ArbitraryLimits

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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
I guess I'm just old school, but my solution to this problem has been a 250 GB external drive + CVS for all my files. I've been doing it for years and it works great. Every time I leave a machine, it's just 'cvs commit -m "Leaving home/wo
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
I've been in the testing labs of InSitu, the company which makes the logical descendent of the Aerosonde (ScanEagle). I'm a software guy, and know nothing about engines, but tacked onto the door was a reminder that each paper clip's worth
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
After seeing Korean shopowners in action during the LA riots in 1991, I'd always been curious how this scenario would play out in a country with gun control laws.
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
There's a saying that goes, "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million dollars, that's the bank's problem." (I've seen it attributed to John D. Rockefeller, but certainly other people had the same idea
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
My point was that it's not fair to point to BSTR's as an example of how the len+data approach is bad because BSTR's force you to do both and (in my opinion) end up having the drawbacks of both approaches and the benefits of neither.
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
I thought it was Cortes who ordered his boats burned once he landed in the New World. Source: http://burningboats.com/about-burningboatscom/
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
> the more prepared side always wins I'd say it's more subtle than that: the side which is more appropriately prepared always wins. Arguably the French were "more prepared" for WWII if you go by amount of effort expended - building the
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
BSTR's are not only null-terminated, they're double null-terminated (two bytes of zeroes).
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
My favorite part is how he starts off by critiquing Stoll's dissertation. "...although I thought that all atmostpheres were adiabatic so long as they convected." It seems like the pioneers in new fields (computer security in this case) ten
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
Well sure, if you don't change its default configuration and leave Postgres tuned for a 486.
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
Not really related, but Gosper's algorithm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospers_algorithm ) is the thing I've learned in the last few years that blew my mind the hardest. It's how Maple or Mathematica can reduce your crazy sums to a sing
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
"Russians won wars by throwing themselves in front of tanks, which was not the right mindset for a master criminal."
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
The South certainly couldn't have won the Civil War in the sense of invading and subduing the North. I think odds are good they could have "won" a political victory, in the sense of dragging the conflict out with superior generalship (whic
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
If you follow that link, you'll find that in the study referenced the researchers made up their own more or less ad hoc tests of "ability" precisely because "most IQ tests are not good indicators of true high level ability (e.g., beyond +3
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
Actually I think he was referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_basis
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
By the by, one of the things that always tripped me up about the DFT was understanding that for signals that are already sums of sinusoids, the discrete sum gives exactly the same answer as the integral would. Remember the trapezoidal rule
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
Sounds more and more like Forth - even to complaints about the stack-based API.
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by ArbitraryLimits 15y ago
Just make sure there are enough people in the know around, and remember that it takes a lot of people laughing at cocksure idiots to get them to change their minds. I've tried this approach with an insufficient number of "people in the k
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by ArbitraryLimits 16y ago
I believe it used to be standard to use Lagrange multipliers to handle constraints on the state space in R^n as an alternative to using generalized coordinates. For example, when you handle the case of motion on the surface of a sphere you
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by ArbitraryLimits 16y ago
I think it's an even better story how he "guessed wrong" with Hamiltonian mechanics, also; the only difference is that he never fixed the mistake and it wasn't really fixed until the early 20th century with the development of optimal contro