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by dwc 8y ago
> The right comparison is with the distance at which this photo was taken: 18,000 miles, or about half an hour from closest approach. Implicit in this statement: the camera was pointing close to the direction of travel and the target wa
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by dwc 8y ago
Uniformity through imposing one paradigm on everything isn't attractive at all to me, especially for a paradigm I have no interest in using and avoid when I practically can.
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by dwc 8y ago
> the language isn’t CLOS all the way down I'm curious what you mean by this, why it's needed or would be a good thing, etc. As a multi-paradigm language, I'm not seeing why CL should have a particular paradigm "all t
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by dwc 8y ago
> And 10 years later, sharing stuff with people nearby still kinda sucks. It does still suck, and once every few years I feel that. But that's a problem. Solving a minor, "kinda" pain point that people experience once in a
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by dwc 8y ago
Phoenix AZ area.
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by dwc 8y ago
I grow blue java bananas in my yard. Rajapuri bananas are fairly popular around here.
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by dwc 8y ago
> It's unfortunate how much Google-hate is on HN these days because I think it's largely unjustified. There are definitely some bad (IMHO) leadership decisions but the rank-and-file are still culture carriers for a lot of the t
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by dwc 8y ago
> A trusted network is fine, but are the telephone networks trusted? In the old days there was an assumption that if you were in the network then you were trusted, which was always dicey but made more sense when Ma Bell controlled everyt
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by dwc 8y ago
Note on above: there are legitimate reasons for businesses to set Caller ID to something other than the call origin. But the "something other" should be selected from a set under the control of the business, not a free for all. I.
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by dwc 8y ago
Spoofed Caller ID is a lie, not anonymity. Here's a proposal: 1) Caller may choose to hide/suppress their Caller ID, 2) mandatory option for phone carriers to allow Callee to completely block calls (no ring, no voicemail) that don
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by dwc 8y ago
You start by saying that too much is blamed on leadership and then go on to describe the real reason which is a failure in leadership? FWIW, I largely agree about the "cogs" idea. One particularly frustrating thing is seeing repea
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by dwc 8y ago
> One question I have is how sequestered the undersea carbon really is Depends on how you interpret "sequestered". In the sense that it's locked away somewhere for a long time, like organic matter frozen into tundra, it&#x
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by dwc 8y ago
Yes, correctness absolutely comes first. One way to achieve greater simplicity is to negotiate for fewer/simpler requirements for the first revision. There's often a core set of functionality that can be implemented correctly in a
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by dwc 8y ago
I like and use early exits when they fit well, which is often. And in this case I'd probably do as you suggest. But it's worth mentioning that even if you stick with if/else it's often worth it to put the simple case fir
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by dwc 8y ago
They would make forks ;)
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by dwc 8y ago
> The fight really being had here is "warrant Vs. routine monitoring." Exactly right. > That's what law enforcement want from this: If you know someone that knows someone that might have committed a crime, they want to
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by dwc 8y ago
"The trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 strikes me as GTA skinned-over with a generic 80s retro-future, but hey, that's just me." --William Gibson[1] It's mentioned (and little more) in the article at the end, but it still seems
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by dwc 8y ago
The rise of the iPhone explains a LOT about where Apple puts their attention. What it doesn't really explain is why the changes they do make to Mac products seem designed to annoy. Since they're not upgrading the processors couldn
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by dwc 8y ago
It's worth noting that strlcpy and strlcat are quite small, very stable, and can be brought into any program that needs them. Yes, it's an extra step but not an onerous one. Of course it's nice to autoconf them if practical.
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by dwc 8y ago
The money in (real) UBI comes from somewhere, obviously. It's not like everyone just has more money. If you can already afford the basics then it's going to come out of your money in taxes to a greater or lesser degree. So for p
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by dwc 8y ago
> time with timezone without a date attached to it is inherently ambiguous I'd view that as incomplete (rather than ambiguous) until applied to a specific date. "You people in the Hawaii office feel free to join the Boston 2PM
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by dwc 8y ago
> the arrangement has become more and more one sided favoring the publishers Rather than "has become" this is publishers using their leverage to achieve this situation.
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by dwc 8y ago
> There is a package for every possible problem you have just waiting to be used. Only if you work on the same kinds of things everyone else works on. There are certainly tons of jobs that qualify in that regard. For other kinds of work
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by dwc 8y ago
I imagine that researchers designed the experiment they thought would be accepted rather than the experiment they wanted. Yes, they intended to learn some things and most likely did.
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by dwc 8y ago
Hi! Developer working in C here. I'm neither a kernel dev nor an embedded dev. My current job is network programming on the core product of my employer. It's "legacy" in the sense that it's been around a long time b
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by dwc 8y ago
> I believe that the latter is a better option, when it's available. Expanding on an aspect of that... Usually portability, along with many other such things, should be considered as a higher level goal. Decide on the portability r
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by dwc 8y ago
Much of your response seems to orbit around the utility function, which is the devilishly tricky part from the start. Getting that part right is much more important than a specific level of intelligence.
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by dwc 8y ago
I find your response interesting. Thank you. I think that the nature of the context can vary a lot. Some art speaks to people on a primal level, and the context is shared human experience. Other art needs more shared cultural context. Then
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by dwc 8y ago
This is why I mention that there are specific cases for subhuman levels of intelligence.
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by dwc 8y ago
Pretty much every conception of AGI is of greater than human intelligence, at least in some aspects. The reason? Otherwise why build it? Yes, there are cases where AGI as subhuman-level intelligence would have utility, but the remaining cas

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