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Sun's surface seen in new detail(bbc.com)
336 points by Patient0 7y ago|91 comments
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Antarctica melting: Journey to the 'doomsday' glacier(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by Patient0 7y ago|0 comments
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by Patient0 7y ago
nitpick: in this context, you would want to use the word "cue" not "queue". "cue" => signal for an actor to go on stage or whatever. "queue" => orderly line of people waiting to buy a movie tick
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by Patient0 7y ago
OTOH: https://earthsky.org/space/ligo-gravitational-wave-burst-nea...
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Researchers fear 'catastrophe' as political ads disappear from Facebook library(news.sky.com)
6 points by Patient0 7y ago|0 comments
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by Patient0 7y ago
He praises XSLT and says that all data should be stored as XML!? This article is surely a troll...
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by Patient0 7y ago
This was a great article - I'd been wanting to understand PCA. Particularly liked the digression on Lagrange multipliers.
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by Patient0 7y ago
" The only technical catch is that you aren't allowed to change the type of the contents in the function. That means if you start with something of type A in the container, you have to get a container containing something of type
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by Patient0 7y ago
I was simply stating that RAII does not solve the memory fragmentation issues. Many GC's do solve the memory fragmentation issue.
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by Patient0 7y ago
I agree that RAII does not solve everything - in particular, issues with memory fragmentation. However, I prefer the direction being taken by Rust and suggested by the top level poster: rather than having to run a separate thread which trie
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by Patient0 7y ago
In the ~15 years I spent building software in C++ I don't recall a single time that I wished for garbage collection. By using RAII techniques, it was always possible (nay, easy!) to write code that cleaned up after itself automatically
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by Patient0 7y ago
Suspect he was referring to the frequency of the parent poster's comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chazzyluc
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by Patient0 7y ago
This is nice - is there any way to find out who wrote it?
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by Patient0 8y ago
Bank of America | London, UK | Onsite | We require a strat/technologist to work in the Cross Asset Strats team. We work outside of the traditional IT organisation and sit on the trading floor in London, responding directly to end-user
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by Patient0 8y ago
I suppose this is a good time to point out the toy Lisp interpreter I wrote a while ago: http://patient0.github.io/FirstClassLisp/ It supports first class macros, continuations, and has the amb "operator" (im
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by Patient0 8y ago
See also: http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-derivatives/
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by Patient0 8y ago
The problem is that the market is not great at solving "Tragedy of the Commons" situations. The ideal solution, IMO, is to agree a cap on CO2 emmissions, but make them tradable, so that the market can be used to figure out the mos
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Challengers(xkcd.com)
2 points by Patient0 8y ago|0 comments
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by Patient0 8y ago
Fun fact: the metre was was originally defined to be 1/10 millionth the distance from the pole to the equator (so that the circumference of the Earth would be 40 million metres).
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by Patient0 8y ago
I disagree - I think if you described this to a layman they would always be more interested in optimising for the worst case. For example if I had an algorithm that on average will get me out in 1 mile but in the worst case might take me 10
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by Patient0 8y ago
Found a link on the Web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20080117115912/http://www.karlsc...
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by Patient0 8y ago
Yes, that's my point. The article is giving an incorrect definition of what a limit is. The target audience does not know what a limit is or how it is defined. The use of imprecise and incorrect language will confuse these people mor
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by Patient0 8y ago
The history seems to be summarized well in this wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of...
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by Patient0 8y ago
"That change c never truly goes away, but it is so small that it doesn't really matter: if you make c small enough, the derivative is basically 8. So we're just going to pretend that all the cs are so small they have become
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by Patient0 8y ago
I've recently discovered this excellent lecture series by David Mackay available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/y5VdtQSqiAI He also wrote the accompanying text book which is available for free download: http:/&#x2
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by Patient0 8y ago
Fascinating to discover I am currently sitting where there used to be a Franciscan monastery!
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by Patient0 8y ago
Here's another way that an employee can misunderstand their own job: Suppose you have an employee who is working for Megabureaucracy Inc. Megabureaucracy is a company that's losing money. The employee witnesses waste and inefficie
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by Patient0 8y ago
Aside from the standard economic arguments, there is also the crony capitalism argument: Trump has discovered that because he has unilateral power over tariffs and subsidies, this gives him the power of life and death over individual indust
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by Patient0 8y ago
"If I'm sitting next to a swimming pool, and somebody dives in - and she's not too pretty, so I can think of something else - I think of the waves and things that have formed in the water. And, uh, when there's lots of p
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by Patient0 8y ago
Reminds me of this Roald Dahl short story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parson%27s_Pleasure_(short_sto...

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