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by rm445 12y ago
Don't be mean. The clever part is the calling of the fuzzy-selector utility. (I guess you pick an artist or track, type as much it as you can be bothered to, and it will play the track or, if it's ambiguous, offer a list that narr
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by rm445 13y ago
Yeah, it's a shame really because American reliance on cable distorts the technology market: at least part of the reason that tablets and phones don't already have TV tuners in them has to be that one of the biggest markets isn&#x
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by rm445 13y ago
There are such places already in London, though you might not like the prices. The more business-focused private members' clubs typically have offices, meeting rooms and bedrooms available (for rent) as well as the kind of bar, restaur
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by rm445 13y ago
It's not clear that it's an interim step exactly. Mars has gravity, earth for radiation shielding and some resources to work with. I don't know exactly what SpaceX have in mind for a Mars mission, but I'd be surprised if
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by rm445 13y ago
Wouldn't it make sense for levinux to ship with a C compiler then? It wouldn't make much difference to the file size and would let people start with C if they wanted to. (Please correct me if I'm wrong - I just started levinu
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by rm445 13y ago
Er, not all of them, that's why the old browsers were still used.
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by rm445 13y ago
I'll take a stab at it, please feel free to critique. All my reasons come down to complexity. Competing against our righteous need to make software do cool stuff, is the fact that everyone writes software that breaks all the time. Conf
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by rm445 13y ago
Except, most UK undergraduates in mathematics, engineering and the sciences now do a 4-year first degree, albeit a taught masters. If you meet someone styled MEng, MMath, MSci or MChem, that's generally what they've got. Note they
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by rm445 13y ago
It being gwern.net, there's probably a detailed article comparing meta-analyses of text-colouring somewhere on the site :-) Even as an aesthetic novelty, it's a fairly pleasant one, or at least unobjectionable since it's fair
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by rm445 13y ago
I agree that the price is a 'hump' that many people won't get over. But if the tool is useful, claiming it's too pricey for students can't be right. That price is less than your typical textbook. Sure, you're c
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by rm445 13y ago
Just because someone frames an opinion in technical terms doesn't make it relevant to the discussion. There's a mismatch in the levels of abstraction, claiming that a lack generic programming is Go's downfall for mobile appli
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by rm445 13y ago
Is it not a corruption of the word 'get', meaning bastard/illegitimate child? As such it's more of a general insult than anything in particular.
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by rm445 13y ago
So what? Who are the users who want to be spammed forever following 'Like'-ing a business or brand? People use Facebook to communicate with people that they know: liking a business or brand is a communication with friends, not wit
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by rm445 13y ago
I have seen fake pound coins in the wild. My brother who does electronics work on fruit machines (low-stakes gambling terminals) has said he sees them all the time. I couldn't tell you whether defrauding such machines is the 'kil
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by rm445 13y ago
It seems like the business-as-a-startup failed, but remained as a normal cleaning company: the kind that might provide a perfectly good living to someone motivated to manage a herd of cleaners, but not a massively-growing software-based com
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by rm445 13y ago
What sort of major overhaul do you have in mind? A spacecraft on a multi-century flight would presumably have continuous ongoing maintenance and repair, but would need to function without a spell in space-dry-dock halfway through its journe
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by rm445 13y ago
I'm pretty sure he's taking the opposite view, that (a) building elements have indefinite design lives but don't last that long, and (b) Even stonework doesn't endure indefinitely. I'm not sure I really agree with t
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by rm445 13y ago
If you got an order for ten Saturn Vs tomorrow, how easy would it be to make them? Maybe lost technology isn't exactly the term, but when a project is completed, people move on and retire, and the supply chain moves on, then the capabi
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by rm445 13y ago
Thank you for the very interesting post. You are quite right that these things are tremendously complicated - after all, as you say, even figuring out a 'normal' amount of happiness people should feel leads one immediately down a
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by rm445 13y ago
Er, the UK has been part of the European Union since 1973.
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by rm445 13y ago
Interesting article, but I can't help feeling that for the author the feeling of loneliness is a symptom of something underlying. Which makes the loneliness itself much less interesting. The reason I say this is, because it affects r
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by rm445 13y ago
Haha, quite right, and well spotted.
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by rm445 13y ago
The syntax has its good points, or at least opinions about what is good despite them being non-mainstream. Such as function calls and sequences without brackets or separators. Question marks, hyphens and other symbols allowed in identifiers
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by rm445 13y ago
How low does the stack go? C isn't used for the microcode translating instructions inside the CPU. I suspect that parent poster was thinking of the 'web stack', which seems to be what 'full-stack programmers' are re
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by rm445 13y ago
Some of us believe that general intelligence is possible in (complex) software on a (powerful) stored-program computer. As in, we don't know how to write it yet but it doesn't require weird quantum effects. The processors are just
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by rm445 13y ago
Take a deep breath, I believe parent post's comment about python not progressing was referring to performance, not a general dig.
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by rm445 13y ago
The fact that people without Coeliac Disease buy gluten-free bread seems pretty mysterious to me. It might not to you, but if you can't say for sure whether it's (a) just a fad; (b) actually the secret to a great and healthy life;
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by rm445 13y ago
Hardly cause to fork a project - surely it would make more sense as an option to the original?
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by rm445 13y ago
But if those people are your spouse and best friend? The apps on your main menu are the everyday workhorses, not the niche utilities. It would be the same with documents and people I think the article author has a great point, but it isn&#x
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by rm445 13y ago
Is there any reason to believe wheels will ever become polished, or might they simply be replaced with the next idea that comes along? Apologies for acting the cynic, but this is the kind of uncertainty that comes when there is constant rei

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