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by grondilu 9y ago
TL,DR: A Facebook user died and his online friends were not notified because he did not post much so Facebook presumably assumed it was not worth notifying them.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I don't use facebook so I'm wondering : isn't there a way to turn a private message into a public one, so that users think twice before sending an offensive one?
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by grondilu 9y ago
> The nice thing about analog is that signals may get weaker but they don’t just go away as easily so you hear continuous music, etc. I think it is worth mentioning that this is called fault tolerance, aka graceful degradation. https:&#
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by grondilu 9y ago
Say whatever you want about Eugène McCarthy[1], he seems to be right about hybridization being an overlooked evolutionary force. 1. http://www.macroevolution.net/
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by grondilu 9y ago
That's a misleading title if there is any. TL,DR: "I have this theory, that some poor black girl in Children’s Hospital has the cure for cancer right now, or at least the potentiality to discover it, but she will never get the opp
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by grondilu 9y ago
Since this article is behind a paywall, I can't quite confirm my suspicion that this is pretty ironic.
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Inside view from New Sheppard(youtube.com)
1 points by grondilu 9y ago|0 comments
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by grondilu 9y ago
IIRC, this also means that the first litter systematically dies off. I vaguely recall a guide explaining this during a SafariLive stream[1] 1. https://wildearth.tv/safarilive/
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by grondilu 9y ago
This. I'm amazed state currencies still have the slightest credibility. In the computer age, the least that can be asked about a currency is that the total amount in circulation should be public. And it's not. The monetary agg
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by grondilu 9y ago
International Master Daniel Rensch made a very informative YouTube series about the match, I highly recommend it. Here are the highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1o48Sgrck
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by grondilu 9y ago
> When learning Chess or Go, playing whole games with myself would be too tedious. Do people really do this? Chess World Champions Robert Fischer and Magnus Carlsen notoriously did as children. Magnus Carlsen even recommended it as one
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by grondilu 9y ago
> And also because it's easy to draw I'm not sure it is. First, that forces you to put a serious effort in perspective. And then you just can't draw black lines, you need to draw the technical devices that they connect t
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by grondilu 9y ago
For more CPU demanding games, that is. Like AAA games.
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by grondilu 9y ago
This is the kind of gaming experience I'm hoping webassembly will bring. No installation, just visit a website and play.
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by grondilu 9y ago
What will doctors do about this, though? They can't just tell their patients "well, you just have to lose weight". People want easy solutions in forms of pills, and there is no money to gain from prescribing caloric restrict
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by grondilu 9y ago
There is no unlimited computing power anywhere, though. Not even in Google's quarters. The style difference is so profound that it is difficult to impute computing power only, because we know what kind of improvement reasonable compu
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by grondilu 9y ago
The neural network was only fed with games from self-play. No historical game whatsoever was given. At least that's Deepmind's claim.
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by grondilu 9y ago
Still, when you look at the games, it's hard not to think something genuinely new has happened. Several grandmasters have expressed amazement at the style of play. AlphaZero won some games in a romantic style that's reminiscent
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by grondilu 9y ago
Not all cold blooded animals went extinct, you know. Sadly, we may never know why pterosaurs went extinct and not birds. Could be just bad luck. I mean, maybe both groups went through a very narrow bottleneck and only birds survived for n
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by grondilu 9y ago
I'm going to be pedantic as well and say that instead of : > the flying reptiles that lived during the dinosaur era they should have written "the flying reptiles that lived during the Mesozoic" There is an accurate termino
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by grondilu 9y ago
Could be a derelict, though. Arguably, spaceship wrecks should be more numerous than spaceships themselves. After all, assuming alien spaceships have existed for a long time and have a relatively short operational time, they exist for muc
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Unions said in a statement more than 500 Amazon workers at the Piacenza site in northern Italy had agreed to strike following a failure to negotiate bonuses with the company. They could not get bonuses, so they go on strike? Jeez, Ama
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by grondilu 9y ago
I don't know much about her and why she's leaving, but I do remember her from two years ago or something when she announced, with quite a fanfare, "The Machine". I was excited about that, and even bought HP shares as a
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by grondilu 9y ago
To be fair it's more like "turn matter into light and then into matter", since they still need to accelerate electrons first to produce the gamma photons.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I've just checked. 0-60 in 1.9s is only 0.3s slower than F1 record, and it seems to be below the typical one. "Formula One race cars have been recorded to reach 0-60 as fast as 1.6 seconds, however the typical range for modern da
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by grondilu 9y ago
Make it a dollar a year, then. Or a cent a year. The point was to install and test the required infrastructure (identity check, payment method and so on...) and then increase the amount.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I don't understand this. What are you afraid of? Are you like Richard Stallman, only downloading webpages from email clients or something? Do you have filters that strip all javascript from the web pages you browse? If you're n
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by grondilu 9y ago
> People don't learn. Do you? The comparison with Java has been made before, including on HN. "While Java and Flash [2] came early to the Web and offered managed runtime plugins, neither supported highperformance low-level cod
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WebAssembly Demystified(youtube.com)
13 points by grondilu 9y ago|0 comments
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by grondilu 9y ago
> The idea is they don't want their land to be owned by anyone other than the native people... Isn't that racist?

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