robotkilla

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by robotkilla 12y ago
It takes longer to read a line of text that has more whitespace than it does to read a line of text with less whitespace and proper syntax highlighting. In addition to this, modern typography has different rules for different mediums. Bring
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by robotkilla 12y ago
That was my point – syntax highlighting is suited for code. whitespace for readability is more suited for books.
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by robotkilla 12y ago
Books don't have syntax highlighting. Why does adding a bunch of whitespace to a line make it faster to read than syntax highlighting?
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by robotkilla 12y ago
From an OCD viewpoint, I agree. But with proper syntax highlighting you can easily parse through variables and their assignments visually. Also, if you line up variables vertically, you should do the same with dictionary assignments, which
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by robotkilla 12y ago
This runs contrary to the final bullet point under Pet Peves in the style guide for python. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008#pet-peeves
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by robotkilla 12y ago
I am usually up by 4am in the summer and 5 or 6am in the winter. This is my favorite time to code. I used to be a night owl but have found I produce worse code when tired. Interestingly weed seems to help me stay on track during the day.
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by robotkilla 12y ago
Interesting – but isn't this starting with the assumption that there is a possible combination of words or actions that the AI could employ which would work on a human? What if no possible combination exists? I feel that the bigger and
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by robotkilla 12y ago
International laws and regulations as well as doomsday scenario planning that is surely already underway by the US government. I would argue that we actually have stopped nuclear weapons thus far (not the proliferation, but the usage), as w
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by robotkilla 12y ago
I suspect at some point in time, (left without regulation) computers and machines will even replace programmers, which is pretty much what the article is saying, that would be one of the low level steps. It seems that people think either a
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by robotkilla 12y ago
Its fun to think about terminator-like disaster scenarios, but isn't the solution as simple as: don't let the AI leak out? If we can contain humanity ending viri in labs then surely we can contain an exponentially growing and pote
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by robotkilla 12y ago
Off topic, but did anyone else notice that the BBC's video player's audio control goes to eleven?
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by robotkilla 12y ago
Interesting library – I ran it on one of my projects which consists of JS compiled from literate coffeescript. The JS also has also been run through browserify and uglify. My code is tested using mocha (albeit lightly), passes lint tests an
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by robotkilla 12y ago
Would there be any interest in a forked node.js version of micropsi2 ? Would that even be helpful in any way?