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by rgawdzik 11y ago
I assume in his quote when he means "Getting a portion of the human race permanently...", he means resource independence from Earth, which would be the point.
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by rgawdzik 11y ago
I don't think Hawking's primary concern was in the self-sustaining sense, rather with the more immediate threats as in the 'asteroid/epidemic/natural disaster' sense. Hawking believes humanity needs to figure o
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by rgawdzik 11y ago
"It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet earth in the next 100 years, let alone the next 1000 or million. The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket or on one planet. Getting a portion of the human ra
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by rgawdzik 11y ago
I've never been on the linux mailing list before, how do you actually view the diff of this patch?
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Owing Graph Minimization(anthony-zhang.me)
13 points by rgawdzik 11y ago|6 comments
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by rgawdzik 11y ago
Awesome Paribus ad!
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by rgawdzik 11y ago
I'm sure Apple will consider allowing proper web browser competition on iOS if either: 1) It's against the law not to do so. 2) Apple users flee iOS to Android for this reason. Neither which seem to be the case, maybe in a couple
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by rgawdzik 11y ago
I think CS442 is one of them, but I am currently using Racket for CS241, and a friend used Racket for CS444.
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by rgawdzik 11y ago
https://xkcd.com/297/ I believe this is what happened: The first mainstream computer programs were written in imperative (think assembly goto, etc), and became the defacto standard. As new programmers entered, many wer
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by rgawdzik 11y ago
Yes, considering that is the equivalent of a minimum wage yearly salary every two weeks.
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Asset Hub, Day One(medium.com)
7 points by rgawdzik 11y ago|0 comments
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by rgawdzik 11y ago
So this is how liberty dies....with thunderous applause.
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by rgawdzik 11y ago
Uber drivers are required to accept at least 80% of their requests.
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by rgawdzik 11y ago
Right, but what sort of operations can you perform? Can you give me an example of how you would do 2*2?
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by rgawdzik 11y ago
How do you use SampleMultiplication?
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Parallelizing the Naughty Dog Engine Using Fibers [video](gdcvault.com)
55 points by rgawdzik 12y ago|11 comments
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
The University of Waterloo's unique by putting their Computer Science program in our Faculty of Mathematics (the first in North America, the largest in the world). By studying a significant amount of Math, it definitely improved my log
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
The first time I knew of Philip's Glass work was from Battlestar Galactica. There was a beautiful composition that Starbuck listened to in her apartment, and I was driven to find it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hMw
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
I'm sure if the budget was there, NASA would worry about aesthetics.
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
Another fundamental fact to consider is the benefits of having open hardware. When I make software free, it can easily be forked, contributed, and can scale to thousands of contributors. Consider the cost in man-hours to write a patch for L
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
Reference for those confused: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vAnuBtyEYE
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
FYI: Local cinemas are still playing it, for those who enjoy the cinemas. I watched it in San Francisco, so check your local movie listings.
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
It seems more like a Canadian convention to me.
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
So how does licensing work considering it's on github? https://github.com/bradjasper/Focus
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
I think the article is trying to demonstrate a contrast between the "Golden Quarter" to our current quarter. Consider comparing the recently posted Orion project vs. the first moon landing. 8 years of development time to get to th
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
Question to anyone in the media industry: Why aren't there a lot of open source media assets (that actually are as high quality as paid assets)? I remember trying to make games and such, and people required me to pay $1000's of do
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
> "studying how to avoid war" I'm sure it isn't that straightforward.... Say you diverted NASAs 18.4 billion yearly budget. What can you do with 18.4 billion dollars? To give you contrast of how little that is relati
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
Seriously that should be illegal.
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
You can't misuse closed source APIs? How would you know something is O(n) without seeing the source code?
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by rgawdzik 12y ago
+1, also really interested.

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