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I do most work on the commandline in text-mode (no graphics layer)

I'm pretty sure there is some graphics layers even in your work environment.

Imagine my surprise when I pulled a headless debootstrap chroot upgrade of a squeeze debian box that did not come up after rebooting.

I had to order a remote KMS session to figure out what went wrong: debian did not include the pretty common realtek-firmware and I was not able to apt-get it without a network interface. Luckily I was able to use it from a the previous installation.

You get a tiny amount of control over the html with :before and :after content and removing elements with display:none and going crazy with complex selectors and absolute positioning

Has anyone tried training a RNN on high level language <-> assembly?

Would be cool if it could even guess variable names from patterns it has seen before, like x,y,z for vector structs.

the garmin unit seems to only measure a single distance in the direction in which you point it. This new velodyne unit touts a 120° angle (but nothing on the horizontal or vertical resolution)

Their spinning lidars have 16 to 64 vertical beams and a horizontal resolution depending on the rotation speed with a sampling rate of 300.000 to 2.2M points/sec

http://velodynelidar.com/products.html

edit - totally missed how many people already pointed this out, sorry.

What you wrote resonates with me. I have an espresso machine and grinder at home and I enjoy making coffee for guests and myself. I wish I could pull off even simple latte art.

In a post scarcity world, I imagine human work with its imperfections will have its own wabi sabi value. People already pay a hefty premium for artisan handmade products like pottery, furniture, even jeans.

“I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives them pleasure. And anyway" - the man laughed - "people die; stars die; universes die. What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? Of course, if all I did was wipe tables, then of course it would seem a mean and despicable waste of my huge intellectual potential. But because I choose to do it, it gives me pleasure. And," the man said with a smile, "it's a good way of meeting people. So where are you from, anyway?” ― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

"There is no reason a person should know which class they are in, nor should a class know which people are enrolled in it. "

Also replacing a O(1) chasing a pointer into a O(n) array search

Psyop Mistakes? 12 years ago

The mistake was probably made by confusing one of the two variants of 's' that were used back then with a 'f': The one that looks like an f was only used at the beginning of words, also within compound nouns. In this example, one would read as "guardroom", the other as "wax tube" http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Wachstube.svg

I think you overestimated the possible chess positions by a couple orders of magnitude. You can't have a chess configuration with an arbitrary number of pieces.