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by downer68 8y ago
An order of magnitude. Jeepers, that sounds really bad.
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by downer68 8y ago
Economy of scale, my dude. An organization seeking to market a product based on any spare slack or wastage of their bare metal could stitch together a niche product like this from enough resources, and price it in the space where it nets th
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by downer68 8y ago
Good job, guys! Nice downvotes! Real nice! I answered substantively, addressing each point carefully, and I was pleasantly rewarded for the time I took to respond. Great incentive system you guys have worked out! Glad to see it being used a
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by downer68 8y ago
I don't know how you found your way onto the addition operator (+) on your keyboard, because that's not at all what I was driving at. I think you are... JUMPING! TO CONCLUSIONS! (get it?) Anyway, at it's core, much of the l
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by downer68 8y ago
Actually, if you marshall all of your addressible units up front (4096 bit sentences, instead of 64 bit words), which aligns well with raw allocation units on many file systems, as an end user of the service, the overhead (to you) is reduce
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by downer68 8y ago
BTW, as an addendum, I wrote this as a pure response to the parent comment, without RTFA, and the original HN title of the submission was that of the article itself ( The Right to Kill ) didn't disclose that this was specifically an ar
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by downer68 8y ago
I'm not sure that I enjoy the idea of communicating with millions or billions of people. That's not why I use the language I use. The incidental fact that I share a common language with certain other individuals of high status, is
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by downer68 8y ago
An interesting side-effect of this, is that it would enable a standard of synchronization, across geographic regions, such that one could treat a set of virtual machines as one ultra-wide-bus CPU with a 1 GHz clock speed. All of the local o
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by downer68 8y ago
Honestly, 1994 or not, styling a passage of text with CSS just isn’t as useful anyone would like to imagine it being.
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by downer68 8y ago
Buses fucking suck. Buses make you wait in the rain. Buses get stuck in traffic very easily. Buses create traffic and make it worse with their size. Buses idle diesel fumes as they stand in traffic. Buses are noisy and idle outside of homes
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by downer68 8y ago
Actually, HN does do /almost/ private messages, if you hellban your account, and the recipient of your reply comment has “show dead” turned on. (of course, anybody can activate the “show dead” option, but, in reality, there’s no
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by downer68 8y ago
To be honest, I really don't think laser/LED chanels are being used. I've never seen a remote control quad copter sold off the shelve with IR LED TV remote style I/O for it's tranceiver control system.
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by downer68 8y ago
Yes, newts and salamanders in cave systems have lost their eyes, due to scarcity of nutrition and habitats devoid of light. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_blind_salamander
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by downer68 8y ago
" Lasers ." (although, line of sight, point-to-point communication is admittedly less trivial to interfere with) The point being that, if "criminal gangs" are up to no good, but they're parting their equipment with
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by downer68 8y ago
This is a joke. Consumer electronics radio communication systems may be trivially jammed, with little to no effort. It's simply a matter of political protocol (aka: warrants) for when and where such things must happen. The article stat
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by downer68 8y ago
So what? If I never intended for the GET to be GOT, then the browser is just as much at fault for such unintended consequences.
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by downer68 8y ago
This, kids, is why GET requests should be idempotent. Or, like, you know, how about a browser only sends a request when I'm actually fucking asking for something, and doesn't try to fetch everything I've ever thought
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by downer68 8y ago
Okay, but what about stannous flouride and sodium fluoride? No one ever discusses the toothpaste fluorine ions, in conjuction with the much more terrifying acid, which is the boogey man that haunts the fears behind fluoridated water, and so
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by downer68 8y ago
Or, more to the point, not one single person has any recourse, whether they're an evil serial killer/rapist or not. But, I'm trying to think about a situation where a secret identity might leave behind trace evidence that cou
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by downer68 8y ago
But not the conjunction thereof.
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by downer68 8y ago
Honest opinion: Yuck. Constructive feedback: I prefer the Gopher.
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by downer68 8y ago
Mr. Bones Wild Ride is a funnier version of the same roller coaster concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix-aVhIgBO4 (the ride never ends)
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by downer68 8y ago
Jesus christ, that fucking name, though. "smugmug" Can they drop that, and retain flickr, please. Please?
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by downer68 8y ago
Considering the topic of this thread, the debate is fundamentally about automation and machines operating with the authority to make decisions. There are at least four broad, complicated areas of effect that need to be addressed to begin gr
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by downer68 8y ago
Sounds like stop-and-frisk TSA pat-down security theater. This is not the kind of concept that I'd ever expect to withstand a determined adversary. Especially for machine learning scenarios, don't expect a show of force to prove a
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by downer68 8y ago
This is a flawed concept from the outset. You either have appliances, or computational platforms. Turing-complete systems are arbitrarily flexible as a matter of principle. If the firmware can be altered; if any addressable memory can be ch