've been running it. Probably a specific app.
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by greatquux 8y ago
Yep. Feedly on the desktop and Newsify on iOS are a great combination.
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by greatquux 8y ago
Well that's just like your opinion man. Seriously I love the SE too. And I was coming from large screen Android world to it as my first iOS device. Maybe they'll revive it by the time mine is ready to die...
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by greatquux 8y ago
But what about supporr for the JRE? Please help a sad IT admin understand what's gonna happen.
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by greatquux 8y ago
Not just the media though, the researchers need better communication in addition to better understanding of risks. What the author pontied out in regards to the public disregarding expert advice is absolutely true. Framing your results like

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