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Will The Tablet Cure Newspapers' Ills? (Media Watch)(abc.net.au)
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by thisrod 17y ago
Agreed. It's hard to beat an editor where you can run find, grep or whatever shell command you like, and the output becomes a clickable menu.
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by thisrod 17y ago
I think you're missing the point. As you say, there are better statements of utilitarianism, that more closely approximate how you feel. Other people feel otherwise. A fascist would reject your argument, and might well kill the children,
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by thisrod 17y ago
Acme was written in the '80s, and the author of wmii and dwm states it inspired his ideas. Acme was based on Oberon, which Wirth wrote so long ago that he had to build his own hardware to run it on.
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by thisrod 17y ago
I think the concept of a lisp OS is a type error. Lisp has interpreters and runtime systems, that run on operating systems. However, Plan 9 suggests ways those interpreters could be better structured. The core features of Plan 9 are that
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by thisrod 17y ago
These pilots are fighting wars from Las Vegas. The enemy may take action to remove them from the fight, and collaterally damage any local civilians who get in their way. The war would seem much less abstract then.
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by thisrod 17y ago
One section of the paper describes which algorithms the programers used. It appears that the solutions in scripting languages made heavy use of associative arrays, so the results might change if you swapped Tcl's hashing algorithm for Perl
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by thisrod 17y ago
The course notes show how a mathematician would figure out that the drag force on the cone was proportional to its area. A physicist could do it with much less work. In a dodgy approximation, the impulse on a body due to a fluid is propor
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by thisrod 17y ago
Cavendish's Experiments to determine the Density of the Earth is still worth reading. In the 18th century, it took some impressive hacking to isolate two balls sufficiently that their mutual gravity was the strongest force acting on them
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by thisrod 17y ago
Homosexuality was a crime in Australia And it still is: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/cc189994/s...
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by thisrod 17y ago
Last week, I heard a talk from one of the engineers doing this. He claimed that the main thing holding back robotics is liability concerns. If someone builds a machine that causes widespread death and destruction, the usual cop-out is to
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I'm surprised that the median job candidate gets that wrong. It isn't an especially hard question, and I would have assumed professional programers had a pretty good instinct for combinatorics.
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In principle, you could demonstrate superposition states of cats the same way you'd demonstrate them for atoms or photons: return the live and dead cats to the same state, and look for interference fringes. There are two difficult parts.
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I'd love to hear why Penrose really thinks the Everett interpretation is crazy. He gives a very weak reason in the interview. No doubt he accepts the atomic theory of matter, despite his inability to see atoms, so his inability to see sup
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by thisrod 17y ago
I remember posting once on a friend's wall that while I appreciated her passion in supporting gay rights, I couldn't help but think gay rights parades were obnoxious and hurting the cause. That's exactly the position that King's letter re
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by thisrod 17y ago
If you don't know who Bertrand Russell was, you should Google for "Russell paradox", "On Denoting", and "Russell-Einstein mainfesto".
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by thisrod 17y ago
the censorship in Great Britain of the Wikipedia page for Virgin Killer, an album by the German hard rock group, Scorpions. Some of you might be too young to remember Scorpion. They had a worldwide hit in the late '80s, with a song that
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by thisrod 17y ago
It's like saying 128x and 28x, considered as finite sequences of digits followed by a letter, are in the class of sequences that end in x. Except in the infinite case, there are a lot more than 26 letters.
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An alternative explanation than "people choose to fail", and maybe a more plausible one, can be found in Martin Seligman's Helplessness: on Depression, Development and Death .
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Scientists have created the most beautiful and useful artifacts ever made. Think "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica", "On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection", "The Nature of the Chemical Bond", and "The Principl
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"Over time, the best ideas will escape their parent communities and become adopted by all the major versions." It's taking a very long time. At the current rate of transfer, Linux will take the whole 21st century to absorb the progress Pla
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I don't think courts need to enforce contracts anymore. If someone doesn't live up to their word, others will find out and refuse to trust the bastard. Dishonesty is a losing strategy in the long run, and no one is likely to try it. Furth
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by thisrod 18y ago
Hear hear. The article doesn't say what's new about the authors' ideas. You'd expect it to mention the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics - it isn't news that the Aspect experiment can be explained if measurements affect thi
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See < http://www.google.com/search?q=cash+for+comment > for a notorious case of Australian journalists taking bribes.