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by pdelbarba 10y ago
Keep in mind that there's a middle ground here though. ARM 32bit micros still have basically no support from Rust et al but often have enough resources (Cortex M7 anyone?) to do things where it would be nice to have memory safe dynami
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by pdelbarba 10y ago
You're correct. I think the other point is that regardless of the path we choose, there will be a period where not everyone will be genetically engineered due to availability (older people who were born before it was invented, people
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by pdelbarba 10y ago
tl;dr as it turns out, most people don't achieve self actualization by making money for other people
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by pdelbarba 10y ago
It seems we're racing towards the events of Gattaca. It's easy to dismiss the movie as being similar to the far fetched distopian depictions in Minority Report, but in this case we actually have the technology to make it a realit
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by pdelbarba 10y ago
I imagine this mostly relates to the super mainstream channels that pump out content of the same quality as the random TV shows of years past. If you follow the niche channels (that are IMO more fulfilling) like mikeselectricstuff or fligh
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by pdelbarba 10y ago
How much does HTTPS circumvent this? In theory the ISP would only know what domain you were on, but not what content you were viewing, correct?
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by pdelbarba 10y ago
This is creepy and all but why would anyone ever actually want to use this product? If I wanted to talk to a robot there are tons of much better chat bots.
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by pdelbarba 10y ago
Depends on what you're trying to do with them since they have a few applications. This presentation is a rough but simple overview: http://cs.haifa.ac.il/hagit/courses/seminars/wavelets/Presen... He
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by pdelbarba 13y ago
I'm less certain about this being the usual shakeup. There was a lot of talk that he was very well traveled and had stronger connections with the outside world than most within their government. He'd have been hard pressed to ma
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by pdelbarba 13y ago
Ummm... No.
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by pdelbarba 13y ago
I think that this is important, but what about locked bootloaders and restrictive user privileges (rooting)? I truly do not understand how it appropriate to sell consumers a computing device that they don't have the right to run arbit
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by pdelbarba 13y ago
This article doesn't seem to cover much but I'd be curious to know the implications of this. Is this very common? How long do people stay? Are these people making trips or living there? I've heard a lot about crime occurr
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by pdelbarba 13y ago
I like that the donation link is .../error.html?aspxerrorpath=/payments/submit/s4/is/a/joke/stop/sending/us/money/readthefineprint.aspx
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by pdelbarba 13y ago
Could there be a climate connection here as well? A cursory inspection of some weather stations scattered across europe[1] indicate a slight warm trend over the past two winters, especially 2011 (disregarding 2013 data as its not yet compl
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by pdelbarba 13y ago
This doesn't seem to fill in the gap of where people are living if most of the housing is above median income. They did imply that the median income was calculated per city so that rules out any wealth concentrations. This seems more
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by pdelbarba 13y ago
As someone from Ohio, I can understand why so many others here have felt the need to leave the planet. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gesERte...
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by pdelbarba 13y ago
Just do a search for nearby airfields. In most places, they are actually surprisingly common http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_the_Los_Ang...
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by pdelbarba 13y ago
Alternatively, you could just buy a small cargo plane and put your car in it. If you're super economical, you should be able to fit a folding electric bike in most cessnas.
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by pdelbarba 14y ago
I'm interested to see what happens next with Google. They're the ones with the androids after all. It just makes for a good headline. Look at the military spending figures and I think a pattern will emerge...
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by pdelbarba 14y ago
If that's the case then bitcoin is backed by unobtainium.
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by pdelbarba 14y ago
I've actually wondered this myself. Why isn't there a good preconfigured drop in solution for this? It would be especially nice if it had a good web front-end that you could log into remotely. How hard would it be to develop something li
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by pdelbarba 14y ago
My second life is that of a competitive collegiate rower waking at 4:30am so this all resonates very strongly with me. It's especially noticeable on campus where people will party hard and then sleep until 1pm when possible; you really com
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by pdelbarba 14y ago
I find it strange that this is as high up as it is. Articles like this have been circulating for several years now. You don't even have to stop using it, you just need to stop paying attention to it.
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by pdelbarba 14y ago
Its probably a little more difficult than making the car take what we know as a driving test but it could probably be boiled down to some reasonable number of city and highway miles in various conditions (hard rain, snow, fog) and a small
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by pdelbarba 14y ago
Interestingly someone named Aaron Schwartz is listed as a dev. Not sure if its legit (when was this held?) but strange nevertheless.