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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
They have not exactly moved domain, as both are still operational. As a user, you can choose which one to use.
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
Actually, selecting at random from already sifted list of good moves is probably not such a bad strategy. Especially in series of games against the same opponent. It brings in a factor of unpredictability, which may well appear as "sup
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
I was routinely sending emails well before 1984, through my university. In many ways it worked better than nowadays because there were no spammers, then.
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
Natural gas can presumably be easily switched on and off to take up the intermittent 50% of the demand. So the realistic combined price is somewhere around $47. Why then build nuclear at $97 ??
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
In the case of top politicians, it does look very much like a convenient legal way to pay them bribes and/or rewards for "good work". This article does not really dispel that impression but rather strengthens it. It protests
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
Am I the only one to detect some sleight of hand at work here? How can "the experts" "resoundingly reject" the existence of a secret program? Surely, by definition, they would know nothing about its existence if it is SE
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
Surely, the tilting is the biggest worry. Anybody care to estimate how many more inches can this tall building tilt before the lateral stresses lead to its collapse?
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
Permanent decrease in launch mass is big money, whereas complications on the barge do not really matter. Like all good engineering problems, it only looks problematic at first sight and I am sure that SpaceX could rise up to the challenge.
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
Good work! I still think that they should have some grippers on the barge, or a net, ready to spring and grasp the rocket on landing, instead of carrying flimsy legs all the way to space and back.
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
You can probably find them all by considering all the valid starting (boundary) positions, mostly obtainable by symmetry.
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
Could someone please explain to me in plain English, how is it that the black holes "emit radiation at many frequencies" and, at the same time, "the light is unable to leave their pull"??
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
There is no search solution to N-queens, so any code doing search is poor and wasteful. I am not going to spoil the fun by giving you the details here, just the hint: start on the right square, depending on whether N is even or odd. Then pl
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
1975 - writing as a coursework assignment a keyboard driver in assembly code for a PDP minicomputer. Pressed keys would set up interrupts, be interpreted, and printed back on the teletype. Got the instructions down to the minimal two metre
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
It would be better to allow higher level structures, such as hexagons of six triangles each.
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Downvoting posts that prompt significant debate
8 points by SagelyGuru 11y ago|7 comments
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
I look forward to the day when this will include magazines and papers from most countries, rather than just Holland or the US. The one-stop access has attractions. However, at the moment, it does not seem possible to even switch between the
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
The main factor seems to be that Munk simply over estimated the sea level rise. It is things like this that make me a skeptic about the anthropogenic global warming claims. "First, they say, the estimates of 20th-century sea-level ris
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
It is actually a lot worse than that article suggests. There is a history of big government software projects which proved practically impossible to complete on time and on budget or to get them working at all.
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
Good point. To reduce this problem you can (and should?) factorise and cancel out common primes. Just keeping to a pair of 64 bit integers will give you a pretty good accuracy. You can perform all arithmetic directly on the rationals and re
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
Using rational numbers is another good idea how to combat/reduce floating point errors. For example, you can represent and calculate with 1/3 exactly, whereas in binary (floating point) you can not, no matter how many bits you use
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
"At Google, we think that internet users’ time is valuable, and that they shouldn’t have to wait long for a web page to load." There is plenty of evidence of significant drop in users numbers with increasing page load time. An adv
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
Or it might be that advanced civilisations use more advanced means of communication. In such a vast universe, clearly superluminal communication speeds, should they be attainable, would be used. Maybe we just need to "tune in" pr
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Is Consciousness After Death Real?(quantumconsciousness.org)
1 points by SagelyGuru 11y ago|0 comments
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
Great video! You can see that this guy is not at all work-shy. It is only because I am absolutely on his side that I say this: he should have considered making angled edge roofing tiles as well. The sides of his roof look like the tiles wil
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
The article is written from an English perspective. It does follow very closely the usual worn out consensus of recent decades that it is mandatory to further increase the numbers of graduates, despite their growing personal indebtedness. A
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
What I missed both in the article and in the consensus that "you personally attacked and offended teachers", is drawing the important distinction between authoring those comments, and merely publishing them. Also, the issue of whe
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
I meant they could have supported then some version of Unix. Linux wrote Linux only because the "big boys" did their best to ignore it.
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
Well, it is easy to come up with glib moral indignation. However, more interesting aspect of this story is the prevailing atmosphere of hysterical wars on "terror" and "drugs" which provide fertile breeding ground for th
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
Good work but the name is rather unfortunate; it is just too much like piles.
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by SagelyGuru 11y ago
Very nice presentation! I do wish this was taught in schools instead of the dreadful Gibb's vector algebra.

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