jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
My point is that because you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of gods, gods have no place in anything that calls itself scientific. If you want to believe in Intelligent Design that is fine, it's a free country, but it isn&
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Eh, I guess I just sort of see hating the porcelain like hating the parens in Lisp.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Technically there isn't a single version of Git either, though (thankfully) they can all operate on the same repositories (whereas in UNIX land, you'll find different file systems that the others do not support). They do howeve
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Linus just created a kernel that can be used with a Unix-like system. The difference here isn't academic, what I am talking about above was created before Linus was born. (mildly interestingly, he apparently missed Unix Epoch by onl
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Maybe, is that really a religion thing though?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I am sure he doesn't have complete and total trust or confidence in evolution; evolution is after all, falsifiable. A rabbit in the Pre-Cambrian would surely rock his boat. The boat has already been rocked many times before, and cour
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You might as well say "bored teenagers like to light things on fire. Teenagers bored for very long times like to start very large fires. Therefore the fact that the sun is a massive nuclear inferno is evidence that it was created by
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It is unfortunate that biology news has the capacity to cause such a shitstorm. Imagine if this sort of thing happened every time there was a new article about NASA discovering some new property of Saturn or something. I guess we should be
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by jlgreco 13y ago
There are entire literal libraries filled to the brim with evidence of evolution. If you were really interested in reading it you would have noticed that you are practically swimming in evidence of it by now.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Yeah, I guess it seems obvious to me that the right way to "shuffle a playlist" is to shuffle a playlist . Literally just take a list of songs, and Fisher-Yates shuffle the bugger; give the user exactly what the button claimed.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Name another end-user product for which you are even vaguely aware of what data structures were used. Unix. You are operating primarily on a tree of files and streams of text. To operate on these you have a wide array of utilities t
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I don't get this attitude. The DAG is exceedingly simple and I think can be taught reasonably in only a few minutes. From there you really only need to teach a very minor amount of the UI, and teach the user how to perform "I
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I am including those people in my "low hundreds of rich people" guess. Lets say for the sake of discussion that Oil Barons are responsible for Iraq... how many of those are there actually? How many rich oil barons are responsi
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by jlgreco 13y ago
How many rich people do you think are responsible for starting wars in the past century? Being as loose with "rich person starts a war" as possible, I really can't see that number going higher than the low hundreds. Peanut
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Maybe next biologists will start studying bald eagles by dunking golden eagles upside-down in a can of white paint.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I think it is eminently fair. It isn't performing a fundamentally different task, but it stutters and burns lower powered machines up.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
What do you think the chances are that the guy who broke into my car a few months ago (only to steal a few dollars in toll quarters I had in the center console) came from wealth and means? If you were a bookie, what odds would you put on t
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I bopped around in it for a few minutes on my Atom/Intel graphics EeePC and found it unbearably heavyweight compared to Awesome. I don't know what they are doing wrong, but merely interacting with a bunch of xterms with it was un
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Unless "shuffle" means something other than what I think it means, I don't see how it should even be possible to mess it up. What sort of issue is there?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Agreed. I think the best solution for GPS on a bike is probably Google Maps on some sort of phone receiving input from it only through TTS over headphones in your helmet. If you needed to interact with it you would just pull over first. E
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I now understand that they are not using scare quotes in this case (which is what my mistaken objection was to) , but I don't think that would be hack journalism. They still don't quote like that for the phrase "sex slave
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by jlgreco 13y ago
What sort of extensions do you get the most mileage out of? Browsing through them, I see a few that look neat (like the 'Drop Down Terminal' one), but many seem to be extensions that correct problems that GNOME introduces anyway
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Ah okay, that makes more sense. I tentatively revoke my criticism of the author and/or editor if that's what is going on here.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6446535
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Your take on my objection is correct.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The distinction is purely academic, and worthless for real-world use. Sex slaves in America or the UK are not legally owned, but they are nevertheless slaves as far as anybody sane-minded is concerned. You would not dream of referring t
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> It was always a stupid idea to have footballers running around in temperatures >100F I assume they could probably get some strong evaporation cooling from the well-hydrated field, but I am not really familiar with that sort of ext
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"Scare quotes are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to imply that it may not signify its apparent meaning or that it is not necessarily the way the quoting person would express its concept. Thus, the quotes are used to es
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Something that is shocking is not necessarily surprising. "Shocking" in this case is more about the visceral reaction of disgust it causes.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
That is exactly what it is. The author and/or editor should have had a spine and made the headline: "Revealed: Qatar's World Cup slaves"

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