splawn

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by splawn 11y ago
I see the difference in the "means" (and one is way faster\efficient), but not in the "ends".
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by splawn 11y ago
"nuance is important" Says someone comparing plants with human children to make a point. (And no, not much of a difference, other than with modern technique we have more control over the results)
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by splawn 12y ago
I think that link is for the bleeding edge dev version. It says 25.1 rather than 24.5. Looks like its going to be a good release tho. :)
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by splawn 12y ago
I came to mention TRAMP. A couple weeks ago I started running the server parts of my dev environment on a little laptop that was laying around and using tramp for all source code editing. Its pretty transparent and not having to run any VM&
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by splawn 12y ago
My guess is that the mix of religion and politics was about to erupt into a massive flamewar.
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by splawn 12y ago
Fair enough. I just like that on wikipedia you can look behind the curtain and see who is editing what and see the discussion leading to what is in the articles on controversial topics so you can attempt to weigh what biases are in play. I
337.
by splawn 12y ago
"The problems is, you don't know which articles or statements you can depend on unless you have expertise in that area." How is that not true of most sources? EDIT:s/any/most/
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by splawn 12y ago
IIRC, The three other types are Explorers, Socialites, and Griefers
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by splawn 12y ago
If you actually know someone with supernatural powers do them a huge favor and tell them about this so they can get their million dollars. http://web.randi.org/the-million-dollar-challenge.html
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by splawn 12y ago
I didn't realize that the current overwhelming scientific consensus on global warming is based on "seems like a couple years recently have been pretty hot.". If thats not the case, does that count as a strawman in something y
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by splawn 12y ago
yes it would be different, it would be about how it was a record breaking cold year. If it rained unicorns it would be about it raining more unicorns than normal, but since we live in this universe instead of one of those alternate ones thi
342.
by splawn 12y ago
Weird, I thought this article was about a years worth of global weather data. Perhaps you don't understand scale?
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by splawn 12y ago
If you just want to play with something that uses a genetic algo, there is this: http://boxcar2d.com/ You can handcraft a simple starting point and let it gradually evolve in different environments. Note how the different e
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by splawn 12y ago
"micro evolution" You are being confused by terms that were invented by a group of people (Discovery Institute) that deny evolution because of their religion not because of lack of evidence. The snapshot evidence you need is found
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by splawn 12y ago
There is no such thing as a "stable state of organism" in this context. Remove all your goalposts because they are confusing you. Evolution is a continuum.
346.
by splawn 12y ago
Why do you think we should be able to extrapolate millions of years of random mutation into the future and be able to test it? If you want evidence there are plenty of other places to look.
347.
by splawn 12y ago
I was once told that when mastering for vinyl you have to be careful with extremes because it can cause the needle to jump off the record.
348.
by splawn 12y ago
How can you observe data without loading it into memory first?
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by splawn 12y ago
We are using fig. Just starting to get our feet wet with docker, so I don't know if its considered "best practice" though. It seems to meet our needs so far. http://www.fig.sh/
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by splawn 12y ago
Whoops. After reading my own link, I saw that the god helmet experiments have yet to be recreated. I had heard about it in a Dawkins Documentary and assumed that the science behind it was more solid than it actually is. My apologies for bri
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by splawn 12y ago
I wonder if that is related to what happens to people that wear the "god helmet". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet
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by splawn 12y ago
Next time this happens try running evil-emacs-state. (Its bound to C-z ...I think that is the default binding that the evil install setup) EDIT: just realized I posted this without saying why to do this. This command will put you into evil-
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by splawn 12y ago
Emacs is easier to customize. I used vim for 10 years before switching last year to emacs + evil. After a month I felt more comfortable in elisp than I ever was in vimscript. If you use terminals within emacs you can navigate and search thr
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by splawn 12y ago
There is an idea floating around out there that boardgames are becoming more popular recently because of the social gap left behind when multi-player video games went online, removing the need to physically be in the same room as your frien
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by splawn 12y ago
"ignores the rest" by "rest", I assume you are a scientologist talking about theatans. "This is a quite big assumption, and has none to do with describing "the world as it is"." I disagree, my favorit
356.
by splawn 12y ago
Thanks for these links! I will have to check them out. This week I have been listening to all the old episodes of "you look nice today" http://youlooknicetoday.com
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by splawn 12y ago
A long time ago a coworker told me about this. He told me it was because the dust was conductive and would wreck havoc with electronics.
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by splawn 12y ago
Unless you are my long lost twin, you and I don't have the exact same genome either. Personally, I like the thought that cauliflower is the poodle of cabbages.
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by splawn 12y ago
Im too lazy to move two fingers for that, instead mine is mapped to jj. =P
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by splawn 12y ago
You are being obtuse now, minecraft is a game with a level editor and a mod scene. SL is something different that you don't seem to grok and thats ok. :)

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