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by zxcdw 13y ago
The file browser just looks at the extension, rather than the file header, so yes. This can be tested by creating a dummy .txt file and changing it's extension -- the icon changes although file contents remain the same.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Doesn't this almost guarantee profit, as long as the average price doesn't come down too much? As in, buy when it's [low enough] and sell once it's [high enough]? Of course, if the market is filled with these algorithms
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by zxcdw 13y ago
This time there's nowhere else to go really. We're approaching the point where AI and robotics can beat a significant proportition of human capabilities at competitive costs. This means that a significant proportition of humans ca
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by zxcdw 13y ago
They probably have more pressure to invest in Linux driver development.
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Why Litecoin is here to stay(greymask.com)
2 points by zxcdw 13y ago|0 comments
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Sort of like people are making a decision to carry a (smart)phone in their pocket wherever they go and thus implicitly having the opinion that "Yes I am being tracked, so what?", right? While it is optional for an individual to
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Apart from "obvious" national security in the name of TERRORISM [1], what are such reasons? [1]: http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror
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by zxcdw 13y ago
None of them are related to software or software bloat, or putting resources to good use.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Still doesn't change the fact that 15 years ago "we"(as in, programmers, industry, whatever) were much, much more efficient with limited resources than what we are now. Some people consider it a good thing, some of us conside
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Haven't you noticed it yourself, that especially younger people seem to be engaged with their mobile devices whenever there is a few minute idle time, when e.g. waiting for a class to start. Quiet hallway, 10-20 people, all but a few
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Mozilla.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Your comparison is completely silly as it relies on something which can't be changed by determinated effort, unlike human brain and mental skills/capabilities and our physical body. The comparison of going to gym holds perfectly,
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I think brain can be thought to behave like a muscle and skeleton. If you put it under stress(learning) and let it recover(sleeping) it improves and grows stronger. Similarly if you let it idle, atrophy hits and it weakens. Just like muscle
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Scoring better in IQ tests means understanding the problems better -- if you encounter similar problems, or problems which provoke the same areas of brain -- better IQ test score should correlate with better performance in the said problems
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Meditation is all about controlling your concentration and attention. It certainly helps, heaps. Speaking from experience. Please try it. :) (Although I also attacked the lack of attention span problem by doing totally seeminly dumb tasks s
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Jacob Appelbaum Doesn't Have Much Hope for the Future of Privacy(vice.com)
1 points by zxcdw 13y ago|0 comments
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by zxcdw 13y ago
The article doesn't mention reasoning for using -O2 instead of -O3 or -Ofast. It seems that they give better performance in this case, as does adding -funroll-all-loops(when combined with -Ofast gives almost 10 % speedup). I am compili
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Compiler optimization flags are very code and type specific. (Note that I am comparing apples to oranges here, I used the C++ code used in Rust experiments found here: https://github.com/huonw/card-trace/blob/
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I think centralized living has huge benefits and should be encouraged. This would be a good start.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Thats why we all should keep as much privacy as possible, if not for the sake of feeling a need for it ourselves, but to help out those who feel so. It is easier for them to hide among the mass of encrypted traffic and privacy-aware activit
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Step 1. Write in C++. Step 2. Compile with emscripten. Step 3. Run your C++ program on the machine. Happy?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
What on earth are you arguing for here? You somehow seem to equate RMS' views with "no progress". Why is that? Why don't you explain your stance and view but make me ask for it explicitly? I really don't see how fre
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Except that no. Because of players within the market entrench themselves, like JavaScript for example has, there's practically no way for a change. The iterative change is constantly restricted by past decisions, abstractions and inves
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I would rather live free with 80's technology and free software than live in a totalitarian surveillance state* of 2020's. I simply value free software and the ideologies behind it as a social movement more than I value capitalist
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by zxcdw 13y ago
It is laughable that matters like this get flagged to oblivion and disappear from the frontpage, especially considering how important they are in many ways. I wish I had more than one upvotes.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
What is his utopia ? That all software would be free software? I for one would love to live in such a world. Why? Because then I could trust and be free with my computing. Now I can't, and I value my trust and freedom over conve
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Yes, we shouldn't be too naive about it, which is the very reason why we should be outright enraged about it happening.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
This is like saying that " so what if game runs at 15 FPS, it's still better than a worse game running at 60 FPS ", this may hold true to certain kinds of games and be a huge deal breaker for others. E.g. Chess/board gam
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by zxcdw 13y ago
And everyone is better than the average. :) Honestly, HN too has hordes of people who can't write FizzBuzz. No reason to feel elitist for anybody really.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
But could we just "take" heroin and alter it to create a bit different substance with different properties? If so, could one property be "addictiveness" and could it exceed that of heroin?

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