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by scj 8y ago
Max Brooks' version of zombies have the ability to vocally signal other zombies, then they spread out, creating a detection net. It means that if you want to kill zombies, you better do it quietly or prepare for the horde. My thought
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by scj 8y ago
I want a feature on Facebook that says "avoid putting anything on my feed that has been seen by 10k+ people." That would likely include all news.
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by scj 8y ago
I interpreted the comment as: "Facebook would have a better chance of predicting it than competitors given their information." Remember, you don't need to outrun a bear, just the other people around you.
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by scj 8y ago
Yup, they can spend some time in the cornfield[0] if they want! [0] The cornfield was a type of purgatory/hell in The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_G
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by scj 8y ago
I've always been interested in the other case: What advances in spaceflight would be made by a technologically similar civilization if they had much lower gravity?
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by scj 8y ago
95% of the time I want to do something in a clearly sub-optimal way is because I'm required to use an unmodifiable code base that forces a path. But sometimes explaining how the situation arises: * Violates NDA/secrecy/licens
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by scj 8y ago
The point is that this should be an "upgrade" change vs. an "update" change. Rolling releases only have the later concept, meaning that instead of the user acknowledging and preparing for a change, users need to respond
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by scj 8y ago
Last time I tried Arch (about a decade ago), I gave a command to update packages. In the update, my NVIDIA card was moved to be supported by "nvidia-legacy" rather than "nvidia"... Of course, I didn't have legacy
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by scj 9y ago
> assuming there was a chain of consent somewhere in there What if a genetic disorder is determined by screening close family (parents, siblings, first cousins)? Could an insurance company reasonably determine that the trait exists with
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by scj 9y ago
Vision is one problem under snow and ice. But the one I think will be tough to overcome is operational. In normal conditions, your car stops in a predictable way, at predictable speeds. It doesn't slide. It doesn't follow cut-p
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by scj 9y ago
I like to teach Splendor to new people. Most people seem to understand game flow by the end of the first game they play (figuring out strategy comes later). The most promising sign is that most people want to play it again.
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by scj 9y ago
If evaluating stderr, the first step should be determining if a line is of a known format before treating it as an input. I'm not sure how well that'd work due to the lack of buffering. But I wouldn't want to go anywhere nea
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by scj 9y ago
While I agree that Deep Learning would be terrible at building CRUD apps (I'd be happy if it was good at performing analysis on human written code), one question I have is "If AI is performing more tasks, can we reduce CRUD app re
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by scj 9y ago
I must admit some degree of fantasy fatigue. The setting I'd want to see for a complex multi-party high-budget drama, is a fictional world in the age of sail. Conquerors, unlikely allies, traders, and even pirates. It could have socia
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by scj 9y ago
Why not both? Let them use drawing tools, but give users the ability to place an image's data into the canvas?
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by scj 9y ago
Both Iron Bot and krais0 have one helluva Terran mech (tank/Goliath/Vulture) push. Do you think a Protoss AI can defeat it?
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by scj 9y ago
Here's a link if you want to see CherryPi vs. Purplewave (two bots mentioned). https://youtube.com/watch?v=rTf_aL0hrgo
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by scj 9y ago
I haven't played this, but given the title, you might want to look at Five Minute Dungeon. Tiny Epic * (there are several games in the series) might be good. Although it does not meet your time requirements, it has few pieces and is p
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by scj 9y ago
I think there are 2 components to look at articles and comments. I don't know if it is nostalgia, but I recall preferring /.'s articles from 15ish years ago (compared to what /. and HN have today). Maybe that is a refle
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by scj 9y ago
While we are friendly to immigration, Canadian citizens will need to work there too (in order for government incentives to be doled out)... Otherwise, the public will eventually demand those benefits rescinded. As a ballpark number, if Ama
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by scj 9y ago
Thomas Edison was the first to invent a light bulb for the masses. In many ways, that is a more impressive invention than a one-off that only illuminated a single room. But Edison didn't invent the light bulb. Likewise, Babbage was d
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by scj 9y ago
Reading your post, and the linked article, I'd be interested in examples where the previous systems failed to provide expected functionality... My expectation of email today is "I enter some address(es), define the addresses as TO
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by scj 9y ago
Frozen ground, with an equal snowbank on the other side (it is a one way street, so you only care about one of the banks). If you had installed it in prior years, it'd probably be buried (the real life snow bank this is based on was ap
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by scj 9y ago
I just invented a different snowdrift game, modeled on something that happened to me a couple of years ago. You live in a townhouse next to another family that shares a driveway which turns onto a medium traffic density one-way street (ther
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by scj 9y ago
I wonder if replacement spherical wheels for a 10-year-old car would be available. Would they even make studded spherical wheels for winter?
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by scj 9y ago
> Their graph does show exponential growth, but the data points cut off at the year 2000. Not surprising, given that Moore's law has reached its end in the last decade. I think the graph was originally produced for Ray Kurzweil&#x27
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by scj 9y ago
I'm trying to come up with a simple and satisfying explanation, but the best I can do is "Starcraft is a complex game of balancing your ability to attack and defend. AIs have difficulty with situational awareness." But I thi
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by scj 9y ago
For SC1 BW, you can already watch https://www.youtube.com/user/certicky for a weekly highlights broadcast / commentary of AIs. Right now there is an AI arms race where the previously dominant AI (Iron Bot) is bei
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by scj 9y ago
“It is important to note that the Defendant was not permitted to refuse to answer questions under fear of contempt proceedings, and his counsel was not permitted to clarify the answers to questions. I conclude unhesitatingly that the Defend
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by scj 9y ago
My great-grandmother was deaf (since she was 10), and she knew if someone arrived after she went to bed (she was a farmer for much of her life, so she slept early). How did she do it? Vibration. She could detect movement throughout the ho

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