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by Grue3 10y ago
Oh god, spare me this bullshit. I'm not British, or American, I just put up the first source that's considered reasonably reliable (nobody's gonna complain about BBC, right? Or so I thought!) And yet here you are, because god
902.
by Grue3 10y ago
I see a great degree of superficiality in all comments. These seismologists [1] were convicted for breaking the Italian law, period. That the law that allows to jail seismologists for not predicting earthquakes could be improved is a comple
903.
by Grue3 10y ago
Yes, I use the star in Firefox URL bar (yeah, I know, they moved it recently for some reason) to mark the websites I'd want to revisit and add a bunch of tags to them. Then, if I forget about something, I can always search by tag. Thes
904.
by Grue3 10y ago
That's pretty interesting, I thought they were dead for sure after "doing a digg" by splitting off Swarm from the main app. How do they even collect data if hardly anybody uses their app anymore?
905.
by Grue3 10y ago
Gnome (for major versions > 2) is even worse than Unity though. They should've chosen an actually usable DM like Cinnamon.
906.
by Grue3 10y ago
Growing Ubuntu for [current buzzword] rather than [last year's buzzword]. Why not just build it for server and desktop because that's what Ubuntu is best at, and not chase the latest fads?
907.
by Grue3 10y ago
Marshrutkas are just privately operated buses with fixed routes ("marshrut" = "route" in Russian, marshrutka is short for "marshrutnoe taxi" = "fixed route taxi"). They used to be loosely regulated, w
908.
by Grue3 10y ago
There are plenty of actual, unironic Stalinists and Maoists on Reddit.
909.
by Grue3 10y ago
I don't see how hammer and sickle, a symbol used by multiple governments to oppress and murder millions of people, is in any way more appropriate than any far right symbol.
910.
by Grue3 10y ago
There's a popular adage that technology only becomes useful when it starts being used for porn. The reason is that, when the technology was thought up, the idea was not to use it for porn, but for something else. However the fact that
911.
by Grue3 10y ago
Yes, these things. After you make an order in an online store, you pay for it using a kiosk. But Amazon Cash requires you to have money on your Amazon account before you can make an order. Not a single online store in Russia works like this
912.
by Grue3 10y ago
This seems inconvenient. You need to load cash into account before being able to spend it. How many online stores in card-deficient countries operate is that first you make the purchase, then you pay for it at some physical location (ATM, g
913.
by Grue3 10y ago
>Perl 6, unlike Perl 5, uses rationals by default I'm not sure this is such a good idea. I love rational datatype, but it's too easy to shoot yourself in the foot with simple numerical procedures resulting in gigantic bignum de
914.
by Grue3 10y ago
The growth rate of a function obviously has nothing to do with the first few values, I don't know why you would assume those were the ones that surprised me, or that I don't know how to calculate them. What I wanted to point out i
915.
by Grue3 10y ago
It's more surprising that it grows so slowly. 50% of integers are have a factor under 3, 73% - under 6, but then it slows down to a trickle. 88% under 100, and just 92% under 1000. Another interesting fact is that the sum of 1/p f
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by Grue3 10y ago
Its sole purpose would be noticing you on the photos loaded into Photoshop.
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by Grue3 10y ago
The point about extrasolar planets is great. Technically we can't say we discovered an extrasolar planet because it's impossible to ascertain it has cleared its neighborhood. It could easily be a dwarf planet.
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by Grue3 10y ago
Well, often they can't write these characters at all [1] (this video is for Japanese, but the situation must be similar with Chinese) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJNxPRBvRQg I can recognize more than a thousand
919.
by Grue3 10y ago
>Repository for local libraries with the ASD files symlinked in This method is so old, I can't believe people are still doing this. You can easily setup ASDF to look in a subtree of a directory and never care about it finding your l
920.
by Grue3 10y ago
Everything should Just Work (TM) on Windows these days. SBCL provides reasonably fresh binaries to download. Quicklisp can be installed by entering the necessary commands into SBCL console. Emacs has a Windows installer. SLIME can be instal
921.
by Grue3 10y ago
Is it tamper-resistant to a taxi driver driving in circles to screw over clueless tourists?
922.
by Grue3 10y ago
>sensibly regulated Requiring fare meters when the price is agreed in advance is not sensible regulation.
923.
by Grue3 10y ago
A 4 hour dinner where you have to talk to people on non work-related topics sounds like my personal worst nightmare.
924.
by Grue3 10y ago
I think the more HN appropriate angle on this story is that none of Russian top news networks have reported on the protests, even though thousands of people had attended them. Imagine US networks not covering Ferguson protests, or Occupy Wa
925.
by Grue3 10y ago
Considering I don't trust Google, and Google employees (most likely) went to great length to downvote my concern, forgive me if I'm not very assured by your statement.
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by Grue3 10y ago
And how many successfully completed? 100?
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by Grue3 10y ago
It's 100% counterfeit. Never buy Japanese game/anime merchandise on Amazon.com (Amazon.co.jp is probably ok) or Ebay. There are specialized Japan-based stores like AmiAmi which never sell counterfeits.
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by Grue3 10y ago
I'm not aware of the details of this particular case, but now that Google owns its own CA, it being in charge of unilaterally banning other CAs from Chrome is a massive conflict of interest.
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by Grue3 10y ago
It's just driver being an ass or an idiot. Pretty sure the driver has an option to cancel without charging you and the one that does. I had experienced both. The first driver said his GPS isn't working and told me to cancel, which
930.
by Grue3 10y ago
It becomes obvious when you know closed form expression for Fibonacci numbers as a sum of powers of phi (which I'm sure Tao is aware of). I was taught that in high school. The only reason this wouldn't be obvious to Tao is if he w

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