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by warmfuzzykitten 10y ago
It actually does sound kinda crazy. If you're forced to use Mac at work, why mess around with some buggy, craptastic Linux-on-the-Mac when you can use use the perfectly good Unix already on the Mac.
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by warmfuzzykitten 10y ago
Could we stop with the links to WSJ? Very few people can get past the paywall.
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by warmfuzzykitten 10y ago
Perhaps Richard Stallman's greatest achievement has been to redefine the word "free" and then get a million geeks to argue about whether this or that conforms to his definition. This is social engineering at its finest.
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by warmfuzzykitten 10y ago
The other factors seem quite mysterious. This is the only page in which I've seen downvote arrows in ages.
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by warmfuzzykitten 10y ago
That's just cognitive dissonance kicking in. I had no problem with Chalmers, but had my own dissonant moments beginning with panpsychism. Why anyone would give credence to such ludicrous, unfalsifiable theories is beyond me.
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by warmfuzzykitten 10y ago
Or for any other purpose, actually.
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by warmfuzzykitten 10y ago
"But you can't explain the concept 'illusion' without reference to 'consciousness'" Of course you can. What you see is just a model the brain constructs based on visual input. The brain squares up corners,
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by warmfuzzykitten 10y ago
You can speed up a video, a feature of lecture videos in the Coursera courses I've taken. With pitch adjustment, it's surprising how much better even a good lecture is when speeded up. But you can't edit out superfluous conte
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by warmfuzzykitten 10y ago
This seems relevant. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inspired-by-genius...
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by warmfuzzykitten 10y ago
His "AdBlock is evil" rhetoric isn't going to sell a single Times subscription. I'm a NYT subscriber and their jumpy, slow-loading pages irritate the hell out of me. Fix your product, Mr. Thompson, not your customers.
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by warmfuzzykitten 10y ago
Selection bias by non-scientist who has "studied" a subject as a hobby for 30 years. Of course some people are born with special abilities. One of the dissenting commenters writes "Baloney. I started drawing recognizable huma
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
The comments here are depressing. People who are actually depressed are saying that the author is completely wrong about their depression, while others with no experience of depression are nitpicking at them with for what passes for logic o
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
Link to paywall article, and rather annoying one, at that.
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
The point is well-taken in that votes wasted on Nader were in all likelihood votes for Gore, which would have prevented all the subsequent Supreme Court nonsense, bypassed the "butterfly ballot" effect, and...I'm sorry, your
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
Just a point of etiquette. Does it really make sense to down-vote a question to oblivion when the question has attracted reasonable responses? In fact, this question contains by implication another seemingly reasonable question: Given that
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
It's a pricing problem. To begin with, $25 probably isn't enough to make the project financially successful, as it can't be expected to sell in large volume. Small-volume products need to find a sweet spot in the demand*unit-
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
I'm not sure how Fiber Reinforced Plastic helps. Seriously, if you want to be understood, define acronyms.
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
Your comment on build speed is interesting. Do you have a ballpark figure for Kotlin compile speed in lines per minute?
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
Yes, they do. E.g., excellent tool for testing server products on developer systems. It's free. It works.
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
Mr. Robot showed promise in the first episode, until he got near a computer. Then it became ridiculous.
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
This is a clickbait meme that has been done to death. There is no reason to assume that self-driving cars won't behave as selfishly as human drivers. That is, act in the self-interest of the passengers in all but the most extreme cases
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
Apparently, only in the 11th circuit. Prior to that ruling, other precedent was on the side of forcing a defendant to reveal an encryption key. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
Seems more like a lot of whining about how hard it is these days for a small business to hire really low-paid, uninsured workers than anything to do with Uber. I'm inclined to think Uber won't go out of business if it is treated j
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
The article continues the long tradition of giving Apple business advice it neither wants nor needs. Apart from the Mac's value as a developer platform for iOS, the Mac's market share as a PC, though small, is growing (5.7% in 201
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
This poll. Microsoft has apparently decided to stop being evil. The other two never were. Please stop trolling.
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
I thought I'd try it with a fairly large project (353K lines of Java) at https://git.eclipse.org/c/hudson/org.eclipse.hudson.core.git... This is a multi-level project. At both the top level and the individual
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
Unfortunately, infer finds no issues in this simple variant of their Hello.java demo. class Hello { private String s; int test() { return s.length(); } }
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
I don't personally know anyone who hates Google, so perhaps the author exaggerates with "everyone hates Google". Also, I don't have a problem with "placed" ads in my Google searches. I don't click on those
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by warmfuzzykitten 11y ago
That's a misconception. A neural net is just a mathematical algorithm, not any kind of simulation of the human brain.
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by warmfuzzykitten 12y ago
He hasn't spent much time between the coasts, I guess. You'll outlaw cars in this country when you pry them from Americans' cold, dead hands. The transition to driverless cars may, perhaps should, happen in the biggest cities

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