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by zyxley 10y ago
The latest Fallout game has some interesting things in the enemy AI. In particular, enemies will actively try to flush you out of cover by blind firing even if they only have a guess at where you are (keying into the game's stealth sys
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by zyxley 10y ago
> without a traditional steering wheel That's a really silly idea, starting with how self-driving systems that can even theoretically handle the worst of New England winters don't actually exist yet.
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by zyxley 10y ago
SSH passing username by default is actually one of the things I hate about it.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> I think the biggest problem was that it broke a stablished UI for no apparent reason The reason was that the existing interface was so overloaded that the Office team was regularly getting feature requests for things that that already
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by zyxley 10y ago
Sounds like there's some room here for a service that does speed tests and files complaints each month automatically.
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by zyxley 10y ago
"A perfect world" is irrelevant.
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by zyxley 10y ago
You could do make it more like S-expressions in JS if you really wanted. {object: [ {id: "1234"}, {isEnabled: "true"}, {props: ["abc", "123", "false"]}]} Not quite
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Emacs You seem to have confused "my desktop needs" for "typical desktop needs".
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by zyxley 10y ago
Generally speaking, "look! I found a clever loophole in the law!" - as performed by any layman who doesn't actually understand the legal system - leads to getting smacked by a judge for being an annoyance.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Whether or not he's chosen by the company should be irrelevant. This only holds if the people at that company are morally-perfect robots who never make choices subtly biased in their own favor.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> I can't imagine how to solve that without a total change of copyright laws Wouldn't prosecution for fraud be enough?
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by zyxley 10y ago
"The car was obeying the rules of the road too well. It was suspicious."
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by zyxley 10y ago
So how long until somebody makes a kernel in Node?
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by zyxley 10y ago
So... they've reinvented Access?
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by zyxley 10y ago
The point you're missing is that the ability to dynamically remux Blu-Ray contents is legally blocked by the DMCA, but if it wasn't there could be, for example, software that injects extra commentary tracks into the processing of
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by zyxley 10y ago
Another example of a simple consumer service that could take advantage of this and already exists: RiffTrax. Right now they have to use the "the customer has to use two different players, figure out the audio settings, and get the timi
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by zyxley 10y ago
> What's the point of being a dictator? Being able to do anything you want. > if you consider the negative consequences of a dictatorship Being a dictator generally involves not caring about the negative consequences for anyone e
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Are you an uninterrupted process of consciousness that evolves from one state to another? Yes. > If so, you die and are reborn every time you fall asleep. No. That's a silly claim; the brain doesn't literally shut off duri
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Both of them think they are "you" and both of them are right No: one is right, and the other believes he is right but is wrong.
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by zyxley 10y ago
If the options were "die" and "die, but with an immortal digital copy", I think I'd still take the second. It wouldn't help me much personally, but zyxley-2 would be able to carry my legacy forward and (hopef
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by zyxley 10y ago
A copy of 'yourself' would be transferred. The original 'yourself' is still there.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> The problem is that many people think only the one that dies deserved to be called "you". I see this as "well, yes, obviously, because there's no continuity of identity between the two". If I die and a perfect
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by zyxley 10y ago
That's not really the same idea, though. The parent post is proposing more or less a ship-of-Theseus approach, while "Learning to Be Me" is more "make a new ship that's identical to the first one, then quietly destr
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by zyxley 10y ago
The main thing that worries me about it is that "what your face looks like" is superbly easy to copy. I mean, fingerprints aren't that much more secure in a technical sense, but at least a lot of people don't actively po
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by zyxley 10y ago
So how long until these new services get summarily discontinued?
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by zyxley 10y ago
Why are you assuming it's fake? "Crows and ravens can imitate human voices" is an established fact, not an unusual claim.
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by zyxley 10y ago
You may find the Nim language to be interesting. The entire language is processed as an AST, so you can do a lot of magic stuff like write normal functions, functions with forced inlining, and AST-transforming macros all in the same syntax
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by zyxley 10y ago
For an example of this happening, "Aspirin" was originally a Bayer trademark registered in 1897.
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by zyxley 10y ago
That's not how trademarks work.
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by zyxley 10y ago
The Community Edition of Livecode is interesting. It's the closest thing out there to a modern Hypercard successor. http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/

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