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by mc808 11y ago
Having a physically realistic model could at least serve as a point of reference to see how various abstractions and simplifications differ from that baseline.
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by mc808 11y ago
It's kind of interesting that almost all of the top projects are programming tools. Programmers building better programming tools to help build better programming tools. I wonder what nice things we could have if we diverted half of th
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by mc808 11y ago
You're 100% right (2x right?), but I think this is one of those situations like "bimonthly", where people usually intend it to mean twice a month instead of every two months. It's completely ambiguous with potentially si
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by mc808 11y ago
It sounds like the people being screwed are SoundCloud and possibly some of the musicians who use it, not Google or the millions of users downloading the app. So if someone should sue, it should probably be them.
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by mc808 11y ago
I would imagine the earliest forms of life (proto-life if we use cellular structure in the definition of life) were free-floating strands of genetic material, more similar to viruses than to fully formed cells. Or if that's on the righ
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Apple security update blocks Apple Ethernet drivers on OS X El Capitan(derflounder.wordpress.com)
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by mc808 11y ago
I haven't been following, but it looks like the tests were passing and they just didn't have tests to prevent these issues that came up.
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by mc808 11y ago
> If you don't like the article, downvote it and move on. Generally it's courteous to leave a comment explaining a downvote before moving on.
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by mc808 11y ago
You could also say if you don't want people photographing your genitals, don't use a third-party restroom or dressing room or tanning salon. The expectation of privacy really has (or should have) nothing to do with the existence
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by mc808 11y ago
That or they will move on to the next narrative, cyber crime or human trafficking or any number of crimes that would be sooo much easier to solve if we gutted the Constitution a little bit more.
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by mc808 11y ago
Let's end drug prohibition first, and then discuss whether to hack the remaining phones, if any. This whole fiasco has nothing to do with terrorism. Alternatively, introduce a restriction that this form of forced labor can only be comp
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by mc808 11y ago
If I know who wrote a piece and they have a distinctive manner of speaking, I sometimes "hear" the text colored by their voice. In most cases I don't experience anything like that, but I suppose it's possible that I do a
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by mc808 11y ago
If something is truly a universal constant, then it's part of the definition of what it is to be the universe. That we can imagine the constant being different is really just an artifact of the imperfect symbolic language we've de
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by mc808 11y ago
I would have drawn the line much sooner, and yes it has to be drawn. If the FBI needs more employees, they should hire some from a pool of voluntary applicants.
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by mc808 11y ago
I am indeed careful or even hesitant about defending Apple because I abhor most of their business practices, but they are 100% right in fighting back against involuntary servitude here. The FBI and judges can't just march around and fo
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by mc808 11y ago
One possible convention would be to use "in-between" for the exclusive between. It's probably impossible to convince the whole English-speaking world to adopt it, but it would be more natural than "exclusive between&quot
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by mc808 11y ago
Yeah, that's actually the track I had in mind when I wrote "almost". But most of his music gives me a really pleasant/chilling/surreal vibe that I haven't found anywhere else.
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by mc808 11y ago
"The DAG of Life" doesn't have quite as nice a ring to it.
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by mc808 11y ago
Almost anything by Martin Stimming immediately puts me in the zone for a few hours of coding. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMd8VFC-lLQ
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by mc808 11y ago
If the key is a sizable part of the data, then sorting could allow you to shave a few bytes from the key and reduce the overall storage needed. (Going from 50,000 drives to 40,000 drives is pretty significant even for someone who can afford
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by mc808 11y ago
I was being a bit hyperbolic, but only a bit. I really don't trust someone who is willing to bundle up crap that obviously nobody wants, just to earn a few bucks when someone is tricked into installing it, but I can agree that it'
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by mc808 11y ago
The bare minimum corrective action when you see "value added offers" in a Windows installer is to cancel the installation and then revert to the most recent restore point. There's no reason to assume the installer will honor
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by mc808 11y ago
You know that optical illusion where you can't tell whether you're looking at a cube from the top or the bottom, so your brain keeps flipping back and forth between them? This code is like that for me, but flipping between Perl an
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by mc808 11y ago
The difference between free and essentially free does become significant when you consolidate all of those essentiallies in one place. I couldn't find how much they spend on the distribution infrastructure itself, but if their 250 mill
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by mc808 11y ago
> Screens weren't on the radar. Funny choice of words. Screens were "on the radar" systems which prompted the development of one of the earliest forms of computer memory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by mc808 11y ago
Most of those very subtle gravitational waves are also rather insignificant. Normally their effects would be swamped by other forces and interactions. At least as far as we know, we are the first agents in the universe to build structures t
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Microsoft researchers smash homomorphic encryption speed barrier(theregister.co.uk)
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by mc808 11y ago
I was also surprised by the 20%, as I thought I had read that it was approaching 40% across the web (thanks to YouTube, really). I wonder if this means a significant share of Wired readers had already whitelisted the site.
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by mc808 11y ago
Cutting the federal budget 11% would throw us all the way back to 2014 levels. I don't know if the system could handle that kind of shock.
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by mc808 11y ago
That doesn't seem like a very useful distinction. Suppose new patent troll legislation comes along that would prevent enforcing a patent that isn't actively being used or developed (similar to trademarks). The trolls would just pr

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