arundelo

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by arundelo 15y ago
"D.V." = "Deo volente" = "God willing". http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deo%20volente
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by arundelo 15y ago
His username: http://www.reddit.com/user/salman_khan_academy
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by arundelo 15y ago
My favorite thing about it is that uppercase "I" and lowercase "l" look different (the former has serifs).
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by arundelo 15y ago
Here's a story about a guy (a friend of my brother) who put a million miles on a Honda accord: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=20021117&... He took extremely good care of it.
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by arundelo 15y ago
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&...
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by arundelo 15y ago
You should know that absence of evidence actually is evidence (though not always very strong evidence) of absence: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_o...
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by arundelo 15y ago
Sounds like this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/mt/beautiful_probability/
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by arundelo 15y ago
Ease of increasing how long it takes to compute the hash is the main idea behind bcrypt: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
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by arundelo 15y ago
Oops, you're right! I was misremembering something I had figured out once. It's base-30 that does multiples of 2, 10, and 3 (and 5 etc.). (And 30 is pretty close to a power of 2 so that not much space gets wasted if a BCD-like method is
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by arundelo 15y ago
I'd like hardware that represents fractional parts in binary-coded base-15 -- no rounding on 1/3 as well as 1/10!
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by arundelo 15y ago
http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/y2k_humor/Cobol.html
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by arundelo 16y ago
In fact in the list of reasons here http://blog.aurel32.net/?p=47 has a "More friendly upstream" list item which gives four "as opposed to" examples, all of which involve Drepper.
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by arundelo 16y ago
The Wikipedia article says > This is used to lower the pitch of the 1-3 and 1-2-3 valve combinations. In other words, the tuning slides described in that section of the article are solving a different problem (which is described in a bi
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by arundelo 16y ago
I thought this book was great, but I also found it quite disturbing. Some pretty bad stuff happens in it.
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by arundelo 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIMNXogXnvE
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A couple neat things about using chemical elements as hostnames(geoff.greer.fm)
165 points by arundelo 16y ago|67 comments
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by arundelo 16y ago
See "My Favorite Liar": > "Your job, as students, among other things, is to try and catch me in the Lie of the Day." http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/02/my-favorite-lia.html
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by arundelo 16y ago
The point is that phrasal verbs are written spaced: "stand up" -- even when conjugated: "stood up", not "*standupped".
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by arundelo 16y ago
http://www.questia.com/read/57804405?title=17%3a%20Lisp%3a%2...
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by arundelo 16y ago
Here are some arguments for why AI is different that I find convincing: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/rk/optimization_and_the_singularity/
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People's lives are more like soap operas than anyone realizes(squid314.livejournal.com)
60 points by arundelo 16y ago|33 comments
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by arundelo 16y ago
The distinction between mutable and immutable is important, but more important here is the difference between >>> dict['a']=3 and >>> dict['a'].append(3) The first rebinds dict['a'] (and in the proc
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by arundelo 17y ago
In defense of the excellent but not-beginner-optimized Programming in Lua , its back cover describes it as "targeted at people with some programming background".
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by arundelo 17y ago
Should be http://ee380.stanford.edu
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by arundelo 17y ago
Ah, thanks. I avoid keyboards with Windows keys, though; I use Ctrl and Alt so often that I don't want other keys getting in the way.
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by arundelo 17y ago
Yes! Speaking of which, anyone happen to know how (in X and at the Linux console) to make both my Alt keys act like Alt keys instead of one being AltGr?
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SF author Greg Egan reviews Avatar(gregegan.net)
118 points by arundelo 17y ago|104 comments
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Sci-fi author and Crysis 2 writer Peter Watts beaten, arrested at US border(hellforge.gameriot.com)
122 points by arundelo 17y ago|128 comments
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by arundelo 17y ago
See also Grace Llewellyn's Teenage Liberation Handbook: http://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Liberation-Handbook-School-Edu...
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by arundelo 17y ago
I like the trackball for three reasons: - I don't have to periodically pick it up and reposition it because of running out of mousepad room. (My wrist doesn't like doing that, and my sister -- who has had surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome

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