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by stefs 12y ago
a perfect AI would be rather boring anyway!
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by stefs 12y ago
definitely. binaural hearing is very important. a single microphone in your shirt pocket would be a bad idea and not even close to the quality of hearing you can get with current hearing aids.
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by stefs 12y ago
yes, but it's still not in any way adding to the discussion.
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by stefs 12y ago
currently it looks like they ignored the hidden cost of being on the hn frontpage.
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by stefs 12y ago
my thoughts exactly: policemen and -women are people and citizens too (with kids that probably wont grow to be police themselves), and citizens have an interest in upholding the law. it's NOT an us vs. them situation.
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by stefs 12y ago
this reminds me of when i started to code - find the first solution to the problem that comes to mind and hack it until it works, even if was something as abstruse as manipulating the UI. of course the outcomes were incredibly fragile and b
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by stefs 12y ago
that said, CSV is not without its own problems - i mean, it's not well defined. if you're down to automate a bunch of windows programs by moving around the cursor programatically and faking keyboard events, using excel over ODBC i
668.
by stefs 12y ago
isn't this only true if the app isn't pinning certificates?
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by stefs 12y ago
correction: it was fM(N) where N=[0..1000[ and constant M=20 (i think; 20 didn't take too long for 1000 iterations). results were added up and printed at the end and outside the benchmarking loop.
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by stefs 12y ago
out of curiosity i tried this with javascript. seems like chrome is a lot of faster than firefox. ~6 times with f25, but f25 is a bit too coarse. jsperf (which isn't really the right tool for this job anyway) identified me as a spammer
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by stefs 12y ago
there's also http://iobound.com/pareidoloop/ , a project that uses a genetic algorithm for breeding (random) polygons into a shape with a face detection algorithm as the fitness function.
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by stefs 12y ago
> And 15 years later, I'm still apologising for that one moment of utter stupidity. this sounds so incredibly strange to me - as if uncovering a supercritical bug is something you should be ashamed of. well, except if he introduced
673.
by stefs 12y ago
small city in austria, pretty much like described by OP. then a strip mall was built outside the city, cafés, bars and a cinema included. the inner city died out in a matter of months - only the elderly stayed. small mom&pop shops in th
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by stefs 13y ago
i've read that while the pirates were fishermen in the beginning (who really didn't have much choice), when people realised how profitable it was the trade was taken over by soldiers/mercenaries. the soldier-pirates are a lot
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by stefs 13y ago
the second badge at the bottom (the small one) has its own countdown timer. seems there's an off-by-one-month bug. (i always wondered why some libraries treat jan as 0 but the first day of the month as 1)
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by stefs 13y ago
ah, sorry - i just read a part and ctrl+f'd for this, but searched for the wrong terms apparently. would this cause connection timeouts if copying data to the socket took longer than one second? i'm always a bit sceptical when i e
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by stefs 13y ago
> if LINUX sleep for one second to ensure the data arrives at the browser can someone explain that please?
678.
by stefs 13y ago
i haven't looked at the code, but you really should switch to prepared statements. they make your code cleaner and more secure (and maybe faster, but that's pretty negligible in this case). have a look at PDO.
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by stefs 13y ago
my dad salvaged an ancient notebook from work to use as a living room computer (usually if he sees something on TV that interests him, he starts googling it), or use for vacation planning etc. tried to install windows but failed twice due t
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by stefs 13y ago
i recommend stephen baxter and arthur c. clarkes "the light of other days". as far as i remember it focusses more on the social than the economical impact of absolute transparency, but i still strongly recommend this excellent boo
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by stefs 13y ago
file a bug report "login is broken"
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by stefs 13y ago
he did provide a paypal account that wasn't his own, but his parents - who are his legal guardians. either way, paypal is indeed handling this in the worst way possible.
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by stefs 14y ago
they're great games, you already know them and know that you like them and how they work. and. they're still triggering your dopamine release like when you were young. i remember reading an article about why every older person seems to hear
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by stefs 14y ago
if you were a student again, you'd probably don't have the money. or a credit card. a lot of great games on steam are dirt cheap - back when i was a kid that played a lot - because i had the time and motivation - 2-8 euros a game would have
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by stefs 14y ago
he's been accused of copying kairosoft's game a couple of times already, you can read his response here (he's ppakl): http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1cn8yi/game_dev_tycoo... yes, they've been inspired by it but "their version" doe
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by stefs 14y ago
game quality is increasing, you're just getting older. same thing happens to me; i just can't play like i used to anymore. when you're younger it's easier to lose yourself in the game, no matter how bad (and actually boring) it is.
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by stefs 14y ago
cdjk is right: start with starting strength (or something similar like stronglifts) before moving to a different program. 3 times a week, takes about 45 mins. you start with an almost empty bar (to practice proper form), increase weight eve
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by stefs 14y ago
are there even any tracing JITs for javascript left?
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by stefs 14y ago
the problem isn't just the inconvenience for customers. the bigger threat for authors is that amazon isn't just a quasi-monopoly, but also a monopsony (meaning publishers have to publish through amazon; it's a monopoly for suppliers instead
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by stefs 14y ago
at first i interpreted it as "megacunts" - a nasty joke i wouldn't put past kom dotcom. then i realization sunk in.

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