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by zerb 8y ago
The people at the top of Google are rich and have the freedom and resources to work on things that interest them. Also, this is an old issue, Google in China. I'm sure they won't start caring what a few outspoken individuals think
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Evcxr – A REPL for Rust(github.com)
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by zerb 8y ago
I was actually just toying with a similar thing myself. I'm experimenting with a system that generates abilities for a game within certain design parameters, then tests the games' balance by running lots of example games. I figu
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by zerb 8y ago
I guess I stand corrected. But the practicality, as others note, still seems limited.
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by zerb 8y ago
That would only be useful if everyone were outside, and you wanted a split second of many different people's conversations. Satellites move rather quickly relative to the Earth's surface.
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by zerb 8y ago
It's also daaaamn slow. And when you paste formatted content into it (at least from vim on a mac), lol, have fun cleaning up your newly-unformatted content.
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by zerb 8y ago
Privacy, other people putting things in your can, previous tenants and perhaps other flaws exist. That's why I think it best it be automated and take more than one offense.
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by zerb 8y ago
I'm wondering how possible it would be to have garbage trucks identify valuable materials in trash as they enter the truck, so the city can fine someone who doesn't separate.
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by zerb 8y ago
I rinse foil and reuse it, or rinse it before recycling if it's torn. But what I wonder is how dirty is too dirty to recycle in the case of aluminum? I'm not leaving large chunks of food on it, but I'm also not operating a
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by zerb 8y ago
Some of the worst offenders are logging webservices. We've replaced a simple text file with a bloated site that requires mousing around, does not support grepping, etc.
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by zerb 8y ago
What do you think of Wiktionary? That's been my go-to for a long time.
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by zerb 8y ago
Ah, thanks.
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by zerb 8y ago
It's not just orthography. English has been influenced by Romance languages and gained a tendency to write "of"s instead of compounds. This reverses the word order (order of words) and adds extra words in between. There is
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by zerb 8y ago
The language isn't using lossy compression, but rather it's robust to loss. Sort of the opposite of compression.
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by zerb 8y ago
I believe it's just that the etymologies in English are more obscure. They're still fascinating, but they come from foreign roots a lot of the time, so they're not as immediately obvious. Although, tangentially, even constru
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by zerb 8y ago
But you can't say "Food want me". Whereas in Old English, the grammar had so many markings that poets could weave distinct phrases together and still convey their meaning. In practice, that would still be awkward for typica
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by zerb 8y ago
The original statement was playing off of "lossy compression" as in computer science. The concrete meaning here is that Chinese and English both have enough redundancy to convey meaning even if some information is lost. So, in a
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by zerb 8y ago
It seems there's a general trend in the development of English to remove tenses and moods in favor of instead more-strictly prescribing word order. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language
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by zerb 8y ago
They were saying each is tolerant of loss.
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by zerb 8y ago
"Zwischenspeicher" is a magnificent word! Betweensaver. I love the Germanic way of nouncompounding. As an American who learned German in high school and have since only admired German from afar, that word sounds great and I love
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by zerb 8y ago
The more I think of it, while it's disappointing from a pure-science point of view, doesn't the lack of our ability to determine whether it's QM or GR that is flawed imply that each is already sufficiently powerful to probe a
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by zerb 8y ago
We saw birds flying around when we were cavemen. It's always been clear that heavier-than-air flight is possible. We don't currently know of any space-birds flying around black holes. It's also reasonable to assume that mor
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by zerb 9y ago
I can think of more than one religion that's pro-life _and_ advocates for refugees, the poor, strong marriages. Individual people always have their own flaws. My problem with voters is that they're not willing to take enough risk
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by zerb 9y ago
Oh, that's another great point. There are different kinds of racism. There's a great video from the 80s called "The Color of Fear" which has a bunch of randomly-chosen people of various ethnicities put into a room, who
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by zerb 9y ago
There's an Italian proverb that "one can never have a friend if one must have one without faults". Obviously, the degree of the faults matters, but your implication that friendship is a tacit endorsement of all the complexit
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by zerb 9y ago
3Blue1Brown has been recommended on HN before ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw ) But it's so great I think it bears bringing up in case anyone reading this comment has missed it. This chan
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by zerb 9y ago
Certainly. 2016 is evidence of what happens when you don't listen to people you disagree with. Lower class whites are disproportionally-likely to have "deplorable" views. Yet even as we as a society move to bring education
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by zerb 9y ago
Yeah, I'd say there's a huge overlap in attributes of testable code and reasonable code.
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by zerb 9y ago
Which is why I think they should open the platform. Don't start from scratch, but relicense the OS to be compatible with FOSS and, say, make iTerm the default terminal.
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by zerb 9y ago
Do something crazy. Completely embrace FOSS. Do something conservative. Invest heavily in battery research. Make hardware the focus, make it incredible. Support software with money and project governance, but let the ties to the hardware

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