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by whitegrape 11y ago
Sichuanese Cuisine in Redmond near the Sears / Overlake Fashion Plaza is the best I've had in the area. Health code violation shutdowns of the past just make it more delicious.
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by whitegrape 11y ago
They say that just to keep the bastards out.
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Don't forget the great fun to be had with out-of-order SMS messages. I really don't get this app. All the macros advertised in the article are so basic I can do (or already do) them via voice activation, which is so quick I don&#x
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by whitegrape 11y ago
A head-to-head comparison of 1.6 against 2.7 and 2.7 against 3.5 will quickly make it clear it's not the same thing. Python 2.7 is not only "good enough" by itself, there's also no compelling reason to move to 3. Bad inc
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Kind of off topic, but wow LEDs have gotten a lot cheaper very quickly. I recently moved and replacing all the incandescent bulbs and a few halogens lights with white-light LEDs was a lot cheaper than I thought it was going to be, judging b
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by whitegrape 11y ago
My plan: don't rely on the secrecy of anything encrypted now with RSA to remain secret in 20 years, and never use it for encrypting data-at-rest. Hell, Schneier already increased his PGP key size to 4096 bits, I don't think it&#x2
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by whitegrape 11y ago
The human genome project. Their goal when starting was "this will take 15 years", they completed it in 13. The Apollo program: goal of less than 9 years (end of the decade) when it was proposed in 1961 to land a man on the moon an
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Nearly 40 years old, we actually have an algorithm that is not known to be vulnerable to quantum attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McEliece_cryptosystem Quantum computing is nothing to worry about. (Though I admit
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by whitegrape 11y ago
It was once called America. I guess the next one will be the EMC, Elon's Mars Colony...
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Sometimes I think that most of the people dispensing the line are doing it out of some sort of strange culture-preservation instinct guarding against the naive newcomers who'll burn out immediately since nothing is as was dreamed... Ev
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Sorry I didn't reply to this right away. I don't believe I made the assumption that learning English is a prerequisite to coding, can you explain what made you think I made that assumption? Of course I see the diversity of the res
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Rights fights are indeed fun to watch. I particularly enjoy the idea that a violation of human rights as a category includes things like forcing someone into slavery and as per the EU charter's 17.2 or the UN charter's 27.2 also i
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Cool, nearly half a billion in repatriated money that won't be shuffled to offshore accounts...
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by whitegrape 11y ago
It'd be nice if this from Bertrand Russell was remembered more: "(1) that when the experts are agreed, the opposite opinion cannot be held to be certain; (2) that when they are not agreed, no opinion can be regarded as certain by
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by whitegrape 11y ago
http://www.livinganthropologically.com/anthropology/guns-ger...
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by whitegrape 11y ago
The Anglocentrism of programming is a boon, at least in open source. It means that collectively hackers worldwide have been able to enjoy the fruits of each others' labors because we all communicate and share patches in the same base t
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by whitegrape 11y ago
I think there's a misunderstanding here. Will OpenGl be able to run games that were coded in DX? No. Vulkan's existence means I don't need DX12, and I don't need Windows 10, because game devs that care about me (and my 3
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by whitegrape 11y ago
It would likely be in addition to, but I think even those heavily invested in DX (whether using their own engine or on top of someone else's), which is certainly a shrinking group since there's a much broader emphasis on cross-pla
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by whitegrape 11y ago
As someone who only uses Windows for gaming, the only potential reason I have to upgrade to 10 is for DirectX 12. But with Vulkan, I don't even need that. I'm hoping that by the time security updates for 7 are ended sometime in th
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by whitegrape 11y ago
> Don't use C++ in 2016 please. Fixed that for you.
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Why were you there? Going for a MS seems like a poor way to fulfill the desires of learning more about algorithms or being able to code more, for me I'd only consider it if it was a stepping stone to a better place in the corporate lad
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by whitegrape 11y ago
I still default to calling myself a programmer or a coder... I'm happy to ride the social status train of "Software Engineer", but I don't pretend it's anything else, and it could swiftly be taken away if some Congr
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by whitegrape 11y ago
That's way too general and easily disprovable by any one of the single counterexamples of groups identified as bad people (whether or not the ones pointing fingers are also bad) blowing shit up or killing innocents. The Hansonian viewp
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Infrastructure damage that causes severe issues is such a low hanging fruit it's a mystery to me why it isn't attacked more by terrorist / anarchist / primitivist / et al. groups unless I adopt the Hansonian "X
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Well, if you're looking for understanding that's good enough we can program it, then yeah, we don't understand it. Also I think there was a misunderstanding on my part, in that we know quite a bit about human intelligence (th
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by whitegrape 11y ago
There are peer reviewed papers you know, with replication and everything. It's regarded as bunk science by the exact same kinds of people who say climate change science is bunk science: people who don't read the science papers.
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Surprise, there are actually more diverse sets of black people than "African", each with their own biological diversity. African-Americans (that is, blacks in America who can trace their ancestors to the southern slaves) overwhelm
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by whitegrape 11y ago
The study of IQ (and the underlying g ) is one of two or three (definitely less than 6) crown jewels of psychology. You should probably read the actual science, "we" know quite a bit about intelligence. (I can help get you starte
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Your experience seems very weird to me. But I don't have enough data to know if it's atypical. I graduated not too long ago, but my school had many industry veterans as teachers, not pure academics, and sometimes they'd tell
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Why does it pain you greatly ? Does it do the same for other professions like nursing? My entryway into computers was "I want to build a website like this one, but better." This same opportunity exists for everyone with a web b

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