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by zyxley 11y ago
This makes me wonder what plan, if any, they have to attract people (like myself, for example) who don't enjoy driving for its own sake but would happily pay luxury prices for a luxury-grade self-driving car.
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by zyxley 11y ago
If working in PHP, make sure to use lots of variable variables ( https://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php ). $a = 'cat'; $$a = 'hello'; echo "$a"; //
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by zyxley 11y ago
If doing this, stick to 10.9 if possible. 10.10 changes up the graphics stuff in a way that breaks VM graphics acceleration and makes the UI unpleasantly slow.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Is it weird that I wish somebody would make a terminal-ized version of newer editors like Atom/ST/Brackets?
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by zyxley 11y ago
My quote is from the article, not the title.
576.
by zyxley 11y ago
> Exactly how Swift is Swift? Adjectives shouldn't be capitalized.
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by zyxley 11y ago
It would be really interesting to see something like this mixed with commercial software like FaceRig ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/274920/ ).
578.
by zyxley 11y ago
But the copyright (if there is one in this case) isn't on the element, it's on the specific visual interpretation of it for branding purposes.
579.
by zyxley 11y ago
It would be interesting to see something like this with but tweaked to produce sounds like, say, the background bleep bloop perchweeep noises in Star Trek.
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by zyxley 11y ago
I'm curious - how does the theme stuff interact with choosing different ANSI colors in a terminal emulator? Is it using ANSI colors at all for those complex themes, or specifying RGB colors instead?
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Meanwhile, the return on a minimal investment in guitar playing and a bit of singing is almost comical. To elaborate on this, all you really need to play a substantial amount of popular and folk music is to (a) memorize 4-8 chords and
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by zyxley 11y ago
> impeller wedges are practically invulnerable This starts out important, but as the series goes on gets more and more forgotten about, to the point where some large-scale battles are literally skipped over entirely with a scene jump s
583.
by zyxley 11y ago
On this note, one of the few scifi book series I've seen that play up the distinctions between ship types are the Lost Fleet books: http://www.amazon.com/Dauntless-The-Lost-Fleet-Book/dp/04410... They're
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by zyxley 11y ago
> so why are people willing to jump that ship onto this Highly active development and broadly extensible APIs allowing for straightforward community modification of core features. The very article linked to here is one example.
585.
by zyxley 11y ago
Serious question: why add a "service charge" instead of just adjusting the price of dishes accordingly?
586.
by zyxley 11y ago
When "this environment" includes a bajillion separate cross-linked PDFs and other weird stuff that PDFs are just plain not good at, I'm not surprised.
587.
by zyxley 11y ago
A single big HTML file with MathJax and judicious use of semantic tags seems to me like the way to go. Heck, maybe even all Markdown with a good Pandoc build script included.
588.
by zyxley 11y ago
Now we just need to apply a couple of tweaks like this to cassowaries and we'll really be getting somewhere.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> the number of people who have been revived after this procedure This is going to be zero by default even with perfect preservation, given that the whole point is to freeze people because current medical technology can't keep them
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by zyxley 11y ago
That presumes that one couldn't see the funding of cryonics organizations as itself a social good, aside from whatever small chance of self-preservation it comes with.
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by zyxley 11y ago
We don't know. The actual freezing can potentially go extremely well even with current technology, but the problem is the unfreezing process. So far there's no good way to unfreeze someone and get all their cells going again. This
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by zyxley 11y ago
It's not like there's much else to spend the money on, what with being dead and all.
593.
by zyxley 11y ago
I imagine that even clumsy methods of doing so would have been cheaper than the turmoil that goes with having to fire half your staff.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> The raid couldn’t have come at a worse time for Steve Jackson Games. Already in debt, the company depended heavily on new releases for cash flow, and the confiscation of the GURPS Cyberpunk manuscript would significantly delay the book
595.
by zyxley 11y ago
Pretty much. Microsoft is even stopping on Windows 10!
596.
by zyxley 11y ago
I wonder how much training sushi chefs had when it was first invented during the Edo period. Sushi then was a cheap fast food you ate with your hands, and for a long time only a part-time side business for chefs who worked with other foods.
597.
by zyxley 11y ago
For a text article, that's just bad design.
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by zyxley 11y ago
This seems neat, but I'd like to see a study some sort on what sort of benefits (if any) it has over the long term. It would be interesting to see if developers of these kinds of devices can eventually progress to one reliably driving
599.
by zyxley 11y ago
Still, compare, say, "Mac mini, iMac, or Mac Pro?" to the set of desktops available from Dell. Apple has lots of options, but they generally stick to consistent branding of a couple of core product lines.
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by zyxley 12y ago
Hmm, good point.

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