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by baruz 2y ago
> recently very disappointed Here too. Apparently the components are scattered through the education-oriented Spike Prime sets. If you can stomach the kid-oriented colors, that’s the best route to recreating childhood Mindstorms robots.
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by baruz 2y ago
It used to be distributed as a CD to university libraries, but these CDs were supposed to be surrendered when the online version came out. I have heard that at least one of these copies (perhaps “out of date” in terms of “new” texts added
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by baruz 2y ago
Indeed. I usually go with “OP” in non-frustrated contexts, myself.
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by baruz 2y ago
It derives from an expression deep in the history of Usenet or e-mail (hyphenated), when hapless newbies (two syllables) were told by harried sysops to RTFM, read the f* manual.
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by baruz 2y ago
I think it’s an Adamsesque joke: you’ve made me a confident man, and yet I cannot get the nerve up to express myself in exactly that way.
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by baruz 2y ago
That’s how Smalltalk does it. I believe Scheme family languages do it that way, use a generator and then filter and select. Self as well.
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by baruz 2y ago
Dataflow paradigm
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by baruz 2y ago
If I understand the GP comment correctly, the puzzle when they first heard it was for 128 bottles, which was a big clue that the solution involved binary, spoiling the puzzle for them. The article’s use of 100 bottles obscured the intent an
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by baruz 2y ago
> take in more in premiums Also, prudently investing the insurance float (excess premiums beyond that needed for claims)
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by baruz 2y ago
No, “fish” in Greek is ιχθυς, which was used as an acrostic for Iesous Christos Theou Huios Soter, Jesus Christ, Son of God, savior. I vaguely recall seeing somewhere that during the persecutions, one Christian would draw one line of the tw
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by baruz 2y ago
Your results will be biased. It is tiny with small values of N, and absent when N is a power of two, but the skew becomes more obvious when your N is 2^31 + 2^30 + 1, for example.
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by baruz 2y ago
There is plenty of evidence, well documented, of how ancient Greek languages, and Attic in particular, sounded. Transliterations of Latin, Egyptian, Persian names, and words taken from other languages, and Latin transliterations of Greek na
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by baruz 2y ago
Most unions demand standardized pay scales, maybe varying with seniority or experience. Slichter et alii (1960) say wage standardization is the most widely heralded union wage policy. Freeman (1980, 1984) showed that wages compress due to w
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by baruz 2y ago
Platys (πλατὺς) is “wide” or “broad”; platypus (πλατύπους) is “wide-foot” in ancient Greek and referred to flat-footed people. “Platypus” came from their paddle feet. Leptos (λεπτός) is sort of derived from a word meaning “peeled” like the
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by baruz 2y ago
I believe you are responding to a joke.
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by baruz 3y ago
I am also quite impressed by Tunney’s technical chops—Cosmopolitan C blew my mind— but, as with others, am somewhat put off by the self-aggrandizing self-satisfied tone and I-know-best attitude that are always on display. Maybe it’s a cultu
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by baruz 3y ago
Yes, I kept trying to follow his work after he left the column, but the work he went through, the extreme twists he put on logic and credulity in order to absolve the murderers of wrongdoing, that put me off.
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by baruz 3y ago
Madoff was supposedly on the level for some 25-31 years. He started business as a broker-dealer and money manager in 1960. Madoff claimed that he started just putting fund contributions in a personal account in 1991, but prosecutors think h
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by baruz 3y ago
A hotspot requires a cellular connection to an existing network. AirDrop creates a ZeroConf network, which advertises its presence to other devices.
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by baruz 3y ago
My impression from all the stuff I’ve looked at was that one board member wrote a paper praising Anthropic’s approach with implied (or not so implied?) criticism of OpenAI’s approach. This got Altman furious. So he was going to each board m
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by baruz 3y ago
slow clap
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by baruz 3y ago
Sorry about Ginny
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by baruz 3y ago
A G Cairns-Smith postulated that self-organizing, growing silicate crystals could have formed a substrate against which organic molecules would pattern themselves until they eventually began self-replicating on their own.
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by baruz 3y ago
Why not comment on the (rather interesting IMO) content rather than on the personality of the person writing? No one is going to change their mind based on your snark.
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by baruz 3y ago
Sounds like Slashdot’s meta-moderation, no?
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by baruz 3y ago
> They wanted a new CEO If that were the case, would they not have presented the new CEO immediately for an “orderly transition”? As I understand it, Ms Murati tried to get Altman back, and when she pressured the board, they tried at lea
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by baruz 3y ago
Altavista was around for quite a while, and I liked its engine better than Google’s for a long time. Also, Yahoo’s directory-style thing was pretty decent if you knew your way around a catalogued library.
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by baruz 3y ago
Vote-holding shareholders in a two-class share company, ie, Schmidt, Brin, or Page. Pichai just has to avoid annoying Sergey and Larry, really.
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by baruz 3y ago
>please provide some specific examples The California proposal for mathematics education got a lot of play on HN over the last several months, e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28237018