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marxidad··on Alexa and Cortana now work together
https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Allrecipes/dp/B01N3MS7AV
marxidad··on JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript
I interpreted it as ten percent.
marxidad··on N-dimensional complex numbers
He has a weird antifeminist essay on that site, with a jab at transgender identity at the end: http://www.alenspage.net/Man.Woman.htm
marxidad··on Pseudo-public space in London
real estate / land value
marxidad··on Why Choose Vue.js
In general, it's harder to reason about as to which way the data is flowing.
marxidad··on SteamVR Knuckles Dev Kit
A thousand euros for a pair of VR gloves?
marxidad··on Canada's Housing Bubble Will Burst
There are at least 99,000 homes in the GTA that are not occupied. They are just owned as investments. 20% of these are in the Concord suburb, however.
marxidad··on Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language
To line up the equal signs, so all assigned values are aligned as well.
marxidad··on The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Simulated
You lock into (become entangled with) a random selection from a superposition of states, according to the probability described by the wavefunction at the time. What the deal is with the other states you don't see is a matter of interpretation, e.g., Many Worlds hypothesis.
marxidad··on The blockchain paradox: Why DLTs may do little to transform the economy
Banks are regulated by democratic governments.
marxidad··on Compiling the Original Commodore 64 KERNAL Source
Does that mean the games bootstrapped themselves to be their own OS (or to be otherwise OS-less)?
marxidad··on Mathematical Chronology
I like the UI for timelines in Chrome Developer Tools or sound waveform editing programs, like Adobe Audition.
marxidad··on Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US
Or how about this gem: “If you look at these tax deductions for employer-provided health or for state and local taxes or mortgage-interest deductions, they’re really subsidies to the affluent, which I guess I hadn’t thought about them.”
marxidad··on Can Many-Worlds Theory Rescue Us From Boltzmann Brains?
Something like Many Worlds is necessary to explain what it means for something like a wavefunction to collapse. Although it may multiply entities, that doesn't mean that it does so unecessarily. The trade-off is that new physical laws aren't introduced when doing so, and with other theories, you can say that introducing new laws is unnecessary, with respect to Many Worlds.
marxidad··on Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
I use Tab Wrangler https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-wrangler/egnjh...
marxidad··on Show HN: How to write a recursive descent parser
Untyped S-Expressions would be taking a step back from a C# perspective.
marxidad··on Astronomers Have Found a Star Orbiting a Black Hole at 1% the Speed of Light
Sounds like it would need Minecraft.
marxidad··on What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
marxidad··on Government-grade spyware hits Mexican advocates of soda tax
I'm not a big fan of the metallic aspartame aftertaste.
marxidad··on Government-grade spyware hits Mexican advocates of soda tax
Obesity isn't strictly a lifestyle choice for everyone afflicted with it.
marxidad··on Poorer men are being driven out of full-time work. Here’s why
It seems that there is enough demand from women to become police officers to justify the quotas (based on general population, not proportion of applicants), whereas not a lot of men want to be teachers. You see the same thing with nursing.
marxidad··on Cultural differences may leave their mark on DNA
What muscles do you have to flex that will eventually lead to methylation of histones?
marxidad··on Why emojis are failing to evolve into a form of language
Standardization by a small group can have a positive effect on a language's evolution. Look at what Webster's dictionary did for English spellings and common usages.
marxidad··on Why emojis are failing to evolve into a form of language
Normal English words also vary widely in their usage, but consistency is often found within tight peer groups. In either case, universalities are still implied or they emerge, whether it is a smiley face to mean a smile or an eggplant for sexual connotation.
marxidad··on Why emojis are failing to evolve into a form of language
That's an orthographic category, not a functional category, for which "interjections" comes close. They are also similar to attitudinals in Lojban.
marxidad··on Totally stressed out? Sync to Paper
I find a Surface Pro with Mischief¹ to be more effective—it has seemingly infinite zoom.

¹ https://www.madewithmischief.com/

marxidad··on Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded
The problems may be more political than technical.
marxidad··on Jellyfish Proteins Improve the Polariton Laser
Particles are actually just excitations in a field but it's the field that makes them actual particles. An electron arises from an electron field. An electron hole arises from an absence of an electron.
marxidad··on What is randomness? (2013)
Yes, it's normal so long as you are in one component or the other. I don't think that you can experience a superposition of being coherent among both components—of existing in both worlds. I think that we're always unconscious in a Schrodinger state.
marxidad··on 4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles
I think that self-awareness is more than a matter of (classical) computation. The immediacy of subjective experience implies an entanglement of states, as when one observes one's own self. The marbles would have to be coherent in a cardboard XOR gate for that to happen.
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