Tloewald

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by Tloewald 10y ago
Is this NASA trying to build up some buzz in hopes of avoiding massive defunding by our clown car administration?
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by Tloewald 10y ago
William F. Buckley's idea of what constitutes liberal leaning is hardly any kind of gold standard. Bear in mind that no real left wing policies or media platforms exist in the US, it's right vs. far right. The Economist is consi
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by Tloewald 10y ago
There are some very nice irc clients out there. Pick one? But the best thing is you can pick one.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I'm curious as to whether you're complaining about the story. What do you mean by "spiked"? The coverage seems fair and open-ended
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by Tloewald 10y ago
My picks would be: First hot water jug with a round base (so you didn't need to get a specific orientation). Apple's MagSafe connector (even though it can occasionally be tough to clean grit out) The Mercedes power seat controls (
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I prefer microwaves with a 1 minute and a 10s button (just push the correct number of times). Knobs aren't as precise for things like heating milk for cocoa.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
In a sense the JPS+ algorithm seems to be to be turning the grid into s kind of nav mesh and if you were to explicitly do this instead you might actually get a better and more general solution that's also easier to update in real time.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Oculus got a lot of traction fro finding a good solution to VR's glaring obvious first order problem — bad, super expensive goggles. But that's kind of like inventing the first reasonably decent facemask and thinking you're r
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Here's the thing — of you want more endurance you can get extra batteries (and with USB-C you can probably start using interchangeable standard power bricks) but if battery life is adequate you don't need to. How is this worse? On
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by Tloewald 10y ago
You should look at the dam from maps or satellite. The spillway is off to the side, away from the dam (clearly, by design), and the emergency spillway is on the far side of the main spillway from the dam, so while the spillway failing would
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I'm not sure how great it is for Netflix's use case but it is important to realize how very different Netflix's use case from most web apps. In general, Netflix data is read only. The only data an end user sends to Netflix th
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by Tloewald 10y ago
You're right, I was conflating the two. So yes it's mainly about whose water is at risk.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
As far as I understand it, the pipeline being fought over symbolically rather than for reasons that make analytic sense. If there's an environmental argument, it's that the pipeline will make using shale sands oil from Canada chea
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by Tloewald 10y ago
My favorite is along similar lines: A Russian and an American bond in the afterlife while waiting to find out where they are headed. Eventually Satan shows up and says, "bad news, you both are going to hell, but you can choose Russian
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I'm being quite careful: 'consistent effectively axiomatized formal system' is implied by my use of the word 'proves'.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
When we think of numbers between 0 and 1 we aren't thinking of Real numbers. Name a transcendental number between 0 and 1. Which one springs to mind? Maybe, if you're lucky you can come up with some famous transcendental number
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by Tloewald 10y ago
As soon as you start treating the axiom of choice as a superpower for a conscious being you are in conceptual la la land. How do I guess the color of my hat if there's an uncountable number of possible colors? Doesn't that mean th
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by Tloewald 10y ago
No incompleteness proves that there will be statements that are true or false that cannot be proven to be true or false. Not being able to write all the rules is a completely different and unrelated thing.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
SSDs weren't a thing gen years ago and may not be a thing in ten years. This is not eternal fundamental knowledge. The important thing is that registers are way faster than on chip cache which is way faster than ... insert levels of in
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Very interesting and well presented. If it were me I would try to provide a few concrete examples, ideally with figures, in the introduction but I'm a visual person.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
ARM was bespoke round 1 -- Apple was an early investor and used ARM chips in the Newton family (also some laser printers I believe). PowerPC was round 2. Apple acquihired a Boutique chip design firm (PA Semi) that specialized in low power P
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Function-keys aren't really useful for touch typing and are hard or impossible to memorize (in my experience) so I imagine the population of potential beneficiaries for the touchbar is larger than merely hunt-and-peck typists (I'm
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by Tloewald 10y ago
> A law degree is great thing for a leader to have, but not sufficient A law degree has an opportunity cost. That's a bunch of years you didn't spend learning something else. Is that the best thing you could have spent that tim
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by Tloewald 10y ago
> No, it doesn't. Yes, it does. (Not the body of knowledge; the practice of law.) Just look at the numerous cases where district attorneys -- incidentally the most popular first stop for people with law degrees planning on a caree
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by Tloewald 10y ago
We need fewer leaders with legal backgrounds as well. The law trains you to argue a case by selectively ignoring unfavorable evidence, and guess what our politicians are incredibly good at?
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Comedians were almost completely united against Trump and a lot of good that did. (I recall John Oliver pointing out, self-deprecatingly, how effective his repeated eviscerations of Trump had been). Before I moved here, I remember thinking
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Using the word "unconventional" instead of a more accurate word such as "counterfactual" or "intentionally ignorant" is a poor start.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The claim that taxi supply is sufficient in most cities to compete with Uber aside from on price is clearly not based on much experience with taxis in the US. I grew up in Australia where every city is served by a small number of taxi compa
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The sentence is a little tough to unpack but it's saying that emphasizing procedure (rules) with a focus on race rather than improving criminal justice more broadly could yield a more punitive system. It's describing a difference
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Perhaps battery controller software has been tweaked in some kind of more conservative direction.

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