mstevens

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Built to benefit everyone: our plan(openai.com)
2 points by mstevens 3mo ago|1 comments
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by mstevens 2y ago
Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Jack Womack. See https://reactormag.com/randomacts/ for a great review by Jo Walton (also a great scifi author who deserves more attention).
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by mstevens 3y ago
Probably a reference to https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
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by mstevens 4y ago
I love the building in subnautica, I'd love something that focuses on that aspect of the game.
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by mstevens 8y ago
I found the CG Maximite lately, which powers on to BASIC and has composite video or VGA out: http://geoffg.net/maximite.html There's also the fignition which has a composite out and powers on to forth: https:/&#x
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by mstevens 9y ago
From that page, "use ++g instead of g++ (it’s faster)" I've seen people say this a repeatedly when talking about "embedded" environments, but never understood why - won't it end up compiling to the same thing e
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by mstevens 11y ago
When I saw this post I thought it'd be a report on the very first Y Combinator Demo Day ever and where they are today. I still think that'd be really interesting.
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by mstevens 12y ago
I have a meta-proposal. Random westerners are a terrible source of ideas - you should talk to people from developing countries and if possible go there. The local knowledge will be 100x more useful than anything we can come up with.
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by mstevens 13y ago
As far as I know this is no longer true - there's an official firmware image that enables fastboot: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/... However I've not yet actuall
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by mstevens 14y ago
ooh, cool, I didn't know that was there. My more active interest in perl was pre-git :)
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by mstevens 14y ago
Slightly self-promotion, but you can get a variety of old perl sources at http://www.etla.org/retroperl/ (collected by someone non-me, I can't remember who though) I had thought someone had done a perl 1 release that built on modern syste
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by mstevens 14y ago
So I've decided to try the experiment. Ordered a 7" android tablet - http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Best-discount-price-Free-ship... described as running ice cream sandwich from aliexpress for $57.68, with free shipping. It's not quite $4
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IPv4 is almost gone (in Europe anyway)(ripe.net)
78 points by mstevens 14y ago|52 comments
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by mstevens 15y ago
I used to find http://musicforhackers.com/ the perfect background to coding, but they're down, and I've never worked out another source of the sort of stuff they played.
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by mstevens 15y ago
The obvious one is that it saves you the hassle of running postfix on a self-managed VPS. And you do get rather more than just postfix - there's webmail, IMAP, etc, all managed for you.
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by mstevens 15y ago
I'm just generally very suspicious of any "expert judges situation by magical intuition" story. I do generally have a good opinion of Oxbridge, despite the fact they turned me down :)
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by mstevens 15y ago
What evidence is there for the quality of these "detectors"?
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by mstevens 15y ago
I don't know, reports suggest a lot of people give up.
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by mstevens 15y ago
I've just switched to xubuntu for similar reasons. I'm finding it a big improvement on gnome 3 or unity so far, although I've only been using it for about a week, so I still count it as testing at the moment.
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by mstevens 15y ago
I really like http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~dpc22/prayer/ (prayer webmail). It's very much hitting the basic, fast spot though, rather than the gmail style.
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by mstevens 15y ago
I had facebook for a while, but I quit when I realised it was sharing more than I wanted to.
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by mstevens 15y ago
These arguments never quite make sense to me. The reasoning appears to be "since technique X can cause problems in some circumstances, it can never be used in software for domain Y (usually avionics, space, or similar)". However, obviously
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by mstevens 15y ago
Spelling mistake in "Android" in the link title.
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by mstevens 15y ago
ciphergoth produced an ebook of Eliezer's posts recently which I'm finding useful: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/72m/an_epub_of_eliezers...
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by mstevens 15y ago
I assume "GitHup Pages" is meant to be "GitHub Pages".
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by mstevens 16y ago
The problems I personally find with launchpad are: a) It's slow. Pages seem to take an age to load. b) I can never find anything. My problems with github: a) Fork queues never seem to work. Support will occasionally respond to complaints an
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by mstevens 16y ago
Personally I'd guess at the name scaring women away. However I wouldn't necessarily trust my intuition and would prefer testing it.
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by mstevens 16y ago
Hmm. They actually look so similar I'm wondering if ZTE make doro phones, or something along those lines.
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by mstevens 16y ago
I was keen and had a google. Couldn't find any UK sellers.
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by mstevens 16y ago
far far too often.

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