Wilduck

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by Wilduck 14y ago
It shouldn't. The record and record player was an analogy for statements and formal systems of sufficient complexity. This example would be analogous if html/css formed a Turing complete system, and the job of a browser was to decide whethe
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Maurice Ravel's Boléro [1]. The piece is about 10 minutes long. Ravel stated his idea for the piece was taking a theme and trying "to repeat it a number of times on different orchestral levels but without any development." It's a tune tha
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Steve Yegge wrote a really interesting/entertaining piece about this. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali... You might enjoy it.
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by Wilduck 14y ago
The issue is that buying an SNES becomes decreasingly viable as time goes on while using an FGPA becomes increasingly viable. I don't know if we've reached the point where the balance shifts yet, but presumably we will at some point.
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by Wilduck 14y ago
I don't know if I would keep up with a subscription, but I pick up a copy of the Economist every time I fly. I very much appreciate the information density that comes from articles not focused on breaking news.
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Thanks for bringing this up, I'd really like some statistical awareness to show up in science reporting. > It needs to be explained how he determined that this isn't related to _why_ they are obese in the first place, i.e. whether these
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by Wilduck 14y ago
The most obvious answer would be to talk about Federal Subsidized Student Loans (like the Stafford). Additionally though, while not a subsidy, per se, there's also the fact that when you take out a student loan, you typically don't make any
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Since Arch doesn't come with a window manager out of the box, while you're trying new things, try installing a tiling window manager as well. Awesome[1] and Xmonad[2] are both good choices. If you want to be a power user of your window mana
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Going to the posted url, it shows 46 points in 2 hours. That should be more than enough to keep it on the front page for a while.
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Before I found a python user group in Minneapolis, I had only heard about the Ruby user group. So, I installed ruby, made sure I could run >> puts "Hello world" and then went to the Ruby meetup. It was a good call. At the tim
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by Wilduck 14y ago
When I look to learn a new language (knowing a few already), there are two things that I want to get out of the tutorial. I want to be presented with syntax and I want to be presented with what constitutes an idiomatic use of the language.
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by Wilduck 14y ago
No implementations yet? This took me about 12 minutes and 10 lines of python code: def break_13(text): words = text.split() lines = [[]] for word in words: last_line = sum(len(word) for word in lines[-1])
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by Wilduck 14y ago
I would like to second the need for avoiding insurance salesmen as investment advisers. Beware anyone trying to sell you "Cash Value Life Insurance" (Also known under other names, such as "whole life". These are all broadly in the Permanent
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Probably, but not in the Minneapolis area as far as I can tell. I found one place, but it's a 20 minute drive from where I live, which nullifies a lot of the benefit. This yelp add sums up the situation quite well: http://www.yelp.com/topi
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by Wilduck 14y ago
There are already a number of compilers targeted at it. Browse through reddit.com/r/dcpu16 and you'll see a new one pop up every few days. I'm curious how long it will take before we see compilers that are good at optimization. Pretty much
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by Wilduck 14y ago
What's (potentially) revolutionary about this game is the deep rooted support for emergent gameplay. A telltale sign of a great game is that players themselves, in exploring the game, find new and interesting things to amuse themselves. Min
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by Wilduck 14y ago
I would pay to have my laundry done. Not dry cleaning, just plain, old, toss-it-in-the-washer laundry. I would pay a significant amount for this service. I wouldn't bat an eye at $30-40/load. I don't care if someone comes and picks it up, o
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Your first example is easier for me to read, but only in the case that I don't care about the order of (x, y) points. If I care that (3, 6) comes before (4, 4), I find it much easier to ascertain that from the form that uses indentation for
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by Wilduck 14y ago
I just won with a score of 9, although I have no idea how I did it. I'm curious how this works. I'm guessing that the underlying algorithm is predicting based on a number of different heuristics, measuring the success of each heuristic, and
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by Wilduck 15y ago
It's the same notion that compels people to write "I don't own this song" under the youtube uploads of albums, as if mentioning copyright issues absolves you from them. That being said, there are magic words that you can say that have very
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by Wilduck 15y ago
> Even funnier: Let's tell the President to stand in the way of the legal, sovereign bill writing by our duly elected Congress. This is not actually that absurd. The threat of a veto is often enough to stop a bill from moving forward th
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Permissions have always been a mystery to me. Especially when you toss in things like an 'httpd' user or a 'postgres' user. I've only ever been able to find explanations about what permissions are, but never a description of how and why mod
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by Wilduck 15y ago
All I can think about when I read this is "Who archives the archives?" It's hard for me to imagine the amount of infrastructure required to create something like the internet archive, let alone make sure that the archive is sanely backed
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I'm all for the use of non-traditional forms of education. I think that there's a lot of room for improvement in higher education in the US, especially in regards to making it more accessible. However, I think this piece is serves a good ca
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A discussion of the perils of ITT Tech and National Accreditation(reddit.com)
1 points by Wilduck 15y ago|1 comments
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Another comment has noted that the fact that this program is nationally, as opposed to regionally accredited "could affect whether or not credits acquired here are recognized by other schools." I would revise this to say "This will mean tha
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Yikes, good call. I confused GNU IceCat[1], which was formerly GNU Iceweasel with Debian's rebranding of Firefox, which is still known as Iceweasel[2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_
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by Wilduck 15y ago
If you're looking for high quality discussion, SO probably isn't your best bet. Although I have learned a _ton_ about a new topic by doing a search on a topic, and then ordering the questions by votes or favorites. For example, this is the
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Debian actually. It's now GNU IceCat though. The reason they changed the name is because Debian backports some security features to Firefox, and Mozilla denies the use of the Firefox branding to unofficial builds of the software.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
My undergraduate institution (Reed College) has a student operated nuclear reactor on campus. No weapons grade nuclear material, and it wouldn't make a very good dirty bomb either. However, it's useful for bombarding things with neutrons an

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