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by gmaslov 10y ago
Aw, don't leave us hanging like that. What problems did it cause?
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by gmaslov 10y ago
I've only ever seen it spelled out "theoretical CS". There is GOFAI, though.
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by gmaslov 10y ago
Couldn't a hypothetical Big Alien make exactly the same argument? There are plenty of exoplanets larger than Earth.
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Google Self-Driving Car Testing Report on Disengagements of Autonomous Mode(dmv.ca.gov)
1 points by gmaslov 11y ago|0 comments
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by gmaslov 11y ago
The way I understand master keys work is that the lock has two "breaks" in each pin, instead of just one. So each pin has two positions that allow the lock to open, and you don't know which one belongs to the master key. I th
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by gmaslov 11y ago
FYI, you've got a merge conflict marker hanging out in your privacy policy :) <<<<<<< HEAD:web/src/main/resources/com/pacifica/web/views/privacy.ftl We use this information s
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by gmaslov 12y ago
I went to the more-difficult-to-reach exit and was sent all the way back to the beginning of the game :-(
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by gmaslov 12y ago
How about looking at the number of people who must be removed in order to bring the bus factor down to 1? We can call it the "bus co-factor" :). With the bus factor we're picking the most critical people first, and removing t
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by gmaslov 13y ago
Don't worry -- it just means your brain's eviction policy is well-tuned for immortality. ;)
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by gmaslov 13y ago
Text messages are only the relatively boring first step in this kind of project. If these guys go on to implement IP/Vodka they can proudly follow in the footsteps of such hacks as RFC 1149 :-) "The network smells a little slow t
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by gmaslov 13y ago
I presume that the way the lucid dream induction works is by blinking an LED when the onset of REM sleep is detected. There are other products out there already that do this; the idea is that you'll train yourself to notice any blinkin
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by gmaslov 13y ago
When the collar closes, its spoke will have pulled apart a little bit under the tension and widened the gap. You'd need some kind of motorized grabber-puller collars to make this work.
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by gmaslov 13y ago
At this rate I'm fast running out of arms
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by gmaslov 13y ago
They know this; that's why zinc sacrificial anodes are used. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathodic_protection
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by gmaslov 13y ago
Sounds like a situation that the patent system was supposedly designed to prevent. But, from the article linked by yapcguy: > He refused to patent the recipe as that would mean making it public and risking its theft Wouldn't patenti
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by gmaslov 13y ago
Anyone but a kidnapper, I'd say.
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by gmaslov 13y ago
Also cute is the author's bio, in the characteristic style of a Dwarf Fortress dwarf's textual description: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/5119 > "Peter Tyson is a human born in 1975 in New Zea
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by gmaslov 13y ago
This idea might be up there with saving on your electric bill by installing little turbines on all your water faucets.
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by gmaslov 13y ago
Hah. So that's why they always ask "Do you know why I pulled you over?" ;-)
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by gmaslov 13y ago
I built a Prusa Mendel last year. It works... sort of. Unfortunately it's very unreliable and finicky, and takes a lot of babysitting to print anything. In theory I should now use it to print improved parts for itself to fix this; in practi
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by gmaslov 13y ago
It may have started to happen to us already -- I'm sure there are a few people here who have gotten lost in the World of Warcraft dimension for a time.
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by gmaslov 13y ago
The signal would only travel at the speed of sound in ping-pong balls. What that is precisely is very difficult to estimate. Try "wave propagation in granular materials" for a Googleable phrase. Even the case of a perfectly aligned 1-D chai
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by gmaslov 13y ago
Ah, yes. The perennial curse of AI: as soon as it works, it's not called AI anymore ;-)
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by gmaslov 13y ago
This link explains fairly well how a navigation mesh may be automatically generated from the level geometry: http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/NavigationMeshReference.html . I believe it's also a good practice for the level designer to exami
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by gmaslov 13y ago
I was inordinately tickled to discover that Wolfram|Alpha's database includes this question as an easter egg.
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New Private Rocket Launching on Maiden Flight from Virginia Today(space.com)
1 points by gmaslov 13y ago|0 comments
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by gmaslov 13y ago
Prude.
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by gmaslov 13y ago
It's unlikely to work unless the button is so reliable that you have a better chance of winning the lottery than the button/mechanism failing in some (possibly undetectable) way. It's the same argument against trying to use quantum immortal
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by gmaslov 13y ago
OCR would work ;-)
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by gmaslov 13y ago
Indeed. A living human probably generates more heat from the normal bodily processes than can be radiated away in space. For this reason spacesuits are equipped with coolers, not (AFAIK) heaters.

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