ktizo

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by ktizo 14y ago
Also, note that the (US) DEA was founded in 1973, while _451_ was published in 1953. Ahh, so the DEA named themselves after the book then, that sounds about right.. ;)
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by ktizo 14y ago
I think that's the point. neither of these is hard to work out from first principles with nothing but very basic math. Memorising the answer is all well and good, but that's just another rule of thumb.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Apart from the really good ones, who we put on tv.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Is either stupidity, insanity, tasteless and surrealistic trolling, or brilliant satire. And I've got no idea which at this point.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Destruction of 'counterfeit' media. Because after all, just because you have a vast zero-scale network on which to distributively backup the collected artistic works of society in real time, doesn't mean you should, obviously. I mean, that
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by ktizo 14y ago
Was only the other day that my mate pointed out to me that 451 is DEA if you transcribe it. And after all, there are all kinds of paper and they don't all catch fire at one given temperature, do they?
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by ktizo 14y ago
They are scaling them, is just they are scaling everything rather than allowing user control. I like scaling of stuff, as long as any window that I choose to push to native resolution goes to native resolution, especially on a machine tha
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by ktizo 14y ago
It can if you set the global resolution to 2880x1800 According to the article, you can only set a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200 within the UI and it resamples that up.
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by ktizo 14y ago
So the current existing version of photoshop can't access all the pixels then? Excuse me while I scream in horror and dismay.
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by ktizo 14y ago
UI can scale perfectly well without faking resolutions.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Why are they faking the resolution? Is it that the graphics card has problems, or is it to make their own apps look nicer than competitors, or what? I hope they are not rescaling stuff like photoshop to something other than actual screen re
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by ktizo 14y ago
That's lucky.. I've been feeling pretty tired and grouchy.
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by ktizo 14y ago
It's fine to run code written by other people, but that code should be run in a safe, completely sandboxed environment. There are no verifiably sandboxed environments on any consumer IT equipment. The $0.99 game I downloaded does not hav
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by ktizo 14y ago
(1) you are probably right. (2) the Mach kernel was originally developed for BSD. (3) true, they did make a shiny wimp variant. (4) is that why stuff like rename is not there? The man page for rename is there, but rename isn't for some reas
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by ktizo 14y ago
I love these kind of naming conventions. I wonder what the next one in the series will be called and if FLT has been used yet.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Not really true. Russia, for instance, didn't get standardised testing until 2003 and still the universities do not really respect it.
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by ktizo 14y ago
What? You mean something like that exists already? Surely it can't be particularly popular as how could it ever be taken seriously?
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by ktizo 14y ago
It is true, you cannot do science without speculation. And it doesn't matter if you speculate before or after gathering a particular set of data, speculation is still required. I didn't say that you shouldn't test your model, was just point
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by ktizo 14y ago
They practically give away the results of their development costs on OSX. Most of the development was already done for them in the development of Open-BSD.
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by ktizo 14y ago
No hassles. Sorry if I came across a bit grouchy.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Funnyjunk appears to be a comedy site with no sense of humour. Next thing you know someone might start a rolling TV news channel with no knowledge of current affairs, named after some kind of wild dog, and then where would we be? Although,
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by ktizo 14y ago
You can't do science without speculation. Science often models things it has never seen in the real world. Sometimes, when it becomes possible to make a measurement, the model is found to be accurate. Like in the classic xkcd "Science. It W
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by ktizo 14y ago
I don't mean 12 core, I mean 32 core. AMD is selling 16 core CPUs. And the Mac Pro is not a dual CPU, 32 core, twin graphics card machine, which is what I described. here is one company selling them - http://www.titanuscomputers.com I pri
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by ktizo 14y ago
A critical transition is a mathematical definition related to a fundamental change in the structure of a system. Here's something pretty relevant if you want to know what they mean by this phrase - http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2908
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by ktizo 14y ago
I thought the claim was that the earth's environment is subject to critical transitions, that critical transitions are by their very nature highly disruptive on all levels of a system, and that if you statistically map the environment then
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by ktizo 14y ago
FX artists for digital cinema. 4K takes nearly half a gig a second uncompressed.
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by ktizo 14y ago
It is perfectly possible. You buy them from companies that supply the professional CAD market and it is relatively easy to find 32 core, dual processor, twin graphics card systems for less than $5000.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Nothing says ergonomics like typing on a hard glass screen. I agree. Tablets are ergonomically stupid as well. Don't even get me started on the general problem of having your fingers blocking what you are trying to see, let alone the lack
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by ktizo 14y ago
El Niño is the main thing that springs to mind when thinking about predictive powers of (short term) climate modelling. They are getting reasonably good at that. Also, your coin flip is not a predictive model any more than claiming that usi
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by ktizo 14y ago
Laptops are ergonomically horrible. If we have removed the technological restrictions that tied us to that form factor, are there not better ways to modularise this kind of functionality than to just make a dumb terminal in the shape of a l

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