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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Or, you could fund nuclear fusion research. That has better odds of success.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
What if you also include the energy consumed by the employees and facilities of Visa, including their commute-to-work energy? And the energy used to construct their facilities, improve network infrastructure, etc? Now are we getting within
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I sense incoming downvotes, it would be great if we could get a link to an existing rebuttal, or something. Stomping on someone's dream just so you don't have to risk disappointment holds us all back. What are the limits of the Li
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Are you suggesting that the galaxy revolves around the sun? Heresy!
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Yeah, we really need to distinguish between a 2FA app and a dedicated hardware key. My phone is probably the least secure thing I've ever owned, both in terms of technical security, and physical security. This whole 2FA thing has been
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
What if you just ban all Americans? /duck
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
What if you are coding a 3D demoscene program for your thesis, because it illustrates a beautiful mathematical proof?
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I am under the impression that refined sugar interferes with the optimal functioning of the brain, in addition to skewing a person's energy level, but I don't have citations or anything. It's a just info that I internalized a
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Starry-eyed young lovers will fall for a DRM scheme, if they can be convinced that it is for the children. "Our award winning, holistic, proprietary life-experience program leads to superior outcomes, when compared to competing life ex
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I bet banning refined sugar products would have a more significant effect.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I agree with the others that this is a long way off. But just imagine, if 200 years from now, you could grow a space-worthy carapace overnight, with attachments for gear. And organs that transform a dense solid into maneuvering gas and oxyg
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
The problem with not editing the germline, is that that could easily be used to implement a DRM scheme. The recipient of this sort of editing might have a very high chance of only producing disabled or dead offspring, as they themselves wou
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
From the site guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ): > Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them. For the record, I'm not the
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Microsoft is composed of people. The people we worry about here, are the ones who might be incentivised to discover exploits before an outsider. They would have an incentive to back-date their work, or their subordinate's work.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I dunno... If you took a few random textbook physics problems, and replaced all of the nouns and units with arbitrary consistent strings, do you think that it would be possible to tell an electromagnetic problem apart from a plumbing proble
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
On that note, coffee, sugar and energy drinks should also be included. UV light is also somewhat addictive. Carrots are not addictive though. I won't do anything for a carrot, no matter how many I've eaten in the past.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
That instant-fear reaction to common stimuli is a symptom of PTSD, and is the reason that I flat-out refused pager duty after the first ~6 months. This system should be considered a workplace hazard; it has a measurable detrimental effect o
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Wow, that is an epic start! IMO, the best thing you could do, is to meticulously document your projects, for a blog / vlog. The shop build would be a great first project to kick off a Youtube channel, for example. This should put you i
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Loss of intelligence / skill is the problem. If that AI understood your goal, and had the ability to modify your account, then we might actually prefer the AI version.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Holey hubris, Batman! I bet there will be large dark zones on the AV's maps, where they dare not go, for reasons they cannot comprehend with their own sensors.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
A: A deeply sociopathic mindset. See the requirements section for details.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Git bisect is awesome. Before I discovered it, I was manually bisecting the codebase, and stubbing out the missing half.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Technically, these problems also exist with cloud providers, but we more or less trust them because of their reputation. Perhaps a digitally signed NDA could be verified by a smart contract? Then, to prove the NDA was breached, a quick cour
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Which animals has it been tested on, and where are the studies? Chemistry is presumed dangerous until proven safe.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Do these missiles require a working communications network? If this goes on long enough, there might not be any way to launch them.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
And humans see patterns in a sample size of two ;)
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Stopping a safe, automated vehicle would be trivial. Just dress up as a road worker, and hold up a stop sign. Do it above a manhole cover, and you have easy access to the bottom of the vehicle. A remote human supervisor might not even notic
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
A Lisp might be an easy language to target, because of its consistent syntax and "code is data" philosophy. With Clojure, you could both reuse some of your work on Java, and support Clojure's Java interop. Attempting to suppo
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Just tested again. Performance is good when idling, but while loading content in a heavy channel, scrolling gets laggy and one CPU plateaus for a while. Maybe the app is inserting DOM nodes individually, in a loop? I guess it's too ear
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Well, the native Slack app is just an Electron wrapper around their web app, as far as I can tell. The performance feels roughly the same for both web and desktop. The main reason I kept the desktop app, is so that I don't need to &quo

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