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1. 151.▲
   by ttflee 8y ago

   It should be renamed METAL sometime in the future and we should start implementing an open source shim named Cacao, before the nuclear war break out.
2. 152.▲
   by ttflee 8y ago

   Is it feasible to stabilize carbon in the form of synthesized diamond using renewable energy to fight global warming?
3. 153.▲
   by ttflee 8y ago

   Please let me quote from Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams: The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out
4. 154.▲
   by ttflee 8y ago

   Would be a good soviet-punk fiction concept, like what-if Internet were invented in and dominated by Soviet.
5. 155.▲
   by ttflee 8y ago

   Do you think that semiconductors are the only thing required to fix GOSPLAN, make adjustments to prices of everything and save Soviet economy?
6. 156.▲
   by ttflee 8y ago

   I feel so grateful that my first GUI toolkit is Cocoa touch which is mature in design. At least the typing just works and object ownership is well defined.
7. 157.▲
   by ttflee 8y ago

   Be cautious using WeChat. If the Chinese authority could retrieve something from the device, the U.S. authority must be able, too. https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/04/confirmed-deleted-w...
8. 158.▲
   by ttflee 8y ago

   I feel that I would be waiting in the queue to buy a GPU to expand my own brain someday.
9. 159.▲
   by ttflee 8y ago

   A protocol without considering the possibility of insane counterpart is doomed to DDoS the systems that utilize it.
10. 160.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    Hollywood did once put Japanese into a bad light in 80s~90s. At least in RoboCop 3, the antagonists was Japanese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_3
11. 161.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    After installing Xcode and stuff, on my MacBook Pro, there is usually less than 10GB free space. I have to delete and purge up and down till ~14GB for sure every time Xcode gets updated.
12. 162.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    There are a lot mismatches. For example, I reported a bug about CFRunLoopMode, where the original C-based CF used a comparison of pointer address to determine the equality of two run mode names. The original C version actually compared usin
13. 163.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    Please forgive me for my rant: Building Swift from source is a big pain in the *. I tried to build it on a shabby VPS running CentOS 7, which is not of my choice but because it was discounted. I had to setup 6GB of swap file to avoid OOM,
14. 164.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    In a privacy-less future, one has to learn how to achieve goals without revealing intentions by hiding them in randomized behaviors and words. One has to practice double-think, triple-think or even recursive-onion-think.
15. 165.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    Reminds me of this 34C3 talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9159-demystifying_network_cards
16. 166.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    Richard Stallman's warning shall be taken seriously. There is no cloud but others' computers.
17. 167.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    Sure, these displays are bendable. But they have a zero Gaussian curvature everywhere. What would be really interesting is to build a flat panel display that has a non-zero Gaussian curvature at will, e.g. one that fits into the windshield
18. 168.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    Mr Zuckerberg must have learned a lot during his trips to China!
19. 169.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    Just finished watching. Not quite getting the idea for tuple space.
20. 170.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    > any company who wants to exclude Google puts their entire mobile product line at risk on this play With the exception of China Inc. No place for Google so far.
21. 171.▲
    James Dyson on why not every device needs to be connected(techcrunch.com)

    34 points by ttflee 9y ago|3 comments
22. 172.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    Can we have Overwatch on macOS (i.e. DirectX on Vulkan on Metal) with this?
23. 173.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    Wikipedia (Chinese) is blocked, but you could circumvent by adding a few lines of DNS records for zh.wikipedia.org into your /etc/hosts. Sites for other languages are fine for a few years.
24. 174.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    > It's just sad how people always try to "improve" on old standard interfaces by then over-designing the improvements to the point where the new interface is just overwhelmed by complexity. Did Linus also criticize the com
25. 175.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    The new proposal of amendment to the Constitution of China, if you could call it, contains large sections about supervisory commissions. This commissions and subordinate branches would be able to oversee and veto any inferior level legislat
26. 176.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    Brezhnev stayed for 18 years until his demise.
27. 177.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    Close all windows and open them again. Oh my.. EDIT: http://wdell.com/humor/stalledcar.html
28. 178.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    My fear of future is way above this. Apple and other mobile OS all incorporated so called Mobile Device Management features into their cores. With one or a few payloads pushed to your device, it could do fairly lot from install an app remot
29. 179.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    Real world is so damned complicated, full of various mini games. How about using a MMORPG as a naive start point?
30. 180.▲
    by ttflee 9y ago

    Enjoy gluten, if you can. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_gluten_(food)