SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 5y ago
A LERP lookup table is fast; but only somewhat slower, and probably quite a bit more accurate, would be a lookup table interpolated by a Catmull-Rom spline.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> The media is state ran just like Russia. The whataboutism is out in full force here.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
If his acceptance to Iowa State as a complete disaster, why would he apply there? Iowa State is quite a good school. BTW, it's the home of one of the first computers in history, the ABC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
It's time to read up a little bit on Bryan Wilson.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> I get that, but still not sure Pet Sounds is as revolutionary as that. It seems the Beatles sure thought it was revolutionary. They were scared of him. Didn't competition with Pet Sounds result in Revolver? And didn't sub
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
There appears to be a mistake in the automaton diagram (not operation). The start state is "Idle, Up", and assumes the mouse is presently outside the button. But after doing "Click to Reset", you're already inside
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> So, your best argument to disagree with what I said is that I haven't read enough? Look. The UCI has a long and well-documented history of banning new bicycle technologies and approaches specifically to prevent them from winning
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
This really tells me you don't know much about the history of bicycles, nor did you actually read the article. The UCI has had a potent effect on the bike market: people buy "serious rider" bikes based on what they see the &q
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> This is not some UCI conspiracy to prevent progress. Actually, it is a UCI conspiracy to prevent progress, full stop. The UCI didn't just ban recumbents, thus dooming them to the nerd crowd. They also banned small-wheel bikes.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
You seem to be mixing up recumbents with low-racer recumbents or trikes. There are are also high-racer recumbents where the rider is as high as on a standard bike. And by potholes, I think you seem to think that recumbents must have small
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
[sigh]. You could have just googled this, but from the Appendix: > He found that in the wide belt contained by the 70-degree lines, north and south, temperatures for thousands of years hadn't gone outside the 254-332 degrees (absol
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Sure, but in the novel, Arrakis really is hot. In the Appendix, it's stated that the sand surface reached 76.85 Celsius (170.33 F).
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
The Lynch version deserved all the drubbing it received. Weirding modules, heart plugs, and rain on Arrakis: trampling all over the novel. The exposition by way of overdubbing was horrible too.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Seems to have lots of problems on Mac OS. :-(
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
From Russell and Norvig, a famous story about difficulty in publishing with probably the first such AI-generated work: "Two researchers from Carnegie Tech, Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, rather stole the show [at the original Dartmout
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> Cooler Screens says 90% of consumers it has surveyed prefer its digital screens to traditional fridges That was funny.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
This article bases a large portion of its incentive for being written on the claim that "84% percent of CS professors receive at least some industry funding". To do this it cites a paper which, as far as I can tell, says no such
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I have lived in many places out west, thanks. Metro areas are kind of arbitrary things with surprisingly arbitrary definitions. But going by USGS, the Washington DC metro area alone is about 6.4 million people, surprisingly close to the D
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
You're welcome to your own opinions, and your own blithe dismissals, but you are not welcome to your own facts. I lived during most of the period discussed by the GP. Everything from the Bay of Pigs to supporting the Shah to Iran Cont
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Then you didn't look very hard.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> But I grew up mostly with American propoganda. I didn't know that the US had a long history of overthrowing governments in the Middle East and South America, and generally meddling in their affairs. I'm sorry, but this is wha
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
It's a famous Stephen Colbert quote. Google for the video.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Next: a history of why HFS used colon as its separator.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Do you have a cite for this? I'm interested in studying that.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> Scroll down. 100% of the page.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Did you actually bother to try before making such a comment? Turning off JavaScript on Reuters usually results in the entire page being a giant piece of the splash image.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Reuters is paywalled, but is getting dumped on HN by the metric ton. Can we find a more friendly news source?
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
This is a test on software engineering, not computer science.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I was fortunate to buy a Tom Bihn Brain Bag when they were, for a short time, making it in 420 Denier High-Tenacity Parapack with a Ballistic bottom. Parapack is a tough and lightweight parachute nylon common in the 1960s, but now is very
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> Even Los Angeles and Dallas – much bigger cities than Alexandria Well... LA is huge but Dallas is not that much bigger than DC.

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