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by RogerL 12y ago
Dolphins are not (so far as we know) actively trying to teach us their language. I would be exuberant to be corrected on this, but to my knowledge a dolphin has never put a fish in a human's hands and cried 'kreeeikaaa' to tr
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by RogerL 12y ago
Those earbuds that came with every iPod were pretty poor quality, IMO, and they were released under Jobs' oversight.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Thank you so much for this link. Centuries after all of us are dust people will still be discovering and falling in love with Bach. Life is good today.
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by RogerL 12y ago
This just breaks my brain. I get confused if I accidentally hit the turn signal while pulling out of a parking spot, and end up turning on the wipers or something. How they manage all of that at such high speeds with such consistency is tru
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by RogerL 12y ago
Those don't generate profits that allow a budget, for example, of $470 million dollars (US), which was Ferrari's budget in 2013. No one, for any reasonable value of "no one", wants to watch computer racing. I'll lea
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by RogerL 12y ago
I am sitting in front of a Chromebook and have Microsoft Word and Powerpoint open in it. It's free to use[1]. [1] http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/online/office-online-colla...
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by RogerL 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that means use int32_t instead of int64_t.
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by RogerL 12y ago
I should have said "a tiny annoyance", not "a big annoyance". The fix is, of course, to clear output.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Agreed. For example, search for 'anaconda python'. In google, the second result is very obviously the download page for anaconda. In DDG? Good luck discovering that. Just one example that popped immediately to mind.
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by RogerL 12y ago
I'm using it to write a book right now. It is a mixed bag, largely because it is still in development. It is wonderful for authoring content - I can freely mix latex, code, output all together - you don't have to wonder how I gene
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by RogerL 12y ago
This is the basis of the SLAM algorithms (SLAM = simultaneous localization and mapping). As you say, if we all had these cars, we'd quickly know about changes. Of course, the hard problem is finding the new lights, but if this was to b
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by RogerL 12y ago
If you didn't happen to read the article, that is being worked on: "Sony is also working on more consumer-friendly storage - in March it announced it was working with Panasonic on the Archival Disc, which will hold 1TB of data, th
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by RogerL 12y ago
I use a pair of OXO kitchen shears and it goes through the clam shells very easily. They combine good leverage, very sharp blades, and just a bit of serration. With any other tool I've struggled as you have, but these make it pretty st
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by RogerL 12y ago
A few points - I used Ada in the late 80's and early 90's, and also had plenty of interactions with the FAA. The paragraphs about OO and Ada did not ring 100% true to me. OO was not added to Ada until 1995; The project was cancell
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by RogerL 12y ago
I want it. Python is 100x slower than C. I want a language that doesn't need to worry about performance. I want computers optimized for humans, not them. I want computers that can model the weather, the ocean. I want search algorithms
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by RogerL 12y ago
Oh, how I loved that book. We were poor, and it took awhile before I got my first computer (Timex sinclair), but until then I read that book, programmed on paper, and dreamed.
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by RogerL 12y ago
From the research paper: "It’s about another exotic group: people from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. In particular, it’s about the Western, and more specifically American, undergraduates who
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by RogerL 12y ago
Children and young adults don't have tablets and cell phones because they have limited disposable income. Kids also don't need appointment books, the ability to read/edit documents from work, and so on. They also have small
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by RogerL 12y ago
But you are filtering the LIDAR data (source: I have I Velodyne LIDAR in my office). Yes, one stray hit will be ignored. But, you aren't getting one stray hit. You get 20 hits on this revolution, 6 on the next, 21 on the next, and so o
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by RogerL 12y ago
Good job. I'm astonished at how just about every developer I have run across doesn't understand how to program with state machines, opting instead for a horrid rat's nest of millions (it feels like) of state variables, functi
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by RogerL 12y ago
I was about to post the same thing. A glass of wine with dinner, for example, can enormously enhance the experience without any of the downsides that he mentions. Not that I care if people don't drink, but several of the arguments were
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by RogerL 12y ago
Yes, sometimes, but it also uses more memory. In practice, with real problems, quicksort wins with in-memory sorting, and mergesort wins with too big for memory data sets.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, I remember in Japanese class where we had a student teacher (both native Japanese) observing the teacher teaching the class to help train her how to teach. The two spent a lot of time bickering about which particle should be used in a
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by RogerL 13y ago
I've assumed similar things, though I recognize the 'turbulence' argument below. In general, it does seem that as one lane slows down a bunch of people jump to the faster lane, quickly slowing that one down. Regardless, for m
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes. I mentioned climbing on purpose, because of the standards. In reality, you can go to the hardware store and buy things like bolts and rings, and people do that. Others buy certified versions, which is probably a bit smarter. But in the
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by RogerL 13y ago
I'm familiar with the term. My argument is that the fact that device X is fixing an impairment should not make a difference vs a device that augments me. Tongs let me flip things on the grill without burning myself. If everyone but me
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by RogerL 13y ago
I went to an engineering University. Besides having a wide variety of math required (3 semesters of Calc, 1 semester of either stats or probability, 1 semester of either linear algebra or matrices), we also had to take 3 semesters of physic
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by RogerL 13y ago
I'm curious, why "rightly"? I use all kinds of assistive devices. You probably know them by the names "metal tongs", "gloves", "ice axes", "crampons", "shoes", and so on. I ca
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by RogerL 13y ago
Depends on what you want, of course. I put a full Ubuntu distribution on mine, along with a full numerical stack (anaconda python + Octave), git, ruby, perl, etc., and am happily programming away. I grant you that I am not the customer that
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by RogerL 13y ago
That (giving donations) is not lobbying. Lobbying is hiring[0] a professional advocate who then argues for the merits of specific legislation to the representatives. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_Unit

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