Rexxar

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   by Rexxar 10y ago

   I have some questions on the "stellar parallax" illustration. If I remember correctly the speed of Sun around the milky way is much bigger than the speed of earth around the Sun. So the position of the earth is completely differen
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   by Rexxar 10y ago

   This is just the thin end of the wedge Still a 300 000 000 000 € thin end. There are nearly two 500€ notes printed for each euro-area citizen [1]. That seems a lot to me. I have never seen one too. [1] https://en.wikipedi
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   by Rexxar 10y ago

   Very nice but strangely it's becoming slower on Firefox when I'm moving the mouse cursor around.
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   Trianglify(qrohlf.com)

   1 points by Rexxar 10y ago|1 comments
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   by Rexxar 10y ago

   Personally, I think the European commission should size a part of the repaid taxes to punish bad behaviours from a member state. The money could be given back to other EU members as a temporary reduction of their contribution to EU budget.
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   by Rexxar 10y ago

   You can't reasonably say that Paris is in a valley because of two small hills (altitude 130m, only 100m above the lowest point of Paris). When there is no wind pollution accumulate everywhere. Paris is in a very good position for pollu
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   by Rexxar 10y ago

   > Your last question is loaded; it assumes maximizing profit is bad. Or he just assumes that maximizing profit is not always good?
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   by Rexxar 10y ago

   What is the benefit over static linking and letting the linker remove unused symbols ? (without considering licensing rules)
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   by Rexxar 10y ago

   I'm maybe too cynical but I always think the main motivation of such articles is to pretend the author is a very good programmer with the implicit assumption that "if you have an opinion about what make a good programmer, you nece
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    It will interesting to see if this can be combined with electric power to have a very efficient hybrid engine.
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    What would you think of an article titled "Steam locomotives are coming back from the deads" when someone restore an old locomotive in his garage?
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    If the author read comments, this hard coded "http" seems to broke mathJax rendering in Firefox/Chrome with "HTTPS Everywhere". <script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    - In some case implementing both "const" and "non const" methods cause a lot of code duplications and cast can help. - Compatibility with old libraries
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    Just a little warning: there are some NSFW images in this link.
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    Is it a problem in practice to use reference counting for an "immutable data structures" ? Obviously it's not 100% immutable as the counters are updated. But if it's done with a thread safe reference counter the data str
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    That's seem an advantage for R²: if R² go down when you add more data, you know your model doesn't fit the data any more.
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    That's the one who has domesticated the cows instead of hunting it who has win.
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    Nice to see more immutable data structures for C++. I recently implement a persistent list inside a personal project, it's quite easy using shared_ptr (a set of persistent list forms a DAG, so no loop). It would be nice to have a pers
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    Does anybody know why the 2015 prevision go faster to 10nm than the 2013 one ? They take some delay at 14/16 nm but they want to keep the 10nm target for 2021 ?
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    I think we have a multidimensional doughnut. But maybe not all dimensions are circulars.
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    To be more precise: "smaller/thinner and less expensive".
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    In the RMS world you are not good if you support some free software. You have to support them exclusively From the link: The basic point of the free software movement is that nonfree software is unjust and should not exist.
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    The same reason you cannot use someone else trademark even if you use the same formula. Origin guarantees are just collective trademarks for small producers. Moreover quality of the product is not always the only reason to buy a product (se
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    I generally agree that it's good not to have many dupe but in this case there was a lot of upvotes and a lot of comments and tagging the link as "dupe" just destroy the discussions. Why not just make successful "dupe&quo
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    I think the concept is formally identical to database normalisation but applied to code. If the code is duplicated and you know the different part will have to evolve the same way: factorize now. If the different part are just formally simi
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    Probably [OT] in the original title means "off topic" but I don't know why we should care about this here.
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    And half of this English words are used completely differently than in English or even don't exist in English (parking, shampooing used as names for example)
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    I'm maybe a little optimistic but why not ask a big and rich university to give him a free education and shelter for 3/4 years ? It could be good for him and for the university image (It would be a better usage of university money
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    The goal of democracy is not to be good but to be fair. Democracy gives people what they deserve and in the long run they will try to make what is good for them. Making mistakes is the only way to learn (individually or collectively) so we
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    by Rexxar 10y ago

    Not in 1916 but why not in 1890 ?