cninja

6 ms·

1.
by cninja 4y ago
The environmental conditions that are good for the formation of fossils are not the sort of conditions that are good for living a long and peaceful life. Outcast males are the ones more likely to be wandering around in those sorts of places
2.
by cninja 6y ago
Every star has the force of gravity that is pressing all the gas to collapse, and heat from fusion that is pushing all the gas apart. These forces are balanced in a stable star: fusion reaction provides the energy that prevents the gas from
3.
by cninja 7y ago
Is there any resource from the other side that provides reasons why restrictions should be placed on community broadband? The explanation "Evil Monopoly wants all the money" seems too simple for the complex nuanced world we live i
4.
by cninja 8y ago
Takedown notices on Youtube are not handled under DCMA. DCMA has protections against false accusations.
5.
by cninja 10y ago
This isn't a puff piece. This is an advertisement for the calendar.
6.
by cninja 10y ago
They crunch the numbers here: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/pump-up-the-stor... The energy in one gallon of gasoline is equivalent to the potential energy stored in 13 tons of water one kilomete
7.
by cninja 10y ago
No heroin addict thought they might become addicted. That is one of the main dangers of heroin specifically.
8.
by cninja 12y ago
Might as well add my Lisp in PHP: https://github.com/cninja/pEigthP
9.
by cninja 12y ago
The original article was more informative: http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/08/oddworld-new-n-tasty-preview-a...
10.
by cninja 12y ago
Opera did something similar back in 2010 in v11 with the opera:config#UserPrefs|HideURLParameter configuration variable. I found I was wanting the URL information often enough that I turned the feature off. I wonder the old Opera team had a
11.
by cninja 13y ago
I can't say what is is about your comment or the article, but something about the combination gives off the vibe that this is an astroturfing effort to promote Google Comsumer Surveys.
12.
by cninja 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. Writing my own interpreter https://github.com/cninja/pEigthP provided many challenges but I think it was one of the most enjoyable "toy projects" that I have done. Also seeing the
13.
PEigthP - A Lisp interpreter written in PHP(github.com)
2 points by cninja 13y ago|1 comments
14.
by cninja 14y ago
The problem not time in school, the discussion should be about motivating students. As long as the student is motivated to learn on their own, then more time in school might result in less learning, in the same way that continual 80 hour wo
15.
by cninja 15y ago
Here is my speculation about what really happened: YouTube has its infringing content tool designed to detect copyrighted content and notify the rights holder. That tool erroneously flagged the Megaupload video as being owned by UMG. UMG ju
16.
by cninja 15y ago
Intel doesn't have a monopoly on the technique, just a big technological head start. From the Anandtech article on this:"Intel isn't expecting its competitors to move to a similar technology until 14nm."
17.
by cninja 16y ago
My guess: no. Apple's policies involve dictating the terms of outside services being used in their garden. Facebook's policies involved dictating the terms of their own services being used in their garden.
18.
by cninja 16y ago
I see Opera as being flexible like FF but has the speed and UI polish of Chrome. That way, I only need to use one browser. Top feature that no other browser offers: fully customizable UI. Right click on any UI element of the browser and se
19.
by cninja 16y ago
This seemed to be the main excuse that people had for not trying out Opera in the past, but people already have their favorite browser by this point. Without a significant marketing campaign, I don't see Opera's browser share changing sign
20.
by cninja 16y ago
Opera runs well on Windows 2000
21.
by cninja 16y ago
It depends on the size and type of project. When you compile, does your computer's hard drive thrash, or is the CPU pegged at 100%?
22.
by cninja 16y ago
The article provided "universal" and Ars specific stats. All the % are drastically different between the two, except Opera.
23.
by cninja 16y ago
One thing I always find interesting is that the % of Opera users on Ars is always close to the universal %. I always assumed that Opera users were more technical, and therefore more likely to visit the Ars site, than the average user.
24.
by cninja 16y ago
Statistics are always misleading, especially when politics are involved.
25.
by cninja 16y ago
Not trying to detract from IE9 here, but Opera already has a similar ability: http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/vega The interesting parts of the article are the implementation details about the sandbox.
26.
by cninja 16y ago
The relationship between marriage and culture and society is complex. A majority of the society in California voted for Proposition 8.
27.
by cninja 16y ago
Both gender and relationship to the potential spouse are attributes of a person that cannot be changed. Why is it ok to discriminate based on one but not the other?
28.
by cninja 16y ago
Absolutely, it is about discrimination. Gays marriage choices are discriminated against based solely on the gender of their desired spouse. As ridiculous as it is, the law allows a gay woman to marry any man that they want. However, the l
29.
by cninja 16y ago
The main one I have heard is the slippery slope argument. If marriage is redefined as something other than a legal union between a man and a woman, where does definition of marriage come from? In other words, if someone is for gay marriage
30.
by cninja 16y ago
What are the difficulties in using some sort of compression algorithm like LZJB on the disk's page file? If, as you say, data can be that easily compressible, the IO speedups from reading the compressed data from disk and space savings woul

More ›