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by linspace 5y ago
You are obviously talking about point 15, running unaudited code. Who knows, the future can be surprising.
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by linspace 5y ago
What would be the role of the bacteria in a zombie invasion? Would it eat the zombies away or would it give them natural protection from predators? Both?
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by linspace 5y ago
I guess that we must therefore make a separate category for self replicating, otherwise prions would be probably the winners. It's like code golf but with chemistry. Great article BTW.
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by linspace 5y ago
It is hard enough (impossible?) to discriminate between living and dead matter. Counciousness does not simplify things. When choosing the correct action in our daily life requires solving harder problems than whether P=NP I think the only r
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by linspace 5y ago
Ah, lucky you. I read your comment on my phone and came to my desktop to type comfortably my rant. Have you ever tried to cancel a loan? The following story may or not apply to you. It happened in a small country called Spain: Some time ag
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by linspace 5y ago
> Apart from the obvious jokes They are endless. I will not write any because I simply cannot choose one. >I have a vision of software literacy- where 99.9% of people can write their own I hope so. A lot of people will argue not every
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by linspace 5y ago
Actually you are probably right. And it's not just building the environment: also unit testing, simple baseline algorithms, etc... We have a tendency to skip them. Whatever you build, you will need to change, as this is the nature of S
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by linspace 5y ago
> 90% of the software I write works just fine in an emulator As it should be. Investing some effort in my development environment has paid back every time.
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by linspace 5y ago
When you feel you are not doing anything useful think that maybe at least you are not doing anything harmful. What an incredible waste of money and time to avoid culture distribution, their authors long ago dead.
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by linspace 5y ago
Everything sucks, but I have come to the conclusion this is a good sign. It means there are not enough programmers to do the things we know are perfectly possible. It's not just web dev, which actually I don't touch. Recently I&#x
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by linspace 5y ago
Go far enough and you and me share the same ancestor. I think there was a post that statistically you don't need to go that far (just a few millenia)
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by linspace 5y ago
The first time I used Mathematica (20 years ago) it blew my mind. To be fair it was the first time I used a CAS and so the very idea of a computer crushing me at several calculus tasks was incredible. From the open source alternatives the b
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by linspace 5y ago
There are a several comments saying "no mention of X", and actually they are right. This list is defeated by the simplest of google queries.
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by linspace 5y ago
Not python and not my field, but in Julia you have https://juliadynamics.github.io/DynamicalSystems.jl/dev/
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by linspace 5y ago
Simply awesome. I would consider adding a hidden camera to track people position and move the eyes accordingly. You could sell to people decorating their haunted mansions.
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by linspace 5y ago
I received recently one of the most bizarre emails via gmail: one email completely written in Chinese. I was curious precisely because it didn't go to the spam folder. After running it through Google translate it actually looked like a
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by linspace 5y ago
If Apple thought they could charge more they would be already doing it, based on their considerable margins. If this makes you understand Brexit I doubt you really understand Brexit.
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by linspace 5y ago
You can find lots of instances of people maintaining old software, a lot of times just fans. Nobody is going to maintain anything just for you but we should give the opportunity at least just in case there is enough critical mass. About Lin
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by linspace 5y ago
> Is it "cancel culture" to fire an employee for posting Confederate flags on their Facebook? What about a Nazi flag? Where's the distinction? Yes and yes, and such firing would be considered illegal in a lot of places. It
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by linspace 5y ago
What makes you think everyone doing benchmarks is reliant? it could be research, it could be curiosity, you actually could be competing... Edit: and nevertheless is quite depressing that as a paying customer you should be afraid
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by linspace 5y ago
I'm surprised nevertheless that this is enforceable. Is there a precedent of someone being sued and losing?
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by linspace 5y ago
I'm glad you mention audio because I'm going to spend 60€ on a dedicated microphone just because Linux cannot use simultaneously my Bluetooth headphones and their integrated mic without manually changing the codec (which additiona
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by linspace 5y ago
Seeing this and the other day about SerenityOS I have the feeling from checking the home page that focus is on certain graphics experience, and so I wonder why build a OS from scratch instead of a window manager over Linux, apart from the c
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by linspace 5y ago
Visual debugging in my experience is automatically jumping through the source files inside the editor. Which is nicer than asking the debugger to show 10 lines around the current line. There are some attempts like DDD that I think are not v
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by linspace 5y ago
On the contrary, I think we are very exceptical on everything work related and it's very challenging to sell new tech, even for free. Most probably because we are tired and inundated with options. Now, for my own hobbies I have "w
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by linspace 5y ago
People sometimes complain about how much elite sport athletes make and I usually answer that it's great and a model to follow because workers capture a good part of the value of their work. We should not regulate to make their salaries
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by linspace 5y ago
Unfortunately I cannot find a link. It was a fat blue soft cover book from what I recall from about 20 years ago
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by linspace 5y ago
I don't think the algorithm is that good, it's simply that the content is better. I used TikTok for a couple of weeks and the product is very good. I uninstalled it not because I didn't like it but because I think it's a
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by linspace 5y ago
A math professor of mine said that the first step to solve a math problem was to know the answer. I remember during my first year buying a book called something like 1000 limit problems. I "just" did about 300. It was definitely p
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by linspace 5y ago
Yes, I loved it. Anyway uncomputable functions find all languages weak.

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