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by sedachv 11y ago
I am not familiar with Rebol but from what I gathered from the "So...What Can't Be Done?" section of the article is that `use` is more like a code walker that does lexical binding before the given expression is expanded and e
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Device Driver Environment: Linux device drivers in userspace and other kernels(os.inf.tu-dresden.de)
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by sedachv 11y ago
The Japanese government tried this exact same idea for AI in the 1980s: http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/business/fifth-generation-... These 5 year targeted research (IMO an oxymoron) plans are always a
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by sedachv 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_burn#Injury_cases
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by sedachv 11y ago
> A lot get bought out on the way, and many fizzle out. The concern is who does the buying? The number of public companies is small (and shrinking btw), how much more acquisitions can they absorb? If it is other private tech companies, t
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by sedachv 11y ago
> I think 2000 companies/year is too few. Between NYSE and Nasdaq there are about 3,700 publicly traded companies in the United States total right now. The current funding paradigm will have to change to accommodate that many comp
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by sedachv 11y ago
You can find motherboards and other components on eBay. http://www.laptopinventory.com/ has a very good catalog and excellent how-to videos. I have done parts replacement on a few of my laptops (screens, keyboards, touchpad
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by sedachv 11y ago
It is not like that is the only report relating to Vice to raise suspicions: https://medium.com/thoughts-on-media/vice-media-kit-warning-... http://gawker.com/working-at-vice-media-is-not-as-cool-as-it.
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by sedachv 11y ago
> Give them a second chance. That is exactly what compulsive liars/sociopaths like Shane Smith want: http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/03/vice-founder-famous-for-tr... The documentaries and reporting pro
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by sedachv 11y ago
JavaScript programming is, CSS and HTML not so much. I would also argue that the details of frameworks like Angular also fall in the "garbage knowledge" pile.
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by sedachv 11y ago
> Web development seems to be even worse than neuroscience in this regard. I feel like I have to perpetually study to be abreast of best practices. The worst part is web development is a completely arbitrary made-up system without any ab
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by sedachv 11y ago
> If the poor end of the wealth gap are still better off than 90% of the rest of the world, why does the wealth gap matter? Standard of living increases have come almost exclusively through technological progress. Access to basic surviva
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by sedachv 11y ago
"Not sure that I would agree there. What if the "excess" production funds a cure for cancer? What if that cure requires additional resources?" Production does not fund other things, and disease cures are not something th
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by sedachv 11y ago
In Los Angeles the UPS vs USPS experience is exactly the opposite, although UPS has been improving (several years since I have received a destroyed package).
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by sedachv 11y ago
> As a response to the epidemic the government is fast tracking Naloxone to become a non prescription drug since it reverses the effects of an opioid overdose within minutes.[2] I don't remember where I read that first responders (P
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SymbOS: preemptive multitasking OS that can play mp3s, video on 8-bit Z80 PCs(symbos.de)
106 points by sedachv 11y ago|36 comments
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by sedachv 11y ago
Median household income in Detroit: $26,325 83% black ( http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/2622000.html ) Walk a block over to Grosse Point: $89,492 93% white ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by sedachv 11y ago
> Umm, there are no "native towns" in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_reserves_in_Can... Most of those have towns in them. > However, we don't tend to have the same level of ur
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by sedachv 11y ago
If you know the address or cross-streets it is very easy. You can also ask for directions. Believe it or not people managed to travel to and around unfamiliar cities just fine before the widespread use of GPS.
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by sedachv 11y ago
In Canada (and Australia from what I have read, but not personally seen) the level of poverty in many Native towns is certainly comparable.
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by sedachv 11y ago
They have these things called maps, sold at gas stations.
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by sedachv 11y ago
> I'm not an old fart by far, but even I have never imagined rebooting a refrigerator. I have a mini fridge in my shop that is usually unplugged and has some weird problem with the temperature sensor relay jamming closed the first t
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by sedachv 11y ago
OsmAnd ( http://osmand.net/ ) downloads OpenStreetMap data to your phone for offline navigation on Android (there is also an iOS version that has maps but not driving directions yet). IMO the OsmAnd navigation UI is better th
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by sedachv 11y ago
Did you miss the explicit side-effects in the code above? This isn't like a map/filter in terms of fold, it is a very stupid way of writing a 'for' loop.
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by sedachv 11y ago
Some developers are taking a really "creative" interpretation of the lessons of functional programming. I am currently dealing with a codebase (CoffeeScript) full of: _.reduce some_array, (result_array, object) -> .
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by sedachv 11y ago
The British government gave Charles Babbage the 1830s equivalent of 2.4 million USD to come up with a more efficient way of making printed logarithmic tables, which Babbage never managed to accomplish.
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by sedachv 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_feature_learning
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by sedachv 11y ago
> I think AI-generated art is an industry waiting to happen. It has been happening for a while: http://www.pamelamc.com/html/aaron_s_code.html https://www.wordseye.com/ It would be interesting to se
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by sedachv 11y ago
Basic income without rent controls will just be a transfer from taxpayers to landlords.
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by sedachv 11y ago
> The best answer for NYC is probably to aggressively gentrify as many neighborhoods as possible, which means (bluntly) displacing most lower income residents and moving in bicycle riding organic jam loving armies of hipsters. Where exac

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