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by sethrin 8y ago
Kk, thank you for indulging my curiosity. Beaglerush is a very humorous Aussie who is notable for a video series on the Long War mod for the game XCOM. Long War turns a moderately challenging game of thirty or forty hours into an extremely
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I had wondered the other day whether animal intelligence was either associated with or predicated on memory abilities. This paper[0] seemed at first blush to support that notion. Am I interpreting that correctly? Is there other supporting e
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Profilers have limitations like anything else, and it's possible to be pointing the flashlight in the wrong place. I probably wouldn't include that as a list item. By the by, is there more than one kungtotte on the Internet? It to
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Fifteen years ago, AJAX did not exist. Fifteen years before that our computers had VGA screens and megabytes of RAM. Yours is an oft-heard complaint in many quarters, but with respect, I have trouble taking it as indicative of anything othe
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3) Profile before optimization.
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In general. Again, I may be missing a trick here, but I don't see how there can be any objective way to evaluate different truth-finding systems against each other.
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I note that people are referring to Slashdot in the past tense. I don't disagree with the implied statement, but do regret its passing.
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Perhaps I'm missing something, but are epistemological systems directly comparable?
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The focus is on usage as opposed to scripting, and it was written in a few days as a somewhat visceral reaction to seeing a single-page introduction to the shell in a coding academy. It may be that the term "booklet" is more appro
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There's limited grounds for this to not be a disingenuous argument. Systemd is not well described as an init system. It is a service management system, which handles transitions in system state, including (but not limited to) init and
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I think that the simple expression of this might be that Bash is a command language, not a scripting language.
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I'm strongly considering making it a point to do just that: include Ruby in all the images I can, just to not have to use Bash. For one-liners it's fine, but I don't get ten lines into a Bash script before missing scripting-l
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I wrote a short book for novices on shell usage, because it is extremely important for developers to know. Bash one-liners are usually even pretty defensible. But I dream about how the world would be if Bash were actually a good scripting l
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As Wildgoose says, it's a frequently-used initialism for the Design Patterns book, which is otherwise somewhat awkward to refer to concisely and unambiguously.
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Say you decide to make a video game, and you decide to make a couple of classes for your game objects to inherit from. You make the classes Tool and Weapon . You have just prevented yourself from making the game Clue . The solutions to
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I never got much into Nietzsche, but well, between being trans, and having seasonal depression, and having been stuck in rural Alaska for twenty years, we can say that I've seen some depressive episodes. It does get better. One thing t
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Lakes don't have the required quantum properties, I think, but this might work: http://math.mit.edu/~bush/?page_id=484
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Do you have any empirical evidence for any particular QM interpretation? If not, does that make them unscientific?
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Most nations are not optimal, and cede all kinds of economic growth to other nations. Why is this a problem?
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Are you not familiar with the hydrogen bomb, or are you speculating about unphysical weapons?
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Alcubierre drives require exotic matter which is not quite ruled out by the laws of physics. Hopefully they don't require Jupiter-sized masses of the stuff, although some have suggested as much. However, that solved, there are two slig
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Hmm. What if I live like a student because I am slightly lazy, I have modest needs, and I'm paralyzed by fear and self-doubt?
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This has been personally true for me; I began my career as an artist. I've known a few others to do similarly. Most of the people who do coding schools come from other backgrounds, and you can say what you want about coding school grad
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Have you considered a craft? Carpentry, say?
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What exactly do you mean by "outcompeted" here?
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The headline in that article vastly overstates the significance and reliability of this result.
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Yes, and the fragment makes no more sense in context. The full story is, I read, notable for style, in some way that fails to be very current; I'm sure that it was a big change from Cronkite. However, it meanders more slowly than a laz
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People can get their throats slit in public, anywhere which is public. There is nothing to suggest that the Portland light rail is any more dangerous than walking the streets, and to be honest, as someone who uses the MAX almost exclusively
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Well, that was relatively interesting, but, ah, what exactly did I just read?
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For most working persons globally, getting fired isn't something that involves a "difficult conversation". Working stiffs do not get that degree of attention to their feelings. Suggesting that this phenomenon is common to (or

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