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by oofabz 12y ago
The concepts of right and wrong certainly exist, or we couldn't be talking about them. But not everyone agrees what is right and what is wrong. It sounds like you are saying that there is no absolute right or wrong, that right and wron
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by oofabz 12y ago
I don't think the blog is consciously designed to appear to liberal academics. As an MIT professor, Aaronson IS the liberal academic establishment, so it is no mystery that his writing appeals to his peers. I don't know about you,
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by oofabz 12y ago
So we're supposed to believe that the world's greatest electronic spying organization is incapable of monitoring its own activities? That they are capable of collecting everyone else's data, but not their own? We bought them
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by oofabz 12y ago
You can rearrange the inductor equation to get di = (1/L) dϕ. Then the quadrants are perfectly symmetrical except for the ugly 1/L. But that's just an arbitrary unit created by humans, you could fix that by defining the unit
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by oofabz 12y ago
The boat!
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by oofabz 12y ago
$2M. I could live off that for the rest of my life if I invested wisely and lived frugally, and I'm pretty good at both. I'd live on a sailboat and work on software that there's absolutely no money in, like DragonflyBSD, Wayl
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by oofabz 12y ago
If you like wave equations, you might also enjoy EmeWave: http://psych.colorado.edu/~oreilly/emewave.html The movies at the bottom of the page are great, and if you want to see how it's done, his papers give a tho
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by oofabz 12y ago
I would like Terry unbanned but only if he promises not to use the n-word. I believe that is the #1 reason he was banned in the first place. HN discussions strive to a high standard. That word has no place here, regardless of how talented t
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by oofabz 12y ago
In 1913, the US was just wrapping up fifteen years of bloody guerilla warfare in the Phillippines after starting the Spanish-American war and the Phillippine-American war. First the government got the masses worked up with a propaganda camp
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by oofabz 12y ago
>design every such API so that it can accept a batch of work I've realized some significant performance gains with this approach. The benefit was locking once to process many messages, instead of locking for every message.
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by oofabz 12y ago
I have a lot of respect for Terry and it's nice to see him included alongside other developers. He's not the most likeable guy, but I doubt he's happy about that either. He writes software to be beautiful. He can take pride i
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An unusual hardware architecture: Associative Processing Array (2011)(yosefk.com)
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by oofabz 12y ago
I love this if only because it highlights that package management is a hard problem, still unsolved in even the most mature languages. Package management is something that sounds really easy on the surface but once you get into it you are o
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by oofabz 12y ago
Crypto coprocessors have been available for many years. I have one of these in my ancient router: http://soekris.com/products/vpn14x1.html I doubt they will ever become ubiquitous. For most people CPU crypto will alway
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by oofabz 13y ago
Most Go programmers I know use printf debugging, not GDB. It fits with the Go philosophy of doing everything from the code, minimizing tools and config files. This is not because the tools are so bad we are forced to bang rocks together. It
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by oofabz 13y ago
You can see some of his artwork here: http://historyofourworld.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/lebbeus-wo... http://architizer.com/blog/lebbeus-woods-sfmoma/
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by oofabz 13y ago
> variation of dice from one combination to the next is the arrow of time How can a sequence of random numbers introduce a preferred direction? Randomness has the same properties backwards and forwards, and random numbers are not depende
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by oofabz 13y ago
This bill does not serve the interests of Canadians. It serves the interest of foreign corporations. Spying on citizens' internet connections and jailing them for sharing media does not benefit society. I understand why media companies
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by oofabz 13y ago
> Wayland and *BSD I believe Mesa does not even support EGL on BSD. Now I know the Nvidia driver doesn't use Mesa, but this indicates how little effort is being put into Wayland on BSD. I can't say I blame them. BSD is primaril
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by oofabz 13y ago
I think you're being overly sensitive. It's funny because it says sex, not because it's making fun of transgenderedness. People are easily amused by cis hetero sex too. Sex is funny no matter who is doing it.
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by oofabz 13y ago
I also have a Sony Vaio and I got UEFI working. The trick is, it is hardcoded to load the bootloader from /EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi - it does not respect the EFI boot menu. Linux is installing its UEFI bootloader to someplace lik
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by oofabz 13y ago
Same here, I boot Linux from UEFI on several computers and it works fine. It boots faster and uses native display resolution instead of VESA. I dual boot Win 8, chainloading from GRUB. I think there are just a lot of people who don't k
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by oofabz 13y ago
As a friend, you can't do much to affect his chances of survival. You will have to leave that to the doctors. But you can make the rest of his life happier. Spend lots of time with him and take the initiative to start activities. Make
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by oofabz 13y ago
No need for the bullshit man, we've all seen this one before. "It will look good in your portfolio!" "You'll get exposure!" I'm sure you can get some naive young fans together. But professionals don't
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by oofabz 13y ago
Why does Childish Gambino need volunteers to write code for him? Can't he afford to hire someone? Without seeing more information this looks like a marketing stunt.
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by oofabz 13y ago
In this article, Joel says he "decided to do everything internally in UCS-2 (two byte) Unicode". He fell into the same trap that MySQL did and the software he describes would also fail on Emoji. It is still a very informative piec
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by oofabz 13y ago
These days, font rendering does not often rely on bitmaps, even at small sizes. Instead, they typically use hinting and subpixel rendering. I would love to see these effective techniques applied to vector graphics too.
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by oofabz 13y ago
The ISS is definitely expensive and doesn't produce much tangible return. But they are up there doing research 24/7, and have been for more than ten years. I still like it a lot better than the alternative, which is to have nothin
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by oofabz 13y ago
Their selling point isn't profit, it's convenience. The average worker just wants to check a box on his 401(k) form and be done with it. Mutual funds fill that niche.
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by oofabz 13y ago
I agree that day trading is a terrible idea, but how do you feel about laymen investing with a buy-and-hold strategy? If you buy large cap stocks and avoid making trades there is not much risk. This kind of strategy enables laymen like myse

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