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by kruczek 12y ago
> Second of all, if we are asking the long calculation with the expectation that students won't be able to complete it, why are we asking that question? Why don't we ask shorter questions that match the expectations we have? We
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by kruczek 12y ago
> When that changes, and programmers (or their employers) are held liable for the incidental or consequential damage caused by their bugs In a way, employers already are - when selling a product, the contract will define SLA and if that
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by kruczek 12y ago
2) But to some degree it is similar now - people as well can try to bribe others to vote for a particular person. The only difference is it is not as formal as delegating your vote.
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by kruczek 12y ago
I don't think that would loosen the iron grip of game companies - as you mentioned it would be "illegal to run" such servers then, just as much as it is now. And they would "still be run by many people" regardless.
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by kruczek 12y ago
Be happy it's not ClearCase.
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by kruczek 12y ago
I often see people compare programming to building bridges, cars or whatever else - typically in order to show how chaotic programming is or how much the process lacks quality. The only problem I have with that is typical lack of understand
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by kruczek 12y ago
If "time is just movement", then it is an emergent property of the universe (and movement, or more generally - change, would be the fundamental property). Still it wouldn't mean that time is just a construct we created, as it
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by kruczek 12y ago
"Make yourself a question, if ALL movement stop (include atoms), will time pass?" That's pretty much asking "If time stops, will time pass?" - which doesn't really answer anything. Stopping all movement is not
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by kruczek 12y ago
Undefined behaviour means that anything can happen - also it may happen that particular implementation has such behaviour well defined ;)
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by kruczek 12y ago
> So 10 minutes, 1 back, 7 minutes, 1 back, 2 minutes. Total of 20 minutes. 21 minutes.
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by kruczek 12y ago
It still writes icmp_seq, which increases by one for each subsequent packet sent - based on this you can spot any missing responses. Indeed not as visible as in Windows though.
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by kruczek 12y ago
One thing I don't quite understand - why these companies won't move to other countries with better privacy? Is it only because of huge bureaucratic and logistical effort that would be required, or are there some laws which prevent
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by kruczek 12y ago
"which might actually be nonsense, since waves aren't matter, but something that travels through matter" I don't think that's much of a nonsense. These are waves propagating through a medium - in this case mostly ai
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by kruczek 12y ago
Which is much less readable: map<unsigned int, map<int, vector<string>::iterator> >::iterator getSomeIterator(); or: auto getSomeIterator(); Function name and context usually is sufficient to know what SomeIterator refers
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by kruczek 12y ago
Same can be said about using 'auto' for variable type declarations. It all comes down to "use, but don't abuse" (as most things in C++) - it can improve readability, if used moderately; and it is up to the programme
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by kruczek 12y ago
It is an error in a sense that these are not in fact faces, but clouds. While humans also can see shapes of faces in clouds, we are capable of understanding that these are not real faces. Computer algorithm is not capable of recognizing the
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by kruczek 12y ago
But a self-driving car doesn't need to be more intelligent than a human brain, it just needs to be better at driving. Human brain is certainly a better general-purpose compuing machine, but there are many situations where technology ca
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by kruczek 12y ago
Either there is something I don't understand about this whole story, or something is seriously wrong with people coming up with such bans. As far as I could understand the only risk is for children to swallow these magnets? Or is there
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by kruczek 12y ago
While I somewhat agree it's kind of a silly concept of people overthinking things, it has nothing to do with time travel at all.
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by kruczek 12y ago
While violence may not be a part of the teacher role, education certainly is. And that sounds like the kind of social education that is an extension of what family should be providing. I'm wary of sending policemen to school, just the
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by kruczek 12y ago
If people don't have a soul, it still is a problem, because you are still killing a person. Why should I care that my exact clone will be living my life, if I'll be vaporized? And consider another scenario, as described in "I
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by kruczek 12y ago
Only if you speak about teleportation as cloning and killing. But if you speak about kind of a wormhole teleportation (which the paper mentions among other things), then it doesn't really pose any philosophical dilemma.
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by kruczek 12y ago
Don't be too sure about ASCII text file either, it may still contain a bit of metadata like the BOM (although then technically it's not pure ASCII, but rather UTF, but still it means you have to check the encoding used by your fav
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by kruczek 12y ago
I'd argue that democratic governments use populism to stay in power in a similar way as corporations use marketing to make profit. In both cases they seek to make masses happy enough to maintain their status quo. On a related note, if
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by kruczek 12y ago
I've never noticed abundance of Apple articles, until this morning. Out of 13 top articles over half of them were leading to apple.com. Some feature to filter out unwanted links might be useful here. On the topic of voting, I've b