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Re:Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free on Monday March 02, 2015 @01:33PM (#9133442)
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Re:Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free on Monday March 02, 2015 @01:32PM (#9133435)
```other``` ``` test ```
Re:Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free on Monday March 02, 2015 @01:32PM (#9133432)
mark _down_ `test`
But the presence of a nuisance toolbar afterwards will be quite obvious.
The people.
Re:Make a Lisp on Friday February 27, 2015 @05:44PM (#9121849)
Hi--the project looks beautiful! Maybe the .gitignore could be improved?
Re:Can neuroscience give my brain the plasticity of a child's? on Friday February 27, 2015 @05:39PM (#9121828)
Ah, thanks. Only had Adderall once, and it didn't feel the same. Modafinil had a much more subtle effect, with few downsides (just don't overdo caffeine while on it).
Those that install adware are less intelligent--no need to paper over that. Do the writers of educational shows for small children think it ironic that they are more intelligent than their customers?
Re:Can neuroscience give my brain the plasticity of a child's? on Friday February 27, 2015 @02:42PM (#9120852)
Neat. I take Modafinil or its enantiomer Nuvigil sometimes to be smarter or compensate for lack of sleep. Officially, it's for sleep apnea, which I had to take a sleep test to show. I don't see zero risk for cosmetic surgery (note the issues with any surgery), so perhaps that can serve as an analogue as we look more into enhancing "normal" people.
Re:Lenovo's Promise for a Cleaner, Safer PC on Friday February 27, 2015 @01:15PM (#9120342)
This is a positive step. For now, you can try the Microsoft signature editions of various pcs. Or a Mac.
Re:Results of the 2015 Soylent Eaters Survey on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:41PM (#9116074)
Thank you for the detail!
Re:The Path to Parallel JavaScript on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:31PM (#9116017)
Oh no, will this become an ego thing? Parallelism must lie somewhere near abstraction as a premature optimization. Computers are hard, even single threaded.
Re:Apple: March 9th 'Spring Forward' Event on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:28PM (#9115999)
But then relativity messes even that up.
Re:Results of the 2015 Soylent Eaters Survey on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:27PM (#9114169)
Thanks!
Re:Apple: March 9th 'Spring Forward' Event on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:26PM (#9114163)
Yes, tangent, but please support the movements in several states to abolish daylight savings time. Having time move out from under us has long been a pain for programming robust systems. Perhaps the 5th or 6th generation of Apple watch will not need to do such an archaic adjustment.
Re:Results of the 2015 Soylent Eaters Survey on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:02PM (#9113982)
Does the headline writer not notice the irony at all? How about? `Nobody really said Soylent was the end of food, despite what click-bait headlines claim`
Re:Lisp implemented in under 1K of JavaScript on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @07:36PM (#9110707)
So much effort to go under 1K (in the era of 128GiB fingernail chips), with this .gitignore:

node_modules -uglify -crush -regpack

Re:Astronomers find an ancient black hole the size of 12B suns on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @06:17PM (#9110434)
Can we see it with less than a million bucks (or a trip to Wyoming)?
Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @10:43PM (#9105171)
I don't understand--I thought we have no ego. There is no self. There is even "egoless" programming.
Re:GPG and Me on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @08:04PM (#9104703)
I was thinking the opposite--most shell scripts seem to exist to show off arcane knowledge rather than document a task in the most straightforward way possible.
I find the idea of lossless versus lossy uploading of sentience amusing.
So how does Apple navigate the Singularity? Google has more projects directed at it, some explicitly like Calico. Perhaps I'll walk into the Google uploader and drop off my Apple watch and phone.
Re:Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic on Thursday February 19, 2015 @03:11PM (#9076647)
Then it's no longer race or gender--it's something else. Not that we'll be using anything like English or Spanish then.
Re:Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic on Thursday February 19, 2015 @03:10PM (#9076634)
The Golden Age...thanks! Bought on Kindle.
Re:Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:12PM (#9076180)
One of the predicted outcomes of the Singularity is the removal of sex as a characteristic. Note that race would be removed as well. A posthuman (of whatever form) would be free of both sex and race.
Re:My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @01:21PM (#9063984)
I really thought you were talking about a curriculum vitae there, but I suppose it's "close vote".