Pitarou

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by Pitarou 12y ago
I don't intend to die with a healthy body.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
I foresee a future dominated by wealthy, semi-senile "immortals" in virile, muscular young vat-grown bodies. At least, I hope they're vat-grown.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
This change totally sucks and, to me, it represents everything that's happened at Google that I don't like. Which is everything. Because I hate it when stuff changes.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
No, it is not pointless. The point of this law is to create the perception that the authorities are doing something about the perceived epidemic of upskirt photography. The same authorities also erect signs next to escalators warning people
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by Pitarou 12y ago
A nice piece of lateral thinking: use the desert sun to turn desert sand into silicon, take the silicon to where power is needed, and burn it. Are there any chemical engineers who can comment on this? Is it an old idea that's been kick
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by Pitarou 12y ago
✌ or possibly ☮
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by Pitarou 12y ago
I don't think it was standing waves. If memory serves (i.e. I may well have got this wrong) they stored data as a pattern of pulses travelling down a mercury tube. They borrowed this trick from radar engineers. The engineers needed a w
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by Pitarou 12y ago
It's more of an homage than a comment. But, judging from the downvotes, people don't seem to enjoy my sense of humour.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Tips for reading a Patrick McKenzie essay: 1. Get a laser printer Sorry, Amazon, but the truth is that staring at the flickering, dancing lightbulb that you call a computer screen wears the eyes, and can lead to serious sleep disorders. e-i
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by Pitarou 12y ago
The remark "You must be unaware of..." was personally directed at me so, yes, I took it personally.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
So I'm aware of a famine that took place 70 years ago, but unaware of the many that have taken place since then. You really think that, do you? Do you see how, by habitually assuming the other guy knows less than you, you've made
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by Pitarou 12y ago
And so begins the biggest experiment in human nutrition since the Dutch Famine of 1944.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
If people will forgive my earlier joke, I have a more serious critique: While feminist theory may have a contribution to make, it's not at the level the author is talking about. The author refers to core language paradigms: functional
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Yup. Um. I'll show myself out, shall I?
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Well, women are good at typing and keeping things organised, so I guess they could be trained to operate tabulating machines. (It was just a joke. Please don't hurt me.)
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by Pitarou 12y ago
TL;DR The New York Times remains a newspaper with a website attached. It is optimized for: - one distribution channel (newsstands / deliveries) - one format (big sheets of paper) - one consumption pattern (peruse the current edition, t
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Django CMS has a content view and a structural view, and they clearly want you to spend most of your time in the content view. The structural drag-and-drop interface is barebones and, to the naive user, it's far from obvious how the ne
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by Pitarou 12y ago
You make two very good points, but I think this tool still has some important use cases. I agree that this is a poor way to structure a whole site, but there's still a need for a way to produce ad hoc pages. I also take your point ab
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by Pitarou 12y ago
I didn't know about the "atmospheric caper" but, yup, it's Elon Musk in a top hat.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
[deleted] Forget what I said earlier. I thought Widgy was a CMS, but it isn't. It's a page editor for a CMS. In combination with Django CMS 3, this could be awesome. The Django CMS team have put a lot of effort into moving as m
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by Pitarou 12y ago
But the _Commit change_ button is deactivated.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
How do you apply deforestation ... in the general case? How do you cut an iron bar in half with a pair of scissors? Deforestation is a tool; not a universal truth. You're also pulling a false comparison ... The corecursive function
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by Pitarou 12y ago
I once read a textbook introducing the theory of algorithms that started with the Fibonacci series. The author gave a formal definition, and translated this directly into a naive, recursive algorithm. Then he showed how to improve the algo
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by Pitarou 12y ago
This one won't.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
My remarks were addressed to people who don't need tail recursion or the benefits & drawbacks of lazy evaluation explained to them, so I think they went a little over your head. I presented a recursive definition, a stream based de
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by Pitarou 12y ago
I think gamegoblin's was prettier.
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by Pitarou 12y ago
Your version is certainly pretty, and it's based on an insight into the nature of the fibonacci series But the value of co-recursion is that you don't need that insight. When you expand out the definitions of `tail`, `!!` and `z
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by Pitarou 12y ago
This is the missing piece from my mental toolbox. I wish I'd known about it years ago. Co-recursion is a principled way to turn a top-down algorithm into a bottom-up one. For instance, in Haskell, it's easy to write the fibonacci
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by Pitarou 12y ago
OMIGOSH! This story was in a sci-fi compendium that my Dad had. It made a huge impression on me what I was about 12 years old. I must have read it at least 3 times. At that time, the name of the author (E. M. Forster) meant nothing to me,
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by Pitarou 12y ago
It's a controversial matter, to say the least. Kids will eagerly engage in language acquisition activities that few adults are willing to do. For instance, a child will happily watch the same DVD many times, until he can repeat the dia

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