smosher

23 ms·

181.
by smosher 14y ago
This is exactly what I was thinking of when I saw the article. I was impressed by how obvious it seemed after having read about it.
182.
by smosher 14y ago
Perl was never as popular as JavaScript has become lately, I don't know what to say. Spoiler: apparently ES6 is going to kill ES5. Personally I'm shocked.
183.
by smosher 14y ago
It's a travesty.
184.
by smosher 14y ago
Why do we always want to declare a winner? To be fair, MessagePack seems to be throwing down the gauntlet with their tagline. The parent comment also makes some important points that anyone considering the two should be aware of.
185.
by smosher 14y ago
It's not a bug, but it is a problem. Aptitude's resolver is pickier. Debian has finally embraced multiarch systems and restructured x86 packages. It can still lead to weird dependency issues (but they're just that—issues with dependencies),
186.
by smosher 14y ago
The one time I fount myself at risk of hypothermia was because I had overestimated the cold. I put on too many layers which kept me nice and warm. But exertion in that warmth caused me to break a sweat. By the time I got where I was going t
187.
by smosher 14y ago
however there's no reason to believe 'qualia' aren't explainable I think there is. 'Qualia' is, in my opinion, a useless term. Even if something is going on of that sort, many of the points in the common definitions distance it from scien
188.
by smosher 14y ago
Go back to the 'definitions' section. Dennett went by this (and similar formulations), and made a compelling argument. I would advise reading Quining Qualia if you are interested. I believe that is where he made the case so well. (You can
189.
by smosher 14y ago
I believe that "all there is" that is observable could eventually be explained by science. I have no reason to believe it. That is why I used the past tense, in fact. People often say "oh it's just X" where X has a lot of gaps and there i
190.
by smosher 14y ago
I'd just like to point out that by definition, that's not qualia. You're talking about something else—which is fine. You can deny the existence of qualia all you like, and many people do. Dennett has made a very good case for the term being
191.
by smosher 14y ago
There are biological causes, but that doesn't explain much of anything at all. You could even look at it purely mathematically, but math alone will never manifest anything. What you are talking about are data points relevant to different fi
192.
by smosher 14y ago
Falling can be described in terms of physics, but the rush you get from it can't be. Not with today's machinery. The model we call physics may be so off-base as to be inapplicable at that stage. I see what you're saying, but he's talking ab
193.
by smosher 14y ago
At least this time they're talking about something that can be made to fire like sort of like a neuron instead of yet another boring old perceptron that can't even change its own behaviour.
194.
by smosher 14y ago
(I'm waiting for the posts saying they should be using PostgreSQL) I'm not that guy, but I've always liked Postgres.
195.
by smosher 14y ago
Yep. MySQL credentials in the binary.
196.
by smosher 14y ago
Pirates is way too heavy a term here. This is for-profit and closer to true piracy than file sharing is. It could be unintentional, but if they've already been contacted about it they really should be quicker to resolve the situation. Th
197.
by smosher 14y ago
You can do this with C++ already. Rust's plan seems to be to eliminate or reduce its runtime and give up the entry point. Go doesn't appear to have a plan.
198.
by smosher 14y ago
People have already taken the rights to their creations lightly by posting them on a free service. I agree, but only in the sense that they probably haven't read or cared much about the terms. Sharing content is different than giving up c
199.
by smosher 14y ago
The title given is "Instagram", not "Chad's Garage". I got the joke. I would find it funnier if that something were something other than what happened in this instance. It's not sour grapes either, I've never been an Instagram user.
200.
by smosher 14y ago
This is the first time XKCD has struck me as being ignorant... I'm assuming that it's for the sake of the joke. People have a right to be annoyed by this, in fact I wish it was more common. Rights to our own creations should not be taken so
201.
by smosher 14y ago
I think it's a good sign that they're becoming more frequent. It means more DRM-free games out there, and more Linux and Mac games.
202.
by smosher 14y ago
The article doesn't show much understanding of Nintendo's general trajectory. They've been almost determined to explore the entire spectrum of copy protection, in order of least to most effective. The psychological impact on them has been t
203.
by smosher 14y ago
... I'd love to hear ideas about how this could be possible if you think we're mistaken (The following probably isn't what you had in mind by "fully validate", but I think it puts it considerably closer to the challenge of defeating binar
204.
by smosher 14y ago
Yes, I can certainly appreciate that, but I think there is a minimum you can aim for without going too far out of your way. I could go into detail, but I think I'd be listing off things you already know.
205.
by smosher 14y ago
Of those with interest, if any of them are programmers or have the slightest curiosity about what all those files are for, they're abundantly competent to pull off this hack. Not necessarily the automation, but they can make it happen. but
206.
by smosher 14y ago
There's something to say for security through obscurity when the target is only a video game. There is. In case you were curious, it goes a lot like this: It doesn't work. It doesn't take a genius to crack a game. The most important qua
207.
by smosher 14y ago
This reminded me of just how nice the Doom WAD format is: http://doomwiki.org/wiki/WAD When a friend complained that he had a hard time figuring out which maps were present in a given WAD, I enjoyed myself while writing a utility to organ
208.
by smosher 14y ago
He's writing in JavaScript and using html for the UI - this is orders of magnitude faster. In what sense is that true?
209.
by smosher 14y ago
It's named after the alternation style used, which is well established in other languages.
210.
by smosher 14y ago
M'eh. If everyone likes your language it's probably terrible. When I finally took a look at TypeScript I was amazed at how inoffensive it is. It's nothing but an improvement. It might not be the best improvement imaginable, but JS in its en

More ›