Dove

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by Dove 14y ago
am I the only one immune to the this sort of thing? I don't know, I feel that way, too. I've been through long sales pitches, mall workers, even TV commercials . . . and I'm pretty sure the emotions I feel are not the ones they intend me
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by Dove 14y ago
Oh! I completely missed that you can buy coins. I really ought to switch my default association with coins in games from "game mechanic" to "real cash". The times, they are a' changin'.
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by Dove 14y ago
It's not about the disparity between the price and the functional value. The value is subjective, anyway. Expensive jewelry communicates commitment, expensive handbags signal status, and a wine you paid more for tastes better to you. I
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by Dove 14y ago
Yeah, I don't have any data to back it up -- it's just intuition -- but I've got to think that spending $5000 on Farmville just can't be right. I mean, that'll buy you pretty much unlimited movies, music, and TV for a year, with maybe
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by Dove 14y ago
I checked out Triple Town, curious what sort of game someone looking for both strong ties with players and recurring revenue would produce. What I found was a game with a single $4 purchase that unlocked everything. That definitely suits
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by Dove 14y ago
I'm not so sure. As a player, I was initially excited about free-to-play games. I viewed them as a rebirth of shareware, a try-before-you-buy sort of thing. But having played a few, and having had a few games I bought go that direction,
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by Dove 14y ago
If you just want to rotate point clouds, it might be hard to do better than taking apart and studying a project that does that (like this one). http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/index.html will give you a good general background, though.
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by Dove 14y ago
Scroll all the way to the bottom. The organization of this post is strange -- a result, a long section about how to write a web crawler in Mathematica, and then about a dozen more different results. If you (like me) are inclined to tune ou
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by Dove 14y ago
That's a very confusing table, but an interesting comparison. I think you reveal different things comparing line count and character count, and both miss what I'm looking for in a terse language: scanability. A lot of the verbosity that ann
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by Dove 14y ago
The fundamental moral principles of religions like Christianity, and also many others, are things like: everyone is born with equal rights; treat others as you would treat yourself; try to alleviate the suffering of others. This is proje
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by Dove 14y ago
Should we allow the passing of ordinances preventing the operation of such shops? Of course. Lots of people don't want porn shops in their neighborhoods, either. Or casinos. So there are laws about where they can be located, what the st
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by Dove 14y ago
I suppose it might! All the clothing I have that should be ironed is also dry-clean only, so it never sees the dryer. I do have some clothes that I dry on a rack, and they always come out very stiff compared to the stuff that goes through
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by Dove 14y ago
Sure. I've gone camping, too. I'm just saying trying to live normally on a peak power of a couple kW might be optimistic. The dryer alone draws two or three.
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by Dove 14y ago
The big ones -- at least around here -- are the clothes dryer, the range, and the dishwasher. They're all a kW or more, and it would be a significant inconvenience to do without them. Oh, and the microwave.
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by Dove 14y ago
A (dry) sponge is much lighter than water, but it might not float; when you put it in water, the holes fill up with water, and the question becomes whether the rest of the sponge is light enough to float. It's the same thing here. When t
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by Dove 14y ago
This is a particular area of interest for me, as well. I've experimented with an Android app designed to help my toddler learn to count ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cdarrow.co... ), and it really seems to work. In
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by Dove 14y ago
“I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on- off switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two wee
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by Dove 14y ago
There seems to be something of a problem with hellbanning here, in the last few months. I've actually turned showdead on because comment death -- at least in the middle of the page -- no longer seems a reasonable predictor of comment quali
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by Dove 14y ago
Given that the answer is 'no', perhaps a better question would be "How many nukes would you need to stop a hurricane?"
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by Dove 14y ago
In that case, I'd be much too excited about making progress in mathematics to be bothered by my toy program not working right.
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by Dove 14y ago
Overall, I'm pretty unimpressed with the quality of the crowdsourced comments -- which shouldn't come as any surprise to someone who's spent time on the internet. I love the format of viewing with factcheck.org references off to the side, b
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by Dove 14y ago
The scrolling works well. It's a little weird, though, that it takes the mousewheel scrolling when I'm mousing over the comments. It makes sense, now that I've used it, it was just unexpected enough that I didn't think to try it the first
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by Dove 14y ago
Makes sense. Maybe put the username and comment together? It scared me off and I forgot what I was going to reply to. I do love the idea of these annotated debates. I wish the last half was pre-annotated, at least with the questions and
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by Dove 14y ago
The factcheck.org references are neat, though I kind of wish there were more of them. Is this supposed to be crowdsourced? ---------- Scrolling the notes is a little difficult. I keep trying to do it, and sometimes it works. Sometimes no
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by Dove 14y ago
we spent the morning laughing at this paper And how. I still can't breathe quite right. I still think differentiable category theory was my favorite bit, but I'll admit the recent paper by Pythagoras has appeal.
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by Dove 14y ago
Not to worry. Someone with a graduate-level background in actual math won't make it very far into the title before deciding the paper is nonsense. After that, it's all fun and games trying to assign meanings to things. "Arrows of Equation
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by Dove 14y ago
I don't think it's getting you nowhere. For example, I am about to vote to legalize marijuana in Colorado. I don't know whether it will pass, but you can bet that measure would never have been on the ballot were it not for the decades of d
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by Dove 14y ago
Well, it's not really something you can turn off. When I saw Tony Stark crash in the sand, the effect on me was very much the same as if I'd seen his head disintegrated by a shotgun blast. I was viscerally sure he was dead. If you haven
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by Dove 14y ago
There's that scene in Iron Man, in the desert, in which Tony Stark's first attempt at a suit runs out of power and crashes into the sand after a fall from a decent altitude. The first time I saw that, I thought, "They just killed the hero
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by Dove 14y ago
That seems like rather venue-specific advice. In the average lecture hall or conference room I've presented in, all the seats can see the full screen just fine. In fact, I've sometimes put important graphics as low as possible, knowing the

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