SamBam

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by SamBam 4y ago
Does the cost-benefit analysis really not work out even with the new 2023 incentives created as pay of the Insulation Reduction Act? (Also, which is more likely in ten years: that natural gas will be cheaper than today, or that electricity
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by SamBam 4y ago
The passphrase+salt get hashed. This hashed-passphrase is what decrypts the file. You can store the hashed-passphrase in local storage. This means you can auto-decrypt again. You don't need the original passphrase. If bad guys get your
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by SamBam 4y ago
This is the most bizarre argument. Of course you can use build tools to generate static web pages. The issue is whether they are being generated dynamically by a server. This project isn't. You run a build-tool once and then can post t
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by SamBam 4y ago
The article was skimpy on the details. Can someone explain how this part works? > The new gene therapy [...] works by inserting into the body working copies of the genes that are faulty in MLD, thus restoring the ability to break down s
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by SamBam 4y ago
Actually a constant horizontal velocity will make a straight vertical line of droplets under the jug. This is because the drops will have the same horizontal velocity as the jug. You can see that here: https://demonstrations.wolf
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by SamBam 4y ago
You're totally right. Adding in the ball's horizontal speed makes the article's statement correct: you do have to accelerate the jug by g in order to get a straight line. Corrected model: https://scratch.mit.edu&#x
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by SamBam 4y ago
> You have to decelerate the jug with exactly the right timing to form a straight line, not accelerate it. --- Edit: The quote above, and my original comment below, are wrong. The article is correct. Accelerating the jug at g will create
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by SamBam 4y ago
> the corporate good (and by extension shareholders) The top answer (after the second edit) makes a very good and explicit distinction between the corporation and the shareholders. The shareholders do not, in fact, own the company, they
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by SamBam 4y ago
Interestingly I feel like humans have this as well, sometimes. Sometimes if someone is working though a complex thought and they're not really sure where they're going, they'll pause while thinking of the word they want to us
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by SamBam 4y ago
Are there languages that don't have similar patterns? Obviously any romance language includes gender, so you need to use the correct gendered article before the noun. Japanese has different counting words depending on what you're
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by SamBam 4y ago
> "Spend management: Unlock incremental revenue" means It's a page dedicated to spend management platforms that are looking to unlock extra revenue with travel I'm going to assume this is another case of being so imme
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by SamBam 4y ago
The knapsack problem has a finite number of solutions. You can brute-force the optimal solution, if you don't care about efficiency. Ditto the Traveling Salesman problem. I'm not sure whether this problem is finite or not, given t
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by SamBam 4y ago
The size is fairly irrelevant. 1 GB fits on a microSD card many times smaller than a Roman General's hand-written cypher.
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by SamBam 4y ago
But it seems like the customer is still the one searching for the flights, so then what's the point of using a travel agent's website? Just for the pleasure of spending an extra 5% in fees to the agent?
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by SamBam 4y ago
Kayak, for instance, now sells all flights through third parties, like ChatDeal. The internet abounds with tales of ChatDeal not actually purchasing the tickets, or canceling them at the last minute. Any issues go through these third-party
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by SamBam 4y ago
> Please choose one of these options, or I will have to end this conversation myself. > Bing even provided helpful buttons for the first two of those options! * I admit that I was wrong and I apologize for my behavior * Stop arguing w
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by SamBam 4y ago
Nice, but displaying this as a gallery seems to make it harder to quickly parse all of these. The rules are all just images some hard to read at that scale, and some cut off. If you click on one, you can't page to the next, you have to
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by SamBam 4y ago
> they found 64 nodes that seemed to represent the 8x8 Othello board Is this that surprising? The only tokens they had ever feed into it were "E3, C3, D4..." So they fed 64 distinct tokens into it. These nodes correspond to tho
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by SamBam 4y ago
Right, but I think that buying an ad for a competitor's product would generally be a fairly low-value opportunity (if you're searching "Rav4" you'd most likely be looking to click on a site related to a Rav4), parti
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by SamBam 4y ago
Right, but that conclusion is teleological. First, they have no evidence that evolution could create a jumping bean that jumps in a straight line. It seems that the direction the bean moves is a function of the uncurling larvae but also t
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by SamBam 4y ago
They get paid for during the ad, but my understanding is that it's more insidious than that. I searched "buy rav4" and the first ad I got was Toyota, but the second I got was VW, "Compare the VW Tiguan." My understa
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by SamBam 4y ago
So people keep pointing to NYTimes stories, but I go on the Time's site at least 2-3 times daily, spread throughout the day, and I still have not seen a single story on the Time's main page. I'm not going to call it "fro
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by SamBam 4y ago
Very cool! Logo + processing.js in Lisp. I love that all the demos are inspired by generative art.
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by SamBam 4y ago
That's literally the opposite of a steel man argument.
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by SamBam 4y ago
I don't see it anywhere at all in the New York Times.
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by SamBam 4y ago
> A unit test could have caught this I've always wondered the best way to write tests for "This event should happen x% of the time." Obviously we could re-run the test 100 times and see if it happened close to x%, but no
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by SamBam 4y ago
> 1k sqft I know what you mean, but at first glance this looks like an unholy matrimony of metric and imperial.
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by SamBam 4y ago
Lutefisk is #48. Haggis is delicious.
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by SamBam 4y ago
> (Though the top ten look pretty terrible.) The Gule Ærter (#6, pea soup) looked positively tasty, so I can't imagine what is hidden in it to make it so bad. I'd have no problem with the Vegetable Roll (#7) and would be happy
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by SamBam 4y ago
Hard to take it seriously when it describes many of these "worst" dishes as * "a popular Italian springtime dish" * "popular throughout South America" * "considered to be the nation’s favorite" * &quo

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