riboflava

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by riboflava 10y ago
I was going to ask how your implementation compares to Versor[0] but I see you link from it in your readme. My next question was going to be if there are any license issues, since Versor was for a long time only free for non-commercial use,
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by riboflava 10y ago
Another potential option is to throw Compiz in the mix after you have Mate up and running. Though that may make things more buggy than less, at least you can justify it with eye candy. :)
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by riboflava 10y ago
What about accidental removal by MRI?
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by riboflava 10y ago
AGI progress is unlikely to be limited by some exponential curve that we're just not far enough along though. Rather it seems more limited by some key insight no one has found yet. Sure we'll be able to retrofit some exponential c
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by riboflava 10y ago
Postel's law / the robustness principle is a good way to write robust software, like a TCP implementation or an HTML parser. Most software doesn't need to be robust, though, and failing fast probably leads to less security is
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by riboflava 10y ago
Furthermore there are other forms of reasoning than pure deduction. If you allow probabilistic inference, which is how humans generally operate intuitively, many deductive fallacies turn into probabilistic theorems.
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by riboflava 10y ago
If they're siphoned anywhere besides under a mattress they'll be a net benefit. (And even the mattress might just delay their usefulness.)
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by riboflava 10y ago
It's also possible to implement a decompressor in javascript to support browsers which don't do it natively. The performance would likely suck but if you're truly bandwidth constrained and don't mind users having a bit o
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by riboflava 10y ago
Yeah I could take issue with the term too. At least with minimum wage (which has the same issues wrt a price floor, like many forms of work not being worth the minimum $x/hr the law requires) it's the same at the city/state&#
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by riboflava 10y ago
I don't know if I'd be so charitable to call my counter-assertion to the assertion I replied to an argument, but the replies to your reply are indeed representatives of the argument chains that lead to the assertion, and I agree t
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by riboflava 10y ago
Living wage destroys the ability for people to make a little extra on the side with part-time gigs.
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by riboflava 10y ago
"We don't do science for the general public. We do it for each other. Good day." -- Renato Dalbecco
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by riboflava 10y ago
It'd be a fun experiment, but I'm occasionally revolted by the supposed outcome people seem to fantasize will happen. Income tax, the tax people usually complain the most about, is only 100 years old, how did anything get done bef
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by riboflava 10y ago
Taxes are evil. Taxes are theft. Or not. You're not going to change behavior by moralizing to people who consider what you think is moral to in fact be immoral, or who at least are amoral about the whole manner as corporations tend to
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by riboflava 10y ago
This world isn't the 80s and 90s dystopia I craved. This is far worse.
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by riboflava 10y ago
Wasn't this a goal of Light Table, or am I up in the night? There are a lot of useful representations I'd like to see for my foo, but very few of them I'd actually want to work in directly when I'm creating or modifying
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by riboflava 10y ago
My coworker was identified as 98% similar. That disturbs me a bit more since I thought my typing style was more unique!
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by riboflava 10y ago
Here's why I don't feel guilty: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks > So no, I'm not required to be able to lift objects weighing up to fifty pounds. I traded that for the opportunity to trim S
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by riboflava 10y ago
X is data. There is no defined structure to it apart from the fact that there are N elements and you can select them. Is it a linked list, is it a random access array? It is not yet defined to be structured in any way. Furthermore you can a
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by riboflava 10y ago
Where are the data structures? [0] MIN := X[N]; k := N; for j := N-1 step -1 until 1 do if X[j] < MIN then begin MIN := X[j]; k := j; end; [0] https://assets.cs.ncl.ac.uk/seminars/1
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by riboflava 10y ago
Yes, I would say the relationship is the opposite. Data structures imply a set of algorithms based on the promises of the data structure implementation. Algorithms themselves are free-floating things that can be reasoned about just as well
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by riboflava 10y ago
Yet so many of those projects, when submitted, attract comments on HN from people who just don't get it. The culture is still there, but it's not as uniformly concentrated anywhere anymore. It's hard to tell what that really
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by riboflava 10y ago
Even service jobs occasionally give paid lunch hours. When salaried, the whole point is you don't need to track hours. Otherwise you need to bill for that 5 minutes of insight in the shower on Sunday when you have an idea that solves s
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by riboflava 10y ago
Unless Friday is work from home day, and I can productively work from home, dealing with a commute for 4 hours in the office sounds terrible... Though I guess compared to the 70+ hour life it's not bad.
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by riboflava 10y ago
Yeah, and sometimes businesses have been able to collect credits from the government for compliance with such-and-such. When they're forced to bleed money though (in this instance all that extra space adds up by itself, plus the opport
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by riboflava 10y ago
Probably. My argument for healthier would mostly be on the second-order effects of having a better economy that can generate new sources of wealth. With a step back, until momentum and inertia are all that remain of the US' current dom
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by riboflava 10y ago
This could really be used as the default reply for a lot comments here that don't get why people are still a bit antsy about MS apparently doing things for the good of others besides MS. But it's probably an argument only worth ha
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by riboflava 10y ago
Maybe it went something like "god damn it why can't I ctrl+v to copy, what other ctrl keys are there..."? And now I'm looking at http://ss64.com/bash/syntax-keyboard.html and being amazed I didn&#x2
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by riboflava 10y ago
It's probably inevitable that someone will publish a collection of predicted sockpuppet/alias accounts. It wouldn't surprise me if the HN mods had their own private collection; I think it'd be a fun project to show estim
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by riboflava 10y ago
Meeting Putin would scare me just on the basis that as ex-KGB he could snap my neck if he was so inclined. I'm not sure that's enough to really characterize the man, though, at least it's little more than what the people who

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