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by mrec 8y ago
I'm a little puzzled as to why he's so set on having a physical disc as output. If this is for personal use, wouldn't it be easier to just rip the episodes to mp4 using Handbrake, which can also add subtitles? And once you&#x
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by mrec 8y ago
Maybe take a look at Strapdown.js, discussed here 4 months ago. I'm sure there are others too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17321599
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by mrec 8y ago
I think autovectorization is differently-fearful rather than fearless; you live in perpetual dread of the wind changing and suddenly your code doesn't autovectorize any more.
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by mrec 8y ago
So does XKCD: https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
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by mrec 8y ago
Interesting; I'd seen this before but forgotten about it. Don't think it works here though - if the pressure of reflected sunlight is counteracting gravity, then I don't see how the statite can be acting as a sunshade. If it
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by mrec 8y ago
How would you keep a sunshade over one pole? Keeping anything over a single spot requires a geostationary orbit, which by definition is only possible on the equator. I suppose you could have a bunch of shades in a geosynchronous polar orbit
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by mrec 8y ago
> The Vietnam War claimed 1.3-4.2 million lives. Of whom 58,318 were American. Over many, many years. In an era of mass conscription, very different to today.
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by mrec 8y ago
Aside from anything else, you've gotta love a book on something as poorly-understood as "intelligence" that comes with an appendix of "Testable Predictions". His theories may be right or wrong, but he's doing s
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by mrec 8y ago
Not all applications get updates.
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by mrec 8y ago
Not an Emacs user, so forgive me if I'm being dense, but is this (from the README) really true? Emacs will change how you think about programming. Emacs is an incremental programming environment. There's no edit-compile-
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by mrec 8y ago
Huh? We've had typed arrays in JS for years. I think they originally went in to support WebGL, but you can use them for other stuff too. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe..
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by mrec 8y ago
I understand that it's high, I'm asking why . Are they not interested in the laptop market? Does Intel have some secret sauce they can't replicate?
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by mrec 8y ago
What's holding AMD back on TDP? I'm in the market for a new PC fairly soon - probably SFF desktop rather than laptop, but I'd still prefer to keep fan noise, heat and electricity usage down.
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by mrec 8y ago
https://worldinparis.com/transport-in-france-strike-news-tip...
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by mrec 8y ago
I've been running the same non-BigOEM Win7 laptop at home for nearly 7 years now. Don't think I've seen a single BSOD in all that time. Windows/PC definitely has its annoyances, but I think this one is Of The Past now. T
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by mrec 8y ago
> that conclusion is perhaps a reasonable and logical one given belief in enough axioms like "there is an omnipotent god", "if we live a certain way god will reward us", "the universe is generally fair".
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by mrec 8y ago
Yes, but so is Paint, which GP was talking about transitioning from.
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by mrec 8y ago
IMHO Paint.NET is pretty approachable too, but it never hurts to have options.
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by mrec 8y ago
Just watched this yesterday. I really like the pragmatic tone ("you don't have to go all the way, you can stop at any of these points and be fine"), and I love the "egoless" style of presentation. Illustrating your
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by mrec 8y ago
> high land prices impose private (i.e. paid into the private sector) taxation, rather than public Agreed, though I'm not sure that's much consolation to the ones paying it. With public taxation at least you can hope you&#x27
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by mrec 8y ago
Yes. Here in the UK, I have a lot of sympathy with the view that Corbyn's Labour would deliver debt-funded jam today by dumping the burden onto future taxpayers, but the Conservatives have been doing the exact same thing for their ow
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by mrec 8y ago
Mortgages per se aren't the problem; low rates and high LTV are the problem. I agree that changing this is politically difficult, and it's downright depressing to see discussion threads on the topic filled wall-to-wall with turk
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by mrec 8y ago
Is D2 so different as to be considered a separate language? (I haven't really followed it for years now.)
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by mrec 8y ago
> Andrei Alexandrescu (creator of D) Andrei didn't create D; he's been influential in it, especially w.r.t. D's metaprogramming story, but the language was created and is primarily maintained by Walter Bright.
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by mrec 8y ago
Agreed. To put it in concrete terms, someone claiming to have a truly balanced view of a subject should be able to pass an ideological Turing test for any of the major positions on that subject.
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by mrec 8y ago
I'm not saying it's a good idea. I don't think it is. But it's not just a favicon.
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by mrec 8y ago
PSA: be very wary of clicking on the "overworld" link in the bottom left of the city map. It showed a continent-scale map, but then locked up the whole machine, swapping like crazy, for about 10 minutes before I finally managed to
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by mrec 8y ago
Not sure if serious, but no. Anyone can copy a favicon; the point of an identicon is that it's generated from the domain name, so subverting it would require an attacker to find a hash collision with a visually similar domain.
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by mrec 8y ago
The plot of Airplane! was lifted verbatim from a non-comedy 1957 movie called Zero Hour! , specifically because AZZ knew they couldn't write plot. They were up-front about it - paid for the rights - but it does suggest that writing
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by mrec 8y ago
This looks great! Thanks for putting it together. (Not convinced about "ultimative" though. I'm assuming you were going for a portmanteau of "ultimate" and "definitive", but I suspect a lot of people are j

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