ColFrancis

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by ColFrancis 6y ago
> Both in terms of power (hardware & software) and in clout. I'd also add their "bravery", similar to dropping the 3.5mm jack.
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by ColFrancis 6y ago
I don't think this would be the case. (A proportion of) People love to share things like recipes, they would share them regardless. Some other people found they can monetise recipes by putting ads on their sites. They have an incentive
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by ColFrancis 6y ago
The big trouble you'll have is incentives. Who has an incentive to put them up in a noisy place?
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by ColFrancis 6y ago
They are reliant on importing iron ore to sustain them at current rates. They would need to scale back everything in order to remove that reliance. In all the actions they've taken against Australia of late it's telling that they
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by ColFrancis 6y ago
For me at least (Bose QC35) I hear the ringing after I take them off, not while they're on. They're good, but not that good. My ears ring the most at night.
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by ColFrancis 6y ago
I'll bite. One way to look at it is that with a portfolio of investments you want to spread your risk amongst different classes. If you are securing an IT system then you have defence in depth. If you produce medical devices you want t
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by ColFrancis 6y ago
Here's a random thought: Community, in some ways, require some lock in (don't think in absolutes here but switching costs etc.). If you're locked in to the community you have to sort out differences and make it work. For reli
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by ColFrancis 6y ago
Calling it big O is indeed a mistake (especially when you start using it with handwriting, o & O because difficult to distinguish). > Saying worst case upper bound isn't too many words and conveys the correct meaning to people w
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by ColFrancis 6y ago
> Not after the infamous need-to-know memo. I couldn't find that memo, could you please link to a copy?
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by ColFrancis 6y ago
A shock would likely cause a nucleus site anyway. When people do this with water in the freezer a good knock sets it off. So when the water starts to flow I think it'd freeze in the pipes.
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by ColFrancis 6y ago
The closest experience I've had to this style of programming is using Rstudio and evaluating lines, modifying them, and rerunning. I've found this style of programming a little difficult. It's imperative that you rerun from s
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by ColFrancis 6y ago
> students are able to come up with the "classical" design pattern implementations on their own in a couple hours without prior exposure to them. I think this is even mentioned in the GoF book. The point of naming these pattern
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by ColFrancis 6y ago
But how many people play wii sports? It was awesome fun, super novel, and was huge for a while there but now it's died off. It'll be interesting to see if VR does the same. One thing going for VR is that there's more than one
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by ColFrancis 6y ago
Many RTS games have already done this in a traditional client rendered setup with deterministic lockstep (e.g. [1]). The basic idea is to have an input at time t which has a fixed delay until t + x. During [t, t+x] everyone syncs what actio