arthurdenture

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by arthurdenture 8y ago
Wow. I scored 34% on the second one, i.e. no better than random guessing. The last part that added the random noise to the faces didn't make a difference, since I already couldn't do worse at the task.
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by arthurdenture 8y ago
"Famouse Faces" at https://www.testmybrain.org and http://facememory.psy.uwa.edu.au/ are both good.
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by arthurdenture 9y ago
It's also being kickstarted as a standalone card game: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1559002049/earworm-beco...
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by arthurdenture 9y ago
> Gently rolling a stop sign at a high-visibility intersection sounds like a safe and principled violation. If you do this yourself, please reconsider. My experience is that drivers who do this (especially at 2-way stops) are watching ca
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by arthurdenture 9y ago
There's a BigInt proposal at stage 2, which might meet some of your needs: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint
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by arthurdenture 10y ago
One thing to note is that the new version (v4) of the Sheets API can access the same fancy functionality that Apps Script can. So if gspread moves to that (which e.g. https://github.com/burnash/gspread/issues/
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by arthurdenture 10y ago
"I legally can't take part" is overstating the problem. It's not illegal for you to take part. What do you care if Google can claim ownership over the IP you create? And why would Google care to do so? The IP is for a th
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by arthurdenture 10y ago
> The difference is I believe what makes people comfortable at a technology conference isnt superficial hangups about race and gender If you consider the feeling of being, say, the only person of color at a conference to be a "super
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by arthurdenture 10y ago
As discussed in the article, cars have worse field of vision, drive faster, and cause significantly more damage when they mis-judge whether it's safe to proceed.
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by arthurdenture 10y ago
> Speed bumps usually kill more people by slowing down ambulances than they save by reducing vehicle speeds. I don't think you're going to find research to support that. At least, I couldn't. http://skeptics.sta
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by arthurdenture 10y ago
I'd think that the advantage of machine translation is on corpora that are not known up front (i.e. user-supplied text) or corpora that are exceptionally large. If you have a small (ish), well-known text, I don't think you will ge
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by arthurdenture 11y ago
Nope. Commuter service in Chicago is contracted out to big players like BNSF and Union Pacific. If they were to lose the contract to run Metra trains, they would be fine. And it's not like there's some other company or agency wait
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by arthurdenture 12y ago
The beat information might have been more elaborately derived from the audio, as opposed to just sending the basic tempo.
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by arthurdenture 12y ago
The big problem with skywalks is that they result in the streets underneath them being empty (of pedestrians). This has downsides: - Empty streets feel less safe - Stores get less foot traffic - Cars are more likely to speed when th
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by arthurdenture 12y ago
The argument seems to be that if the added type system is not perfect, then it will be useless. For a working counterexample, see the Closure Compiler ( https://github.com/google/closure-compiler ), which adds a bolt-on,
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by arthurdenture 12y ago
> The USA's per capita automobile death rate is over twice as high as Germany's, in spite of speed limits in general being lower in Germany and there being far more and more generous roads in the USA. [...] Statistically speaki
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by arthurdenture 12y ago
The clang-format tool from the LLVM project can also format Javascript. It's similarly AST-aware. Reference: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html , heading "Language".
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by arthurdenture 13y ago
I'm curious -- why doesn't Super Dev Mode meet your needs?
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by arthurdenture 14y ago
To be fair, it looks like those are all old-style projects. The new platform -- the one the headline links to -- sucks a lot less. e.g., http://sourceforge.net/projects/allura/ . Source browsing works more like you would expect and less li
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by arthurdenture 14y ago
> statistically, that's a much more probable occurrence Irrelevant even if it's true. If you're going to make that sort of assumption about people, knowing nothing more than their gender, I don't want to hire you.
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by arthurdenture 14y ago
You've just moved the line of argumentation: instead of "is the word in the dictionary we're using", it's "is that word a bullshit word" -- but only one of those questions is answerable definitively. The only way to play without argument is
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by arthurdenture 14y ago
How is it economically efficient to move non-time-sensitive cargo at high speeds? If the goal is to avoid the pollution associated with sea shipping, the natural competitor is the existing land-based freight network: trucks and diesel train
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by arthurdenture 14y ago
What do you mean 70s, 80s, and 90s? Stop and frisk happens today in cities like New York, and it's a problem. I'm not sure how one government agency abusing its power in one way makes it ok for another agency to abuse its power in another w
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by arthurdenture 15y ago
Bonus gripe: the pie chart is totally misleading, for two related reasons: - Some segments are arbitrarily taller than other segments (makes them look bigger) - Some segments are deeper than other segments due to where they are in the bubbl
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by arthurdenture 15y ago
Not only that, there's a bus that goes to Dulwich Library, which I was obligated to snap a picture of when I was visiting London.
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by arthurdenture 16y ago
Passing along the disclaimer from @dbentley: "Note: this was just my April 1st doodlings; not my actual opinion nor my employer's". Also, we know, you shouldn't actually use the PHP or Python licenses... see previous disclaimer.