FabHK

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   by FabHK 6y ago

   One of the funniest video on YouTube in my opinion is this 2007 demonstration of voice recognition on Windows Vista for Perl programming. The lad spends the first 4.5 minutes trying to enter „open (INFO“ before typing it out. Absolute class
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   by FabHK 6y ago

   Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1827/
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   by FabHK 6y ago

   I've never had to use JavaScript, but I've done the *1 or &"" in Excel to force conversion to the desired type... yes, let's mercifully lay the veil of forgetting over this.
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   by FabHK 6y ago

   Maybe this is a high cats/dogs ratio compared with other major cities. Clearly, more research is needed: for as many cities as possible, find the ratio, plot it against the prevalence of Islam, compute a coefficient, and test whether o
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   by FabHK 6y ago

   It might be, for many (not for me, for example), but it certainly isn't a defining or necessary feature. Future atheists, for example, with entirely different concerns (and eschatology) would still properly call themselves atheists if
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   by FabHK 6y ago

   First, Tyson didn't claim that philosophy is not a productive contributor to our understanding of the natural world, but that for any individual, "if you are distracted by your questions so that you can’t move forward, you are not
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   by FabHK 6y ago

   I hadn't thought of that, because I knew the premise. I wouldn't say that it's been done on purpose to sell more books, but I could absolutely understand, now that you mention it, if someone bought the book based on the title
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   by FabHK 6y ago

   > Adopting the ethics of a religious culture while denying the underlying assumptions is pretty unreasonable. Why? Are you saying that just because Islam stresses peace, hospitality, and philanthropy, that one cannot be peaceful, hospita
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   by FabHK 6y ago

   > who was raised in the Islamic world and comes to the States and converts to Judaism can never stop being a Muslim? No, according to GP, insofar as that person believes in the sanctity of the individual and human rights etc, that person
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    > many atheists also seem to proselytize with a religious fervor as well Could that be availability bias? You don't hear from the many that don't proselytise. > even something like atheism is a religion That's nonsense,
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    It's about the relevance of ancient philosophical ideas to modern society's dilemmata, and progress in philosophy over the ages, in a fictionalised setting where Plato visits Google. I think "clickbait" is a bit harsh he
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    I found the book underwhelming as well, and tedious to read. I cannot remember much from the part I managed (first quarter, approximately), except the idea that philosophy has made progress, revealed through the rhetoric device of having or
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    I've babysat for friends with a 3 and 5 yr old, and it is phenomenal how you could grab their attention (and distract from any ailment they had a second earlier) by showing them youtube videos of fire engines with sirens.
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    FWIW, this paper (on the danger of thanksgiving dinners...) has some graphs showing the difference between transmission during indoors vs. outdoor meetings. The difference is tremendous. Slide 6 - the barely visible brown line hugging the x
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    They're outside and (in the last congratulatory shot) almost all wearing masks. I think that is defensible.
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    Though electric motors are notoriously efficient (much more so than ICEs), and my understanding was that ducted fans are also efficient (particularly with 2 stacked counterrotating props).
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    I liked this course: Introduction to Aeronautical Engineering , by Technical University Delft in the Netherlands, on edX. It assumes basic physics and maths, but then gives a nice overview about all the fundamentals - aerostatics, aerodyna
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    I thought efficiency of a fan < 2 counterrotating stacked fans < ducted fan?
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    I don't think a quadcopter is controllable with 3 engines. However, a drone designed to carry pax can be designed with redundancy - the Volocopter, for example, has 18 rotors and engines, and can withstand at least 3 failing.
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    Aka "Dutch disease" > coined in 1977 by The Economist to describe the decline of the manufacturing sector in the Netherlands after the discovery of the large Groningen natural gas field in 1959 https://en.wikipedia.o
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    Pet peeve about using spotlight as a currency converter btw: It can do popular currencies ("100 EUR in USD", CAD, JPY, GBP) and some minor ones (HKD, THB, SEK, NOK, HRK), but try lesser known ones (GEL, COP, PHP, KES), and it does
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    Nice. I'd highlight that conceptually, there are two entirely separate concerns here: 1) the front, if you so will - the emails which you give out and to which people (or algos) send you stuff 2) the back, where you receive and read yo
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    Hardware problem, or just no sound? I've found that force-quitting `coreaudiod` would fix missing sound.
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    One More Thing: The M1 Macs(daringfireball.net)

    3 points by FabHK 6y ago|0 comments
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    Indeed, but you'd definitely notice (unlike on the Airbus). Furthermore, if I'm not mistaken, you'd then have a split elevator (one side up, one side down), while the Airbus just averages the two inputs and sets the elevator
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    "Volatile functions are always dirty."
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    FWIW, I found it weird that the article didn't mention "DAG" once...
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    That's awesome. So you basically allow implicit creation of off-spreadsheet named cells (sub-cells, in a sense, as they're only locally available). Very useful.
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    First, the trend has been towards dense cities, not rural living/suburbs for centuries, as they can provide so many benefits (jobs, retail, culture, leisure, community, etc) efficiently. > Parking lots would not be nearly as large (
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    by FabHK 6y ago

    That fundamental misunderstanding is not a misunderstanding. You can look at individual passwords and estimate their "entropy", such as zxcvbn does, and in fact you need to. Because the distribution that matters is not the one you