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by seclorum 13y ago
This is a subject that is very dear to me, so I will try not to rant about it. There are a couple of things "wrong" with the way we teach kids computers today. Our educators are in the hands of the masters of consumers. When a ne
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by seclorum 13y ago
>Can a very minimal gcc be written which would be capable of bootstrapping the entire gcc compiler? Yes. In fact, this is how gcc is built - in stages. First stage: build a compiler that can build the compiler. Recompile the compiler
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by seclorum 13y ago
Take the new iPhone 5C. Turn it over. Look at the position of the Apple logo, and the "iPhone" brand. Put the case on it. Turn it over, look at the position of the Apple logo, and the "iPhone" brand. Hint: It looks li
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by seclorum 13y ago
I was impressed by his lack of interest in Harry Potter, as I consider it a pox on modern culture, but saddened by his lack of interest in music. To each, their own .. but I hope he discovers something frivolous and trivial, whether its mu
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by seclorum 13y ago
He needs to get help starting a hackerspace. http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ There is no better way to treat Genius than to let it propagate, and no better way to propagate knowledge, socially, than a hacker space. Sure
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by seclorum 13y ago
Every time I see these Venus pictures, I think about all the dull, lifeless, empty places on Earth that a spacecraft could land in, and lead us to conclude that there's nothing of any interest there. Of course, I trust the scientists,
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by seclorum 13y ago
Read the article. The Archeological record is there for your interest.
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by seclorum 13y ago
You didn't post any evidence, but lots of theory, whereas there is plenty of evidence that the human species does indeed manage to survive .. in spite of ones best efforts.
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by seclorum 13y ago
A good sign that its being managed.
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by seclorum 13y ago
Actually, its a view supported by evidence, whereas your view is supported by .. superstition, scientifically described but nevertheless: still superstition.
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by seclorum 13y ago
We managed to survive. We'll continue to manage to survive: if we manage. Welcome to logical positivism. :P
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by seclorum 13y ago
We've already demonstrated that we can bend physical laws to our needs, or have you missed that point in your rush to cast away any faith in the human species' ability to manage its resources? Because: managing our resources is w
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by seclorum 13y ago
Remind me, with science: When were we humans last wiped out, again?
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by seclorum 13y ago
.. okay, fine: then you go and see how we've managed our resources in .. oh, lets just take - The Whole of Europe - and compare. Just because some humans 'are stupid' doesn't mean all humans are. There is a lot of e
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by seclorum 13y ago
> Past performance doesn't guarantee future returns. You might want to consult the factual record of tens of thousands of years of farmers on that particular point of view. ;) You are right that it doesn't guarantee anything,
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by seclorum 13y ago
What I know of the Pirate Party is that they are suffering for their own collective weakness and inability to organize. It is a fallacy that 'safety in (representative) numbers' is a way to organize a movement; big social movement
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by seclorum 13y ago
Its a projection of Malthusian ethics: "Humans are stupid". Actually the point of this article is: "Evidence suggests that despite what we think: Humans are smart".
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by seclorum 13y ago
>The main failure of this article is that it assumes that social problems are outside biology and that they are easy to solve. The main point of this article is that the archeological record proves that this is the case. 200,000 years o
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by seclorum 13y ago
Fixed ideas being challenged is exactly what science - not superstition - is all about. The point of the article is we wouldn't be here today at all if we hadn't been able to manage our resources. The science demonstrates this, o
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by seclorum 13y ago
Because you don't know that you can just cut the data wires in a cheap USB cable, and want to be 'protected' by a cool hipster toy that'll sit in your laptop/phone baggie until you're at some party and can shou
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by seclorum 13y ago
Doesn't work for me: $ npm start > coder-base@0.0.1 start /Users/seclorum/hak/coder/coder-base > node server.js no certificate found. generating self signed cert. WARNING: unha
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by seclorum 13y ago
Growing up in a remote Australia desert beach, I spent a lot of time playing with creatures like this (among many others) and I have come to love them with a great deal of passion. If you're ever in a situation where you want to play w
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by seclorum 13y ago
Yikes, what a terrible name for this thing. How do you pronounce it? Lets break it down: Option 1: "Gr-II-P" .. gripe. Yeah, I ride my gripe around. Option 2: "Gr-AY-p" .. yeah, I'm gonna just get on the grape.
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by seclorum 13y ago
.. or, take over a project that was done by a competent developer who knew what they were doing and were able to communicate that knowledge through their codebase to anyone else who might pick up the project later on - which is the real #
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by seclorum 13y ago
Yeah, I agree with you: 'just because' .. the author of the article doesn't know anything about protocol buffers, node.js and Cassandra. Probably because those things are 'too new' and 'not proven' techno
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by seclorum 13y ago
>> they are highly regarded by the analysts. I'm seeing an attack vector ..
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by seclorum 13y ago
C64 wasn't the only basic. GW-BASIC on the Oric-1/Atmos machines, for example, did save a byte if you used ? instead of PRINT.
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by seclorum 13y ago
Well, you can make gas-powered quadcopters at the DIY level, and as far as satellite-guided is concerned, umm: yes. We have that in the DIY/FOSS drone-builder world. Start here: http://ardupilot.org/
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by seclorum 13y ago
The human proclivity towards cult behaviour is what I'm talking about. The UK Royals have no real function other than to promote the English personality, as a cultural artifact, to their subjects. In that regard, it functions as a cu
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by seclorum 13y ago
I think that the dependency of the English people on their Matriarch for comfort and compassion is a sign of ill-health, personally, as a society. I find it repugnant that in a time of dire circumstances, the dependency on cult figures is

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