HCIdivision17

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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
This is lampshaded pretty hard in Consider Phlebas, I think, where Horza basically hates the Culture for that reason (among others). I also consider Star Trek's Federation boring as well, but worse: at least The Culture meddles in the
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I think the key is in the last quoted sentence: there isn't one model. There are many, and they are generated in different ways with differing emphasis on different data sets. They gain confidence when these seem to agree with each oth
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
This is really slick. I've used it a few times just to get my capture groups tested right, where pattern matching is needed over parsing. The fact it color codes the Python named capture groups is just awesome: make a regex to match th
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
The fine is punative. Noncompliance is often not acceptable when it comes to safety and environmental regulations. When I worked in plants, you can bet there were only two groups that would put the fear of God in operations: OSHA and the lo
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Then look at the article about how acko.net was built. You'll want JS active, since like all of his work, it's usefully interactive. https://acko.net/blog/zero-to-sixty-in-one-second/
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
And almost immediately found: sometimes wires are annoying. It's not hard to think of scenarios where it's nice to have a wireless connection to your mobile device. For me, it's simply easier to wear them while on a motorcycl
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I'll include the obligatory donation link below for what is effectively an internet utility. [0] Also, take a look at downloading a copy of Wikipedia! You can get a full download with images for around 100GB (last I checked, which was
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I wouldn't read much into the downvote. People tend to get tired of what has been coloquially termed the "middlebrow dismissal" which plagues HN a bit. No doubt your comment was misinterpreted as such. If we're lucky, we
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I am really excited for future games though. If the pattern holds up, we may just get dozens of badly written manuals and specs to decode! ... It's a bit silly that I'm excited at the prospect for properly terrible docs, but it re
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I won't dissuade you from trying all of them - I like 'em all :) SpaceChem will introduce the idea of step-test-debug along with the modular piping (a bit); it has been a favorite for years. TIS-100 will introduce the assembler bl
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
You get to build and program circuits! Think of it as a steppable debugger for a computer that has modular components. Your goal is to build circuits out of chips that are little blocks of code. Also there is a real pritable manual (which
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Huh, you know, I've never really noticed it as Xeno's Paradox applied that way before. I'll have to keep an eye out for it, since it can lead to such a different conclusion with the same information.
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Gosh, there is a lot of depth to language. I like lisper's note because there are a lot of people whose first language is not English and may not know the difference; I like your rejoinder that it was sarcasm against another audience,
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I've been really surprised how well my iPhone 4S held up. It's a losing battle against software that expects ever more resources, but it still does the things.
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I'll second "Y Not" by Jim Weirich. It's just such a charming talk. My programming teacher in high school was like that, and I think it's such an excellent way to teach. From the careful way he meanders to the solut
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Oh you're right, of course. But part of the ridiculousness of industrial automation is that at some point all those variables will be catalogued and dealt with. A bit poorly I'd bet, but we'll certainly see it happen. It&#x27
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I strongly contend that there very likely has not been a decline in the give-a-damn factor. My experience is that it really hasn't ever been too high. Just look at cartoons 50 years ago, and packages getting wrecked en route is a stapl
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
To be sure, but that's the 'no silver bullet' clause. You can compromise and gently escalate, though. Be nice, yet firm. Or be ostensibly nice but with a subtext of consequences ("speak softly and carry a big stick"
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Thanks - distribution vs consumption always mix me up with the copyright rules.
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I've wondered about this: when it says non-commercial purposes, does that mean me downloading a copy to read for my work, or me printing and selling? I haven't any problem buying it, since it's useful for my job, but that dis
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
It's gotten more interesting in Windows 10. With a hi-res surface, scaling often plonks screens in confusing and arbitrary places when docking/undocking. My method is now something like "Alt+Space, M, Hold Left for a few seco
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
You know, I actually never noticed that. Is that another cool whizbang feature on the site? Somewhere along the line I got it into my head that upvotes were just how you favorited things. Well. Time to start indexing my upvotes... (later...
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
At least for me, I have two different voting style: - Yeah, this is pretty cool. Upvote! - I've got to save this for later when I can really read it PostgreSQL stuff tends to be pretty reliably good, and usually with an educational ben
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I was in some kind-of experimental programs as a kid. In middle school, we had a "team" that we all followed with. Basically same teachers and it covered multiple grades. I really liked it. I had good friends in a grade lower, and
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I feel like unit debates often result from a misunderstanding between sides of "is perfect the enemy of good?" I thought it suspicious that they would have miscounted the days, but you're right: it's so dang useful that
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
You don't really recalculate that stuff over and over, do you? Every electrician I've worked with has a couple of the main ratings memorized and just applies it to standard. Anything more complex requires a calculator or tables
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
That's the trick. In a sense, the units follow the application, and hence English units always feel a bit natural. They have a tendency to have integer multiples and simple fractions. And when I say natural, I don't mean elegant
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
That was one of my favorite parts of the game, and the Achievement really was the cherry on top. It pops up just before you fade in, and it seems like a cheeky spoiler, and then the huge white Title Text to the dialog to the absurd "yo
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Almost certainly this. In one of the links by another commenter here, you can see a voltmeter where the guy changes the decimal. The dots are bizarrely high to be a decimal point, but right where you'd expect it if it's the bottom
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
That was my understanding as well. The idea being that there is a lot of volume in the first few meters of ocean surface area churn. It's not hard to imagine that does better in surface area than (even a lot) of plants.

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