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New comment by choosername in "A suggestion on how to spend a day at home"

choosername — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 13:52:30 +0000

thought that's a small, german thing

New comment by choosername in "New “Leaf” Is More Efficient Than Natural Photosynthesis"

choosername — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 12:33:09 +0000

The Second Law of Thermodynamics just means the conversion can't be a hundred percent efficient. Indeed, I didn't think of that as a problem.

New comment by choosername in "New “Leaf” Is More Efficient Than Natural Photosynthesis"

choosername — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:35:34 +0000

Why can't the heat be converted to electricity?

New comment by choosername in "Quake's Lighting Model: Surface Caching (1996)"

choosername — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 07:32:41 +0000

i used a p4 until this year and upgraded only to save power.

New comment by choosername in "Learn Voraciously (2015)"

choosername — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:33:30 +0000

Maybe she's just flatterin. Or she thinks that working less and being comfortable with it is clever and she has to admire the skill this takes, which she struggles with to adjust right.

Maybe the author is right, though.

New comment by choosername in "How to Read a Book [pdf]"

choosername — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:02:55 +0000

right, writing's about the useful order of the facts.

New comment by choosername in "The solution to (nearly) everything: working less"

choosername — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 20:25:58 +0000

what's full time, 10 h/week, 40? where did this magic number come from and why is it declining in the last decades, while unemployment rises? surely not because we became less able to work.

New comment by choosername in "Google Profits Surge on Strong Ad Demand"

choosername — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 21:53:31 +0000

That appetite is proportional to the careless feeding of stats and the affinity to fall for the ads.

New comment by choosername in "Special projects"

choosername — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:26:35 +0000

Out there are a lot of announcements of really existent research results, even popular ones.

New comment by choosername in "Inter-Procedural Optimization and Derefinement"

choosername — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 23:22:49 +0000

It would also be reasonable to remove the declaration as the variable is "unused".

New comment by choosername in "The Magic of “Untranslatable” Words"

choosername — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 23:19:20 +0000

There's no such thing as the "Untranslatable" Word if universal grammar is for actual. At least up to turing completenes, as any language should suffice to describe a turing machine. Yeah, I don't know about "Magic".

New comment by choosername in "Mozilla Fathom: Find meaning in the web"

choosername — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:41:36 +0000

they are still the same kind of machine

New comment by choosername in "How Berlin can become Europe’s No. 1 tech hub"

choosername — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:29:22 +0000

... again! :)

I'd prefer a german page. And a less clickbaity page.

New comment by choosername in "Pittsburghese Expertise: Dropping “To Be”"

choosername — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 09:01:55 +0000

i like the. aussi's yous

New comment by choosername in "Organizing programs without classes (1991) [pdf]"

choosername — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:01:26 +0000

>Abstract.

>All organizational functions carried out by classes can be accomplished in a simple and natural way by object inheritance in classless languages, ...

Like javascript prototypes? Ah, yes.

> ... with no need for special mechanisms.

Is object the type then or a single class?

> A single model—dividing types into prototypes and traits—supports sharing of behavior and extending or replacing representations. A natural extension, dynamic object inheritance, can model behavioral modes. Object inheritance can also be used to provide structured name spaces for well-known objects.

>Classless languages can even express “class-based” encapsulation. These stylized uses of object inheritance become instantly recognizable idioms, and extend the repertory of organizing principles to cover a wider range of programs

New comment by choosername in "Servo Nightly Builds Available"

choosername — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 12:17:14 +0000

you misunderstand if you think servo is scheduled for production and put peer pressure on the devs, but sure, firefox is great already, can only get better. Speaking of which, how are the memory requirements of servo, in relative terms, yet?

New comment by choosername in "Modern China Is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre"

choosername — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 17:56:39 +0000

That's just anothet point to a short list. Sure, the list is longer, but the problem that the train derailed to begin with, that happens here, in europe, as well.

New comment by choosername in "Investing Returns on the S&P500"

choosername — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 19:55:26 +0000

Nothing has no values. Nil is nothing thoug, or what properties should it have?

New comment by choosername in "Investing Returns on the S&P500"

choosername — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 19:52:13 +0000

Hehe, depending on the setting in sci-fi stories, that doesn't play out well, politically, and a lot of spending goes to the military.

New comment by choosername in "Investing Returns on the S&P500"

choosername — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 19:24:46 +0000

With off shore holding accounts, do google et al count?