solipsism

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by solipsism 12y ago
Meaningful, maybe not. Having a desirable marketing effect? Probably.
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by solipsism 12y ago
What products would you say are comparable to yours? Perforce comes to mind, though that's more of a "check out, check in" model, where this appears to be more of a dropbox model? I'm not understanding how a version is
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by solipsism 12y ago
Exactly. Parent wants HN kept relatively civil from his/her perspective. When it comes to other people's perspectives, no holds barred.
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by solipsism 12y ago
Taking Asimov quotes out of context is a form of violence.
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by solipsism 12y ago
* it is actually more specific than "performant"* I disagree. See this use of 'fast' in a submission, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7132044 What does "fast" mean there? I
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by solipsism 12y ago
I disagree. You're suggesting that we need to forsake Knuth's advice when designing the architecture of our solution because architecture is hard to change later. What you have not realized is that architecture that is hard to c
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by solipsism 12y ago
Programming languages are tools that are useful to many more disciplines than just computer science.
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by solipsism 13y ago
That is evidence for the eye evolving in the seas. Knauth's theory is that our progressively more complex ancestors went from the land to the sea to the land. This is still consistent with the eye evolving in the sea.
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by solipsism 13y ago
Do rockets?
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by solipsism 13y ago
Where is the hubris in attempting to do something without knowing whether it's possible? What is it about AI that seems to make people defensive? Is it the idea that human intelligence might not be as special as we think it is?
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by solipsism 13y ago
mostly because we can't expect to unravel in a few decades what evolution has spent millennia perfecting. As others have suggested, this is demonstrably wrong, trivially so.
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by solipsism 13y ago
I wonder who the intended audience of this review is. The book is clearly geared toward beginners. It would seem a review of such a book should be geared toward those who might read it to learn about cryptography. This review is obviousl
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by solipsism 13y ago
Most modern routing systems I've worked with can match against any of the URL schemes you describe, without any difference in flexibility. Segments of the path can be tied to hardcoded routes, or passed into handlers as parameters, or
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by solipsism 13y ago
That 60% figure pertains to average humans. Those skinny hipsters are mostly calcium :)
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by solipsism 13y ago
It's not, actually. The Mars Exploration Rover won't work underwater. That doesn't mean it's unreliable. When your compiled C program sometimes runs on x86 and sometimes doesn't, that is the definition of reliable
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by solipsism 13y ago
i'm not sure which party would make the most sense Open your mind!
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by solipsism 13y ago
Puppet and Chef do a lot more than install packages, which is literally all that Chocolatey does and most of what Boxstarter does. For example, how would you set a particular value in a configuration file with Chocolatey/Boxstarter?
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by solipsism 13y ago
They seem to be leaving the ethical considerations to the users, which I think is perfectly reasonable. Popcorn Time can't decide for you whether it's okay to stream a movie that you own the VHS for. Or whether it's okay fo
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by solipsism 13y ago
Yeah, with respect, I think you're being duped. What you're seeing is plain text being drawn as images, making you think the images are input. You only have to click the code to see the plain text (and its not pretty). Not only
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by solipsism 13y ago
For me the real achievement of Wolfram is the visualization capabilities. The knowledge bases are nice if you happen to be interested in a domain that is represented, and they make for great (controlled) demonstrations, but Wolfram Alpha (
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by solipsism 13y ago
The way I interpret it, they're aiming (rightly) to dismount programming from its local maxima in expressivity that is plaintext Where do you get this idea, out of curiosity? Every demonstration of Wolfram Language I've seen ha
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by solipsism 13y ago
I can understand that some have pressure from family. But societal pressure? I've never seen or experienced that, certainly not for males. Could you describe some concrete examples?
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by solipsism 13y ago
I think the argument is more like, "If we are in a simulation, it can't have an infinite resolution because that would imply an infinite amount of memory and computational power. We should be able to detect the 'graininess&#
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by solipsism 13y ago
What sides are you talking about? Either the line of reasoning (whichever you're talking about) has flaws or it doesn't. If you're trying to say "it leads nowhere", I sort of agree. But it only "leads nowhere
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by solipsism 13y ago
It would be a leap of logic to assert that we're in a simulation after observing a violation of physics . The first possibility we'd have to consider is that our understanding of physics is flawed. After that consideration (or
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by solipsism 13y ago
To take that point further, not only may their computers be nothing like our computers, the whole point of the article is that our natural laws and the basis of our mathematics is part of the simulation. That implies that the host (to borr