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571.
by qubex 6y ago
This argument totally ignores Microsoft’s consideration of what might happen after that endgame-state, and what utility (if any) it would have for them. Specifically, Microsoft would have everything to lose if it placed all of the Windows
572.
by qubex 6y ago
I think the OP is musing about the idea that as it passes through a micro double-slit setup, a gravitational wave would alter the distance between the slits, and thus alter the interference pattern. Basically an interferometer.
573.
by qubex 6y ago
Allow me to recommend Algorithms To Live By (Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths, 2016).
574.
by qubex 6y ago
It’s stunning how much discussion is being made by people who haven’t read TFA.
575.
by qubex 6y ago
Generating handwriting (as an amateur calligrapher) is one of my favourite exercises. Check out this sample made with an even less flexible instrument, Context Free Art https://www.contextfreeart.org/gallery/view.php?
576.
by qubex 6y ago
The iPad doesn’t have a hard drive. It has flash storage. The term “hard drive” is not a synonym for on-device storage: hard drives were a prevalent form of storage, but let’s not become so lax with terminology that it no longer means anyth
577.
by qubex 6y ago
Considering it was designed for IT teaching and not for embedded use, I cannot fathom why your company and many others contemplate using it in such a capacity.
578.
by qubex 6y ago
How on earth do you get a “hard-drive failure” on an iPad?!
579.
by qubex 6y ago
> CCP has a policy of reuniting Taiwan with the mainland. If they could do it today, they would. Then we can conclude that so far they haven’t been in a position to enact that policy, and that unless circumstances suddenly fail to no l
580.
by qubex 6y ago
I use bochs on a regular basis... what is weird about it?
581.
by qubex 6y ago
I was diagnosed with “light dyslexia” as a kid (way back in the late eighties) and it benefitted me modestly (I was already in a highly selective private school). I went from the lowest rung of reading ability to the highest in a matter of
582.
by qubex 6y ago
Smells a bit rich, doesn’t it? ;)
583.
by qubex 6y ago
Doesn’t “all-time cumulated carbon footprint” make a bit more sense?
584.
by qubex 6y ago
mumble mumble Turing complete mumble mumble
585.
by qubex 6y ago
“ Arguemnt by analogy is very powerful and entirely fallacious. ” —Mr Dawson, my teacher of Theory of Knowledge (epistemology and critical thinking), circa 1997 So... there is this guy, who has an opinion... okay... and?
586.
by qubex 6y ago
> Let’s stop entertaining false dichotomies Agreed. That’s the spirit of what I meant. I sincerely thank you for synthesising it thusly.
587.
by qubex 6y ago
I always thought that was due to Oscar Wilde but he gets credit for anything witty by default.
588.
by qubex 6y ago
The true illusion is that there be true barons: they are us, in our multiple guises of investors and pensioners and account-holders and wage slaves. Some tower over others (the Gates and Bezos of the world) but in truth they’re just an outs
589.
by qubex 6y ago
The Connection Machine is what I was going to mention but you get some of the details wrong. As another commenter has noted single-bit processors were connected roughly as a 2ⁿ hypercube (hence the commercialised CM-2’s tesseract enclosur
590.
by qubex 6y ago
I’ve been in morally compromising situations before... so whereas I commiserate the situation these people are in I cannot bring myself to condemn them. Most public outrage is in the manufacture of caricatures and the failure to engage in n
591.
by qubex 6y ago
I’m not American so I have no right to having a dog in this fight, but I’ll say this: on either side of a constitutional debate, there is an endless litany of making caricatures of sophisticated people & their (in this case, informed &a
592.
by qubex 6y ago
Roman Law is also the origin of the concept of the binding precedent: it is known as stare decisis (“remaining resolved”).
593.
by qubex 6y ago
God is in the rain
594.
by qubex 6y ago
The famous photograph of Tesla sitting with the lightening hurtling out from his coils was a double exposure.
595.
by qubex 6y ago
For anybody who has the desire and opportunity to interact with something currently in production and truly alien-feeling, I warmly suggest IBM’s AS/400 (now iSeries) OS/400’s filesystem. Library versus folders, logical versus phy
596.
by qubex 6y ago
Thanks.
597.
by qubex 6y ago
As the son of a narcissist who let himself be abducted into the family firm run by the aforementioned, I can only sigh with self-pity. The man had surrounded himself with sycophants who aggrandised his ego by playing as hard and fast with t
598.
by qubex 6y ago
I live in Milan so the whole shopping-experience thing is still very much a part of my daily life. I realise that it’s different in the world of malls and big-box stores.
599.
by qubex 6y ago
People also want & need to explore physical spaces above and beyond what a recommendation algorithm suggests. People want to have the full experience of being immersed in a space. People want to smell the books. People want to try on cl
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by qubex 6y ago
When I visited the PNC in 2015 I peregrinated all the way from Seattle (WA) to Portland (OR) simply for the joy of visiting Powell’s . I even chose my hotel to be as close as possible (which turned out to be the very hip ACE Hotel, which w

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