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by luser001 14y ago
Complex topic. In a nutshell, you should care that you're mediocre only if your competing with others. If not, why should you care? After you leave school, the need to be not-mediocre will become less acute, because life is less competitive
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by luser001 14y ago
Relevant Asimov's classic article: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm YMMV.
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by luser001 14y ago
Upvoted for the OI reference, which I found to be a remarkable book. I highly recommend it. But I wouldn't go so far as to say "it would seem that the algorithm of the cortex is mostly figured out": my takeaway from the book was that a lot
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by luser001 14y ago
... which seems to be written in C++ (based on clicking around in the source tree for a minute). https://ssl.icu-project.org/trac/browser/icu/trunk/source/co...
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by luser001 14y ago
Do you have Adblock Plus installed? It frequently removes the illegitimate download links since it (rightly) classifies many of them as ads.
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by luser001 14y ago
I used to do this. But then I realized I would be importing all symbols from std into my code. Including ones that might get defined in the future (similar to python's 'from foo import *'), which might conflict with some of my own symbols
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by luser001 14y ago
On the contrary. As a user of a service the client is the only piece that I really care about wrt data security. If I can verify that the client isn't secretly uploading encryption keys to the server while claiming to encrypt my data, it's
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by luser001 14y ago
This whole article should have been prefaced with a giant 72-pt IMHO and suffixed with a 72-pt YMMV. I was amazed at recommendations #4 and #5: reward somebody for "fitting in" etc. (!!!!!!!) I highly recommend Andy Grove's "High Output Man
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by luser001 14y ago
> I do not like this sort of behavior in my dynamic type system. Why? [Other than for performance reasons] I keep repeating this point in every Tcl thread. Tcl was meant to be used to enable command line shells for programs written in C
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by luser001 14y ago
If you haven't already, you might want to look into Nagelfar. http://nagelfar.berlios.de/
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by luser001 14y ago
I would make a distinction between a CLI (to be used by ordinary users of the program) and a scripting interface (to be used to "extend" the program, to be used by power users and/or other programmers). And I would further submit that the s
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by luser001 14y ago
Probably because Tcl has other redeeming qualities. Command line programs are now passe in all except a few niches like routers, chip design etc, but IMHO there still isn't a better "/bin/sh++" that you can embed as command line shell inter
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by luser001 14y ago
> But ultimately, it feels like a language with lots of good ideas, implemented poorly. I'm not a PL theorist or purist, but "everything is a string" constantly feels like a really poor abstraction. I see where you're coming from, but I
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by luser001 14y ago
Thanks! Even simpler fix for lazy: Inspect Element, right click on the element in the developer pane, and choose "delete node".
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by luser001 14y ago
PSA: It's available on Netflix.
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by luser001 14y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=percentage+of+grass+fed+beef Only 3% of beef in the US is grass-fed. For chicken, the equivalent would be "pastured", and I bet it far less than 1% (I've never seen it for sale in supermarkets and I know yo
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by luser001 14y ago
> (I'm Hindu, so no beef or pork) Minor nit: I don't think Hindus are prohibited from eating pork. AFAIK. > And I would bet that my environmental impact isn't all that high. Ironically this page claims that lamb is the worst of al
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by luser001 14y ago
It's very easy to install under Ubuntu.
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by luser001 14y ago
Pretty good point. Jeff Hawkins makes the same point in his book "On Intelligence", which I highly recommend. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=on+intelligence+book&#...
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by luser001 14y ago
Btw, I'm with you. I turn down the brightness of my monitors and have gray-on-black in my terminal windows. For a while, I even went hardcore and used color-blind color mappings hotkeys via compiz to cut out the white glare backgrounds of w
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by luser001 14y ago
One problem I have out of the box with xubuntu (i.e., xfce) is that if I suspend it in a docked configuration (with an external monitor connected and laptop display turned off) and wake it up in undocked config, it doesn't automatically swi
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by luser001 14y ago
Minor nit: is there evidence that dinosaurs evolved into monkeys? didn't they all get wiped out by an asteroid? AFAIK, mammals existed during the dinosaur era. But they occupied a tiny ecological niche and were physically tiny. They survive
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by luser001 14y ago
Please do. I would have thought the micro would be faster than the Pi (I have a Pi)!!!
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by luser001 14y ago
I did some benchmarking to find the CPU overhead of data transfer. Here is the draft of what I found. https://gist.github.com/4144871 I was able to saturate a 100 Mbps LAN link with netcat. IIRC CPU was at 70%.
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by luser001 14y ago
The latest Raspbian seems to support it out of the box. It was pretty painless for me.
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by luser001 14y ago
No. It seems that hospitals are paid on a per-patient basis while individual doctors are paid on a per-procedure basis. Unless I misunderstood the article.
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by luser001 14y ago
I am currently unable to login to one of my domains on Google Apps (i.e., www.google.com/a/example.com returns an error). When I try to register it, it says the domain is already registered. Fun. It isn't my primary domain, so I haven't bot
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by luser001 14y ago
Pretty cool. But the coconut should be included. IMHO. I can see how a whimsical/retro thing like this might appeal to some.
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by luser001 14y ago
Pretty cool. The coconut should be included. IMHO.
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by luser001 14y ago
Disclaimer: I am not an art expert. You point is well taken, but just as a minor nit, I wanted to add that artists did achieve photorealism first and then move on to abstractness. Arguably, that was driven by the advent of photography whi

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