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by niccaluim 10y ago
I don't understand why we even bother teaching Freud anymore except as a cautionary footnote. Dude basically just made a bunch of shit up and called it theory.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I don't agree that we have any evidence that other humans aren't p-zombies. The whole point of the exercise is that it's logically impossible for such evidence to exist. If you're aware of any, I'd love to hear it.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
The point is that the hypothesis that animals are philosophical zombies is just as untestable, but we're married to the opposite conclusion for no good reason.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I can't remember if this is true of Airbii or if it's Boeings I'm thinking of, but I remember reading a while back that the three microcontrollers they run on are also from different manufacturers.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
There's an old saying that goes something like, "When going to sea, take one clock or three—never two." The idea being if you bring two and they disagree, you won't know which one is right.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
That must've been it.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Wow, this takes me back. I took intro CS at IU in 1993. At that time they were still teaching Scheme, using George Springer's Scheme and the Art of Programming and something like The Little Schemer (but not that because I guess it
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but this sounds less like a linter and more like an optimization pass?
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Ironically, this point is addressed in the article. Maybe you didn't see it. :) Here it is: There is only a small area in the retina (called the fovea) for which our visual acuity is very high. Our eyes are seriously limited in their
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Hey, it worked in grade school reading groups with human-powered "text-to-speech," right? :)
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Every single person in aviation, for starters.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Their documentation has already been checked by the Social Security Administration.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
That is also explained in the article. They matched loan data with Social Security disability data.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
I'm surprised to find no mention of embedded development. C++ seems to have a foothold there.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
The president of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame responded: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/rock-hall-preside... Makes Steve seem like a bit of a jerk, imho.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Amen. Seven months of no sugar (or flour) here. The first week was worse than quitting smoking, which ought to tell you something. Have lost 50 lbs since. And what do you know: now I have the energy to work out three times a week. (The majo
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Yes, I've been to a sleep specialist and they told me the same thing. Anything over 1mg is far too much. And you really have to look to find the 1mg bottles.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
In Icelandic the word for computer is tölva, a compound of tala + völva (number + seeress).
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by niccaluim 11y ago
There's absolutely nothing "free" about active addiction.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Describes it exactly. Thank you!
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Yeah, something like that was my best guess—either that or letting subjects adjust a second color until it matched the first. Turns out that's exactly what they did: "MacAdam set up an experiment in which a trained observer viewed
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Wow, the color difference stuff is fascinating. How on earth do they measure the space of perceptual difference?
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Já ég veit. Það var bara spaug. :)
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Iceland doesn't mess around, man. He's lucky they aren't still resolving disputes via blood feud. :)
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Indeed. Hopping onto a server unasked and installing packages is not being a "team player." It's being a busybody. In this situation being a team player would've been approaching the person actually tasked with the job,
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Looks like Twitter fixed an old trick people used to pull to make misleading usernames. Scammers used to take advantage of the fact that lowercase L and uppercase I are indistinguishable in sans serif fonts, so you'd end up with people
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Ditto the sun, the moon, the sky, the world, the universe, etc. Seek ye not consistency in the rules of the English language; that way lies madness.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
It's impossible to implement optionals without parameterized types, which Go does not have except for some built-in types. And optionals without language support for generic functions are about as useful as an exploding hammer.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
This is the cheesiest thing on earth but I swear by it: I write a "gratitude list" almost every night, ten items, and it's had a profound impact on my attitude and general well-being. (Not scientific, I know. Tough cookies. I
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by niccaluim 11y ago
It's British English. I see this usage all the time on BBC News. Drives me batty.

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