aaaronic

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by aaaronic 4y ago
Thanks for the link!
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by aaaronic 4y ago
This reminds me that I keep meaning to see how much Rust toolchain support there is for legacy consoles like the GameBoy Advance.
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by aaaronic 4y ago
It seems like the people who want to disprove Dunning-Kruger are falling victim to it. I honestly think people take it way too seriously and apply it too generally. Quantifying "good" is hard if you don't know much about the
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by aaaronic 4y ago
rclone is another useful cli tool I use frequently.
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by aaaronic 5y ago
There's no sense in getting madder at him each time you think about it. You might want to try to find a way to forgive him or at least let go of some of your own anger at his choices. It really can eat you from the inside. Kudos to you
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by aaaronic 5y ago
Junk DNA is, AFAIK, not actively expressed (used to create proteins). It's important, though, in the sense that spacing between gene expression sites is a control on which genes get expressed under which conditions (so the junk adds ne
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by aaaronic 5y ago
Rubbing alcohol where I am is isopropyl alcohol (which is highly toxic -- your body metabolizes it into acetone), not ethanol. A kid in my high school class ended up getting his stomach pumped when drinking it to try to get drunk.
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by aaaronic 5y ago
When the difference between iterations is less than whatever threshold of accuracy you're looking for, I'd assume. "Relaxation" algorithms for calculating fields work that way.
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by aaaronic 5y ago
Yep, it's all over Physics, really. Many non-mechanical concepts are often mapped to a mechanical analog model (so many tiny oscillators out there!).
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by aaaronic 5y ago
Mandatory Physics "troll" comment: For small angles, sin(x) ~= x and cos(x) ~= 1 -- the ["small angle approximation"]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-angle_approximation ) It's actually kind
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by aaaronic 5y ago
I teach lookup tables specifically for sine/cosine (we just use one with a phase shift and modulus) on the Gameboy Advance. The hardware has no floating point unit support, so we do it in 8.8 fixed point with 1-degree resolution. It tu
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by aaaronic 5y ago
There are treatments for that? I've never had anyone suggest anything other than therapy for it.
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by aaaronic 5y ago
I don't know why all the official cloud clients are so limited, but rclone shows how easily they could enable a lot of the missing features.
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by aaaronic 5y ago
I was excited when I found this utility a few months back. I've used it to migrate all the files of two old machines to multiple cloud backups pretty easily. I plan to set up cron jobs to use it for simple cross-cloud syncing.
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by aaaronic 5y ago
Downvoting here on HN does seem pretty arbitrary. (Either that, or I just don't post quality comments/posts :D) I do know sites like HN attempt to identify patterns of voting like you described in order to remove abusive accounts,
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by aaaronic 5y ago
Couldn't get past "which for simplicity we can call the radical feminist view," in the third paragraph. Truly cringe-worthy to read in today's context (at least the cultural context I live in).
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by aaaronic 6y ago
This article spends a ton of time explaining very rudimentary things and then completely glosses over what it intends to convey. C-style casts aren't evil, but they are powerful. They can also be used in places where more than one C++
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by aaaronic 6y ago
I think you mean 140 million, right?
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by aaaronic 7y ago
I thought the title here read: "In praise of the 5-day Workweek and other 'radical' ideas" and I just assumed it was from the 1890s...
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by aaaronic 8y ago
The Atlanta one is a LinkedIn URL?! Party foul!
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by aaaronic 8y ago
Pretty weak arguments all around, IMO. Docker has its issues, but most of them aren't really even mentioned here.
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by aaaronic 9y ago
Splendor is a great game that meets your description: https://www.amazon.com/Asmodee-SCSPL01-Splendor-Board-Game/d... Takes about 5 minutes to explain and plays in 30 min or so (After the first game). It has a nice mix