mc808

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by mc808 11y ago
It seems to me, intuitively, that the infalling object should experience inverse time dilation and extreme blue-shifting of the outside universe as it approaches the event horizon. Due to length contraction, that energy would be increasingl
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by mc808 11y ago
No doubt the NSA would get involved if the robocallers started selling e.g. nuclear materials or certain herbal extracts, but they would still deny any role to avoid revealing sources and methods.
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by mc808 11y ago
And the whole thing can be funded by selling lists of users who did/didn't disable the ads in cluster X, Y, Z...
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by mc808 11y ago
What is that other dot that shows up in the sea to the east/southeast?
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by mc808 11y ago
I don't think the concept of "more" and "less" evolved is really valid in general. Drop a human into the middle of the ocean and suddenly it will seem "less evolved" than nearly every living thing for thou
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by mc808 11y ago
It is dilution but doesn't necessarily reduce the price the stock trades at. That depends on how confident investors are that the money will be spent wisely.
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by mc808 11y ago
But that further supports the idea that people generally link "organic" to "biological". Note they're not calling it "carbon-containing food".
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by mc808 11y ago
The EuroPython site doesn't even link to the videos from what I could see. The video title isn't particularly helpful, either. I'd imagine nobody realized it was there.
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by mc808 11y ago
I believe this is the mentioned keynote (starts after around 12 minutes). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRGB40srFE8
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by mc808 11y ago
Besides the fact that you can't turn off automatic updates (which makes Windows little more than a zombie node in Microsoft's vast botnet), the default setting is also to "send updates to ... PCs on my local network, and PCs
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by mc808 11y ago
If the content is that good and I somehow know this before visiting the site, I might put some effort into viewing the content, which might include sitting through their obnoxious, invasive, destructive, scummy advertising if necessary. O
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by mc808 11y ago
The threat to Hollywood goes deeper than piracy. Within a few years, video games will be generating photo-realistic feature films on demand, with unique scripts and characters and worlds adapted to the viewer's tastes and mood. Game&#x
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by mc808 11y ago
1. Only compare radius, density, escape velocity, and surface temperature. 2. Ignore the confidence intervals around those values.
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by mc808 11y ago
It's not clear why they don't remove both ext2 and ext3. From the article it sounds like they're equally redundant but harmless other than taking up space in a directory listing. Does ext2 have "features" (read: pot
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by mc808 11y ago
Regarding the hamburger icon, I suspect most people have seen it many places and recognize that it can be clicked/tapped, but they interpret it as "here be dragons" which is why it always scores so low on A/B testing. Ev
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by mc808 11y ago
What happens in a neural network and what happens in a semiconductor device that we can choose to interpret as simulating the computational characteristics of a neural network (ignoring EM emissions, chemistry, etc.) are mechanically very d
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by mc808 11y ago
The latest meme is that black killers are 'thugs' while white killers are 'mentally ill' in the media. It doesn't take much effort to find the media calling mentally ill black killers mentally ill. http:/&#x2F
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by mc808 11y ago
I almost always maximize windows unless I'm doing something where I need to mentally integrate multiple applications. I'm certainly not going to fuck around with popping tabs out into individual windows and resizing them when casu
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by mc808 11y ago
I think you could argue that physics (and other sciences) are applied philosophy, but they have the same issues with imprecise definitions. Consider what it means to be a "particle" today vs. 150 years ago. Supposing the word ha
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by mc808 11y ago
To me it makes a lot more sense to start with a few decades of robotic mining and construction (and release publicly funded technology to the public domain so it can also benefit the 99.99999% of Earthlings who will never step foot on Mars)
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by mc808 11y ago
In a single page application , I would expect the back button to be entirely nonfunctional, or maybe in some cases functioning as "undo" if this behavior is clearly communicated. (I'm not sure where back-button-undo would be
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by mc808 11y ago
Hmm. Maybe, but probably not. They're talking cranberry while Pluto would be a smallish peppercorn.
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by mc808 11y ago
"Michael S. Rogers, the director of the N.S.A., has proposed that technology companies be required to create a digital key that could unlock encrypted communications, but divide and secure the key into pieces so that no one person or g
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by mc808 11y ago
Maybe OP or someone else will take the initiative to add that and other reference material to the project's wiki.
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by mc808 11y ago
As an outsider who has only tinkered with Go and watched most of Rob Pike's talks, my impression is "C is to Go as Java is to JavaScript" in the sense that both have a thin veneer of a familiar language on top of a fundamenta
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by mc808 11y ago
AFAIK, return statements are literally the only place where brace style is affected by ASI. var result = { key: "value" }; return result; works fine, plus it lets you more easily break on the return s
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by mc808 11y ago
I use double quotes for most strings and single quotes for characters, just because it's perfectly valid without having to learn new habits. If I have HTML in a JavaScript string, I don't quote the attributes at all unless necessa
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by mc808 11y ago
This looked like a puzzle I had seen before, so I assumed this was the case (testing a few sequences just to verify) and turned out right. I guess the conclusion is that if a problem looks suspiciously like one you've encountered befor
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by mc808 11y ago
Writing up a rough sketch of a program is what much of programming amounts to these days - calling black-box APIs, packaging up data and pushing it around, etc. So far, this has only helped the field grow. Maybe in the limit, the building b
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by mc808 11y ago
I happened upon this presentation just a couple days ago - compile-time geometric algebra in C++ via metaprogramming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4p-e-g37tg Not sure how useful it is in day-to-day reality, but at the

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