Tossrock

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by Tossrock 15y ago
There seems to be a general misunderstanding of what quantum computers are capable of in the public mind, or at least that slice of it that is even aware of quantum computers' existence. I was just reading Hominids by Robert J Sawyer and it
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Carpool lanes are two people in the Bay Area. Did you mean you had zero rather than one companions, or were you unaware of the law?
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Basically unreadable? It's perfectly readable to me. Perhaps my own poor handwriting has given me better handwriting recognition.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Reminds me of the classic Sherlock Holmes quote: "His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the
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by Tossrock 15y ago
This post is from 2009, he updated it in 2010: http://www.datapointed.net/2010/09/distance-to-nearest-mcdon... He also visited the spot http://www.datapointed.net/2010/10/the-farthest-place-from-m... which makes for a pretty entertainin
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I think it's just a naming fad, along the lines of the [word]r naming fad.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I guess I don't see how that's more skill based. In fact it seems more luck based to me – your play is dictated more by literal luck of the draw than by your skill level. You could be the best player in the world, and if you are continuousl
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Well, considering Tesla engineers showed that the battery levels never dropped below 20% for the duration the cars were on loan, I think it's a pretty open and shut case?
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Could you explain how 5 card draw is more skill based than Hold 'em? This is not in a combative tone, I really want to know.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Dictionary.com: having no moral standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong: a completely amoral person. Merriam-Webster: lacking moral sensibility <infants are amoral> | being ou
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I think Wikipedia is in the wrong here. In fact, if you read the article linked from the disambiguation page, it strongly supports the definition shown in all dictionaries, and makes no mention of rocks or chairs being 'amoral'. Regardless,
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Well, as long as we're picking on semantics, that's not what amoral means. Amoral means lacking _regard for_ morality. You use it to describe a person or other entity that is unconcerned with the morality of their actions. Which fits Path p
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Sound pressure levels fall off as the square of distance. You might be surprised how quickly a gas engine fades into background noise. Of course, that presumes background noise, which may not be present in pristine Afghan wilderness.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I think there are problems with many of your points. > Camels are much vulnerable from enemy fire than metal&plastic. Disagree. I'm quite sure if you shot one of these robots, it would stop working. > It is much harder to silenc
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Do tape drives really still offer better bytes/dollar than HDDs? I'll admit to being unfamiliar with them.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Yeah, I deleted 'horrifying' and 'disgusting' before settling on the less inflammatory 'amazing'.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
People spend over 10k on microtransaction games? I find that kind of amazing.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
> I prefer faster beats, well structured complex melodies a la Skrillex Skrillex and dubstep in general typically has a lower BPM than Trance. Skrillex usually works in the 120s, whereas trance is usually in the 130s-140s. You seem to b
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by Tossrock 15y ago
For a quick intro, just tune to di.fm's trance channel. They have a lot of great trance radio shows; Global DJ Broadcast with Markus Schulz, A State of Trance with Armin Van Buuren, the aforementioned Trance Around The World, Global Trance
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by Tossrock 15y ago
> The problem is that once we make 80% of the process vastly more efficient, all it does is throw a spotlight on the remaining 20%. (This is the unheralded dark side of the Pareto principle. I think this might be better referred to as t
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Wait... really? My instinctive reaction is that sand would not be good for your digestive system, but I guess I don't really know. Was (ahem) excretion an issue?
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by Tossrock 15y ago
It has 'Fun' in the header ;)
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by Tossrock 15y ago
This is a pretty bold premise; I think mobile web consumption probably represents a pretty large fraction of those minutes. Having a web app that works well both for desktop and mobile seems more important than a native mobile app, to me.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
It's the same thing as the DEA announcing they seized ten pounds of marijuana with a street value of 2 million dollars.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Oh man, someone actually did this? I remember reading a hilarious thread about this a year ago. http://blog.whiletrue.com/2011/01/what-if-visual-studio-had-...
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by Tossrock 15y ago
There is an interesting discussion of this in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. As people age well past a hundred, they can no longer remember most of their lives, and their cognitive function becomes progressively worse.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I wrote an intelligent solver (doing set elimination, etc) in Java back in high school, but couldn't get it to solve the harder puzzles. Clearly I was lacking one of the essential implications that allow you solve them manually. I actually
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I strongly doubt that apple is going to make 300+ DPI screens 10+ inches across. I could always be wrong, but it seems like the amount of horsepower it would take just to draw the screen would destroy battery life. Maybe some super high end
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I wonder what percentile he represents for income earned among independent Android developers. I would guess somewhere near the top, but I'd be happy to be wrong.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
My jaw literally dropped when I saw the price tag on the monochrome Barco. You could get several new cars for that much.

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