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Senji··on Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs
That's interesting. I, don't "talk" or "think aloud" in my head myself. At all. Ideas just snap into focus at once immediately. Same goes for when I'm trying to figure out a puzzle or when programing.

At the moment I learn something new it just snaps into place at once and the knowledge is integrated on the spot.

Also English is a foreign language for me and the same goes for my native language. Whole concepts emerge as I'm trying to do or say something and then I have to put them into words(in either language).

Sometimes the process of talking is excruciatingly slow and interferes with my thoughts. I find that I can type a lot faster and that helps a little.

Senji··on Suspicious court cases, missing defendants, aim to get webpages taken down
We'll just move to a P2P comment system which is implemented as a browser addon and adds a comments section to any website.
Senji··on IRC v3
An irc network can have several servers. If one goes down if the others are online you can connect to any one of them and still be ok. A net split will happen but they tend to resolve fast.
Senji··on IRC v3
The standard would specify a minimum and then you'd be able to go up from that in multiples of it up to a different maximum. If that doesn't jive with the client the client can go screw itself.
Senji··on Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal
Would it even be possible to devise an experiment to test for this? It doesn't seem likely to me.
Senji··on Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name
Choose a Jewish name for added shenanigans.
Senji··on Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal
What's been on my mind about these things is, we don't need to have "space" to be a "thing" that "exists". You can simulate a universe where "space" is encoded in each "particle"'s state as a scalar distance to some other particle.

Thus you don't have a "full dimensional vector {x,y,z}" but you have a bunch of particles each keeping a list of variables with distances to other particles around them.

Maybe I'm not explaining it right, but no one has proposed anything like this as far as I know.

Senji··on CSS - Level 4 Selectors
I've used :has in uBlock filter declarations and it's perfect.(uBlock implements its own :has for its filters)

It should be relatively trivial to isolate the elements targeted by :has and incur the performance penalty only for them instead of the whole dom.

Senji··on DNS-over-HTTPS
>What happens in the real world is that people blame their browser for breaking things that previously worked.

There are 3 browser vendors of any note right now. It wouldn't be that hard for them to collaborate to push this change at the same time.

Senji··on Melinda Gates Has a New Mission: Women in Tech
Detrimental. Average Salaries plummet as more women join a field. They don't bargain for raise as much as men instead settling for less and thus drive prices down.

Also more available labor pouring in will always decrease salaries.

Senji··on Melinda Gates Has a New Mission: Women in Tech
Only if you conflate all genres AND age brackets together.
Senji··on The Democratization of Censorship
This seems like an ineffectual measure. Instead of giving the domain to the individual nodes in the DDoS. I'd resolve it once and pound the IP until it changes.

With a simple script curling the page and looking at the content to check if it's pointed to the right server. Ignoring unroutable or inane IPs returned by the DNS.

Senji··on Generating Faces with Deconvolution Networks
Why bother with this instead of sending a 3d model and just sending the position of a few control points/bone animation.
Senji··on Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
The extension can P2P with other instances of itself in other browsers and share data.
Senji··on Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
3. We had, it was called IRC and Pidgin.

But then the "normies" had to ruin everything.

Senji··on Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
Stats aren't copyrightable. You can build one without goodwill.
Senji··on Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
You could be a little bit more adversarial in the approach. Create several accounts, have them each message one another. Since you know the message and can use OCR, you can easily automate compensation for changes in the UI.
Senji··on Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
I'd like to keep the DOM around and not have the web turn into an incomprehensible mess of canvas pixels.
Senji··on Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
For media files you would be able to achieve something similar with FUSE and FFMPEG.
Senji··on Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
WinFS tried and failed to do something similar.

>Each package invents their own config language and forces it down your throat.

Windows Registry.

Senji··on Investigating a malware sample which sometimes fails to behave maliciously
I can assure you, usb or pci DMA debuggers exist. You raise an interrupt and dump all memory with it.
Senji··on Investigating a malware sample which sometimes fails to behave maliciously
I propose a scorched earth tactic. Refuse to run unsigned code.
Senji··on Investigating a malware sample which sometimes fails to behave maliciously
Then I'll just run a prettifyer with the same sample data and name functions in my malicious macros from that.
Senji··on Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox
Have you considered minimum FS Cluser/Blocksize? Older versions of IE used to write cookies in plaintext files. So now you're wasting 4096 bytes for a few bytes of storage.
Senji··on Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox
Get Lazarus

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-...

Senji··on Some cities are taking another look at LED lighting after AMA warning
>Should we blot out the moon next?

Why not? Lets fund an orbiter to create an artificial lunar eclipse exactly on full moon.

Senji··on Show HN: G9.js – Automatically Interactive Differentiable Graphics
Works great on Firefox 49.0.1 32bit [Win10, 64bit]
Senji··on Japanese Can Soon Pay Their Utility Bills with Bitcoin
Your credditcard/bank account can be frozen by the government. Bitcoin can't.
Senji··on Canvas Gauges
A dev can simply have a few divs updated in real time to match these canvas elements.
Senji··on Downside of Bitcoin: A Ledger That Can’t Be Corrected
>Ethereum contracts cannot be modified or voided by third parties (e.g. a judge).

Feature, not a bug. Same goes for Bitcoin and the government's inability to print shekels on demand.

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