robinh

I'm not in the USA, but 'only $950-1300'? That's more or less what I pay for a whole year of health insurance in the NL. How much does insurance cost in the USA?

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I should add another reason why I'm wary of getting a job now: I'm not exactly the kind of person who easily finds new friends. College basically forces me to have a certain amount of interaction with people you can become friends with. Getting a job forces interaction, too, but interacting with colleagues is very different.

Actually, there've been a lot of complaints from developers that it was much easier to develop games for the 360 than for the PS3. Thus, this is an unsurprising move from Sony.

Yes. You can make a caricature out of it, but that's how human beings work.

NYT doesn't actually speak of errors of omission and misleading details anywhere. You can't just go making stuff up. To take what you quoted: Mr. Broder left himself open to valid criticism by taking what seem to be casual and imprecise notes along the journey <-- what this means is NOT what you are pretending it means. It simply means "this wasn't done in a laboratory, so you can hardly expect everything to be correct up to 6 sig figs. Therefore, feel free to point out if some specific details aren't quite right."

No, because that's not how disappointment works. You must understand that Elon Musk is considered one of the most ultimately successful technological innovators on earth by many here: he began with a startup, then proceeded to build a commercial space company, work on solar energy and electric cars. It is unsurprising that this causes many of us technically inclined people to unconsciously worship Musk - if only a little bit.

Then, when it turns out that the person you've just neatly placed upon a pedestal does something you very much disagree with, too, is when people actually become disappointed.

"I've always been a fan of Tesla, SpaceX, and Musk, but I will never look at him in the same way again."

I felt the same way, and that's why I think it is appropriate to link to the following post:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/31i/have_no_heroes_and_no_villains/

(There are some valid criticisms of LessWrong and EY, but none of the problems really concern the above post, which is simply an excellent piece.)

What we're seeing here is that kind of thing happening.

Er, that is not at all something all people do.

"But they aren't doing anything in the morning as you've just woken up (think of them as a counter of how long you've been awake"

How so? If you wake up sleepy and groggy and all that, then what neuroreceptors are we talking about?

Thanks! And thanks to officemonkey, too! (But I can't reply to two comments with a single one, I think.)

DOX?

1. Let the package be delivered to a certain address in an apartment building (preferably not too close to your home), say Building X Apartment 123.

2. Once the package is delivered, get to the apartment and tell the owner "Oh, I'm so sorry, I accidentally entered Apartment 123 in my order, instead of Apartment 223, which is where I actually live! I can haz package nao?" Most likely, they will not know the residents at Apartment 223.

3. In most cases, you will now have your package. (If they ask for some ID, you could always go "Sure, do you want me to get that first?", most people will then give you the package right there. If not, just leave and don't come back.)

Yes, this is a purely hypothetical idea, but it seems to me that it's pretty easy to come up with something relatively secure.

"As far as it being a bug waiting to happen, C already has plenty of traps like that - '=' vs '==', '&' vs '&&', and so on."

And C programmers are already spending plenty of their time cursing the world because of those things. Let's not add more of that, shall we? ;)

Oh, I know. Just wondered if the person who posted the comment above mine had just seen that particular episode, too.

Theoretically, one could write an interpreter specifically for the purpose of nesting other interpreters, which would then (nearly) remove itself from memory as it transfers control to the second interpreter, but I know I'm not quite insane enough to start working on such a thing.

Curiously, that episode was on TV where I live just an hour ago.

It would be interesting to see how many languages you could nest before the interpreter becomes too slow to be of use.

Or we simply break all forms of DRM protection, like we've done in the past?

Why should people not be able to commit suicide in the easiest possible way?

Well, no. There are some exceptions, but most databases add a whole lot of bloat you don't necessarily need. Simple files can be just as fast or even faster than using a big database - which is the most important metric to me.

Also Half Life 3.

I would like to point out that 200 students per class in a public high school does not appear to be a worldwide phenomenon. High school classes in Europe appear to be much smaller.

Agreed. I would heartily recommend reading the article you linked to, I certainly liked it a lot.

The project you've worked on looks interesting, too! It's a little late for me to be reading too much code, but I'll make sure to take a good look at it tomorrow. Thanks for the link.

Author here: I'm sorry to hear you didn't like the post. I'll make sure to include nudity in the next version.

Hi, I'm the author. In this particular example, I basically skipped the compiler and linker to create an executable directly, yes. It's certainly a lot of fun, but if you're really trying to become proficient at programming in assembly language, I would recommend reading Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with Linux.

Instinctive reaction to headline: "What do you mean, new?"

You mean like cats? (That's not a rhetorical question, by the way. When you domesticate tigers, would they be very different from what we now consider a cat?)

"Having nothing currently in hand (or seeming to) is not proof of lack of seriousness."

Yes it is. Ten years ago it might not have been, but these days, when vast troves of information are at virtually everyone's fingertips, there is no excuse for not having done some basic research before asking such huge questions and expecting other people to do all the work for you.

I don't really think that's how communication works.

Of course it matters, because decisions like these don't exist in a vacuum. The rest of the world has an effect on what decisions get made, (well, in the countries we're talking about anyway), so if if a government has to resort to much more drastic measures to take your money, these measures are less likely to happen.

This doesn't mean that something like this will never happen, but I don't think anyone's expecting a perfect solution.