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by arh68 12y ago
I don't want to disagree with what you're saying, I just want to disagree with your methodology here. Just one point: How can you start up ad hominem attacks on the woman here, " repeated problems with the law ", while
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> How do they remedy that? By funding anti-drug groups. Could you specify which groups you mean? Because the article addresses what you mention in exactly the opposite way: Pharmaceutical-funded anti-drug groups like the Partnership f
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by arh68 12y ago
From the recent Globe & Mail article posted here [1], I can only hope we can all soon enjoy in this part: Perhaps the story should have ended there. The delights of sugar were largely in control of the rich, it’s true, and their patron
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by arh68 12y ago
Yeah, it's really odd to spend effort maintaining haystacks, trying to keep their needle:straw ratio high, trying to grow and filter the haystack, et cetera, then pump giant aqueducts and funnels (pass it up!) of absolute crap intellig
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by arh68 12y ago
Some books I choose, some books I see mentioned (like here on hn). To find books on a fresh topic, I google site:stackoverflow.com books TOPIC to find an already-curated list or two (ex: [1]). I find a few of those books on amazon, inspe
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> People seem to begrudge that I’m bringing my small company pace to the team. My boss though, seems pretty satisfied... Well if you're just going to be your boss' new secret weapon, and no one else benefits, it's going
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by arh68 12y ago
I don't know, you may be very far away. The camera could be in space, or maybe on a plane. I mean, if you can hide microphones, the ferns would be irrelevant anyways, apart from being a good distraction. Kind of off topic but just la
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Wait, so what would be the best reflector for this type of thing? If I could host the ultimate cocktail party, placing ferns/etc all around the room, could I record every conversation with a single camera? What would those ferns loo
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by arh68 12y ago
While lacking the romantic appeal of a steam locomotive, Pax Reactor [1] is basically a 1375 MW boiler. Pretty fun until everything hits the fan. [1] http://henrik.zsolt-frei.net/Fun/Software/pax.html
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by arh68 12y ago
I've thought about this for years, since hearing about Gladwell's 10khrs rule. I recently started reading The Inner Game of Tennis , and I think it's clarified what's going on here. It's obvious the trend is rela
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Imagine how much more they could save by keeping the heated mattress pad on and never leave the bed! I mostly jest.. The author seems totally unaware of the efficiency gains that a heat pump can provide. A 300W space heater will be easi
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by arh68 12y ago
re: buddhism: read Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It's not about motorcycles. ;)
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by arh68 12y ago
It seems like the labeling restrictions are what matter here. I can buy a wine from France and see it was grown and bottled on the estate . Or I can see it was bottled by a negociant/middleman. I really have no strong preference ei
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by arh68 12y ago
I've no issues at all w/ my Yamakasi 30" IPS ($300~400). Got it on ebay, straight from Korea, looks a lot like my old iMac's IPS but it's matte (and not 27"). 2560x1600 :). I've had it just a few months
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by arh68 12y ago
Is a point-to-point Internet just wishful thinking? If we all just get some good antennas [1], we could point our antennas at each other multiple times a day and exchange large quantities of data asynchronously (within a small geographic a
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by arh68 12y ago
I do like printing code out and editing it from the hammock. You can't do it all day, and it doesn't seem very fast, but it sure is nice to plan all the edits on paper (4 color pens = colordiff!) and then type it up, test it, com
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by arh68 12y ago
As someone searching for a job, it's hard to say. There are only a few big cities not on the coast that stand out: Twin Cities, Chicago, Austin, maybe Denver, maybe Ann Arbor. If you're not in one of those areas, you could be in
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by arh68 12y ago
Just the fact that I can't see a search bar in that screenshot scares me a bit. But I do like your website. Kind of strange, but your logo looks a bit cut off (the bottom 5% of the characters is gone). Does this thing archive web pag
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by arh68 12y ago
True, true. Hyperlinks are pretty big. Defining links with a new language is certainly one way to do it. But look here on HN, what do I do? I write plaintext. I certainly don't write <a href>. I write like this [1], and the
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by arh68 12y ago
Yes. But isn't HTML itself the flashy & pretty (and often non-value-added) alternative to plaintext, the functional & ugly interface? Why not just use plaintext, wrap everything in <pre></pre>, and call the W
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by arh68 12y ago
(haven't read the article yet, keep getting 504s) Regarding feasibility & cost, what do you think of the old '"Proof-of-Work" Proves Not to Work' paper? [1] From what I remember, the time to hash adequately wou
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by arh68 12y ago
I almost really like this tool. It's close to being seamless and Unixy, offering a pretty small command-line-option-language that expresses a bunch of journal-related commands. I like that idea, a lot. But the recipes dive right int
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by arh68 12y ago
This paper starts off describing a hash algorithm reminiscent of quake3's inv_sqrt() function (few lines, magic numbers): int32_t JumpConsistentHash(uint64_t key, int32_t num_buckets) { int64_t b = 1, j =
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A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm [pdf](arxiv.org)
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by arh68 12y ago
Yes thanks for pointing that out, I wrote a slightly faster version below. I took your advice and wanted just a single invoke on the C program, so I modified it to take an argument. I'm satisfied! > cat arc4random-v2.c #
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by arh68 12y ago
Prayer probably does help, even if there is no God. Just assume that it does work. After all, if it helps a believer to pray, and you can acknowledge that there was nobody else in the room while they were praying, you've got to wonde
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This inspired me to write a rudimentary version in bash/C: ----pwgen.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash DICT=/usr/share/dict/words NL=$(wc -l $DICT | sed 's_[ \t]*$[0-9]*$.*_\1_')
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:D thank you for posting You seem to have laid it all out exactly, your attention to detail exceeding mine. What you've been saying is exactly how it works in Common Lisp. Again, I do appreciate you explaining the specifics here, so l
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by arh68 12y ago
I'm being loose with my terminology. I guess that was a mistake. Look, I don't even know what we're arguing over. Here's some words from CLtL2: 5.1.3. Special Forms ... An implementation is free to imp
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Yeah you're right, it's not turtles/functions all the way down. At some point, your functions are defined in terms of special forms. Your special forms will either be natively supported or they'll be written with a de

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