imakesnowflakes

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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
1. Even pretty cheap desktops can be packed loads of memory, and can run a lot of virtual machines. 2. You can easily swap out/upgrade components. 3. If you are running the system nearly 24 hours a day, a desktop might cope much better
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Show HN: Hastily is a Haskell program to find the perfect subtitles for a movie(hackage.haskell.org)
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Ask HN: How can we fight the pesticide issue in my state
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
I have thought about this. How do people who are at the heads of large corporations okays destruction and pollution of environment. Is it because they don't care about the world their kids will inhabit? Or they just don't understa
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
> natural order of things is not Good, it's just the default. Ok. But human beings are horribly short sighted. Something that may appear beneficial in the short term and on a small scale. but may turn out to be horrible in the long
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
>because almost everyone is used to death as a "natural order of things" It is. That you don't like it doesn't make a difference.
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
>A society that adapts to become biologically immortal will find their own ways to adapt to dealing with zeitgeists and progress. I don't think so. That is just wishful thinking. Our current society cannot even produce leaders who a
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
>Maybe it's better that people die, and all we're left with is our memories of them, or written statements of their ideas or accounts of their deeds. We pick up what we find useful from them, and have the freedom to discard wha
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
>Death is a vile, atrocious thing, the biggest enemy humanity has. You have a time on this earth. When it is up, you make way for new generations. What is atrocious about it? What is atrocious and vile is the longing of some people for l
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
> 1903 and 65 years later landed on the moon. 65 years and Two World Wars later... This quote [1] from the movie 'The Third man' might be relevant. >in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, a
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
He he..I am fine. Thanks for asking. I am from India. That is another thing I have found curious. Somehow, in online discussions, people always assume that you are from US. And my comment does not mean that I believe ghosts exists, if that
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
What I find really curious is that how, at every decade, we were living in "modern" times. We were living in "modern times" in 1950's, in the 1970's, in the 90's and now in 2015. It means that we are livin
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
>which makes it easy to design and evaluate language features in isolation. Where can I see a demonstration of this? For example, what does it mean to evaluate something like decorators in Python and how will one go about doing that with
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Yes.I see those things too. But when I look at something that is 'modern', all I see is a highly refined/glorified version of a 50 year old thing. Mobile phones are just a glorified radio. Computers are glorified calculators.
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
> It has been accelerating at an exponential rate for decades. Has it really been though? Let me ask. What we usually perceive as progress comes down to few things. Mobile phones. Increasing hard disc drive capacity. Increasing memory c
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
I have been doing this for about a week. I don't actually have a standing desk though. I just put the 24 inch display and my small mechanical keyboard on top of my tower cabinet (Which is already on a table). This set up places the di
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Why? Because they command respect from others, which is one of the prerequisite for becoming a mobster in the first place.
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Yes. I had considered that option. But hey, I just wanted to see if I can pull this off...
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
But that is the fun part. If wind can be controlled, one can just make it blow from behind and keep the sail perpendicular to the wind, to move in any required direction. Anyway, I have turned off randomizing wind directions at load and hav
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Show HN: A rough simulation of a sail boat (2D Wireframe)
6 points by imakesnowflakes 11y ago|4 comments
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Apologies, if this is a bit off topic. I am a freelance computer programmer from India. I have been teaching Haskell myself for the past 3-4 months. I have stopped for a while, because I am hard pressed to find a job where I can work remote
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
What is stopping from styles from one components overwriting styles from another components. So in isolation, as you say, components work fine, but after processing, will it not break?
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Exactly my thoughts when I saw this. The problem with writer obstructing the view can be solved by place the camera behind the board and using a translucent white plastic sheet for the board. If the front of the board is illuminated well,
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Same here. I struggle every day with my 24 inch Dell glossy monitor. I originally had a matte display, but It went dead during guarantee period and it was replaced with one with a glossy screen. I am thinking of getting a smoked window glas
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
>All AI introduces is a much less constrained upper bound. Can you please explain?
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
IF we are talking about an ANN in a computer, then sure. It can be easily copied. But what about a grown network. For example, a network of resistors representing the weights, with a feed back loop that adjusts (continuously) the resistance
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
I have thought about something similar. But my thoughts are very crude and layman like. So I excuse beforehand. The basis of my thought was the fact that the operation of a neural network depends on very precise weights. And there are physi
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
>When you issue the :TOhtml command, Vim turns your text into html 7 years of using VIM and my mind is more than blown after I just tried it now. It worked perfectly and It even showed a frigging progress bar!
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
>The PHP community (where my commercial work is done) is not that. And far too fad driven. If you have the insight to recognize this, I think you are doing fine. I would recommend Python as it's community seems to be a bit better. I
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Wait, this is new? This has been a problem for the past 2 or 3 decades. When people stopped having 4+ kids. It is worse when the kid is the only one. But I think we are past that. New generations of parents, because they were subjected to t

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