qnaal

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by qnaal 12y ago
unfortunately eugenics is immoral or something
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by qnaal 12y ago
MEDIUM -or- how to take a written article with associated images (pretty much the only thing that html/css does well), and make it less accessible for the web
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by qnaal 12y ago
so it's like wave, but implemented on top of normal email?
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by qnaal 12y ago
The real world is a lot like cyberpunk except instead of exciting it's frustrating.
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by qnaal 12y ago
Also worth mentioning is that large amounts of the linux kernel can be either 'built-in' or built 'as modules'- I think most distros prefer modules where possible. Run shell command 'lsmod' to see all the modul
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by qnaal 12y ago
From a theoretical standpoint, we define our own borders, no? A 'society' doesn't have to be very large to thrive, especially when it can interact with global markets. Obviously there are many ways to 'remove people from
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by qnaal 12y ago
My view is that many people are quite domesticated- traditionally, would you not agree that society flourishes wherever the strong and fair have the capacity to exclude the psychopaths? Unfortunately, domesticated people often somehow get c
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by qnaal 12y ago
that's what it feels like is going on in the japanese example, and I have trouble believing donatello's angel isn't supposed to look that off-balance and dynamic. also the french figure looks like he's doing something we
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by qnaal 12y ago
Good thing for Apple the alternatives are windowsphone and linuxjava.
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by qnaal 12y ago
>bad for the platform It's nothing Apple Damage Control can't handle.
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by qnaal 12y ago
but I guess we're stuck with it until we come up with a better way to install emacs
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by qnaal 12y ago
I think it was Alan Kay? who said it's expected to learn a new editor, as well as move into a new house, at least once every 10 years.
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by qnaal 12y ago
so they've got it all stashed, and they just flop it back on???
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by qnaal 12y ago
dammit human brain too flexible
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by qnaal 12y ago
The idea, I think, is that humans have been sharing the planet with everything else for so long that anything especially dangerous that occurs "naturally" is likely to have been already tested- ie "artificial" drugs shou
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by qnaal 12y ago
"its -O3 the letter, not -03 the number" http://web.archive.org/web/20060513022941/http://www.funroll...
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by qnaal 12y ago
The idea that mathematics as a whole is intuitive (as opposed to specific facets of its machinations) is as pervasive as it is misleading.
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by qnaal 12y ago
gotta fill those exabytes somehow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
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by qnaal 12y ago
lots of algorithms use entropy in clever and powerful ways see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method
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by qnaal 12y ago
just in time for linux on the desktop
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by qnaal 12y ago
we need more test subjects... if it's legal to terminate unborn fetuses, shouldn't it be legal to experiment on them?
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by qnaal 12y ago
"stop coming to my house Internet, I just want to stay friends"
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by qnaal 12y ago
adsense is pretty big
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by qnaal 12y ago
just commenting that an earlier draft of your post mentioned something specific about [the space that systems like this attempt to map] that we both know is overreaching our knowledge of what knowledge is.
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by qnaal 12y ago
Along with the obligatory poking fun at people having too much fun in the html/css/js tarpit, I mean just faking a simple dynamic application interface- the kind of 'simple interface' you take for granted on native progr
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by qnaal 12y ago
Maybe one day the web ecosystem will calm down enough that designing a simple interface doesn't need to be approached like designing a videogame engine on an esoteric virtual machine.
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by qnaal 12y ago
> discussing surface area of an infinite manifold yeah you better edit it dang
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by qnaal 12y ago
Anyone considering Newton's methods as 'mystical' (implied 'unscientific') gives modern institutionalized science much too much credit, and proper exploratory science much too little.
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by qnaal 12y ago
> the real color wheel below, in all of its glory, showing colors you will never see on a rainbow produced in nature. Magenta? sure, everyone agrees is a bastard color- but cyan is on the rainbow in the spot labeled 'blue', and
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by qnaal 12y ago
damn I thought it said 'GitHub Octocoins' BEEN SMOKIN TOO MUCH BITCOINS On a more related note, how do you people feel about the 'ordered list' icon having more lines than numbers, and the 'podium' icon looking

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