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by aperiodic 15y ago
HBase. We always want moar data.
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by aperiodic 15y ago
I agree. It makes web browsing a Sisyphean task, and I always feel on-edge when I'm reading such a page.
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by aperiodic 15y ago
I hope they borrow ambient occlusion. It makes it possible to see the edge of a voxel that's in front of an identically colored voxel, and makes the whole game much easier on the eyes.
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by aperiodic 15y ago
FYI, processing.js is a javascript re-implementation of Processing[1], which has a much longer pedigree than the others you mention (it was started in 2001). Personally, I've often been annoyed with Processing's generic name, as it can make
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by aperiodic 16y ago
Slightly off-topic, but I'm actually disappointed by the spread of Internet access to things like planes and trains. One of the things I enjoy the most about flying is that I feel disconnected from the rest of the world, and I try to take a
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by aperiodic 16y ago
The 64-bit TerminalColours SIMBL plugin that's linked to in the README doesn't play nicely with binaryage's 64-bit Visor plugin, for some reason. However, Evan Phoenix's fork[1] works perfectly for me. [1] https://github.com/evanphx/termin
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by aperiodic 16y ago
> Congratulations: You have now once again successfully solved one of the one star exercises in Knuth's TACP. My CS professor has published papers that are solutions to exercises in The Art of Computer Programming. It's sort of a fact o
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3D Fractal Builder, using WebGL(fractal.io)
1 points by aperiodic 16y ago|0 comments
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Quantitative Updates on the Fukushima Reactor from Japan's Nuclear Safety Agency(nisa.meti.go.jp)
1 points by aperiodic 16y ago|0 comments
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by aperiodic 16y ago
One of the fundamental reasons that Chernobyl occurred lies in how that reactor was designed. Russian nuclear reactors were designed to be over-moderated , while modern power reactors are under-moderated . The moderator is the substance w
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by aperiodic 16y ago
i) You're correct in that venting the steam won't solve the cooling issues. Venting the steam is being considered in order to reduce the steam pressure in the primary system. If the pressure gets too high, then the primary system could rupt
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by aperiodic 16y ago
Update: A meltdown at this point is possible , since the decay heat is pretty significant. However, as long as the core remains submerged, it shouldn't be an issue. In the worst case, you could more or less stick a hose into the primary sy
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by aperiodic 16y ago
There's really not much information in this article, and consequently it reads a tad sensationalist to me. Let me try to break this situation down as I understand it. IAANRO (I Am A Nuclear Reactor Operator. I work part-time at my college's
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by aperiodic 16y ago
I'm working through that book right now, and it's fantastic. I'd used haskell before in class, but I definitely suffered from the "fibonacci gap." Now, I'm starting to do small scripts in haskell, and hopefully I'll be able to tackle a dece
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by aperiodic 16y ago
I recently put together a Hackintosh, and it went much more smoothly than anticipated. Just get any Intel processor, and make sure your motherboard and graphics card, or a closely related model, are on one of the recent OSx86 hardware compa
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by aperiodic 16y ago
Those programs are $99/year, though.
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by aperiodic 16y ago
I'm pretty sure it's some straightforward cropping/resizing of some subset of the frames in the movie. The barcode for Slumdog Millionaire[1] presents some pretty compelling evidence that this is the case. That barcode has a persistent patt
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by aperiodic 16y ago
I don't understand people who claim it's a "mindfuck" movie. The plot is pretty straightforward and self-consistent. What it is is an extremely well put-together movie. The runtime of that movie is 148 minutes-almost two and a half hours. Y
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by aperiodic 16y ago
> The desirable aspect of this system is obvious - the only people who see your data are people who've seen a QR code from someone in your social graph - your FaceTorrent profile will never, ever be indexed by Google. What if Google sta
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by aperiodic 16y ago
I doubt supply constraints are an issue. They're the single largest purchaser of flash memory in the world[1]. I imagine manufacturers would be bending over backwards for them, since their orders must all be quite large. [1]: http://edition
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by aperiodic 16y ago
You can customize a fair amount DuckDuckGo's UI using the settings page[1], most notably hover highlighting, color scheme, and header placement (fixed vs scrolling). [1]: http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html
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by aperiodic 16y ago
DuckDuckGo does have a very annoying default color scheme. Fortunately you can turn it off in the settings page: http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html .
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by aperiodic 16y ago
My CS professor tries to use less mainstream languages for exactly this purpose–to put everyone on an even playing field. The first two months of labs in the course are taught entirely in Haskell. The lectures are about DFAs and NFAs. I've
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by aperiodic 16y ago
> There's a very strong correlation between music skills and coding Really? That's the first time I've heard about it. Do you mind going into more detail, or sharing links? It's not at all obvious to me why the two skills would be corre
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by aperiodic 16y ago
Well, let me throw my voice in, too. If I didn't have Readability, I would not have read your article. Out of curiosity, I reloaded the page and tried reading it as was originally presented, but it felt taxing, and I switched back quickly.
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by aperiodic 16y ago
Disclaimer: I Am Not A Laywer It's also good to familiarize yourself with the distinctions between detention and arrest. In the United States, "detention" is whenever police temporarily restrict someone's rights based on an "articulable" su
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by aperiodic 16y ago
The Chinese dictionary app Pleco has an OCR plugin. Here's a video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7VTo0656Rc
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by aperiodic 16y ago
> It would be one of those formally correct but practically useless definitions. "Hi, my name is Aperiodic, and I'm... a mathematician." "Hi Aperiodic." "It all started out so easily; you know, a few lemmas with the boys in the evenings
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by aperiodic 16y ago
Strictly speaking, yes. O-notation describes the growth of a function as the argument tends to infinity. Formally, the statement "f(x) is O(g(x))" means that there's some point x_0 such that f(x) is less than a constant factor times g(x) fo
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by aperiodic 16y ago
That's assuming that you can verify whether or not any given person gives a shit about Haskell in O(1) time.

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