rjshade

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Explore JWST’s first image in full resolution(web.wwtassets.org)
1 points by rjshade 4y ago|0 comments
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Introducing the Debug Project(blog.debugproject.com)
4 points by rjshade 10y ago|0 comments
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Want to Make an Impact with Your Work? Try Some Advice from 80,000 Hours(techcrunch.com)
3 points by rjshade 11y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk: Tesla cars will have “autopilot mode” by summer(nytimes.com)
365 points by rjshade 12y ago|244 comments
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by rjshade 12y ago
"Perhaps! But this problem only comes up if you're not the centre of the Universe." http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1394
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by rjshade 13y ago
wmf is right in saying this is early days and we're still experimenting. However there is a roughly up to date wire spec here: https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1WJvyZflAO2p... and a m
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by rjshade 13y ago
QUIC is in the Chromium source: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/n... and there's a demo server here: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearc
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by rjshade 13y ago
> And how will Chrome know whether to try to connect via QUIC or not? Chrome looks for the "alternate-protocol:443:quic" response header (in non-QUIC requests). Once it sees this it will attempt to talk QUIC in future requests
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by rjshade 13y ago
There's an interesting response to this, in which the author argues that "for the sake of the planet, please fly!": http://qz.com/131024/its-ok-to-have-a-big-carbon-footprint-a...
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Aubrey de Grey: Finally, the War on Aging Has Truly Begun(ideas.time.com)
6 points by rjshade 13y ago|1 comments
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What Warren Buffett’s son doesn’t understand about the world(qz.com)
2 points by rjshade 13y ago|0 comments
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by rjshade 14y ago
Americans wasting/not wasting some of their surplus food (in America!) is not going to affect starving people elsewhere The money used to buy (and then waste) surplus food could be donated to the most effective charities[1][2], thereby sa
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Fish: Finally, a command line shell for the 90s(ridiculousfish.com)
442 points by rjshade 14y ago|146 comments
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by rjshade 14y ago
Oh and this is similar to the approach that the Gates foundation is taking. As far as I can tell Gates approached this as an optimisation problem: given that he has X billion dollars to give to charity, how can he maximise the effect that h
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by rjshade 14y ago
This is great. Something people often disregard, but which is hugely important, is charity effectiveness. This boils down to measuring the impact that you can make with a given donation: it turns out some charities are literally thousands o
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Apollo program source code(ibiblio.org)
433 points by rjshade 14y ago|57 comments
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Software engineering: UK vs Silicon Valley(80000hours.org)
1 points by rjshade 15y ago|1 comments
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How hard is it to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?(80000hours.org)
1 points by rjshade 15y ago|0 comments
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by rjshade 15y ago
My solution is to use Keepass. It stores passwords in an encrypted database file which I store in Dropbox - that solves the machine synchronization problem. The main database is protected by a passphrase and/or keyfile (any file which won't
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by rjshade 15y ago
You could spend all days coming up with possible reasons for not defrosting cryonics patients in the future. However you need to remember that no matter how low a probability you assign to your successful defrosting, this will be strictly g
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by rjshade 16y ago
Higher order life has this "defect" because, from an evolutionary perspective, there is little reason for us to stick around for very long after reproducing. After passing our genes on to our children we have some years where it is helpful
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by rjshade 17y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1150604
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Snake-oil supplements?(informationisbeautiful.net)
45 points by rjshade 17y ago|18 comments
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Global warming: an independent investigation(streebgreebling.blogspot.com)
1 points by rjshade 17y ago|0 comments
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How To Hold Your Breath Like David Blaine(fourhourworkweek.com)
38 points by rjshade 17y ago|19 comments
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by rjshade 17y ago
A second valid response would be to correctly attribute the quote to E.B. White: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._B._White
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by rjshade 17y ago
I've been juggling for a few years now and find it both useful for zoning out and thinking about tough problems, and intrinsically satisfying - it's a great feeling to nail a new trick for the first time. For anyone interested in learning I
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by rjshade 17y ago
Here is an example of a GoL unit cell - "a pattern with two states, which is determined by its previous state and the previous state of its neighbors, using exactly the rules used to compute it; that is, it simulates its own universe": htt