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by sethrin 8y ago
I got a Galago Pro recently, because my previous netbook fell apart. The construction on the Galago Pro is quite solid, I believe; getting it apart was a bit more challenging than I am used to. However, the laptop is still being manufacture
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by sethrin 8y ago
Can I plug System76 as an alternative? I feel like it's important to purchase Linux-native hardware. Microsoft has largely prevented competition in this market, and I think more viable options would benefit consumers. Also, S76 has pre
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by sethrin 8y ago
This is ludicrous anti-government propaganda that ignores the government's role in developing air power. Yes, the Wrights made the first one on their own. The Army and USPS provided a raison d'etre for quite a long time before com
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by sethrin 8y ago
Most places in SE Alaska are inaccessible by road. Skagway, Haines, and Hyder are the three exceptions. The highways to these necessarily go through Canada, but I'm not sure why that would make them remarkable?
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by sethrin 8y ago
Linux is not UNIX™, but it is a Unix in most meaningful senses of that term. My opinion would be that making much of the distinction would be pedantic in a negative sense; there does not seem to be a practical reason for this.
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by sethrin 8y ago
Joe should ignore unproven therapies, particularly when accompanied by grandiose claims, and especially when the proponent refuses point-blank to substantiate said claims. Probiotics are another good example of an unproven therapy, but with
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by sethrin 8y ago
I'm sorry, I'm not sure how you could know that, or why it would be a precondition to forgiveness. Assuming that large numbers of people are dishonest and sociopathic may not be incorrect, but acting as if that were true seems pre
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by sethrin 8y ago
I have lots of political opinions, which I enjoy expressing, and even the lame in-jokes on Slashdot were special in a sense. A lot of techies are quite witty, and humor is an essential part of human expression. I think that both of these th
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by sethrin 8y ago
The corpus I searched returned no results, but I'll take the correction: mea culpa.
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by sethrin 8y ago
What odds would you give that that word has been used more than five times in the history of English literature?
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by sethrin 8y ago
The problem is that the allowed two- and three-letter words matter the most, and using a game-specific dictionary at least provides an authoritative list, if not a good one. The omission of "ok" from the official dictionary is lik
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by sethrin 8y ago
As I recall, there are few states which have never had an incidence of sovereign default.
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by sethrin 8y ago
I'm glad someone did these experiments. I find that Scrabble begins to seem unfair after a certain level: there is certainly a great deal of strategy involved, but just as much of the game involves memorizing a fairly arbitrary collect
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by sethrin 8y ago
That's really not a very accurate description of events, in any particular. In addition to the linked article, you may want to read Dolnick's The Clockwork Universe .
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by sethrin 8y ago
You should read more about Gallileo. He was wrong in many ways, and it's entirely likely that he was punished for his tendency to be a jerk as much as anything else. Actually, the analogy isn't half bad, come to think... http:&#x
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by sethrin 8y ago
I think that the actual issue is the collective desire for punishment, and our inability to forgive others. From what I can see, forgiveness is something that we should strive to achieve as soon as possible after an offense. It's far t
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by sethrin 8y ago
I have no idea why you think that any of this might be persuasive. Do you really do what random people on the Internet tell you, with no evidence, just because they say it's a good idea? And were I to accept this proposal, there are no
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by sethrin 8y ago
Hearsay and anecdote are not useful for determining the empirical validity of a theory or therapy. I don't know you, and I have no idea if your reporting is accurate, or if so, who this neurologist might have been, or whether they are
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by sethrin 8y ago
Kay. But they did have some criticisms, and we may take it that you disagree with those?
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by sethrin 8y ago
The author says: > I am not going to make any bigger claims on the community or industry as a whole so this is just where I’m at right now. I’ll also touch a little on why I’m not using lisp for my current games.
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by sethrin 8y ago
Just to be entirely clear, are you disagreeing with the author about the suitability of Lisp for video game development?
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by sethrin 8y ago
That seems like quite a strong claim. This would need to be supported by extraordinary empirical evidence. It's rather difficult for us to independently verify your friend's neurologist's word. Do you perhaps have some scient
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by sethrin 8y ago
For residential service, there is no reason to expect a 1:1 reservation. This would be extremely wasteful. The exact number is not relevant, but residential bandwidth is oversold as a matter of course. Talking about capex and aggregate cost
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by sethrin 8y ago
Thank you for the response. The article at hand suggests: > Performance (beyond the efficiency gained from appropriate algorithms) is going to be dictated from your ability to control what is being processed and when. Maybe I can’t affor
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by sethrin 8y ago
No, I am not arguing that bandwidth is unlimited. That would be prima facie impossible. I'm somewhat confused and distressed to read a summation of my argument which implies such an absurdity; it seems objectionable in the context of
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by sethrin 8y ago
The form of the argument is tangential, but the validity of "argument from analogy" is dependent on the strength of the analogy. Few analogies hold up to substantial scrutiny, and the specific examples cited were all fairly distan
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by sethrin 8y ago
I understand them to be saying that if execution is supposed to be halted before the division occurs, then whether the division is an exception or an error is a moot point.
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by sethrin 8y ago
I haven't programmed in Lisp yet, but I love the idea: it seems very directly inspired by lambda calculus. However, I tend to think of it as the opposite pole of expressiveness from ASM. Lisp excels at abstraction, but is not good at b
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by sethrin 8y ago
My mother has always suggested being "busy", with as little specificity as possible. "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I'm not available." The nice thing about this excuse is that it doesn't wear out: one can al
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by sethrin 8y ago
I do not see anything in the parent comment indicating a linear relationship. Making a more general comparison of prices is perfectly sound. If you must make an inference, you should construe the argument in the most favorable terms. Also,

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