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by Grue3 10y ago
I already prefer instant coffee (sublimated) to the usual coffee machine-grinded bean coffee (it always tastes off for some reason). Instant with milk always tastes perfect.
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by Grue3 10y ago
Yeah, it's really obvious too if you know basic algebra. The article doesn't even attempt to explain it, so what's the point, except for blogspam?
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by Grue3 10y ago
The biggest problem with Mongodb is that it loses freaking data all the damn time. I never fully realized why it's so hated before taking my current job, which uses it as the primary database, distributed among a bunch of servers. Th
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by Grue3 10y ago
Well, Emacs Calc does (as well as pretty much everything else).
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by Grue3 10y ago
It's funny because Gall-Peters is one of the worst projections in terms of distortion. It doesn't preserve shapes anywhere.
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by Grue3 10y ago
Oh, I just remembered another fun feature of Japanese verb conjugation. Can you conjugate the (regular) verb "へる" (heru)? There happen to be two verbs that are pronounced "heru" but with completely different conjugatio
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by Grue3 10y ago
No, that's not counting auxiliaries (except "-masu"). The "explosion" comes from the fact that many conjugations can themselves be conjugated (e.g. "konai" can be conjugated as an i-adjective). I don'
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by Grue3 10y ago
You're forgetting that there are only 3 (three) verb conjugations in English, of which two are almost always the same. Only a finite number of verbs have irregular conjugations, so you just learn them along with vocabulary. In Japanese
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by Grue3 10y ago
It's too bad this article is criticised because of the place where it's published (typical logical fallacy), because Wikipedia accuracy has been going down the drain for a while. And I say that as an (inactive) Wikipedia admin.
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by Grue3 10y ago
Yeah it's "logical", except in casual language the rules are broken all the time. A lot of things can follow the verb. The article doesn't mention subclauses at all, but it's where things become hairy. There's
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by Grue3 10y ago
Not just in English. In Russian it's called "простуда" (coldness). In Japanese it's "kaze" (wind). Spanish "resfriado" (cooled). And so on.
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by Grue3 10y ago
That's like saying that audio is nothing but 0s and 1s. Video has analog origins, and digital video formats are heavily influenced by this. All the video compression techniques make little sense for animation, unless you like JPG artif
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by Grue3 10y ago
Not whiteboard, but I do doodle on paper to find a solution to a problem all the time. It's silly to assume that the problems that I deal with have already been dealt with by somebody else. Who needs programmers anyway if you can simpl
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by Grue3 10y ago
GIF and APNG are not video formats. They are lossless image formats that support sequential animation. They have never been intended to share video clips. You have a very narrow view of what can be done with GIF and APNG.
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by Grue3 10y ago
Python 3 killed Python. Ruby died by itself.
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by Grue3 10y ago
I remember when they advertised it with "you just need to click a checkbox". In reality, I always have to solve a streetview captcha, possibly several times in a row.
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by Grue3 10y ago
Moscow, 30-40 min via subway, 14km. Wish I lived at a bikeable distance, but the apartment prices in the city center are insane.
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by Grue3 10y ago
The neural network translation is so fickle, it can fail to accurately translate a three digit number. It gets worse with larger numbers, with errors by orders of magnitude. https://translate.google.com/#en/ja/six%
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by Grue3 10y ago
I created a non-Turing complete programming language for editing animations, implemented as a GIMP Script-Fu script (Scheme, basically). Here's the documentation: http://tshatrov.github.io/animstack Why? Because in GIM
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by Grue3 10y ago
Greater fool theory in action. Hope the people who bought it at IPO sold it fast enough.
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by Grue3 10y ago
You don't need to be a foreigner to be murdered in a Russian prison. Look up Sergei Magnitsky.
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by Grue3 10y ago
>Yeah, the 13-21-year-old chunk of society MySpace had that one nailed, and look how that turned out for them. This is exactly the kind of demographic that is susceptible to fads and keeps leaving dead services in its wake.
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by Grue3 10y ago
Yandex.taxi existed for a long time. Initially it worked with various taxi companies, but now all the cars have uniform livery, so it's basically a regular taxi with an app. Ironically, it still doesn't operate in my home town (Pe
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by Grue3 10y ago
Once I figured out that Uber loses money on each ride, I started taking it more. I don't really like this company, and I don't think their valuation is justified, but me being literally subsidised by SV venture capitalists feels g
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by Grue3 10y ago
A majority of millennials are idiots. News at 11.
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by Grue3 10y ago
You can see if something is worth reading within the first 100 characters. Twitter character limit doesn't work because people are posting images of text, or do "tweetstorms". If the limit made sense, the users wouldn't
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by Grue3 10y ago
1. Remove post length limit. 2. Limit the number of tweets per day instead. 3. You can pay to remove the above limit. This solves the problem of timeline being unreadable once you subscribe to enough people. Ain't nobody got time to re
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by Grue3 10y ago
There's really no reason not to name Mike #2. If this is real, he already knows who you are.
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by Grue3 10y ago
Sounds like a smart investment to me. The dumb thing would be to invest in Twitter (or Snapchat for that matter).
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by Grue3 10y ago
Uber is in the industry where there is no stickiness and the profit margins are incredibly low. The only way they can win is having the opposition (taxis) hampered by regulations that don't apply to them. If either taxis become unregul

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