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by arunix 8y ago
You can try a google search with: site:worrydream.com -vimeo -youtube
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by arunix 8y ago
You're conflating the two Tyson/Holyfield fights. Tyson bit Holyfield twice in the second fight which was stopped in the third round (with Tyson being disqualified). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson
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by arunix 8y ago
That section reminded me of how constants are implemented via functions in Perl e.g. use constant PI => 4 * atan2(1, 1); under the hood becomes sub PI () { 4 * atan2 1, 1 } http://perldoc.perl.org/constant.h
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by arunix 8y ago
For those wanting to go down this road, where do you even start?
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by arunix 9y ago
In case anyone wonders why tuple unpacking was removed: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3113/#why-they-should-go
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by arunix 9y ago
I wouldn't eat them either, but clearly they have no problem with eating their own kind.
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by arunix 9y ago
"Man of Crushed Wood" doesn't have the same ring though.
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by arunix 9y ago
The difference is more dramatic once you have two or more dimensions: >>> foo = {} >>> foo[3][4] = 42 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> KeyEr
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by arunix 9y ago
The Python version blows up if the slot isn't already populated. The Perl version works in either case (there is a typo in the Perl code though).
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by arunix 9y ago
Object Thinking, by David West for the essential ideas and philosophy of sane OOP.
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by arunix 9y ago
There is a book you can try: "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
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by arunix 9y ago
"I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space."
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by arunix 9y ago
How are the dynamic typing facilities in Smalltalk better than those in Ruby?
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Scientists create world's first 'molecular robot' capable of building molecules(phys.org)
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by arunix 9y ago
Such goal attainment does not require consciousness. Even in our species, functions like breathing and blood circulation are autonomous, and they continue even in our sleep when consciousness is absent.
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by arunix 9y ago
I used to be a monotheist and found the certainty it provided quite reassuring. It took a lot of time and contemplation in order to move beyond that, but now I'm quite comfortable to live with the uncertainty resulting from a non-faith
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by arunix 9y ago
That's such a profound experience! Do you have a reference for learning those techniques?
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by arunix 9y ago
I agree. Both the Moon and Mars have a huge amount of sub-surface potential living space. I think a long term colony on either of these worlds would be much safer below the surface where it would be shielded from cosmic rays etc. If we can
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by arunix 10y ago
Perhaps not what you meant, but the sun has a birth, a lifetime during which it throbs with 'life' and a death. Meanwhile the Earth has a heart (core), blood (mantle), skin (crust) etc, it also throbs with 'life' unlike
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by arunix 10y ago
Can a Boltzmann brain exist in the absence of a universe?
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by arunix 10y ago
How did you debug the space leaks? Can anything be done to mitigate/avoid them?
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by arunix 10y ago
That is very cool, but why do G type stars render as red?
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by arunix 10y ago
Master Bra'tac
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by arunix 10y ago
The article includes the following words of Seneca: "All the previous fighting had been merciful by comparison. Now finesse is set aside, and we have pure unadulterated murder..."
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by arunix 10y ago
Your description sounds similar in some ways to The Last Legends of Earth, by A. A. Attanasio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Legends_of_Earth
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by arunix 10y ago
Some differences from Eiffel contracts: no class invariants, and postconditions don't have access to previous object state.
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by arunix 10y ago
But when you do a split-brain operation, a complete transection of the corpus callosum, you get clear evidence of two separate consciousnesses. Is there any evidence supporting that claim?
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by arunix 11y ago
What are those deep principles?
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by arunix 11y ago
“You must avenge my death Imba, ... I mean Simba.”
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by arunix 11y ago
4000 years into the future would take us to Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda :)

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