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by archgoon 8y ago
Freeman Dyson is the person responsible for legitimization and adoption of Feynmann diagrams, via proof of equivalence with Schwinger's methods. Feynmann didn't care about why his methods worked, Dyson did.
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by archgoon 8y ago
Sounds like the start of a good idea; but a few implementation issues. 1) Steal one QR code, it can then be duplicated. 2) Works well for the situation where Amazon is not simply connecting you directly to the seller, but not when the selle
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by archgoon 8y ago
> Then when I arrive, I make everything logical, nice, structured and proper. Not to mention self-documenting.
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by archgoon 8y ago
It is generally respectful to call people what they want to be called.
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by archgoon 8y ago
I'm going to give kudos to people who, trapped unexpectedly underground by flood waters, with limited food, for three days managed not to completely freak out and just kept doing the original exploration they set out to do.
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What is the trade deficit?(nytimes.com)
1 points by archgoon 8y ago|0 comments
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by archgoon 8y ago
Java has Optional<T> which is actually nullable, unlike the C++ std::optional (which is a value type, not a pointer). So even if it were nullable, it seems that people find value in expressing "This may not return a valid object,
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McMoon: How the Earliest Images of the Moon Were So Much Better Than We Realised(worldofindie.co.uk)
4 points by archgoon 8y ago|0 comments
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by archgoon 8y ago
Is there any evidence that has happened? That sounds like it goes directly against the APIs terms of service. If device manufacturers are doing that, they could equally upload your passwords from the browser.
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by archgoon 8y ago
Seems easy to do since he's refused to separate himself from his business interests when he assumed the presidency.
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by archgoon 8y ago
This seems to be the easiest interpreter to get up and running. https://github.com/quinkennedy/Homespring `node homespring.js filename.hsg`
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by archgoon 8y ago
Why do you need to trust the FBI? This is a notification of a potential compromise of your security, you can ignore them if you want. "The FBI is advising users of consumer-grade routers and network-attached storage devices to reboot t
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by archgoon 8y ago
The mere presence of another star anywhere near earth would have catastrophic effects on the solar system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dJEhPYfJ5U
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by archgoon 8y ago
Did Wray know the information he was presenting was false? That's the standard for perjury. Edit: if you're making a more general point, point cheerfully granted. :)
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by archgoon 8y ago
This was determined, or at least potentially noticed, a month ago (presumably they spent nonzero amount of time trying to figure out if the error was real) by the FBI. Wray seems to have last cited this back in December. I'm not seeing
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by archgoon 8y ago
The pentagon's budget is only[1][2] about 600 billion dollars a year, over the 17 year period. This is saying they can't account for over 35 years of budget. I don't understand how this number can possibly be correct in the s
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by archgoon 8y ago
This article is mostly not about Nazis (search for it, it shows up once, and just one out of a number of examples). I'm a bit baffled why you think it is.
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by archgoon 8y ago
In keeping with game metrics being harder to come by, back in April, Steam changed it's terms for it's API https://esportsobserver.com/valve-increases-steam-privacy/ https://steamcommunity.com&#x2F
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by archgoon 8y ago
> "corporations are evil" narrative that has become popular with many angry people on twitter recently I'm fairly certain that narrative, and it's popularity, precedes Twitter by at least a few years. Here's an A
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by archgoon 8y ago
Several of the referenced papers from the article seek to address this question: "Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk" https://www.jstor.org/stable/2326
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by archgoon 8y ago
This doesn't seem to be true, here's the v1.10.0 code: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/blob/f6eb745632c... They do seem to be using react, and using dangerouslySetInnerHTML. Now that sai
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by archgoon 8y ago
It'd probably be useful to distinguish between runtime environments that Javascript is typically encountered (Browsers + Electron) as opposed to the language itself. If it were a language issue, a developer might believe that they coul
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by archgoon 8y ago
I don't recall this (everything was really due to Automation) being a serious bone of contention by anyone. The articles the article links to are all "This is totally counterintutive, but is it true?", which is basically just
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by archgoon 8y ago
Assuming resulting audio of 3 minutes, then 1000 uses would result in 9 GB, or about 81 cents. As long as you can get ads for $1 per mille, you should be good. That said, you'd probably need to implement something to prevent abuse (sin
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by archgoon 8y ago
What is the API to download only the audio from a youtube video? How would you do your proposed solution?
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by archgoon 8y ago
For those who get into the "Hello World!" screen, or other screens, and can't figure out how you're supposed to escape (short of hitting refresh), hit the 'ESCAPE' key. :)
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by archgoon 8y ago
This seems to be a little silly. Sure, that'd be cool, but I mean, he didn't claim to have manufactured his own oscilloscopes here either.
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by archgoon 8y ago
You are correct. The $20,000 sum comes from a different individual who was only imprisoned for 4 days.
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by archgoon 8y ago
Brief math reminder, 1273 days is over three years, which is a shockingly long time for the result to simply be "Oh, here's 20k. Not that we did anything wrong.".
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by archgoon 9y ago
I'd say that a technology that attempts to exploit entanglement can reasonably be called 'Quantum'. Now, whether the technology is feasible is a separate question from whether it is accurately named.

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