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by sprout 16y ago
Let me know when Arch implements package signing. Though I'm not sure that I want to be in a community that thinks signed packages are an unnecessary feature for a production release.
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An 18 Billion Mile Journey is almost complete.(scienceblogs.com)
70 points by sprout 16y ago|9 comments
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by sprout 16y ago
>They /can/ shoot him though. All it takes is an angry war widow who feels their life is forfeit without their partner. That is a terrible idea from the perspective of the US government. "You'll find a live saint much easier to handle t
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by sprout 16y ago
Oh, they sound innovative, they just don't sound patent-worthy. At the core of his idea he's just plugging some OCR algorithms into a midi player, but the way he's described it I wouldn't be surprised if some of those patents essentially am
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by sprout 16y ago
>My point: I think genuinely, unquestionably consenting sex is really a quite difficult standard to meet and there are many cases of less than ideal encounters where it ends up being a judgment call on the part of the woman as to a) how
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by sprout 16y ago
>User education, or the lack of it. (Clutches head.) I have seen a computer that is probably safe for most users; it's called an iPad, and it's the digital equivalent of a fascist police state: if you try to do anything dodgy, you'll fi
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by sprout 16y ago
If Assange truly is innocent, that's all well and good. But I for one am not okay with date rape apologists. There's no excuse, as a man, for ignoring when a woman says no. This looks like a setup. But that's different from saying Assange i
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by sprout 16y ago
Obviously it's creepy, but Schmidt is not the creep.
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by sprout 16y ago
Actually possibly worse, since shipped foods are engineered to last longer without spoiling, and they go through a lot more quality control than what you pick up at the market, so the ones that spoil quickly often don't even make it to you.
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by sprout 16y ago
>Kurzweil suggests a (surprisingly low) bound on the complexity of this structure (which builds on complex proteins and should be seen as multiplicative of the former complexity). I think this is where most everyone really is missing th
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by sprout 16y ago
The big thing I think Kurzweil is absolutely right on is that if Moore's law continues (even in its current crippled parallel-only form) until 2045, we can't help but have the ability to simulate a human brain. Am I convinced that will happ
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by sprout 16y ago
You sidestep the whole hardware problem like that. Computer code encodes software programs, not computers.
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by sprout 16y ago
Presumably when we're talking about this task the first simulation would take place on a very large cluster, with a lot of human data as input. Kurzweil is giving a lines-of-code metric, but lines-of-code is only one piece of the puzzle. Ku
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by sprout 16y ago
It's equally impossible for Apple to craft a consumer experience with as wide a reach as Adobe or Microsoft. Apple is not going to get more than 30% market share with their present strategy. MS/Adobe are unlikely to fall below 60% (especial
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by sprout 16y ago
On the contrary. _why is an idea more than a man. On a certain level I'd say he closed up shop to make the character a shared memory rather than an individual.
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by sprout 16y ago
I can't imagine what reason there could possibly be.
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by sprout 16y ago
>The small time owners will have no problem paying that. Who doesn't have $20 a month for their blog? Eat one less taco bell meal and you are good to go. If all you have is actual people you know reading your blog (and that's most peopl
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by sprout 16y ago
My father works in recycling. You can recycle styrofoam, but all you can make out of it is packing peanuts. Styrofoam cups aren't exactly a sustainable solution.
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by sprout 16y ago
Please. I'm off to play Dwarf Fortress.
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by sprout 16y ago
I agree that cults of personality are bad things. But dismissing someone as an evangelist and overrated isn't much of an argument either. It trivializes his very real and important accomplishments, and conveniently allows you to dismiss all
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by sprout 16y ago
Kurzweil is a brilliant scientist. Calling him a Deepak Chopra is just stupid. He's out of his depth is all. Also, I wouldn't bet against him building an AI that for all intents and purposes appears to be conscious. Full-human simulation is
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by sprout 16y ago
I'd still call that programming. Turning requirements into code is part of the job, and even if you spend all day doing nothing but listening to people spout incoherent requirements at you, you're still wearing the hat of a programmer. Cont
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by sprout 16y ago
>That seems... crazy. Maybe he was simply observing that such policies were likely to take shape in the future. But if they do, the company he runs will be the primary cause of it. I believe you're looking for Mark Zuckerberg, not Eric
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by sprout 16y ago
Mold can and does actually, scientifically speaking, make people sick. Associating that with unmitigated bullshit like the WiFi idiots is just degrading.
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by sprout 16y ago
The part where he's talking out of his ass is where he claims that Oracle can support Red Hat better than Red Hat. I'll grant that Oracle can support Oracle running on Red Hat better, but that's a different story.
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by sprout 16y ago
God I hope not. I really don't want webpages serving up multithreaded JavaScript on anything with fewer than two cores. Say what you like about Flash, it always confines its evil to a single core.
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by sprout 16y ago
That's how Microsoft ended up with a bevy of undocumented API calls that still live today, with their internal software being among the largest offenders of using dated and problematic APIs.
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by sprout 16y ago
By all accounts I've seen, WebOS is a great platform, and failed because of marketing and hardware, not software.
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by sprout 16y ago
The point isn't to reduce prices, the point is to make sure that prices accurately reflect costs. In this case, prices do not reflect the cost of parking, which lets some people get away with not paying for land in the city, even though the
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by sprout 16y ago
You can't get meaningful stats unless you start out supporting IE.

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