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by anthonyb 14y ago
A much better game is Bartok (sometimes called Bartog) - it starts out as something approximating Uno[1]. Each time someone wins, they make a rule. Playing it with Mathematicians/CS types is brain-hurty (think mod-13 arithmetic and prime nu
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I used to play board games with people like that, and the problem is easily fixed with a kitchen timer :) Timer goes off? Turn over, too bad. Given the average number of turns in a game and how long you want to play for, you can work out wh
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Now if you really want to bend your brain, go look up PerlNomic ;)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Everyone knows Ruby doesn't scale! ;)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Just wait another two months, and it'll be around again ;)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Not a two-thirds majority though :)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
30. A Legitimately Interesting Technical Blog Post Should probably be marked 'unflag', too...
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Security Advent Calendar(secadvent.com)
1 points by anthonyb 14y ago|0 comments
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by anthonyb 14y ago
As Bruce Sterling says: "I'll believe that people will colonise Mars when they start colonising the Gobi desert."
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by anthonyb 14y ago
kwestin, you've been hellbanned - no idea why, looks like a mistake to me.
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What would have happened if a Saturn V exploded?(thespacereview.com)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
choosing from || __ # (2 pipes, one space, 2 bars) seems to work pretty well, too
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Python version: python -c 'import random; print "".join(random.choice(r"/\\") for i in range(80*24))'
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by anthonyb 14y ago
The whole of Europe had potato crop failures at the same time, but only Ireland had famine. Imagine, in China's case that xighur had a famine while the rest didn't. Now does it make sense to include the whole country in the statistics? You
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Not sure why the downvotes, but it's true. Ireland was an occupied state, and most of its food production went overseas to the UK. Including England in the total population makes no sense.
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Ireland under UK rule was hardly a democracy.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
You might want to read up on UK/Irish history before you call Ireland a province of the UK.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
There are already large numbers of aircraft flying over Afghanistan looking for the Taliban, aren't there? That's obviously not too expensive, it's just a question of political will.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
False dichotomy much? How about we don't murder any sheep or children, and instead spend the money that we would've spent on sheep torture on better fences, signs, education and mine clearance? While you're at it, you can lobby your elected
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Wilfully inflicting a land mine injury on another creature? Sheep might not be as smart as people, but I bet they feel pain every bit as much as you do or a child does. And given that, what does it say about you as a person that you'd think
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Only very slightly. Also, it suffers from the same problem as the Mine Kafon, in that it's a more-or-less random walk and you won't know whether the whole area is cleared.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Er, that's incredibly cruel, since most landmines are designed to maim, not kill, eg. by spraying shrapnel at knee level. That might kill sheep outright, but I doubt it.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
If you can't deal with obnoxious people, you probably shouldn't be using the internet...
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I usually turn the thunder and lighting on and listen to this too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTVraVgzC9U Maybe not quite so peaceful :) Edit: My mistake, I'm normally on http://raining.fm/
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by anthonyb 14y ago
For an extra bonus to your saving throw versus extroverts, you can put in earplugs, then these over the top.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I have a model-m. Do I win a prize?
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Have you introduced her to brown noise? I typically use it for blocking out background sounds when I'm tired of listening to music, but it might work well for tinnitus too.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
"monochromatic"? Har har.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Counter-devil's advocate: Yeah! Let's have a real conference, not one with all those minorities-who-aren't-very-good-at-ruby... This sounds remarkably similar to "women are too hysterical to vote", doesn't it?
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Well, except that the login process for Django has a lot more people looking at it, and you know that the parts are going to work together pretty well. For example, Flask-Login ( https://github.com/maxcountryman/flask-login/blob/master/fla.

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