SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Actually, I think all the examples you provided were independent dimensions. I'll concede orthogonality. More specifically: can you think of coordinate systems with explicit binary or ternary constraints on the parameters in the coord
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> The cube coordinates are a reasonable choice for a hex grid coordinate system. The constraint is that q + r + s = 0 so the algorithms must preserve that. The constraint also ensures that there's a canonical coordinate for each hex
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> Then conquer, because unions aren't powerful. Come to Italy some time.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
According to Statista, Facebook is approximately 1/5 of all global ad revenue. That's not just "some website".
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> To this day the first and third Beale ciphers have never been cracked. Yet in the very same article it says: > attempting to use the Declaration of Independence again on the first note yielded several sequences along the lines of ‘
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
This Adam Something video was really enlightening as to just how bad Europe's international train situation really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxz4oY0T85Y
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
We are debuggers by nature. It's a (bad) force of habit.
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No, the house on to the left is 1 East Clay street, and the house on the right is 1 West Clay Street. Directly across from 00 Clay Street is a street . On either side of that street are 2 East and 2 West respectively. 00 is the only hou
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> I get what you’re saying. But, a 10% donation is significant regardless of your income level. This is simply untrue. 10% of a $20K income is the difference between your baby having healthcare or not. 10% of a $1 billion income has z
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Tithing is horribly, gruesomely regressive. 10% of one's earnings is extremely difficult if you make $20K a year, while if you make 10 million a year, 10% is barely noticeable.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
No, I don't subscribe Mother Teresa's unfortunate philosophy. I'm pointing out that Objectivists going "Oooh Bill Gates gave away $100M, what a wonderful guy" should be smacked good and hard with a copy of Atlas Sh
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
I think the single most important aspect of Chuck Feeney's philanthropy was that it was done quietly, often in secret. He had already secretely given away much of his money before he was outed. If I'm funding the Sean Luke Home f
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> You might assume that the lowest house number would be 1, but there are quite a few houses numbered zero. In Richmond, VA, there is a historic building which at present is owned by the Black History Museum. It is 00 Clay Street. That&
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> It was in 1998 that USB made some real headway, courtesy of the iMac G3, the first computer to ship with only USB ports for external devices (there were no serial or parallel ports). Um, no? The iMac had an Ethernet port, a phone jack
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
When I lived in Hong Kong long ago, IIRC there was an approximately 400% sales tax on new car sales.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
It's actually 33% per the end of his article. The 25% comes from his first tweet, which he states was in error.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> Blondie, Elvis Costello, Television, the B-52s, and the Ramones — were called New Wave The Ramones were New Wave? What?
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Westernized Chinese names seem to be missing. For example, in Hong Kong it's common to have both Chinese and Western first names. This leads to a complex rule: Using the Western name only: WESTERN-FIRST CHINESE-LAST Using the Chinese
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Whoa. This website is about Nikolai Tcherepnin, his son Alexander, and Alexander's son Ivan, all composers. And specifically omits Alexander's other famous son, Serge Tcherepnin, a composer and inventor of influential modula
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Dang it, you beat me to it. Nitinol is also not "bizarre" -- it's well understood and very common.
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It's worth mentioning that this story is prior to 1984, when So Long and Thanks for All The Fish was published. That also happens to be the year when the Mac came out, and Adams was an ardent Mac enthusiast -- indeed AFAIK he was th
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Because twice as many people on Earth use a latin script than any other script?
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Webpage has many useful filters, but is lacking the single most important one: what license the font is under.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
I have seen first-hand the negatives of unions in Italy: there are downsides of powerful union control. But in the US, a strong argument can be made that unions played a very major part (along with the GI Bill of course) in the growth of t
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Wait until you see Icelandic names where there is no last name at all. Björk's "last name" is Guðmundsdóttir, because she is the daughter of Guðmundur, whose "last name" is Gunnarsson, because he is the son of... T
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There were many factually correct, and even historically interesting responses. But not a single response answered the question.
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> An ArrayList is not an Array? Not in Java, no. An ArrayList is an object which represents a variable length random-access list and does not support basic types (int, double etc.) An array is fixed-length and supports basic types. It
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Susan Kare selected the symbol herself. I wouldn't exactly call her explanation "revisionist".
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> The command key has been around since 1983, but is was never labelled "Command" on the US-English keyboard, nor was that key referred to as "Command" in the documentation. It just lore that this strange cloverleaf k
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Unlike AltGr, the option key didn't just define alternate code pages. It also was employed in a scheme by which you could add accents to a variety of characters: for example, option-i, then u, would make û, and option-i, then o, would

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