colour's comments

colour | 4 years ago | on: Abolish High School (2015)

I don't think it's anything but myth that it be a any better outside the borders of America.

colour | 4 years ago | on: Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research

The conclusion of connections season 1 pretty much is that knowledge needs to made more freely available. He has also held a dozen of long winded talks on the topic like e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvIy52kX-uU There also exists this quite more concise interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3XoLycc9io

colour | 4 years ago | on: Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research

I'm looking forward to when academia actually tumbles down. People like James Burke have been awaiting this for ages.

colour | 4 years ago | on: ABI Mistakes

"Well, what’s wrong with that? Surely we can just do what we did in the days of dumb compilers and pass structures by pointer. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work anymore; compilers are smart now, and they don’t like it when objects alias. " What does that even mean? Does gcc cry after I make it translate code with pointers, I simply don't get it.

colour | 4 years ago | on: Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]

The only thing lacking is a link to the technician's manual, but I imagine that might unfortunately provoke some legal trouble.

colour | 4 years ago | on: The Two Cultures of Mathematics (2000) [pdf]

You bluntly imply that j.blow wouldn't perish from using unity, but offloading to monopolies is really just a race to the bottom.

colour | 4 years ago | on: Oklahoma woman charged with felony for not returning VHS tape 21 years ago

Rather sad all of her prior employers are without any regard to humans.

colour | 5 years ago | on: I'd like to review your README

Code for asynchronous work, but it's isomorphic whatever that means.

colour | 5 years ago | on: The Lucrative Art of Chicken Sexing (2017)

The wikipedia article slightly disagrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_sexing#Vent_sexing