lamacase

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by lamacase 10y ago
You present a very crude opinion on a very nuanced issue, which is only tangentially related to the content of the article. It would be an effort just to elucidate what your precise position even is before anyone could seriously engage the
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by lamacase 10y ago
Your explanation is wonderful, but I thought the article said pretty much the same thing: "So there is a subtle but important distinction reflected in the term deterministic chaos – the motions of an orbiting body are fully determined
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by lamacase 10y ago
The cover actually appears to be one of the jpl "visions of the future" posters. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/images/superea... I hope the author has permission to use it?
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by lamacase 11y ago
I don't see that it matters whether consciousness is "actual" or "illusory" (whatever that distinction entails) for the purposes of explaining subjective experience. The degree to which that experience reflects, or
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by lamacase 11y ago
"This thing you think of as you: it spreads across two cerebral hemispheres connected by the corpus callosum, a fat meaty pipe more than 200 million axons thick." From the article. It's interesting because, compared to the ma
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by lamacase 11y ago
7. It is a Secure byte code is turned into machine-readable code and is can’t be understood by a human being. The byte code verifier looks out for any additional symbols, as well as, code that doesn’t match up to the coding stand
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by lamacase 11y ago
I interpreted him as saying (and it sounds like you may have as well?) that this distinction SHOULD NOT be ENCODED in XML or S-Expression or whatever data serialization/markup syntax you invent. He does not appear to make an argument a
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by lamacase 11y ago
I think the confusion here (not yours specifically) is that his actual <|> syntax resolves this ambiguity and his informal CL translation does not. You are correct that: <foo bar="zot">quux</foo> =>
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by lamacase 11y ago
I don't particularly like the blog format. The central organizational feature of a blog is a timeline. The idea that something you said is "older" than some other thing is not a particularly useful relationship. Though you wo
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by lamacase 11y ago
The second-to-last slide ends with: "ideally, a language should be designed so that an optimizing compiler can describe its optimizations in the source language. Of course!" and "The programmer using such a system will write
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by lamacase 12y ago
Bit of a tangent but, I don't know if a segfault should be considered a consequence of a "naive" implementation. Seems more like a consequence of a broken one. A simple if (!A) goto err_free; would turn that segfault into a &
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by lamacase 12y ago
I often do flip a coin for binary decisions. Not everything is so simple though. For more open ended decisions I use deliberately and obviously irrelevant metrics like wordplay or ad-hoc numerology. It's useful for getting people to st
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by lamacase 12y ago
I'd be interested to see if any of these techniques have a measurable impact on decisions with any consequence. It seems like all these decisions are completely arbitrary, and I know that I'm always looking for any dumb excuse to
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by lamacase 12y ago
I always wondered this as well. If a company was sponsoring data on a product that they don't make any money from, that looks like it could be considered anti-competitive. If a company sponsored data on search so they could fill the re
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by lamacase 12y ago
> What is rendering that HTML if not a browser? I don't think the search-box and tabs are rendering it. The firefox interface is already described in an XML format (XUL) and rendered from that. Instead of having two markups and two
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by lamacase 12y ago
> (One reason for the recent infantile obsession about tiling window managers) Wait, are you saying that tiling window managers are unusable, superfluous, arcane? Or do you simply object to cargo-culting? I can't actually use stacki
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by lamacase 12y ago
> ideas coming from ad design One of the things that bugs me most about many "modern" product pages is that they are often designed to look like brochures. Flashy and eye-catching, but with very little content or meaningful org
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by lamacase 12y ago
To be fair, this is an article by a UX designer, targeting other UX designers, for the express purpose of getting their (presumably) already usable interfaces noticed, and appreciated. If you can accomplish this with 7 simple rules then you
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by lamacase 12y ago
The guy who did the C4 compiler also has a more fully featured one that does support structures: https://github.com/rswier/swieros/blob/master/root/bin/c.c It's part of an OS he's bui
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by lamacase 12y ago
I printed out a copy of the source into a spiral-bound notebook to read/annotate. It can boot on real hardware which is pretty neat. It can even do multiprocessing on multiple cores (processes, no threads). It uses "ATA PIO Mode&q
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by lamacase 12y ago
"The following external libraries and tools are retrieved during the build process: ... Mesa - Implementation of OpenGL (only the software rasterizer is available)." From the readme