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The HTTP of VR(medium.com)
2 points by rvkennedy 5y ago|0 comments
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The HTTP of VR(roderickkennedy.com)
53 points by rvkennedy 5y ago|73 comments
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Churchill essay on the possibility of alien life discovered in US college(theguardian.com)
4 points by rvkennedy 10y ago|0 comments
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Why a budget surplus is the last thing we need(taxresearch.org.uk)
2 points by rvkennedy 10y ago|0 comments
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The Gas Holder(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by rvkennedy 11y ago|0 comments
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by rvkennedy 12y ago
Exactly: the source is "open" to paying subscribers, just as the source to... just about any closed source software anywhere, can be seen if you buy a licence to see it. It fits NO definition of OS that I'm aware of.
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by rvkennedy 12y ago
I find it amazing that there still hasn't been a film or TV adaptation of Iain M Banks. Not that such a thing would be necessary or a validation of his writing; but I'd love to see it imagined and realized visually. It's a vi
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by rvkennedy 12y ago
I'm in two minds about reading Rand: on the one hand, I've heard nothing but contempt for the quality of her writing from commentators I respect - i.e. prose, structure, etc. On the other, as I'm assuming I would disagree w
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Global Map of (English) Accents and Dialects(dialectsarchive.com)
2 points by rvkennedy 12y ago|0 comments
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by rvkennedy 12y ago
But this colour already has a name. It's called "black".
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by rvkennedy 12y ago
I feel a bit gutted that Sam Adams wasn't founded by, you know, Sam Adams .
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by rvkennedy 12y ago
I couldn't help but search the pdf for brace rules, and lo: AV Rule 60 Braces ("{}") which enclose a block will be placed in the same column, on separate lines directly before and after the block. Example: if (var_name == tru
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NASA Discovers First Earth-Size Planet In The 'Habitable Zone' of Another Star(nasa.gov)
2 points by rvkennedy 12y ago|1 comments
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
HTML would be much easier to write if it were based on JSON. Less bandwidth too. Has this been attempted?
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African tigerfish catch swallows in flight(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by rvkennedy 13y ago|0 comments
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
Actually, Pakistan is mentioned once in the context of being a possible suspect, as are the USA and China. The other mention is to state that only the Pakistani media initially took an interest in the death of one scientist, which is hardly
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
Ctrl+C means copy the text, with optional formatting. It doesn't mean "run a script", and this little trick implies two things: first, that the author is going to assume that anyone who copies text is trying to steal the cont
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
That depends - were they risk aware or did they assume Sony would produce another PS3-style effort?
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
Or, in fact, click-bait internet "top 10" lists in general.
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
Surely there are only 95 repeated pairs of three digits between 100100 and 194194? And another 95 symmetric numbers. With a leading zero you have 195 each way.
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
His argument is really against using exceptions as part of normal operation, which I agree with. I've noticed when writing plugins to big monolithic programs like 3DS Max and game engines that these tend to throw and catch exceptions a
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
Defenders of the State on this issue tend to answer the question they want to be asked - "should the state have secrets". No-one (except maybe Julian Assange) is arguing that the State shouldn't have secrets - the recent le
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How Do I Know If My IMAX Theatre is Real 70mm IMAX or lieMAX (Digital IMAX)?(slashfilm.com)
1 points by rvkennedy 13y ago|0 comments
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
But if copyright infringement is theft, doesn't that make communications into possessions?
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
He claims to be a Microsoft Engineer, but talks like a Microsoft PR. "Consumer delight"? "Sick second screen"? I don't know any technical person who uses this kind of doublespeak.
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
Does this mean that someone born with synthetic DNA is guilty of infringement if they have children? Do they need to buy a licence to keep living? Perhaps as a compromise, the court can decide that they count as three fifths of a person.
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
In academic philosophy, a "zombie" is a person without a "soul" - it is physically indistinguishable from any other person, but lacks conscious experience. It simulates the outward appearance of conscious experience by virtue of having a fu
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
In the question, "communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism", 40% said "Other". I'd really like to know if any one idea dominates here - for example, if 38% of philosophers espouse totalitarianism, that's worth getting into.
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
Yes, in fact I hear that a company called OCP is running some interesting experiments in just that area: http://blog.khanneasuntzu.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/OCP...
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by rvkennedy 13y ago
Revolutions occur not during, but after times of intense hardship. When the general population has enough time and resources to inform themselves of perceived imbalances in the power structure, and isn't expending all their efforts on sur

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