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by palish 15y ago
It's a little naive to believe governments don't do this kind of thing (software surveillance), don't you think? Even if they "shouldn't".
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by palish 15y ago
I think... Maybe... I'm getting it. Kind of. Probably not. By wiring the CPU directly to the RAM, to use your metaphor, then we can entirely bypass the ASM stage of "a program" (but then what is a program if not a sequence of instructions?)
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by palish 15y ago
Erm... The piano allowed dynamic volume; a serious improvement over the harpsichord. I hate to pick at your example, 'cause I agree with you in spirit. Your harpsichord/piano example was just... Well, exactly my point. The piano was a major
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by palish 15y ago
I... wish I understood. I'm just a lowly Blub programmer. An executable is often less than 1MB, and certainly always less than 100MB. In contrast, a 14GB video game still loads pretty quickly, and the data that goes across the bus per frame
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by palish 15y ago
Yeah. Me 'n Hen used to throw rocks at people on horses while we blazed by 'em in his new hotrod, etc. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2747106
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by palish 15y ago
Ha! A $100 synth from RadioShack is precisely what I use. It even has "RadioShack" engraved into it. Honestly I was just trying to find some good things to say about Overtone, since creativity is always a great thing and should be encourage
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by palish 15y ago
Kay, you win.
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by palish 15y ago
Mm, I didn't mean to come off as a dick. Overtone is cool as hell, and is worthy of a lot of respect. My point was, there's a reason why musicians often use "a box with a bigass row of large physical keys" to do this sort of thing. That sai
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by palish 15y ago
Mm... Good point. Is that happening here, you think? I tend to play Devil's advocate; and right now, people are demonizing Guy. But if he's genuinely full of fluff, then it'd be justified.
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by palish 15y ago
Careful though; this is the reason I'm currently left with $300 total.
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by palish 15y ago
Is the Von Neumann architecture related to the data bus?
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by palish 15y ago
Henry Ford never actually said that. Strange but true.
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by palish 15y ago
Appreciate it!
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by palish 15y ago
Almost like... a synth.
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by palish 15y ago
What... the... How have I never heard or /classic 'til now? Thanks! What's different about the ranking algo?
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by palish 15y ago
That's pretty incredible. I had $10 back then, too, even though I was about 9. I remember thinking "the stock market seems interesting"... It's just cool to think that my $10 could've turned into $1600 with nothing but luck and patience.
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by palish 15y ago
Oh, my bad! Thanks for the correction. I probably meant "one of the few banks left", rather than "the only ones left".
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by palish 15y ago
Yeah, I know. But I have faith in people, even the not-so-good ones. We're all in this [crazy life] together; all we can do is to try to help each other, and shrug off the bad times.
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by palish 15y ago
For what it's worth, you're 100% spot-on correct. Don't feel bad that no one else believes it, heh. Throughout history, the world has been literally insane -- this is just another example of an insane view that's spread into popular cultur
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by palish 15y ago
> How did they manage to flip the second craft from it's reentry position [...]? Apologies, I think I don't understand... The video is a concept video, not a real-life recording.. it's CG. But you're asking about real-world phy
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by palish 15y ago
A point P is inside triangle ABC iif the angles add up to 2pi. (APB + BPC + CPA == 2pi) Thought I'd share too, don't have a point. :) graphics programming / dot product is neat. Actually, there are some pretty fun graphics algorithms. I co
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by palish 15y ago
"The ideas behind the algorithm are not just games" Clarifying, sorry.. could you elaborate a bit on what you meant by "games"?
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by palish 15y ago
PNC bank is fucking awesome. I'm not creative enough to think up enough good things to say about it: they just rock. PNC has a great website, the people are great (at least at my local PNC), they're very professional, and they're pretty sm
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by palish 15y ago
No worries. I get mixed up every day.
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by palish 15y ago
Sorry to hear that about your mother. I hope everything turned out okay.
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by palish 15y ago
Isn't the point of a vaccine to prevent, not cure? EDIT: thanks guys, but I have enough upvotes. My comment didn't add much to HN. Wasn't actually trying to prove him wrong -- I thought I'd missed something and was asking for clarificatio
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by palish 15y ago
Nothing. The world is as it is. I've come to accept that. But -- here's the thing -- your moral/ethical compass shouldn't be influenced on account of the world. Think back through history, and at every point, people have been essentially
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by palish 15y ago
There's no reason we should tolerate that. (I'm a gamedev, not a player.)
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by palish 15y ago
Welcome back. Hope to see you around more!
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by palish 15y ago
Do you believe most of the world is honorless? If so, then no citation will convince otherwise. On the other hand, if you believe most people are fundamentally "good" (or at least "mostly not evil"), as I do, then no citation is necessary.

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