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by pegasus 7y ago
No way will we use Unix in 100 years. Either we will have regressed back to stone age by then or we will have moved on to a stage we can barely imagine, quasi-stagnating for a whole century is just not how humanity rolls, i'm afraid.
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by pegasus 7y ago
Oh yeah? Do some research on interspecies altruism, for example. Whatever box you want to put nature in, nature will step right out of. Regardless of how comfortable or uncomfortable that vision seemed. And this might be the most uncomf
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by pegasus 7y ago
Btw. ancient greeks already had a form of steam engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile . Why it didn't produce an industrial revolution is debatable (they had slaves, for one).
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by pegasus 7y ago
It's already gone. WBM archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.montgomeryadvertis...
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by pegasus 8y ago
My understanding is there's a good chance that those sensors were malfunctioning for a while before the day of the crash (during the post-crash investigation they found that previous flights were showing dubious readings). In which ca
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by pegasus 8y ago
it probably still would be cheaper to buy an additional pot too, instead of a lifetime of pads
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by pegasus 8y ago
You're not spoiled. Just stuck in your old ways. Some of us adapted without even noticing (hard to believe, right?)
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by pegasus 8y ago
as if in the days of steve all was working smoothly... gimme a break...
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by pegasus 8y ago
Latin America too: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/world/americas/ecuador-ch...
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by pegasus 8y ago
Check out WNYC's long-running show New Sounds. Its archives are a treasure trove and there's also an online station now at newsounds.org.
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by pegasus 8y ago
Some opinions betray ignorance. I'd say this is one case of that.
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by pegasus 8y ago
Related book: https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Roots-Postmodern-Thought-...
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by pegasus 8y ago
Roger Penrose begs to differ. See "Shadows of the Mind", where he argues for the third option in your list. Based on scientific evidence, of course.
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by pegasus 8y ago
Very clear, balanced and insightful, thanks!
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by pegasus 8y ago
My point was anyone can make their own definition of pretty much any word, and still, we have a functioning legal system. Very different from what you've read in my comment.
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by pegasus 8y ago
What makes you say that? It would obviously have to seem offensive to the judge, not just to the purported victim. Same as for the other adjectives, like "intimidating", "sexual" etc. I don't see why "offensi
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by pegasus 8y ago
Having upgraded from the non-touch bar MacBook Pro (unwillingly, I might add, the old one died and it's a work machine so the replacement wasn't chosen by me), I'm surprised how disgruntled people are with it. While I'm
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by pegasus 8y ago
I used to have the hibernate issue with my previous retina Macbook Pro. Haven't had any such issues since I upgraded to the touchbar one. Never had any trackpad issues.
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by pegasus 9y ago
No. You're being overly literal, an occupational hazard for us hackers. Human language works differently from computer languages. I suggest working out your right hemisphere - read some poetry, sing some songs etc. Good luck!
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by pegasus 9y ago
And with good reason. "Discovering a parallel universe" is nonsensical in the common acceptance of those words. Parallel lines never meet and the universe by definition contains all there is. So people are grasping for alternat
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by pegasus 9y ago
And yet if we'd find even the most primitive life-form on another planet we'd do the exact opposite of trampling on it.
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by pegasus 9y ago
With that much power, "internal squabbles" equals mutual annihilation. Just imagine if terrorists could easily make their own thermonuclear weapon etc.
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Uber signs contract with Nasa to develop flying taxi software(theguardian.com)
1 points by pegasus 9y ago|0 comments
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by pegasus 9y ago
Thank you for sharing your inspiring story!
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by pegasus 9y ago
Doesn't have to be a trick though. As long as some measurable dent in the pile of work is made, that's infinitely more than none at all, right? One way to make this real is for the first few times, to commit to definitely stop a
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Dynamic Locomotion Skills Using Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning(cs.ubc.ca)
2 points by pegasus 9y ago|0 comments
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by pegasus 9y ago
The constant is measured via experiments and because mass appears in the expression of the constant given above, a measure of the kg is obtained. I.e. the closer we approximate the constant (6.62...) the closer we get to determine what a k
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by pegasus 9y ago
As an aside: according to wikipedia, there are no recorded deaths from ingestion of Amanita Muscaria. It's not really a poisonous mushroom, though it can have intense psychoactive effects when taken in large quantities.
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by pegasus 10y ago
3D circuits/chips is one possibility. There are others that are being researched. Then there are the unknown unknowns...
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by pegasus 10y ago
Using trusted computing and related technologies it should be entirely feasible to build tamper-proof cameras that produce provably-real photos, including trusted timestamp. It should be a small step for example for Apple to add such a fea

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