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by atondwal 13y ago
> there must be a ton of stuff that doesn't really do what its supposed to but people buy anyway. This is one of the reasons I make sure I know how everything I own works. That, and the good ol' hacker ethic.
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by atondwal 13y ago
One possible reason is that indefinite inefficiency "creates jobs in the public sector"
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by atondwal 13y ago
I think you got the original causes right on, but I don't think it's taboos that keep them in place; I think it's a jobs thing (for cops and DEA agents).
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by atondwal 13y ago
His example is intentionally contrived to show a minimal example of StateT. This is who you'd really do it in Haskell: for strings: main = repl "" repl :: String -> IO () repl a = getLine >>= \c ->
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by atondwal 13y ago
Also note: Daala is [lossless]( https://git.xiph.org/?p=daala.git;a=blob;f=doc/design.tex;h=... )
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by atondwal 13y ago
> It seems to me that the scientists could have simply stored the energy from the light for a period of time Strained analogy: It's more like recording a hologram for a minute and then playing it back. It's a one-minute buffer
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by atondwal 13y ago
APS typically features important results with articles that are not only understandably by the quantitative laymen, but also do a good job of communicated content. (They're supposed to be the least common denominator for interdisciplin
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by atondwal 13y ago
Photons have zero rest mass, but light has an energy of $h\nu$, where $\nu$ is the frequency, so this gets added on to the mass of our thing. Oversimplified explanation: Photons are massless so they can go as fast as they want without needi
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by atondwal 13y ago
Yes, conservation of energy.
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by atondwal 13y ago
Unless it's about text editors. Then you can't get _anything_ done if you don't use ed.
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by atondwal 13y ago
I'm not saying that this is necessarily the case here, but a lot of physicists were trekkies before they were physicists. > Physicist has an idea -> Science fiction author writes idea -> Future physicist now has (dumbed down v
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by atondwal 13y ago
echo "1\n2\n3\n" | tr '\n' + | bc
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by atondwal 13y ago
No, it's that Bayesian players can take advantage of corellated quantum oracles in ways that give them acess to new equilibria in a way that preserves some of the old equilibria, such that the max of the new set of equilibria is always
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by atondwal 13y ago
Here's my subscription list, ranked by popularity (you might want to read it backwards...) http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=tMxvZrRQ
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by atondwal 13y ago
You're probably just the only two who read the comments...
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by atondwal 13y ago
> solving such equations with classic computers is done in something like O(n^3) or O(Cn^2) with a huge C, but quantum computers could reduce this to O(log n) or something like that. If you're referring to the algorithm I think you&
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by atondwal 13y ago
>He made the comment on Facebook not within a League of Legends game. And here I thought we had a deterministic algorithm for putting LoL player behind bars...
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by atondwal 13y ago
You don't really need multiple cursors in vim. Visual mode is much more powerful than dropping a bunch of cursors at the right places in lines or blocks of text, and if that's not enough, :s commands handle pretty much every useca
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Imgur takes over quickmeme's functionality(imgur.com)
6 points by atondwal 13y ago|2 comments
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by atondwal 13y ago
> I don't see much difference between it and GTalk utility-wise. You see online/idle/offline/mobile/mobile-idle icons and status messages in hangouts?
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by atondwal 13y ago
No, he's saying that what's stopping the average artist to get a high a royalty percentage as Justin Timberlake and stopping pandora from paying radically less for the music is collusion among the major record labels.
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by atondwal 13y ago
Swastikas are a little different though. It's been decoratively used for apolitical reasons for thousands of years on all sorts of things, but was only really flown as a flag starting with the NAZIs in the 1920s. There's a lot of
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by atondwal 13y ago
porn. It gets transcoded enough that the stego could fly through as just another lossy transcoding. Better yet, lossy transcode it to something and back, then stego, as long as your target has a copy of the same transcoder and knows what yo
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by atondwal 13y ago
> These estimates are completely useless in real life, because in real life nobody guesses how many drives you need for GMail, or how many gas stations there are in LA. Do you never do sanity checks? If you want to compute the number of
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by atondwal 13y ago
sendspace link for those without springer access and weak google-fu http://www.sendspace.com/file/77f7sn
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by atondwal 14y ago
>The constitution is not a suicide pact. Isn't it? It seems like it was intended to be a set of fully strict provisions, and if they didn't work, everyone had to agree on changing it.
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by atondwal 14y ago
This is extrordanarily good. For a similar, but more in depth covering of the same material I reccomend [Osborne --- Advanced Mathematical Techniques: for Scientists and Engineers]( http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Mathematical-Techniques-Sc
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by atondwal 14y ago
Well, there's a difference between holding-a-grad-degree level, and being a grad student. On the other hand if the implication was that undergrad degrees teach your relatively little in comparison to what they should, then yes.
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by atondwal 14y ago
Alternately all the important bits of pacman output are in /var/log/pacman.log and everything that _requires_ manual intervention is posted on the archlinux.org site. You should not update before checking the arch news.
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by atondwal 14y ago
If all the initscripts and kernel updates break Arch, then you probably made a mistake or two in some conf file installing it. (eg not having /boot correctly in the fstab will break you on every kerenl update, for example)

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