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by gyom 14y ago
There were also 1.4M floppies with barebone Linux that booted and ran completely in 8M of RAM on a 386. You could remove the floppy after it booted and continue using Linux.
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by gyom 14y ago
I think you've hit it right on the nail here. Countries are also fictitious, in a way. Your mind expands when you realize this, and it gives you a set of tools to think about "cyberspace" in a more accurate way than by waving your arms arou
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by gyom 14y ago
> Sending somebody to jail unfairly is a crime, and should be treated as such. Very interesting take on things. I'm not sure if it would create a huge legal mess when a federal prosecutor is doing his or her job at prosecuting someone w
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by gyom 14y ago
I don't know whether it's a good a idea or not, but my original thinking that you'd have enough water mass to diffuse the heat sufficiently fast so that the coating would not be be subject to very high temperatures at a given location. Obvi
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by gyom 14y ago
Spray this inside your computer everywhere except at key places requiring cooling (like on the top of the CPU). Flood the computer with water. Passive silent cooling !
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by gyom 14y ago
The insight here is that everybody takes t-shirts as alternative payment method for situations where paying real money would be a social faux-pas. T-shirts are more like letters of gratitude. You can give your friends funny t-shirts to than
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by gyom 14y ago
Thanks a lot for the reference !
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by gyom 14y ago
To me, the main point has to do with the unseen consequences / victims. It's similar to situations where the government creates winners in an industry, where people applaud the act of job creations, but nobody sees the lost opportunities el
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by gyom 14y ago
I'm glad someone pointed out that reasoning flaw right away.
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by gyom 14y ago
I hear you. As a Quebec resident, I've been getting screwed all my life by these restrictions on contests. I don't even know why we're listed there alongside Kim Jong-il, Ahmadinejad and Castro. There's probably some law somewhere that the
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by gyom 14y ago
One could argue that Carmack's request was relevant more than a decade ago, and maybe it would be fine with Carmack if the person who inherited the drives released the data in 20 or 50 years (for historical purposes).
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by gyom 14y ago
I don't make that much compared to many of the other people posting in this thread, but having an automatic deduction of some significant-but-manageable amount going to a separate account is definitely a nice trick to play on oneself.
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by gyom 14y ago
It almost sounds like sexual selection in the way that the natural logic is turned on its head. A male bird with such a cumbersome and visible plumage could only survive if its genes were awesome in all other respects, so it gets more favor
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by gyom 14y ago
I think it was meant to be applicable only a few times. He has a point, though, about how unthinkable a 100% raise seems, but if you get another job it's entirely possible.
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by gyom 14y ago
I agree about the debatable status of the stupid advertisements running without my permission. As you're pointing out, the worse aspect of them is that they're involved in a large-scale tracking scheme. It wouldn't be as bad if you got your
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by gyom 14y ago
I agree with you about how awesome Jacob Appelbaum makes Tor sound, but you could still make a case about not wanting your computer to be used without your consent for stuff like that. For example, as much as cancer research can benefit fro
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by gyom 14y ago
Especially given that there was a link about the self-driving cars right following that link on Google Drive. My brain just cognitively squished the two of them together and went "whoaa ... they're opening the SDK for the car stuff already
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by gyom 14y ago
Just think about how George Lucas clearly wasn't the best person to write the Star Wars prequels. I would gladly pay for a well-written IP-infringing new version of Matrix 2-3 instead of the official crap that the rights owners put out.
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by gyom 14y ago
Since you're giving your solution, might as well spell out the message. "when angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred" -thomas jefferson "when angry, count four; when very angry, swear." -mark twain
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by gyom 14y ago
Do you have any reason to assume that programming competence is a "natural phenomenon" ? We're not talking about the statistical central limit theorem here, we're talking about people who are passionate about programming and spend years wor
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by gyom 14y ago
Many would have ethical objections, but I think a lot of sane people would volunteer to be the first person on Mars even if it was understood to be a one-way mission.
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by gyom 14y ago
Which is why it'd be nice if filesystems supported labels. I'd keep the directory structure, but I want to be able to apply the "2004 vacations" label on a all files in a given directory. Then you can add other particular labels to some fil
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by gyom 14y ago
I find it interesting that this article puts forward the idea that people who are having problems right now (ex : those with autism and addiction problems) might turn out to be ideal candidates for some future technology. Maybe they'll just
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by gyom 14y ago
What kind of tools are on the VM ? Do I get gcc and some python installation, for example ? I would imagine that I would have to reinstall my tools whenever a new instance starts.
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by gyom 14y ago
Yes, but that feature is unreliable and I've never managed to get it working. =)
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by gyom 14y ago
Yeah but you can opt to only use encrypted volumes for certain files that don't have to be accessed daily. You don't take advantage of Dropbox fully, but it's still pretty convenient to be able to sync that small encrypted volume containing
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by gyom 14y ago
I'm not sure if you just implicitly suggested that we (humans) will be mistreated by the general AI (and its offsprings) just like the natives were mistreated by people who followed after Columbus.
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by gyom 14y ago
I haven't followed the drama from the WakeMate product. I just used it to wake up at the right times and it did a fine job at that.
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by gyom 14y ago
I'm guessing it probably comes from the app on your iPhone just like WakeMate interfaces through a mobile phone for setup and the rest. It makes the wrist thingy kinda irrelevant, but maybe they correlate your heart rhythm with the food tha
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by gyom 14y ago
Fun to watch even without knowing anything about their studio or what they do. Their fines are getting kinda draconic when they double at every infraction, but I bet they get a kick out of saying that someone could be fined $2000 for forget

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