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Comment Re: Basically a bug (Score 2) 95

the ai isn't really passing when behind... it's paying when ahead but just sort of agreeing to go to counting when the territory is not fully defined.

in human go if there's a dispute in counting you go back to play to settle disputed stones.

this is still somewhat interesting, but much less impressive than a novel strategy that could get to the end of a game and actually win. this is a glitch not a more meaningful weakness to special tactics

Comment Re:Fraudbait (Score 1) 433

if EVE is rEADing thE maIL and SHE can't undERSTand it hOW can BOB read it it?

this is a totally reasonable question, but the answer is very complicated. I'm a novice who has only read applied cryptography. It involves proof of work.

TL;DR you cast an encrypted vote publicly tied to your name. The votes are added together encrypted (cool right?) and then only the national total of votes get decrypted by a carefully chosen group of enemies who all need to turn keys at the same time (or alternately m/n must cooperate) presumably they wouldn't all collude to decrypt the individual votes.

Comment They need to make a 738 (Score 1) 188

The problem here is that they don't want to pay to get a "new" plane certified. The process is expensive, and then pilots need to be trained on the "new" plane.

The 737 max is a design nightmare created out of a desire to keep stretching this lie that all their new models are still "just a 737 with a tweak"

People called out this bullshit, but boeing managed to push it through regulators. Pasting from wikipedia:
Chief executive Dai Whittingham of the independent trade group UK Flight Safety Committee disputed the idea that the MAX was just another 737, saying, "It is a different body and aircraft but certifiers gave it the same type rating."

Comment optional garbage collector? (Score 1) 199

There's a bit of handwaving in the introduction concerning the garbage collector. There's a compiler option to turn it off allowing you to manually manage memory, but what if libraries you're using aren't all written to manually clean up after themselves? It seems to me that one of two things will happen:

1. Not everybody in the community manually manages their memory, making the --gc=none option impossible to use in practice.
2. Everybody is required to manually manage their memory so that others can gc off, effectively making the memory management mandatory.

So unless there's something more to this it seems like it's really just punting the gc decision to the community and creating confusion and uncertainty.

Can anybody with more knowledge maybe clear this up?

Comment Re:More allergenic? (Score 1) 760

Either get over it, or take your argument to its logical conclusion and stop living.

you joke, but seriously, read about the Jains. They do try not to kill plants, eating no roots, and ideally no leaves, just fruits. Nor do they eat honey or milk. And your logical conclusion is accurate. The highest austerity is starvation.

As an example Chandragupta of Maruya conquered India through military action at first, but became a Jain and continued his conquest through diplomatic marriage. In the end he became an ascetic and fasted himself to death.

Space

Double Eclipse Photographed, Sun, Moon, and ISS 159

The Bad Astronomer writes "The exceptionally talented astrophotographer Thierry Legault captured a picture extraordinary even for him: the space station passing in front of the Sun while the Sun was being partially eclipsed by the Moon! He traveled all the way from France to the Sultanate of Oman to take this amazing shot. I have more information about the picture itself on the Bad Astronomy blog, but you should go to Thierry's website to see more amazing pictures he's taken over the years. They're simply jaw-dropping."
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Ubuntu Dumps X For Unity On Wayland 640

An anonymous reader writes "Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Ubuntu will move away from the traditional X.org display environment to Wayland — a more modern alternative. The move means there is now little reason for GNOME developers to recommend Ubuntu as an operating system. Shuttleworth said, 'We're confident we’ll be able to retain the ability to run X applications in a compatibility mode, so this is not a transition that needs to reset the world of desktop free software. Nor is it a transition everyone needs to make at the same time: for the same reason we'll keep investing in the 2D experience on Ubuntu despite also believing that Unity, with all its GL dependencies, is the best interface for the desktop. We'll help GNOME and KDE with the transition, there's no reason for them not to be there on day one either.'"

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