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841.
by mcbits 10y ago
If we're talking about triggering an exponentially self-improving lineage of intelligences/computers, then they will either hit a wall fairly quickly (in the grand scheme) or face increasing practical constraints that flatten the
842.
by mcbits 10y ago
Hmm, it sounds like you're disagreeing, but I basically agree with everything you said. > As I understood your argument, you believe that his life is no longer worth living? Should I go ahead and euthanise him while I'm in tow
843.
by mcbits 10y ago
Sending her to jail, depending on how it plays out, may disqualify her from student financial aid, government jobs, pretty much any job with an element of trust involved, housing, foreign travel. To keep her alive, you burn many bridges tha
844.
by mcbits 10y ago
Where do you get statistics on occasional/light illegal drug users who have no contact with law enforcement or mental health researchers? People with jobs and families have a lot more to lose by admitting to the wrong person that they
845.
by mcbits 10y ago
In practice, Google is already a mediator of sorts. They decide that "car parts" points you to carparts.com while "computer parts" points you to newegg.com. (I hear there are other search engines that provide a similar s
846.
by mcbits 10y ago
Then I will bid $100 quadrillion to keep my domain and pay myself for it out of the proceeds, minus 18 cents for ICANN. Edit: Actually I missed the part about paying a percentage of the top bid.
847.
by mcbits 10y ago
The main thing is that they have a document in common, while neither of them share any docs with "dog" or "pooch". And while "the" also appears in those docs, it seems to be common to every document, so it is
848.
by mcbits 10y ago
"Suppose you have a flower data set, and each item has two parts: one value for flower diameter, and one for leaf length." "Oh, that makes sense." "Makes sense to me, too." "And me." "I wish my p
849.
by mcbits 10y ago
My only complaint with infinite scrolling is that it breaks the scroll bar. It looks like Google accounted for that here by pre-rendering placeholders so the scroll bar doesn't keep resizing and jumping around. (But this wouldn't
850.
by mcbits 10y ago
Someone (Halliburton!) already tried: http://www.google.com/patents/US20080270152 Edit: And IBM apparently got one granted: http://www.google.com/patents/US8386350
851.
by mcbits 10y ago
I feel like I'm living in the Matrix when I see things like this. There are people out there - lawyers and judges, who must be fairly smart to finish law school - who think "United States v. $124,700" makes perfect sense.
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New fritzing release 0.9.3b(blog.fritzing.org)
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853.
by mcbits 10y ago
Relatively weak human arms have enough strength to assemble tools that are much stronger than the original arms. A small, well placed flame can initiate a reaction that burns even hotter and brighter than itself. Our abstract concepts of st
854.
by mcbits 10y ago
Is it really the regex causing the lag? I haven't jumped into the code yet, but I would expect (or at least hope) the highlighter runs once and the lag is due to whatever DOM/styles it's generating.
855.
by mcbits 10y ago
I don't know, probably not, unless it somehow managed to cool unusually slowly after it formed. But it seems like every planetary body has some extreme differentiation from the others, so maybe?
856.
by mcbits 10y ago
Ceres has a lot of interesting features: the hexagonal craters, the big mountain sitting next to a big hole, the smooth and reflective mountain and crater walls... Is Ceres a giant crystal?
857.
by mcbits 10y ago
Fire cooks food, but waving your hands above a candle for warmth doesn't "cook" your hands. However, if you do damage your skin (especially repeatedly), the tissue damage and repair cycle can increase the risk of cancer. So w
858.
by mcbits 10y ago
Interesting, I've always heard you're supposed to stay in one place to make it easier to be found. (So you don't wander off to a place that was already searched.)
859.
by mcbits 10y ago
I'm far from a Forth wizard, but I've often heard it compared to a flexible assembly language for a stack machine. It seems like it could be the foundation for a visual programming language based on linking word blocks end-to-end,
860.
by mcbits 10y ago
Are there any public schools where mathematics is completely optional, so we can compare the proportion of those students who move on to mathy occupations (and how well the others do in life with no math education whatsoever)? It might be b
861.
by mcbits 10y ago
I wouldn't put much weight on GitHub language stats because there's a lot of duplication, and people check in libraries and tooling (usually JS, it seems) that overwhelm whatever language they're actually using.
862.
by mcbits 10y ago
I've seen quite a few JavaScript bugs and potential bugs exposed after adding incomplete type annotations in TypeScript, so I really don't think it's all or nothing, at least not as a general rule. I've been away from PH
863.
by mcbits 10y ago
Wait, this sounds like Zendesk is an independent company. Isn't it a subsidiary of Autodesk? Now I'm confused...
864.
by mcbits 10y ago
Is there any sort of trick that would let CSS respond to the Escape key? Modals that don't close via keypress are a pet peeve, so I can't see using a CSS-only approach if that's not possible. Otherwise, these are pretty nifty
865.
by mcbits 10y ago
Google image search indicates it's someone named "Audrey Hepburn".
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by mcbits 10y ago
Better catch EngineControlException. Oh, and TireShotBySniperException. Brake failure is just an example. There dozens of sensors and subsystems with innumerable combinations that can fail and put the vehicle in a state where some kind of c
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by mcbits 10y ago
From what little is described of this "hack", it does sound akin to looking in a window that nobody noticed was open. In general, uninvited pentesting is more like going around and checking doorknobs to see if they're locked.
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by mcbits 10y ago
try { enforceTopSpeed(getMaxSpeed(clear_road_ahead)); } catch (CatastrophicBrakeFailureException ex) { // ??? }
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by mcbits 10y ago
Putting the occupants' safety first is probably the best default to start with, as it's pretty close to what we have already, although given enough time, there will surely be cases where the car chooses to save the driver when the
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by mcbits 10y ago
I wonder what a water acquisition mission would cost. Under $10 billion? That would require 500 customers at $20 mil each. That's 500 out of several million people who could afford it. Or even more if people pool their resources and sp

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