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by simiones 7y ago
Which democracies is Russia trying to subvert in ways the US isn't? You could argue that Russia is supporting nationalist movements in most of Europe, but there are very similar efforts from the US. For example, in my own country, Roma
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by simiones 8y ago
The nicest point about GC is that, for the vast majority of data, you no longer need to have a concept of ownership at all. Ownership is not a fundamental architectural property - it is "only" a powerful technique for tracking dat
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by simiones 8y ago
> How is the USD worth anything after some many bank robberies? Well, because in bank robberies, it is the bank losing money, not the customers - this is exactly what bitcoin is missing.
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by simiones 8y ago
The AI showed here is not even a step in that direction. If you want photo-realistic images of how a piece of clothing would look on your body you need: - very accurate measurements of your body - a very accurate representation of the mater
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by simiones 8y ago
That would depend on very accurate cloth physics simulation as well. This is way beyond what the article is showcasing, it's not even in the same ballpark.
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by simiones 8y ago
Well, they are listing what are obviously the most widely used languages in the industry - C, Java, C++, SQL, JavaScript, R, HTML&CSS, Python, C#, Go, Bash, Assembly; and a few of the better known but more niche languages - Ruby, Swift,
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by simiones 8y ago
Sure, but would even the most avid reader of fashion mags want to see fashion ads while looking over their mother's photos on Facebook? Or while browsing a programming sub-reddit? Because that's what 'relevant ads' usual
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by simiones 8y ago
What I meant was: quantum mechanics and relativity have shown that not only is the physical world slightly different from the kind of world our mind can picture (e.g. "mechanistic, but with the universal attraction force"), it i
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by simiones 8y ago
Noam Chomsky usually has this point, that the human mind seems limited in its "native understanding" to a mechanistic view of the world - that is the only kind of model that is truly satisfactory to us. He also points out that, ev
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by simiones 8y ago
I'm sure there are some complex exceptions, but as a starter, you can think of lvalues as "anything you can assign to" (the l basically stands for left, as in, "can appear on the left of an assignment"). So, if you
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by simiones 8y ago
You know that, the lawyers know that, but how do you expect the content filtering mechanism to know that??? True, for 4'33'' there is a simple rule that they probably follow - ignore silence :). But for Fountain (if it ever c
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by simiones 8y ago
> Computer languages are called languages for a reason. They have syntax, grammar, vocabulary, and are used for communication. Perhaps, but they are vastly simpler than even the most basic human language; and far, far more limited in wha
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by simiones 8y ago
It's an entertaining (though certainly wrong) theory that states that ancient peoples' minds were divided into a "conscious" part that executed commands given by the other part, which it perceived as "gods speaking
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by simiones 8y ago
This reminds me of a Romanian joke about the national car maker, going something like this: Some reporter is wondering around the international car expo, discussing with various car makers. Mercedes tells him "our car is the most air-t
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by simiones 8y ago
I don't think you meant to imply this, but for anyone else - please note that the reverse can also be said - closures from an FP setting are objects from an OO setting, and it is natural to implement closures if you want them; see e.g.
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by simiones 8y ago
With the Chinese method, you also have to use large amounts of tea - as in, the cup should be full of leaves, at least after they're opened from the brewing.
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by simiones 8y ago
It usually has to be pretty good tea for anything but the second infusion to have any taste left at all, in my experience.
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by simiones 8y ago
Mostly we know about it because of now jailed or internationally-wanted 'traitors' or 'enemies of state'; the journalists who agreed to publish the initial stories are few and far between.
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by simiones 8y ago
The problem with your comparison is that IT took tens of years of investment before it produced anything truly useful. It is very hard to imagine that research being funded for years and years without financial return by anything other than
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by simiones 8y ago
One such example is dynamic re-compilation in Java, with e.g. inlining or uninlining based on recent profiling. This would handle the case where a certain (large-ish) function is on a branch that's often taken for some stable amount of
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by simiones 9y ago
Interesting! Myself, I have a native language and I'm also fluent in English, and basically all of my thoughts are expressed conversationally (I also have conversations in most of my dreams, though of course they have many other compon
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by simiones 9y ago
It's also very possible that human language started as a purely internal thinking mechanism, and only later became adopted for communicating with other humans. This seems very counter-intuitive initially, but makes more sense when you