qwertyboy

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by qwertyboy 1mo ago
Annoyingly misleading title. From the article: Lilliputian hallucinations predate this mushroom. There are myths about tiny people in pretty much every culture's folklore. People have also reported these hallucinations from alcohol wit
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by qwertyboy 11y ago
Absolutely. A century has around 36500 days. If you compose a list of 100 people who died on that century, your chances of hitting the same day more than once are estimated at almost 13%. As a matter of fact, even 28 people will get you ove
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by qwertyboy 11y ago
The article contains several examples for the different interpretations. CISC vs. RISC is an example of "worse is better than incompatible". Unix vs. lisp-machine is an example of "worse is better than complex". But the
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by qwertyboy 11y ago
"Worse is better" is an incomplete sentence. Different folks complete it in different ways. Some say that worse is better than complex. Others claim it's better than slow. Others still that it's better than incompatible.
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by qwertyboy 11y ago
You guys do realize that most `find` implementations support both the `-ls` and the `-name` flags, right? find ~/Documents -name somefile -ls
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by qwertyboy 11y ago
Egads! It was so obvious that I kept calling it GNUSpeak in my head, enjoying the cleverness of it all, and only now, following your comment, noticed it's actually GNUSpeech...
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by qwertyboy 11y ago
The existence of "finance tech entrepreneurs", as you politely call them, and the fact that they are indeed very noisy, does not mean there isn't a community of programmers who actually write code and try to design new decent
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by qwertyboy 11y ago
From reading the article (and not enjoying it very much - see msravi's comment about its handwavyness), the question it's failing to answer isn't "why is light faster than X" but rather "why is the speed of lig
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by qwertyboy 11y ago
I think Feynman's point is that to be a good scientist, you must keep in mind the difference between the map and the territory. You preform observations. You think of explanations ("why"s) and try to fit them in a model. You
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by qwertyboy 11y ago
Boy, do I have good news for you: http://conkeror.org/PDFViewer Conkeror is so much Firefox, that you can easily fit the former with most things that work with the latter, including the built-in PDF extension. As a matter o
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by qwertyboy 11y ago
It is trivial today to sample audio in a rate and sensitivity which greatly surpass both the density of the pherromagnetic material in the tapes and the fidelity of the original recording equipment. Even "analogue" sound depends o
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by qwertyboy 12y ago
First of all, if your business wants me to memorize stuff that has nothing to do with my job so that we can both engage in a game of pretend, I don't want to work there. Who knows what other stupid shit you'll make me do. But what
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by qwertyboy 12y ago
At 60,000 to 90,000 ft.? Yeah, it's gonna be challenging.
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by qwertyboy 12y ago
This is actually a pretty common misconception amongst muggles. A magician's trade is to lie with action, not with words, and most magicians I know have a very strong sense of honor in this regard. Magicians do not often reveal their s
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by qwertyboy 12y ago
> we don't have a GitHub or anything user's can download yet, but stay tuned for more updates. Crying shame.
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
They are actually not using proof of burn. Counterparty is a decentralized exchange that sits on top of bitcoin. As such, I don't think it should be minable, not with proof of work and not with proof of anything. Proof of burn was used
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
While the usage of the word "Yoga" to describe spiritual practices is certainly quite old (the Yoga Sutras were apparently compiled a bit before Jesus), Hatha Yoga is only a few centuries old, and the gymnastic practice that is
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
It looks like TextSecure encrypts your actual texts, for which you still pay, while Telegram also takes care of delivery, for free, and does it faster and better than SMS (which should be pretty darn easy, what with SMS doing such a very ba
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
Homepage at linode.com lists 2GB Linode at $40 a month. Am I missing something?
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
Well, before I open an account, can you please explain how this is better than using jslint?
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
I don't know. I'm an artist, and while I enjoy getting paid to create and preform, taking money for reproductions that do not require further effort on my part always feels weird. I don't feel I have the right to tell anyone
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
This is the opposite of what Tesla is for cars. It's taking the single most energy efficient vehicle I know - 99% mechanical efficiency, incredibly low carbon footprint, and an amazing calorie-per-kilometer ratio (miles-per-apple?) - a
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
Douglas Adams had a brilliant definition (used originally for "nerd"): a hacker is a person who uses the telephone to talk about telephones.
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
Displeasure aside, having access to the source directly benefits people who can read and edit the source. In the long run this benefits everyone, of course, but it's only the techies who can actually use the source, and that's why
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
RTFA - this link appears in the first paragraph.
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
Back in 2008, FF was on a downward spiral. It was getting bloated, slow, annoying... And then Google came out with Chrome. It took FF less than a year to get their s t together and fix their browser. Today it's great, but the harm was
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
Actually, fossil fuel power plants release more radioactive waste than nuclear ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#Comparing_radioac... Nuclear power really is a darn good solution to our energy problems, and is more feasible
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
Looks very cool, but seems to require both wine AND mono :(
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by qwertyboy 13y ago
Actually, I'd love to read those sources, since - I have to admit - I read it the same way. At first it felt like total pseudo-science, and then I saw the app and "realized" that this has to be app-spam. So please, if you have actual scient
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by qwertyboy 14y ago
monsterwm is even smaller than dwm, with 700k of memory (grep Rss /proc/`pidof monsterwm`/smaps | awk '{t=t+$2}END{print t}')

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