OneTwoFree
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9 years ago
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on: Macaque monkeys have the anatomy for human speech, so why can’t they speak?
I think the "can communicate with poor vision" is the most important as its dark in about 50% of the day when sign language doesn't really work.
Not to mention that you first need to call the other's attention to start communicating with signs, possibly by making some sort of sound so they look at you.
The second most important benefit is (IMHO) that you can speak while you are focusing on something, e.g. waiting for the prey to come closer while everyone holds their weapons.
OneTwoFree
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9 years ago
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on: The biggest surprises from living in a simulated Martian habitat for a full year
They never talk about very important factors: relationship and sex. No one can expect that these people will just stop doing it, but it could cause serious issues as there's nowhere to go after a break up.
So they will take drugs to suppress these emotions? What alternatives are there?
OneTwoFree
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9 years ago
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on: Do Portia Spiders Have a Mind? (2006)
Will we ever be able to scan the wiring of this spider's neurons and "run it" on a computer? That would be amazing, I think. Then we could create virtual worlds for these virtual spiders and let them evolve, supposedly much faster than "normal" evolution.
OneTwoFree
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9 years ago
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on: ThinkPwn: System Management Mode arbitrary code execution
I thought I have an intermediate level C knowledge, but I have no idea what is happening in the vulnerable line:
*(v3 + 0x8)(*(VOID **)v3, &dword_AD002290, CommunicationBuffer + 0x18);
As I understand it is (was) an example code from Intel. Example codes should be easy to understand and well documented.
OneTwoFree
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9 years ago
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on: The False Promise of DNA Testing
Assuming DNA matching has 99% certainity. Are you saying if I get DNA samples from 57 different people and match each of the 57 samples in all possible combination of pairs (so 57*56 tests), then there is 99% chance that I'll find 2 samples which will match?
Someone should do this experiment. I think it's very scary if this is true.
OneTwoFree
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9 years ago
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on: I went to the hospital to give birth and tested positive for meth
Maybe she just left out from the story, but why didn't she say "But I didn't take any meth! I didn't even drink any alcohol! After a miscarriage I'd never do anything like that! Is it possible that the test is wrong?"
OneTwoFree
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10 years ago
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on: Introducing unlimited private repositories
This. Even simple things like "undo last commit" has hard to remember syntax that I always have to google for it.
I wish darcs was more successful.
OneTwoFree
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10 years ago
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on: How Breakfast Became a Thing
I don't drink coffee at all. I eat a vegetarian sandwich every morning when I go to work, it gives me a good start for the day, I feel sharp and focused all morning. Sometimes when the sandwich shop is closed I buy something like a chicken sandwich, and that makes me more sleepy and tired.
Lunch is usually a big pile of rice with some vegetables and meat. Wow, this makes it reeeally hard to stay awake at the afternoon, but there aren't many options for lunch near the workplace.
For dinner, my wife cooks something also usually rice with some meat and veggies. But about 1 hour before I plan to go to sleep I eat 1 or 2 bananas. I always had hard time sleeping, and I read that bananas are good for sleeping because it contains potassium. For me it works. Although this might be completely placebo, because bananas don't work for my wife.
OneTwoFree
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10 years ago
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on: Why OpenBSD Is Important to Me
> Plenty of hardware in my life has backdoors (I'm looking at you Intel[1])
That same libreboot article[1] says that AMD is not any better. Is there any alternative I'm not aware of? An ARM Chromebook is unfortunately not fast enough for me.
[1] https://libreboot.org/faq/#intel
OneTwoFree
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10 years ago
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on: Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes
Probably I'm biased because I had a dengue fever infection a few years ago, but I don't understand the commenters here.
Humanity as a whole burns millions of tonnes of coal, manufacturing millions of tonnes of products which are just thrown away, releasing who knows what chemicals into the rivers and oceans, not to mention the radioactive waste. And seriously you are worried about killing mosquitos?
OneTwoFree
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10 years ago
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on: Show HN: Diff.io
Thanks. I use Avast Anti-Virus. I didn't know they are doing man-in-the-middle. But as I learned, this is quite common for modern antivirus softwares, so I turned off this option in Avast.
OneTwoFree
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10 years ago
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on: Show HN: Diff.io
The site shows an SSL warning message. The certificate details says it was issued by "Avast untrusted CA".
