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by sfifs 9y ago
Well the original post refers to the Three Body Problem series which is a rather interesting take on the topic. The English translations have now been available for a couple of years.
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by sfifs 9y ago
Now there's data on where it came in and went out where as before it was all daek. A lot of people have a lot of explaining to do.
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by sfifs 9y ago
In any free market, the giant incumbent will either buy out or copy and squelch startups that threaten them unless restricted by anti trust. Witness how Facebook treats competition in the social space. Or how Oracle treats the database spac
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by sfifs 9y ago
Those with wealth will always try to capture the system - whether its formal or informal. The natural state of any business is to try and become a monopoly because that maximizes rent taking ability - NOT competition. Practically the ONLY p
845.
by sfifs 9y ago
wasn't Java supposed to be precisely that?
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by sfifs 9y ago
there's no real incentive to work on this unless ad revenue takes a hit. When YouTube ads appearing in front of extremist videos caused brand money to get pulled out, solutions started magically appearing.
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by sfifs 9y ago
Why not just use an IDE if that's what you need with a Vim mode plugin rather than shoe horning Vim into something it is not really meant to be. Virtually every major IDE has a Vim mode.
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by sfifs 9y ago
I pull off this sort of stuff (very few slides or talk sheet with a few bullet points) nowadays after a decade of corporate managerial life. It essentially requires you to be ultra clear in your mind about message and narrative and to devel
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by sfifs 9y ago
And the lesson has been rammed home multiple times by now unfortunately... Iraq, Libya, Ukraine... so it's not even ambiguous. All politicians of calibre by now understand this.
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by sfifs 9y ago
The utility of nuclear weapons is strategic, not tactical. The only relevant deterrent is their use against against major cities for which speed is not really relevant. What's relevant is maintaining launch capability in your control -
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by sfifs 9y ago
And no one has lost any territory to the other since they developed nuclear weapons. All conventional millitary conflicts date from before they became nuclear powers.
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by sfifs 9y ago
Apple watch probably combines function with form in a way that is probably very good value at its price point. I'd certainly consider buying one if only it worked with Android phones. I have airpods that works well with my Android pho
853.
by sfifs 9y ago
Not correct. Galaxy S7 has it in the front and it's a pain to use compared to Galaxy S8 which has the touch sensor much more ergonomically positioned at the back. Source: owned both phones.
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by sfifs 9y ago
Just checked the Android calculator implementations from Google and Samsung on my phone. They correctly handle button press animation asynchronously. Look like Apple doesn't dog-food their software anymore after Jobs.
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by sfifs 9y ago
I consume almost all my media on phone. The problem with pdf is precisely that it renders the same on every screen - this makes most PDFs virtually unusable on the phone as you have to scroll down one column in a page, then up for the secon
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by sfifs 9y ago
No worries. I didn't flag you actually :-)
857.
by sfifs 9y ago
This works if you can guarantee the variable will not ever change after being set which is not unreasonable for configuration options. However if you are dealing with variables that can mutate in a concurrent environment, you might have a
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by sfifs 9y ago
Launching a rock back at earth would probably be quite cheap given you need to have propellents on hand to be there in the first place. So at some point of habitation, moon based folks will bid for Independence.
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by sfifs 9y ago
That's right. I've been using Go since pre 1.0 times. I'm however not by and large a programmer by profession.
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by sfifs 9y ago
I've been using Go as my preferred language for almost a decade now. Hackish "clever" solutions like these coming from designers of the language like Rob Pike and Dace Cheney simply indicate that the language is hitting its
861.
by sfifs 9y ago
You can install GalliumOS distribution and get full Linux on most Chromebooks. You can flash firmware and get a proper laptop too
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by sfifs 9y ago
These simply didn't have market penetration and network effects in the Indias and Indonesias of the world. Probably did not have a dominant network even in the US. Maybe they we a bit ahead of their time of easy internet availability a
863.
by sfifs 9y ago
Can't see any pics on Firefox Focus browser on mobile. Are they using some weird Desktop only CSS?
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by sfifs 9y ago
Start by assuming virtually every one below 21 that has an FB account has at least a couple of accounts - One with their public persona and one their parents won't be allowed to see. Add in accounts pet owners have for their pets etc.
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by sfifs 9y ago
It's the risk tolerance intersecting with demand-supply. If you join a startup where you are willing to be underpaid in return for equity which could make you rich at a small probability, you're in a entertainment industry model.
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by sfifs 9y ago
I had a big simulation to run that required lots of memory and lots of cores. I rented a machine for some 10 hours that it took and happily paid the 30-40 dollars that were charged. those machines have a lot of value for specific workloads.
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by sfifs 9y ago
If you are building from source, it's very trivial to update. git pull, checkout the new tag and build. Building from source gives you the awesome cross compilation features of Go, apart from easy updates and make it easy to see how sp
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by sfifs 9y ago
Actually I've always wanted Microsoft Office and Outlook editors to behave like vim
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by sfifs 9y ago
In discussions of new nuclear technology, it's always a good idea to keep in mind the famous Paper Reactors Real Reactors document written by the architect of the worlds most successful nuclear power program. http://ecolo.or
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by sfifs 9y ago
the implication is people really started digging into his work after reading that blog post.

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