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Until I read this I was more or less pro-UBI but this article makes some excellent points. UBI essentially assumes that everyone is a rational actor and that they will not succumb …

I do like my humour dry.

After a quick look at the code (I'm probably missing subtleties): The "state" array stores the state of the cells in the life simulation in the lowest bit of each int in the array.…

The holographic principle proposes a much more complex relationship between the 3 dimensional (plus 1 time dimension) universe we experience and a 2 dimensional (plus 1 time dimens…

That used to be the case but recent updates do the processing on the device now. I don't know how they managed it but they did.

Sometimes people have to do what they believe is right.

Here's the list of compatible laptops: https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html#supported_laptops_... Nothing recent but on the plus side, you should be able to pick one up withou…

That's true and if it works for you that's great. Getting preachy about it isn't going to win you friends or change anyone's mind.

These are all excellent points and we should definitely be pursuing all available avenues. I don't think this is and either/or proposition - we should look into anything that can h…

To answer my own question, it's in ES6: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9813277

This is cool. It also raises the possibility of adding tail call optimisation to JavaScript interpreters. Anyone know if that would be feasible?

I think competition has been good for all smartphone consumers so keep up the good work Samsung! (speaking as an iPhone user)

"it could be argued to be less efficient for certain types of data" This is true of all lossless compression.