khedoros

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by khedoros 10y ago
Mathematical concepts are usually pretty intuitive. I think that the problem is more the notation that we teach than math itself being unintuitive and difficult. I'd also say that programming is a mathematical endeavor by nature; logic
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by khedoros 10y ago
Depends on how graphics are implemented, right? Even a modern graphics card has some kind of support for older standards like plain VGA and VESA video modes, it seems like.
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by khedoros 10y ago
In my opinion, information storage and retrieval isn't "intelligence" on its own. A system that implements it can't be said to be "smart". You could argue "knowledgeable", but that's not the same
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by khedoros 10y ago
Google has some software called DeepDream. Basically, you give it images, and it amplifies any features that it thinks it recognizes. If the network is designed to recognize cat faces, then it will take an arbitrary picture and strengthen p
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by khedoros 10y ago
Is an extremely large and well-indexed encyclopaedia smarter than you? It certainly contains more information than your head does, so you could say it "knows" more. Look at it from the other direction, though: If the machine were
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by khedoros 10y ago
> I do find it a bit bizarre that he cites his CPU's clock rate in Mbps I assume it was a mistake, and he meant MHz. The numbers work out pretty well, interpreted that way (4MHz and 16KB RAM vs 900MHz and 128MB RAM).
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by khedoros 10y ago
If you've had fun, it's not silly. If you've just been aggravated by it, that would be silly. Personally, I'd just be aggravated...so I avoid trying to hunt down specific Pokemon, now.
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by khedoros 10y ago
...and? Sometimes the best part of a game is finding the most entertaining ways to break it, and if that doesn't directly harm someone else's enjoyment, then I frankly don't care what you wish to call it. Cheating without ben
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by khedoros 10y ago
It certainly does, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'd rather play the game as a "catch 'em all". I generally avoid gyms.
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by khedoros 10y ago
Only to the degree that they don't damage other people's games. Jumping gym to gym isn't something I'd consider doing myself, but jumping to pokestops and avoiding gyms altogether? It's not my thing, but I don'
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by khedoros 10y ago
> They're not cheating anymore obviously, thats why they are complaining. Personally, I'm complaining because the game is broken and no fun, and a method of fixing it has been disabled. I don't particularly care about any
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by khedoros 10y ago
> No one gets to bend the rules of a game because of their circumstance Sure they do, and for any other reason that they want to. > Games are not an equal opportunity endeavour where everyone gets to be a winner. My point exactly. I s
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by khedoros 10y ago
Fair points. I'll clarify: I don't play in a competitive way. I have no idea how many Pokemon any of my friends have caught. I don't know their levels. I've never tried to hold a gym. Honestly, I was never a heavy map us
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by khedoros 10y ago
> I would note that all of these fall either into the category of "creator encourages community involvement" or "creator has abandoned work and ignores community involvement." Yes, people participate when participatio
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by khedoros 10y ago
> You are competing for valuable pokemon, which IS the point of the game. I'm not. The coworker next to me and I routinely catch the same Pokemon at the same time. Watching it on the map made it clear: if someone catches it, it does
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by khedoros 10y ago
I'd go the other direction: Either somewhere with fewer people and more space, or taking the time to build community with the people around me, so that they'd be more likely to come to me directly if they perceive a problem than t
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by khedoros 10y ago
> It's a competitive game, though. Again, we're playing very different games ;-) > By "unlimiting" yourself you're changing the rules for competitive play for everyone. Again, what competitive play? I'm n
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Would you "fix" a movie? Yes, if I had the time and artistic ability. I've enjoyed various unofficial re-cuttings of Star Wars, different edits of Blade Runner, and so on. I'd put other things in the same category:
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by khedoros 10y ago
It matters to me, although probably not to anyone else. > You augmented the main, core part of the game to make it easier to catch pokemon. And it improved a flawed game (for me) without harming your experience. > That sounds like som
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by khedoros 10y ago
I don't see a problem with that. Different strokes for different folks. What I'm enjoying is available to you, but you've chosen to limit yourself to a constricted set of abilities, because you (apparently) enjoy the limitati
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by khedoros 10y ago
For those of us who did use maps--most everyone I know--we didn't consider it cheating. The original form of the game sucked, and the maps worked like a community-made patch to work around some of the shortcomings. Why bother playing
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by khedoros 10y ago
> It's a strange linguistic distinction to make. English is a collection of strange linguistic distinctions. Following the pattern of compatible/incompatible, I might be surprised by the meanings of flammable and inflammable.
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by khedoros 10y ago
I didn't find it offensive. The color scheme isn't that far off from what I prefer for my terminal settings. What would you have preferred the author do differently?
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by khedoros 10y ago
Let's get closer to comparing apples to apples. Every one of my laptops has lost manufacturer support 1-3 years after I got them...but even my 13 year old laptop will run a current Linux build. Every one of my phones has lost manufactu
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by khedoros 10y ago
I assume they're either using USB headphones or some other case of having multiple audio output devices, like my desktop with onboard sound and a separate PCI sound card.
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by khedoros 10y ago
> But we're not all worse off for it. In fact, only a small minority who choose to be outside the mainstream are worse off for it. But we are . Innovative ideas from fringe software tends to find its way back into more mainstream s
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by khedoros 10y ago
EME requires a binary-blob decryption module. Imagine the scenario where the only browser that provides some function "X" that you use isn't one that a binary-blob is released for. For most people that don't care about &
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by khedoros 10y ago
> What do you do if you have some random small ARM or Atom box running Linux with an UI that's convenient to use on the big TV screen it's connected to and using a remote control? Myself, I run a small ARM box running (an embed
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by khedoros 10y ago
There's a lot that I don't want to see more than once...and Netflix is great for that. There's a lot that I do watch at least several times (spaced out over years, often). If I see something being sold for an amount I'
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by khedoros 10y ago
I wouldn't use "--get". If I wanted to use the long option, I'd use "--extract".

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