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by Cogito 12y ago
It is interesting that the experiment he proposes actually does use a jet of air! I guess the best counterexample would be to have an airfoil with 0 angle of attack - horizontal on the bottom and curved down on top. Can this wing divert the
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by Cogito 12y ago
That's covered in the article, at least briefly - We then have to ask how a flat wing like that of a paper airplane, with no curves anywhere, can generate lift. Note that the flat wing has been drawn at a tilt, this tilt is called &qu
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by Cogito 12y ago
Yeah, as I mentioned we did talk about it a lot. As it seemed like a lot of work, and since mojang had turned a blind eye, the effort never seemed worth it. The core team got bought before it all came to a head, otherwise you might have see
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by Cogito 12y ago
A few comments say things like "they shouldn't include the binaries" or "why can't they just link to the binary, let the user download it themselves" etc. There may have been a way to achieve that (and we talke
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by Cogito 12y ago
I've talked about this a few times, but I was there at the start of Bukkit, and though I haven't touched it for a few years I still think back to it now and then. The motivation was many faceted, but the basic impetus for most peo
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by Cogito 12y ago
A few comments discuss the complete eradication of all mosquitoes, and the impact that would have. It is worth noting that only a few of the various mosquito species are vectors for most of the diseases we tend to care about, and as such th
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by Cogito 12y ago
Perhaps most interesting in my reading of the documents provided by the EFF is the correspondence regarding the counter-sue made by Rubin against the NJAG. In it NJAG lay out exactly what they think Rubin did: ...Plaintiffs development, us
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by Cogito 12y ago
Throwing some anecdote into the ring - I grew up in a primarily white, rural area (in Australia). I went to a university in the city, which has a large Asian contingent (in fact the city as a whole is a lot more multicultural). During my ti
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by Cogito 12y ago
I've started going through the 'goodbye' posts from various team members that mbaxter assembled[1]. I feel a profound sense of loss reading through and remembering the many interactions over the years. When I read lukegb&#x27
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by Cogito 12y ago
I'm in many ways sad I stopped working regularly on Bukkit. My involvement started to wane a couple of months before the 4 founders got acquired by Mojang, mostly because I got a Real Job. I was there just as it was starting, and help
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by Cogito 12y ago
Looks like he recently moved to pinboard.jp pinboard.com is currently not responding, and was last cached on 29 Jul at 1:47 GMT (roughly 5 hours ago).
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by Cogito 12y ago
While I do some work for the bank, I have no idea how to even try to find out the answer to this question. There are two options I would use in a similar situation. 1. Ask for a case number, and the return phone number to call back. Check t
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by Cogito 12y ago
As I understand it, they want to perform a feasibility study to determine if a mothership (balloon or lander) and daughtership (rotorcraft, maybe a quadcopter) combination would be an effective way to study Titan. The mothership would act a
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Twins develop low-tech method of transcribing reality to paper in amazing detail(lostateminor.com)
6 points by Cogito 12y ago|0 comments
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by Cogito 12y ago
No worries ;) For what it's worth, I actually agree with your point. The parent of your first comment was (at least to some degree) derailing the conversation. I didn't even consider that it was a derailment until your second comm
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by Cogito 12y ago
This comment is much more useful than your grandparent comment. Down voting might be the correct action (if you were able to), but a short meme/snark comment is almost never appreciated.
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by Cogito 12y ago
The visualisation I would most like to see with respect to openings is a 'heat map' like diagram, showing how likely a given piece is to occupy each square after n moves. Are there any squares never used after the first move? Ju
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by Cogito 12y ago
This was quite interesting, but it's so annoying to see multiple 1 line comments from new accounts, and accounts that have very little history. Even more annoying, the older "spammy" accounts all seem to be linked to accredib
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by Cogito 12y ago
Not quite, but close. In cricket you (and a second batter who is with you) stay at bat until you are dismissed. There are a number of ways to be dismissed, such as being caught on the full or run out, but you don't need to put every ba
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Michael Paul Smith's Photography(flickr.com)
2 points by Cogito 13y ago|0 comments
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by Cogito 13y ago
An interesting article, but it annoys me when the author talks of analog computers having "an infinite level of resolution... because they use physical rather than digital inputs and outputs". Physical machines have varying levels
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by Cogito 13y ago
The article mentioned spherical lenses produced as a by product of an industrial process: The poppy-seed-sized lenses where[sic] originally mass produced in various sizes as an abrasive grit that was thrown into industrial tumblers to knoc
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by Cogito 13y ago
I found the projection on the GRUMP FAQ page[0]. Turns out they don't use a projection: *Projection: None, the data is in Geographic (latitude/longitude)* and so the resulting map is similar to the Mercator. I wonder how
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by Cogito 13y ago
For what its worth, I can duplicate on Chrome 33.0.1750.117 The tooltip movement becomes laggy as soon as I move into the top left quadrant. No noticeable difference between any of the other three quadrants.
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by Cogito 13y ago
The only thing I could see after a quick look at the source is that tooltip.node() is called twice in the top left quadrant, vs once or never in the other quadrants. Can't imagine that being the bottle neck, but it seems to be
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by Cogito 13y ago
Looks great, and generally very smooth for me. When the tooltip changes location it is quite jarring, but I have no good solution for that :) - perhaps only flip the position when you would otherwise obscure the underlying visualisation, ra
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by Cogito 13y ago
Without thinking about it too much... One solution might be to try and find the the best candidate after (N/M)/e candidates, rather than N/e candidates. Then find the best candidate after (N_remaining/(M-1))/e candi
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by Cogito 13y ago
The section on experimental studies touches on it briefly, but it's important to note that costs involved in the selection process are not considered in the standard construction of the problem. From wikipedia: > In large part, thi
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by Cogito 13y ago
I couldn't see any information on the linked page - anyone know what the latency and throughput characteristics of this set up are? Would be very interesting to understand how audio attenuation impacts the TCP/IP connection.
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by Cogito 13y ago
Is there any way to ensure simplified expressions are only defined over the same range as the original expression? My guess is no, but it is often important to understand that, for example, a polynomial fraction is not defined when the deno

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