Cogito

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by Cogito 14y ago
No worries :) I used to be very active on the team there, but haven't contributed any code for a while now. I get the urge almost every week, so maybe I should jump back in for a bit. It has its problems, but is miles ahead from where we st
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You are of course correct, I should have picked that up thanks!
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The primary reason for using detergent as a currency, beyond the fact that the market for stolen Tide is so strong, is that shoplifting carries a far lower penalty than robbery or burglary -theft-. If they were robbing the stores at knife p
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full text: http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/#...
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The corresponding graph is very interesting as well [0]. Demand rose steadily from 4:30am through to its peak at 4:30pm. Just after this the spot-price jumped from ~$100 where it had been fairly steadily throughout the day to ~$2300. The ma
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My understanding is somewhat limited, as that is a second-hand anecdote. They probably don't turn the smelters off completely, instead simply scaling production down to a minimum. This seems like the most reasonable action in any case, as t
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I don't know enough about the English power market to draw comparisons, but I'll outline a little bit about how the Australian NEM (National Energy Market) works and how it deals with situations like this. My understanding is derived primar
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I initially thought they were sarcastic, but I quickly decided that was unlikely. Amusing from the outside looking in I guess.
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> This has nothing to do with comments. The emphasis on comments is little more than an attempt to get on the "social media is harmful" bandwagon. I don't agree. First of all, this study was about comments, and as such we now have data
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Not quite. Implore asserts that a test passes (prototypically on a passed in parameter), but if that test fails the blame is on the calling function. Swear on the other hand will assign blame to the current function if the test fails.
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The author mentioned It makes it possible for Minecraft Server administrators to create interesting places for players to come and play. I agree a client mod is a great place to have this functionality, but if it is being done on the serv
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This is cool, but for the server it is already possible to use a number of scripting languages. By using the Bukkit server mod, which provides a stable plugin API, it is relatively easy to add a wrapper around a scripting engine [0]. For ex
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It always seemed to me that gift givers are much more inclined to give a tangible object than a small box containing a 'game disc' or similar. I don't have any sources to back this up, but I suspect this reduces the impact from having to bu
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by Cogito 14y ago
I think the basis for your counter argument here is flawed. The statement 'The payouts are the same regardless of what you do' is in the context of a person's state of mind; someone can either 'behave as if there is or behave as if there is
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by Cogito 14y ago
To be fair, it uses the full blob until you pack, which is not immediately and depends on your settings. Large repositories spend a significant amount of effort determining optimum window pack sizes etc to optimise the packing of their hist
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by Cogito 14y ago
To be clear, the author found the git-scm.com website that Scott Chacon (of GitHub) runs, and its package of the Git for Windows project. This project is as close to an 'official' Windows version as exists, and is really quite good. It's ac
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And in case you have missed it, there is work going on right now to add hg and bzr remote-helper support to git. In particular, if you look at the latest RC announcement[1] for git v1.8.1 we see * A new remote-helper interface for Mercur
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Every time it wasn't built with Bootstrap I wanted to know what it was built with... v2 maybe?
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Yakitake!! is deservedly one of my favourite all time Japanese shows. None of my friends understand why I like it, but then again, none of my friends have watched it. As soon as I saw these images, I knew exactly where they were from (it's
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by Cogito 14y ago
This was a particularly well written summary, with references to the relevant parts of the document. Comments like this are why I (and I suspect many others) skip straight to the comments after a quick skim of the link, and hence it deserve
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That is not how I read it at all. The scientists took a lot of measurements over a long period, and carefully tried to remove as much noise as possible. After this, they think the remaining perturbation can be explained by a system of small
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"In exchange, we just ask that you agree you will only use this account for your OSS project(s) and that all of your test results (videos, screenshots, and the Selenium log) will be publicly accessible" This sounds great, but I couldn't f
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nobody uses QR codes http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/ (this has been posted on other QR code threads before, but is always relevant)
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I grew up in regional NSW in Australia, and Google would repeatedly offer a route to Sydney through weird choices of mountain roads. If I did not know better, I might have taken those roads simply because I knew no other way to get to Sydne
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Everyone seems happy aside from people driving into an Australian desert they've never been to with no supplies— oh, and folks who need transit directions. Just to clarify, these people weren't driving into the desert, just into a town. T
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Maybe it wasn't obvious to you from the article, but the issue here is that the maps direct you into a national park instead of Mildura, a nice little Victorian town. These people getting lost are not intending to drive "into a wilderness
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by Cogito 14y ago
Oh, in this particular case I agree, the Karma company generates the karma and furthermore consumes it all as well. What I was referring to was a distributed model where users essentially 'sell' their bandwidth to others for a credit agains
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The problem with a sink is that you remove 'currency' form circulation. Without a way of circulating the karma back or a way of generating new karma then you can get a lack of liquidity, and hence make it difficult for people to 'buy' conne
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I was thinking about this too, but there is one problem with a purely pay-it-forward type model - there is no 'debt'. That is, how does one earn karma in order to buy uptime? You can 'sell' your connection to someone else, but where do they
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I wonder if this has been rolled into Node yet. [edit] Node currently uses V8 version 3.11.10.25, which was released after this fix was made, but not sure if the fix was merged to trunk [edit2] actually, looks like it has, though I can't id

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