mr_luc

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by mr_luc 14y ago
Mike, Build something yourself. Sincerely, The people who are not bored.
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by mr_luc 14y ago
I'd just like to say, as a self-taught hacker, that I would pay $500 for a "_why's poignant guide to machine learning", and I'm sure I'm not alone.
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Do you know of an easy way to simulate latency? I have bash aliases for various levels of ipfw throttling, but I've ended up using other programs because 768k/s with no latency seems to load some kinds of sites disturbingly close to the spe
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Sugarcane. There are still problems with any plant-based biofuels, but they're problems with scaling, crop rotation, pesticides, and the current state of the art of ag in countries where sugarcane is grown. But the energy return of sugarcan
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by mr_luc 14y ago
I came here to post this; instead I'll mention more features: - Handles interrupted downloads for you, continues them. - Hilariously, each browser comes in a distinct version of the operating system. Windows 95 for IE7, Windows Vista for IE
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by mr_luc 14y ago
I truly believe that this is a possibility. I don't think it's the most likely possibility, necessarily, but I'm totally open to the idea that near-full employment was a brief historical blip, caused by the momentary usefulness of humans
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by mr_luc 14y ago
That sounds fantastic, because service sector jobs tend to be local. Massage parlors and landscaping -- pretty geographically limited, ie limited competition, and scale poorly, ie no large competitors with economies of scale. Is that the ov
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by mr_luc 14y ago
I was hoping to see someone mention this, because there's a great conversation that we're not having because of the lack of awareness of the extent of automation and even lights-out machining. There was a wonderful article on lights-out mac
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by mr_luc 14y ago
I can't believe that with 45 comments, no one has mentioned BlockChain.info or other "zero-trust" solutions like Electrum. That way your "funds" are in the BitCoin block chain, and no person, website or service provider can steal them from
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by mr_luc 14y ago
It would make sense for Google to cannibalize their social network, because G+ is more a defensive, strategic alternative to the existing social networks than anything else. Google would love for the walled-garden social networks to give wa
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by mr_luc 14y ago
There's even a 64-bit, working distribution (with binary if you trust it) for OS X: http://almy.us/teco.html I am running it, with the list of commands open, and I have no idea how to use it but I see that it comes with a complete manual,
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Well-said. And it highlights how fast people adopt tech now. Major feature changes in automobiles happen over decades, and people can rely on the look signaling major features. Now the uptake is so rapid that consumers have a lot of opportu
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by mr_luc 14y ago
We're definitely getting there. Still, with storage what it is right now, that 5 minutes becomes your startup time. But a game built with this environment in mind would likely fare much better. I truly feel that we're just a couple of mobil
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Well said. The original commenter could easily have said that "This project is sacrificing readability to be terse, and I don't think it's a good tradeoff. N.I? That's not Objective-C, and I don't know anyone that would use it in production
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by mr_luc 14y ago
A quick aside for the people who say that Javascript stuff pegs their CPU: it's not always going to be that way. We've got OpenGL now, and people are already writing shaders that do the work of physics and matrix rotations, etc, but OpenCL
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Well, one of his sponsors is Lovely Professional University, so you know it's good.
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by mr_luc 14y ago
What GUI frameworks out there are more pleasant to write client-server GUI apps in than the modern web? I'm amazed at how we got where we are, too. But I don't feel that it's a particularly shaky combination. A markup format, the abstractio
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by mr_luc 14y ago
I actually think that most people agree with you, but being hacker news, the downvotes come from a perceived lack of rigor in your reasoning. For instance, you say "normalization that's designed to subordinate" -- 'designed,' eh? By whom? Y
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by mr_luc 14y ago
Earplugs, man. I got turned on to the joy of earplugs when doing construction work. The foam ones that you scrunch up with your fingers and expand in your ear, and throw away after. It's a very different feeling. I feel like I'm underwater
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by mr_luc 14y ago
There's always the old standby: custom-made, one-off products. A concert, for instance; lots of musicians make money through performance. Depending on how crowd-pleasin' your creation is, or how well you've done at finding a crowd, there's
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by mr_luc 14y ago
I'm familiar with the usual "arm-waving sucks" arguments against gesture-based inputs, but I was just wondering -- is there any reason this couldn't just replace the touchpad on laptops, maybe being integrated into the forward edge for a la
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by mr_luc 15y ago
On my last project, we used Dragonfly. Holy cow -- trivial to switch between file-backed and s3-backed storage in the various environment config files. It was a lifesaver, because the wifi at the place I was couch-surfing was a little spott
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by mr_luc 15y ago
It would make sense to have this as a central tenet of internet protection legislation.
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by mr_luc 15y ago
I agree with you, it's hard to explain. Here's a sketch of how to frame the discussion, just for fun: WHAT WILL SOPA DO TO THE INTERNET? The Internet is the Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs, and this bill wants to let Hollywood perform surge
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by mr_luc 15y ago
I always saw it as something that's not 'fair', but that helps the market win. It's sort of the same as anti-monopoly laws. In a strict sense, maybe a company became a monopoly legally, by offering the best product and buying out its compet
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by mr_luc 15y ago
Thanks -- I was just going to come here to post this. It's one of the things that WalMart makes their money on. They grow traffic to their stores with huge discounts on visible necessities like toilet paper, competitive grocery prices, etc.
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by mr_luc 15y ago
Ah, of course. Thanks for catching that.
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by mr_luc 15y ago
Congratulations! Hmmm. Marrying a designer almost makes more sense ... ;) I hasten to clarify that I think about this as an optimization problem. I don't think it's impossible to be perfectly happy without it. All of the people I have my cl
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by mr_luc 15y ago
This is something that I think about a lot, actually. If you love writing and history and art and like talking about them with your friends, would it make sense to marry someone with no interest in those things? Maybe! Obviously, some peopl
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by mr_luc 15y ago
This, plus PR! If PR didn't matter to them, then neither would advertising, but they advertise like crazy in spite of zero differentiation between themselves and their competitors. It's like why Internet fundraising is so valuable -- yeah,

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