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The Quality of an Hour(jeffwofford.com)
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The Karen Wetterhahn story (2003)(chm.bris.ac.uk)
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The Regex Tutorial Challenge(jeffwofford.com)
1 points by putzdown 9y ago|2 comments
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by putzdown 10y ago
"Broken" is the wrong word. The argument is actually, "it's slow." Broken would imply logically flawed, impossible to make work consistently, something along those lines. The title to "Select(2) is fundamentall
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by putzdown 10y ago
Yes, though there is an important difference between the multiverse approach and the multi-star/multi-year approach. When we imagine the state of affairs in which many universes are created with random parameters, we tend to give those
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by putzdown 10y ago
Well, but there is something fundamentally and essentially special about conscious minds. A universe that is complete unperceived is, first of all, harder to even imagine than it first appears and, second, would be neither boring nor intere
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by putzdown 10y ago
Ah, thanks. That's helpful. So would you say that the appeal of the Anthropic principle depends on the multiverse theory (or something similar): the idea that there are an infinite number—or a great many, anyway—of "die rolls&quot
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by putzdown 10y ago
Every time I read about the Anthropic principle I get the feeling I'm missing something. Enthusiasts of the principle seem to be committing a fallacy; perhaps someone can explain why they're not, or why they are. I compare the pri
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by putzdown 10y ago
What, pray, is ET <et@group.apple.com>?
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by putzdown 10y ago
This is a very promising solution. If it has a fatal problem (I'm not sure it does), it would be the cost of searching back through the referrer chain to look for a root pointer. Am I wrong in thinking that that will be at least O(n),
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by putzdown 10y ago
I think you've misunderstood the article. It's talking about the object dependency (pointer) graph, not data structures in a more general sense. The object dependency graph is intrinsically cyclical in the way the OP describes. Th
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by putzdown 10y ago
No, Obj-C/Swift use something more akin to C++'s `shared_ptr` and `weak_ptr`, as evidenced by the fact that cyclic references may result in memory leaks in each system. This is precisely the problem that `internal_ptr` seeks to re
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The deep sea diver who saved Winchester cathedral(classicdivebooks.customer.netspace.net.au)
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The Kola Superdeep Borehole(en.wikipedia.org)
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by putzdown 10y ago
People are generally selfish and lazy. We act in immediately efficient ways even if those ways have high long-term costs—balloon payments and so forth. We do this individually and we do it when we band together in companies and nations. At
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by putzdown 10y ago
I think the author is confusing two different issues: the problem of disproving solipsism and the problem of proving or disproving dualism. It is not true that we must think of zombies as being absolutely identical to "real people&quot
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by putzdown 10y ago
Why just six choices? Why these? Why not "Beautiful"? or "Ad-free"? You know, what I'd really like is a web full of intelligent and polite discussion. Where's that option? What does Mozilla mean by "Web&qu
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by putzdown 10y ago
Unfortunate choice of green (="Freedom"?) as the color for dots that simply mean "someone just responded."
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by putzdown 10y ago
And yet a few comments above yours are people saying that Oculus has publicly admitted that there are sickness problems, and anecdotes of a fairly high proportion of people who do get sick. How can there be such wildly different opinions ab
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by putzdown 10y ago
Oh no. Oh no no no. I think it's pretty clear that VR headsets make you look like a moron at a whole new level. Take away a person's eyes—hide their eyes so that they seem to have none—and you take away a lot. Put them in touch wi
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by putzdown 10y ago
The proof is in the pudding. I'm kind of amazed that the first response to this article is not either: "Correct. We tried Vive/Oculus on 1,000 subjects and 90% were sick within ten minutes," or "Incorrect. We tried
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by putzdown 10y ago
Yes I think that's more or less it. You can describe the entire mechanism of how an eye, optic nerve, and brain system sees the color green. In an ideal world you could explain that mechanism in absolutely detail, down to the molecule,
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by putzdown 10y ago
Precisely. It would have sufficed, and it would have been an unremarkable reaffirmation of the sad reality that yes, widespread habits trump merit in many cases (Betamax vs VHS etc etc). It's not clear what he said, but if all he said
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by putzdown 10y ago
This article is a superb example of bad writing, of bad thinking. I have no skin in the Ruby/Rails game. I'm not a web developer. But I'm interested in the fates of languages and the merits of major approaches that define man
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by putzdown 10y ago
Yes. The article is as notable for the dreariness of the movies available before September as it is for the exclusive content available in September. The message seems to be, "If you can tolerate three months of Adam Sandler, obscure i
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by putzdown 10y ago
Why the animosity toward free will, I wonder? I can see why it's not helpful to neuroscientists. It's not a neuron, after all. It's not a material thing, and so the material sciences don't reckon with it. But why does th
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by putzdown 10y ago
The problem goes even deeper than this. It's not merely a false dichotomy but a false continuum. The implication is that minds are machines, and that as machines they may be, at one extreme, deterministic (like a software program that
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What Ludum Dare Rating Categories Matter Most?(ludumdare.com)
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by putzdown 11y ago
I was under the impression that flea circuses were pure illusion—there were erratic, untrained fleas, or no fleas at all—and the entertainment was provided solely in the mind of the audience. The article seems to suggest otherwise. If it ha
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by putzdown 11y ago
Terrific premise; I hope you succeed. But advice: 1. "boom" is not the right name. Explosions. Annoying/scary sonic boom. These are not the associations you're looking for. Try "glide," "zip"—somethin

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