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by nzmsv 17y ago
OK, so all LaTeX documents will have to be rewritten in pure TeX, because using an extra translation layer produces substandard results.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Nice catch. The intended meaning was the "good" one.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Well, CueCat was something very similar, magazines and all. Perhaps it was just a decade too early.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Shortened :(
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I saw this kind of code more than once :) I was a TA for programming 101 for engineers. And yes, every time I asked a student to fix up the indenting before I could figure out why their program was broken they thought I was being difficult
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Yeah, I've been adding all these preview sites to adblock. So much better.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I think there will be more projects like this. Apps running in a sandbox, thinking they have the OS to themselves. The next logical step is to have all new apps written in managed code, and use virtualization for the "legacy" native code. C
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by nzmsv 17y ago
That cute server? Can’t friend request them. I had to reread that a couple times as I was trying to figure out how a server can be cute (somehow the part about being friends with it wasn't that surprising) :)
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by nzmsv 17y ago
They are using just a single GPU (from the paper). So the robot can actually be sped up even today. Still nowhere near human pattern recognition though.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Yes, universities do science. And cool projects. If they had to immediately sell whatever they invented, most research would never happen.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I meant robust in terms of security and lack of other bugs. So I guess I'm agreeing with you :)
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Right. Paid developers now write the majority of code in Linux. I'd say they are as professional as anyone. But the companies paying them generally have different goals than making the iPad equivalent. So perhaps this can be better explaine
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Smaller generally means more, not less robust. SQL databases do have the advantage of decades of testing though.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Apparently not according to xkcd. Type i read the source code
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by nzmsv 17y ago
make me a sandwich and sudo make me a sandwich both work
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I use latex for pretty much all documents too, including presentations. Everyone can open PDFs, and they print nicely. However, I have not been able to explain why I prefer latex to anyone so far. People just see this weird format that requ
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by nzmsv 17y ago
University != undergraduate lectures. And that's exactly the problem. Why pay to attend an institution that does not care about your studies? There are a few profs who really care about the students. The rest just watch for the select few
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by nzmsv 17y ago
The "heavy boots" link at the bottom of the page is even more... interesting.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
As far as I know, Singularity is not open-source. Which is too bad, because it looks interesting and could benefit from more community involvement.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Sadly, you are being downvoted, though I think questioning things is "the hacker way". It is one thing to just yell "freedom" and quite another to actually analyze things. Personally, the speed with which the US government issued a statemen
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Oops, I didn't mean to recommend their boards :) I meant they are not the best choice for starting with. You'll want something that works out of the box, so that you know the bugs are in your code, not your soldering.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Some quick googling did not find anything about CoQ10 being related to melatonin. I'd be interested in learning more about this. Do you have any sources?
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I'm finishing up my final project for university (which is FPGA based), and I'm stuck with the supplied tools, so I can't really compare different vendors. All the FPGA tools are closed-source though, and the free versions treat you as a cr
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by nzmsv 17y ago
That's easier. But I still wish there was a way to go back and replace the top item with something smaller. Right now, if I get to China, there's nothing bigger, so the "Something bigger" button stops working, and I'm stuck on China forever
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Then sees the horrible mess that the FPGA dev tools are, and quits programming forever :) Sorry, I've just been in a small personal version of hell for the last few weeks courtesy of Altera.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I'm really confused as to when the top/bottom item is replaced.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
A job is absolutely unlike a romantic relationship. I think this is exactly the problem most bosses have with employees leaving: they treat it as a breakup, or a divorce. The reality is, company loyalty is nothing like family loyalty. Here'
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Most car alarms, engine immobilizers, etc. can be defeated in about a minute by an expert, as shown many times by pretty much every car magazine out there. But they are still installed because the average thief does not have this knowledge.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I doubt the girls in the bar knew anything about physics, or who he was. If you try asking a stranger in an average bar who Richard Feynman is, I am predicting a bunch of blank stares and trying to guess something along the lines of "actor?
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Executables aren't scripts. Outlook is not open. The problem Outlook had a few years ago was exactly the opposite. A completely closed system, set up with insecure settings by default. It would run the scripts inside an email when you viewe

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