ninjanomnom

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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
During my childhood I fulfilled the first three for about four years or so and knew many others in similar situations. This was in the US, any country with significant undeveloped land is going to have areas that have people who fulfill the
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
A year in the title generally indicates that what is being linked to is as it was in the year specified. Usually, a blog post is static and easy to apply a year to but front pages of ongoing projects may have new information or changes that
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
You're talking about laptops which you're right, are probably more popular than desktops, but taking a look right now at a few different laptops near me shows they have break as a function key. Take 3 data points as you will. I&#x
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
Asking what I would do and what is ethical will give you different answers in many cases. I'm not saying you should be selfish, simply that it is not immoral. If the only choice you are allowed to make to be a moral person is to take t
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
I would never judge someone for valuing themselves or someone they care about over someone they don't, ethically that's fine in my books. In many cases though it's not beneficial for society for people to act this way and thi
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
I work on an open source multiplayer game that's limited by single thread CPU speed so I can give a perspective of what would improve for us at least. The fastest thing to change is we'd increase player limits per server, per play
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
Or that morality isn't absolute. Society's perception of morality shifts over time which is a part of what drives the changing of laws. If you accept this though then that means a shifting of agreed upon morality is a part of the
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
Sustainability is not something optimized by natural selection either, all that matters to get a trait adopted by a population is that it provides a reproductive advantage to the individuals with the trait, which has frequently in the past
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
How would you know if a segfault occurred? The simulation crashing would halt your own consciousness as well. It will probably be fine though, they started with a stress test of extreme conditions back at what we call the big bang.
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
There are two main possibilities here, either the simulated universe is simpler (a 4d universe simulating a 3d one for example) or you only simulate consciousness and the bare minimum needed to make it believe that it's in a persistent
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
While the parent post here is (I hope) a joke, the reply here is beautifully written and now I want a full length story of how this could happen.
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
Even if you don't want to anthropomorphize the company, it's still the smart decision to take action as if they were in this case. Social and reputation repercussions were evidently not weighed heavily enough so if we want them to
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
Many people nowadays see retirement, especially early retirement, as a means towards whatever goal they have in life. You can focus on whatever you like without worrying about your financial stability.
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
Not beyond reproach but it is a fair argument to make that people's choices can be considered unforced from a moral perspective even in the presence of reasonable external pressures. If someone has decided that sex work is acceptable t
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
The year in the title should be changed to 1996 as well
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
I know a few people who can easily be pushed to violence but, speaking personally and for most people I know, there's no words for which I would punch someone.
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
Understanding is absolutely one of the best ways to change the behavior of others. Peoples' actions is the result differing forces on them like societal norms, laws, and expected outcomes. One of the best and only longterm solutions fo
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
If we had to emit light just like a flashlight vs a lighthouse, aka roughly equivalent wavelengths, you'd be right, however we only have to beat the sun in a single wavelength. An extreme uv laser is probably the easiest option there.
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
> I don't see why "size gained if deleted" "does not [care about links]". Deleting links does not give you any additional storage space beyond the minimal amount taken up by the link itself. As for existing files
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
There's no real reason they couldn't but polling systems tend to be the first thing implemented as conceptually they are simpler and require less rigor to enforce. Switching from a polling pattern to an event pattern however is a
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
Adding different kinds of measurements of size doesn't particularly increase the difficulty of tracking it here, just adds some more fields to the metadata and maybe some additional events. To take an example of size data types from an
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
You're assessing the feasibility here making the assumption that a polling pattern would be used but this is exactly what an event based pattern is perfect for. As long as files are modified through the os you can propagate changes upw
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
If it gets good enough eventually you can bet games will do this at their core too rather than re record lines whenever anything new or different is needed. Then mods just need to add the new script.
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
This has been discussed in many ways before but I'd like to try to phrase it my own way. When police get a warrant to search your home, after they are done you can get a new lock and recover anything taken as evidence eventually. When
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
Playing video games for many people is exactly as relaxing as hanging out in a hammock, with all the same background processing. I see no difference here between the hammock and video games here, it just depends on the person.
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
The context here is familial relations, while it's true all humans share dna we ignore that when discussing whether someone is related to another.
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
While our time has been short on geological scales, that's a point in favor of being discovered later. So much has been deposited by us in the geological record in a stunningly short (by future geologists' viewpoint) timescale lik
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
Orbital mechanics being what they are, you can't simply speed up to intercept something in orbit. Very roughly speaking, as you increase speed you increase the distance the opposite side of the orbit is from the orbited body. This mean
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
Voting is intentionally designed for it to be impossible to verify what your final vote is so that it's impossible for someone to use that to hold you to a particular vote. A classic example being a household all being forced to vote o
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by ninjanomnom 5y ago
Fruits (as in from fruiting plants, not fruits in the culinary sense) I assume would still be fair game as they are designed to separate from the parent plant, often falling off without any intervention even.

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