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by psykotic 14y ago
> Having lived in a predominantly Buddhist society during two different three-year stays as that society transformed from Third World colonialized poverty to First World free and democratic modernity, I'm not at all sure that most peopl
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One major reason there have been 32-bit versions of all Windows releases up to and including Windows 8 is so that corporations big and small will be able to seamlessly continue running their crusty Win16 and MS-DOS legacy applications. If n
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> Windows 8 is also not Windows 95. Windows 8 is backwards compatible with Win32 and even Win16. If it wasn't, there would be hell to pay. WinRT is a somewhat clean break with the Win32 legacy. But that's only required for Metro apps.
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ObLink: Erik Naggum's The Long, Painful History of Time ( http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html )
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> With the proper specs, open source developers will produce better drivers than Nvidia. That may be true for specific features like Optimus--I can't say. But if you're talking about writing a full 3D driver stack for a modern GPU, you'
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Anyone remember Die by the Sword? Admittedly it was more sword flailing than sword fighting, but it's the only game I've played that had a semblance of direct control. It was also the first game to use IK for everything from sword fighting
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> What if it were at a funeral Ask and ye shall receive. Strippers and other scantily clad dancers are not unheard of at country-side funerals in Taiwan. http://io9.com/5819625/in-taiwan-you-can-hire-a-stripper-for... http://www.you
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> a kind of sideways inheritance where you could override an ancestor in a package, but not have to override all the descendants to have them inherit the behaviour - really handy for third-party plugins This sounds like the virtual clas
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Indeed. Having been in the game industry for close to a decade now (apropos of this thread, my first job was at Epic Games as an engine programmer working on UE2 and UE3), I can't say I personally learned a lot from Gregory's book (outside
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> His statement was on a per-gram basis, which seems pretty much obviously true Ah, I missed that. But that's not very a useful comparion. The useful thing to do is comparing calorically matched portions of fat-based and carb-based food
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Lyle McDonald is the best source out there. His website at http://bodyrecomposition.com has a near-endless wealth of articles. Alan Aragon's work ( http://alanaragon.com/ ) is on a similar level, and in many ways he's a kinder, gentler ve
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> Fats and proteins are more filling and satisfying per gram than carbs. Again, that statement makes no sense. You don't eat carbs, fats and proteins. You eat foods. Is 100 calories of olive oil as filling as 100 calories of asparagus (
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> What causes us to eat more calories than our bodies require? One big reason is eating foods that aren't filling relative to the energy and nutrients they provide. There's nothing unique about carbs in that regard. I can barely put awa
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You don't mention insulin by name, but that's what underlies Taubes's thesis about the link being carbs and obesity. James Krieger dispels much of that argument here: http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=319 > Low-carber
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> the uselessness of "calories in, calories out." There's nothing useless about energy balance. It can be misinterpreted and misapplied, but Taubes throws the baby out with the bathwater and pretends it doesn't apply at all. For example
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> Taubes also responded to Guyenet Guyenet also responded to Taubes: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/11/brief-response...
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A little too far is an understatement. I read GCBC when it came out and found its arguments compelling at the time. After learning more, I've reversed my opinion almost completely. James Krieger's critique of the core chapter of GCBC is ver
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Wasn't that Pham Nuwen, after the initial attack?
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It's been forever since I read the book, but wasn't the whole point of the Emergency culture they didn't use AI and relied entirely on hyper-focused humans with enslavement implants?
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Curious about what exactly? Like the author, I also have a very rigid early morning schedule centered around exercise. I get up at exactly 5.45, go to the gym at 6.00, etc. It definitely helps me maintain a more regular sleep and work sched
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If anyone wants to search the literature, the terminology for this is the non-stationary bandit problem. The classical bandit problem is stationary but there has been plenty of research done into non-stationary variants as well.
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Conservation of momentum has been one of the most unshakeable laws of physics. Reactionless drives violate conservation of momentum. The likelihood that this is flawed is infinitely greater than the likelihood that conservation of momentum
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Clearly. The point is that this isn't some white thing. It's a universal flaw of human cultures that has resulted in much ignorance and atrocity throughout history.
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That's not an honest question--you are being fatuous. Every culture suffers from this to a very large degree. It's easy to give examples drawn from parts of the world where printing presses predated European inventions. The traditionally t
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> which behaves very interestingly Check out Bill Thurston's comment on why this is deeply misleading geometrically: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/53119/volumes-of-n-balls-w... As several commenters there point out, if you must ch
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In Objectivist C, there are no Booleans. If True exists then False exists, and False values are an affirmation of the death principle.
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The game that became Age of Reckoning: Kingdoms of Amalur was an acquisition via Big Huge Games. It was retrofitted with the Amalur world, which was originally developed for Project Copernicus, which is the original MMORPG being developed i
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These heuristics, if they have any validity at all, are industry specific. In AAA game development, everyone (with a few statistical outliers) is Windows based for their development environment. For that reason, it's not surprising that mos
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Cool! For a while I've been pondering a similar idea with the goal of cross-compiling the language to idiomatic C and JavaScript. The JavaScript translation would necessarily be less than perfectly idiomatic, but it would be more idiomatic
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The US is one of the few countries that doesn't allow its citizens to avoid double taxation. You are still liable for US taxes on foreign-earned income above $80,000 per year.

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