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by powrtoch 16y ago
Sounds like the bad kind of group selectionism hypothesis to me. Death bestows no fitness benefit to the individual, and is therefore not evolutionarily selected for. Organisms don't die because evolution says they should, they die because
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by powrtoch 16y ago
"No applications can perform this action." just replaced "lp 0 on fire" as my all time favorite error message. It's like you asked it to solve the halting problem, or violate one of Asimov's laws.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I think of it as one of those things that a lot of people get intuitively, but some people have to have explained to them. You can become good at just about anything in life given enough effort, it's just that we usually prefer to play to o
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I don't think this question is well defined enough to be meaningful. In terms of how quickly it can carry out complex calculations, low end modern laptops leave your brain in the dust. What few functions the brain can still claim any advant
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Forget plugin. Built in, transparent functionality. Naturally, every browser would have it but IE. Win win.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Then the font would cease to be notable for anything other than its ugliness, as its size (measured in pixels) is now greater.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
It could still qualify as a hack. It's a non-sustainable but low-cost way of addressing a need. The more hacks go into a system, as opposed to forward-looking real solutions, the less stable that system becomes. I think what the OP is sayin
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Subpixel rendering (used in the font referenced in the article) really ought to count as cheating. It effectively increases the horizontal resolution, so it can only make a real claim to be "smallest" in the vertical dimension. Furthermore,
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Then why didn't you answer according to what you think you would actually do? The idea of the test was to gain insight into your personality with regard to risk and reward. If you can't honestly see yourself accepting a (.4 * $1000) loss o
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Pro tip: Because of the smallish text size and full-screen layout (which gives some of us absurdly unfriendly line lengths), I find Safari's "Reader" feature to be indispensable in reading this fic.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
You can get the exact same experience of a small screen desktop browser by shrinking your browser window, which it handles quite nicely. The headline is misleading. The point of this layout is that we can go ahead and take advantage of larg
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by powrtoch 16y ago
This is certainly where I'll send anyone who asks "where can I find a DVD player that looks like a panini maker?".
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Banks Rush to Fix Security Flaws in Wireless Apps(online.wsj.com)
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I wonder if this is related to the number of 40 year olds convinced that being useless at 80 is unavoidable.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
While we're at it, can we eliminate campaigning? Let's just have a nice web-app that will show you all the candidates for whatever position, and factually list their previous political actions (votes on various issues, etc), with perhaps a
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Good points, the only issue with this is that if you have any sense of "tension" in your typeface choices, you probably don't need an article like this. And if you don't, you'll have trouble applying any but the most concrete instructions (
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Putting a finite number of beads in a jar to represent your mortality seems like one of the most harmful psychological priming effects you could undertake. Short of hiring an assassin, I don't know of a better way to ensure that you'll die
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I really don't mind being the "product being sold" on Facebook, but I still resent helping to sell my friends, such as by filling their feed with ads for local businesses so that I can save a few bucks. Personally, I draw the line here.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Even if it's not "reliable", it could still be a usable heuristic. If there data shows a correlation between Chrome use and dependable loan repayment, who to say they should ignore it?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Completely off topic, sorry but I have to share this: Reading this comment, it clicked for the first time ever that "Apple Newton" is a pun. Wow.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
The largest problem I noticed in college was students' attitude toward learning the material. In high school, I think the vast majority of people attack the curriculum from a "memorize and regurgitate" standpoint. In a lot of ways I can't b
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Being able to limit your search results to e.g. "/liberal" is one of those powers I really don't trust people to use responsibly. Not that it's doing anything 99% of human brains don't do automatically, but still.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I actually take issue with this line. Unless given evidence to the contrary, don't you have to expect being average at any particular thing? Of course I'm nitpicking though. His point is that you shouldn't aspire to averageness, and ove
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Here's what will happen. Through some seemingly-tiny feature of the OS that the developer arbitrarily decided to include (something not related to Hannah Montana), this will become the best-choice Linux distro for a small group of people. A
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by powrtoch 16y ago
If you jailbreak (don't do it without researching it), there's an app called SBSettings that adds a bunch of quick toggles, including brightness, in a snappy drop down menu accessible from inside any app.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I guess the problem is that there are a lot of things many of us really like about OSX. I like it for a lot reasons, and while I'm sure I could learn to like things about Linux or Windows, I'm also pretty sure I've got the right OS for me r
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I still don't know where this objection comes from. I have been asked by non-techie friends many, many times for help with their computers. None of my friends, PC or Mac, have ever had to ask how to install an application. I consider the pr
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I think the point was that the article assumes that the only thing that can cause transcription errors is ionization. This assumption is known to be false, since viruses can also mess with DNA transcription. Obviously no one is suggesting
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by powrtoch 16y ago
For me, it's mouse gestures. Last time I tried getting them in FF with a plugin, it just wasn't as well done (forces you to make distinctions between tabs and windows, for example, that you aren't used to having to think about). Mouse gestu
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by powrtoch 16y ago
For the record, I love it. You should look into character encoding issues though. I put in "Church–Turing thesis"and got: ChurchU00e2U0080U0093Turing thesis Kurt GU00c3U00b6del 1906 Adolf Hitler

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