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by an_ko 11y ago
Better: People of the same age without weapons training. High officials of other countries would also have had weapons training, so they'd make a bad control for the claim in question “weapons training → reduced right arm swing”.
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by an_ko 11y ago
Providing a paid service to help people retain a high search position is basically selling ads, which Google definitely does .
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by an_ko 11y ago
For most instances of "Johnny" I've seen, I disagree. I think the barrier to wide adoption of strong crypto is UX, specifically discoverability. Learning GPG is really really hard. Testing an assumption takes lots of thinki
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by an_ko 11y ago
I don't understand. What attacker? (One who compromises the laptop?) Communication encrypted with which key?
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by an_ko 11y ago
If most of what you do on a computer is write, text-mode is great. I had my low-end laptop boot into text mode for years because I was more productive coding that way, and could always "startx" on a different TTY to get a GUI. Th
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by an_ko 11y ago
Surely binary is simpler than decimal, and yet humans rarely use it. Purity is nice, but there's a tradeoff with needing to get stuff done so you can pay the rent.
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by an_ko 11y ago
Converting the mentioned temperatures to Celsius: 170–200°F = 76.6–93.3°C 212°F = 100°C
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by an_ko 11y ago
The source http://www.afp.com/en/news/canadas-new-liberal-government-se... has more than 2 paragraphs, is less click-baity, and has less obnoxious ads.
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by an_ko 11y ago
Cool idea, but that the chords and note durations were chosen deliberately by a human makes me significantly less impressed. Can a random number sequence (or e.g. whatever other real number with a long decimal expansion) not be made to soun
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by an_ko 11y ago
I don't know about these estimates specifically, but in a general sense, traditional miners discovering a new vein have the same problem. One can to some degree simulate the market and deduce if such plans are worthwhile. Once the le
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by an_ko 11y ago
> recruitment tool Are Counter Strike , Battlefield and their ilk in the west "recruitment tools"? Nah. Fiction involving military is still just fiction and implies little about its purpose. All those examples are definit
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by an_ko 11y ago
Very good. I didn't benchmark it myself, but the language is designed for high-performance computing, and the authors' PLDI paper [1] shows it is competitive. Given that at the lowest levels, Terra basically reimplements C, and bo
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by an_ko 11y ago
As an experiment, I've tried replacing C with Terra for a few projects. It feels like C++, except without the constant guilt. Having a proper hygienic macro system (instead of C's very limited string-replacement "macros"
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by an_ko 11y ago
You might be looking for http://terralang.org/api.html § Managing Terra Values from Lua . Quoting: > We provide wrappers around LuaJIT’s FFI API that allow you to allocate and manipulate Terra objects directly from Lua
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Obama's drone war a 'recruitment tool' for Isis, say US air force whistleblowers(theguardian.com)
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by an_ko 11y ago
The http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?BlubParadox strikes again?
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by an_ko 11y ago
Just alias it.
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by an_ko 11y ago
Neat, but this adds very little to my existing workflow. bl.ocks.org is just a frontend to gist.github.com, so one can create a gist (working in your preferred $EDITOR and $BROWSER), then changing the appropriate part of the URI when sharin
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by an_ko 11y ago
For visualiser, you might like https://github.com/karlstav/cava For libcaca, see mpv's or mplayer's "-vo caca" flag.
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by an_ko 11y ago
It sounds like you've concluded that because comet-cloud stirring happened in our solar system , it is "not even that rare" elsewhere. What's special about ours? Intelligent life also happened in our solar system, but
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by an_ko 11y ago
Maybe you should link directly to it? https://www.producthunt.com/tech/sell-it-easy and http://www.selliteasy.co/ right?
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Intelexit: help secret service workers quit their jobs(indiegogo.com)
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by an_ko 11y ago
The other video, at the bottom of /camera is much better: https://vimeo.com/141273968
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by an_ko 11y ago
To skip to the content: https://vimeo.com/141273968 This is a great product, but the landing page needs work. The first video on light.co shows people taking photos with what looks like a smartphone, with no further explan
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by an_ko 11y ago
How far can we take this? What is literate programming at the extreme? I often draw when I need to work out an algorithm in my head. I wish there were a way to embed my doodles in code comments. Stuff like circle geometry are hard to expl
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by an_ko 11y ago
You can bang out the same semantics in anything Turing-complete, but syntax is still important. I can't think of a way to say `(html (body (p "hi")))` as clearly in pure JavaScript.
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by an_ko 11y ago
That's very true. For anyone with an existing Common Lisp stack who wants to use CL macros to write JS, Parenscript is great. I wanted to write JS macros in JS, hence eslisp.
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by an_ko 11y ago
I think Clojure is the better-designed language overall, but JavaScript's simplicity and the size of its community and deployment make it very attractive. The enemy of "better" is "good enough", I suppose.
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by an_ko 11y ago
If you mean shortcuts like argument-splats and implicit return-statements, https://github.com/anko/eslisp-fancy-function is on npm. All you need is to npm install it and do (macro function (require "eslisp-f
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by an_ko 11y ago
wisp was indeed an inspiration! A pretty fundamental difference is that eslisp macros are ordinary JavaScript functions, which you can put on npm, and write in any language. In wisp, macros are magic compiler-internal things. Here's

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