tehwalrus

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by tehwalrus 10y ago
21st Century C is very very good. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033677.do Enjoyable to read through, covers tools as well as the language, and a very good reference of good practise. It covers the basics and t
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
The thing is, you've just spent a month watching this pair of eyes follow you around the room, and this face very slowly get the hang of smiling (initially it is only when they are defecating). When they get to the stage of being able
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Hmm, thank you for the warning. Was it a mechanical one? I fear for my WASD! I have plenty of spare plastic dome keyboards in a box. Now I have a real excuse not to throw them out!
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
I have both this "to learn" list and an ever expanding bookshelf (which grows faster than I can read the damn things, mostly thanks to recommendations in HN comments). Being 5 months into the parenting adventure, I seem to get a
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
The problem of how to assemble the coalition in the first place remains unsolved, indeed. You also need buy in from a major player in each bloc, as you suggest. I believe my original idea was for it to start small (but diverse), and grow ov
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
> whomever ran that army would be the defacto leader of the world That is specifically why I don't permit an executive. This isn't one army, it's an alliance of armies. They were (in my original proposal, not in the comm
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
I agree with you, sort of. Specifically, I will admit that there are some cases where something some people would call war is justifiable.
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Sadly, I'm not a billionaire. And privatise is a strong word - I think governments do a crappy job of it and I'd like to try! (I have stood for election, but winning while being nice is hard. note: I haven't stopped trying.)
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
I have written about this in the past. I believe I proposed something like a "no executive" world government, where you had international laws, defined by treaties, and a commitment by some treaty signatories to "arrest"
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
> If these actions are being done domestically against US citizens, with no just cause sure I will get upset, but that has yet to be seen. May I just ask, why does this distinction matter? Why do you believe the world should be divided
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
I don't think so. Do you? Does the gp?
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
I like the idea of decriminalising marriage, but it does mean that anyone can define marriage however they want. This brings same sex/different sex marriage into parity, if you do it according to the principles you espouse. So it still
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Universal constants changing slowly over the lifetime of the universe is one of the things I remember quite well from undergrad physics. Not as anything that has been proven, but as a meachanism to try and fix some of the astrophysics measu
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Yes but even in the upper register you still need to lshift by one or two bits depending on the constant IIRC. Five had me shifting by (1 or 2), and seven by (2 or 1) I seem to recall. I can't remember what property of the number deter
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Is this the trick where you multiply by the two's-compliment inverse instead of dividing? That was the coolest thing I learned when I spent a few days coding assembly. I can't see the shift that you normally need after pulling the
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
It is certainly dangerous to play sounds to someone to try to trigger specific memories. This could prime them to give false information, entirely believing it was true. Which is a shame, because it's really important to expose the sor
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
If that were true, people with really boring jobs would have higher wellbeing, all other things being equal. Actually, there might be some truth in that.
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
That wasn't what I said at all. I simply said they both look pointless when you try to measure their mechanical inputs and outputs. I actually think the stock market is much less valuable than computer games, economically speaking.
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
But since productivity (GDP) includes stuff like making games and gambling on stocks, I'm not sure it's a number worth maximising. Wellbeing is a number worth maximising though.
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Computer games, and the stock market, initially look pointless. Games are, as the article puts it, frivolous toys, and the second-by-second stock market is a zero sum game casino. (Buying stocks is emphatically not investing in a company,
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Thank you, that's actually pretty awesome :)
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
The biggest difference from 12 years ago is invisible though- it's the news feed curation. It used to be that you'd see the latest things from your friends and pages. Now you see what Facebook thinks you'll want to see from
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Sure, but the ancestor comment mentioned "typography". I've never heard that used to refer to hand-written stuff (although, perhaps in the past hand-designed stuff.)
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
But actually being able to do it with your hands is nothing more than a party trick. Skill in a vector editor is key, and some domain knowledge, but surely not actually hand writing beautifully?
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Do you have a link to a blog post about your setup? If not, would you consider writing about it?
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
I tried to use a Cyanogenmod phone over the summer without google play services (I couldn't get it to install). I used the Amazon android store, which has many of the same applications as the play store. However, most apps I installed
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Thank you for posting. (The link is a very detailed blog post about why this migration is happening, and what alternatives to GitHub were considered).
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
I wonder if the author would consider genetic programming (generating random code and executing it to compare it against a fitness function, sometimes used in computer game bots) an example of their "missing paradigm" - it fits th
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Perhaps part of qualifying as a lawyer should involve writing code against someone else's annoying API, just to give them a taste of how the law is for the rest of us.
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
The description in the Worldly Philosophers is my main source: that in Das Kapital he flips between ranting and precise mathematical language quite sporadically. It is my understanding that he was the first to predict economic cycles of bo

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