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by batbomb 13y ago
Learning Lagrangian mechanics was like falling in love all over again with your girlfriend when you discovered exactly how elegant she could be. Easily my favorite part of classical mechanics as an undergrad.
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by batbomb 13y ago
People with enough of their parents money don't move to West Oakland. People who can't afford anything else and aren't afraid of getting robbed once a year do. Typically, yes, there's a bunch of kids from the "middl
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by batbomb 13y ago
If you want to get good at clarifying conditionals, take an electronics class and revel in the Karnaugh maps.
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by batbomb 13y ago
Hardest bug #1: With some custom embedded electronics, the ADC would work fine in a lab setting but always throw out garbage in the field. Now, about 500 of these had been running fine in the field themselves since February. Turned out ther
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by batbomb 13y ago
I suppose it depends heavily on application, but I don't think external transaction control is necessarily tied to performance. However, that being said, it's usually up to the user to come up with some sort of managed transacti
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by batbomb 13y ago
You are assuming that they could move into SF. I'm sure Google could easily fill the Transamerica pyramid. SF isn't amenable to new construction, and Google and most these companies could easily be more decentralized then they a
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by batbomb 13y ago
> A cup is either half empty or two cups. Fixed
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by batbomb 13y ago
I think VoltDB could be huge, but the utter reliance I stored procedures is misguided in my opinion. The reasoning behind it is really to optimize database access at the database level, including targeting features like JIT compilation and
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by batbomb 13y ago
So is google going to start supplying the DoD when the DARPA projects graduate?
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by batbomb 13y ago
1. Sniff wireless traffic 2. Hijack MAC address (If you're gonna cheat the system, might as well go all the way)
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by batbomb 13y ago
I love the way SQLAlchemy uses the magic methods SQL expressions.
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by batbomb 13y ago
...and few women. People complain about Silicon Valley being low on women, those people have never witnessed an oil boom. I wouldn't be surprised if Minnesota's economy was experiencing at least partial boom due to North Dakota in
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by batbomb 13y ago
Most of the cities are in North Dakota jobs are assuredly oil field related. As such, in some sense they are an unemployment paradise if you don't have a family, because it's low-skill, subsidized housing (and often food) work, an
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by batbomb 13y ago
Historically Oil booms help too. Most the places he mentioned are going through a fracking renaissance. More importantly, it's low skill and high pay, but often cold and demanding work (say Midland isn't cold to the roughneck wres
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by batbomb 13y ago
A year ago, SWAT bust into the house two doors down from mine. I live on a corner unit, and had been drinking when I saw these funny looking guys dressed up for what looked like a game of paintball or some kind of motorcycle night-rider gan
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by batbomb 13y ago
My favorite example of an underground nuclear explosion was project gasbuggy, near where I grew up. They thought it might be useful if they could perform nuclear fracking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gasbuggy
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by batbomb 13y ago
A lot of firsts on this for me, including the first time I've really used github other than just git clone. I wrote this because I tend to write and rewrite queries a lot, and a lot of times ORMs get in the way. Admittedly, I have diff
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Show HN: ZeroRM - SQL composition in Java (my first open-sourced side-project)(github.com)
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by batbomb 13y ago
Hi, This is a lot of firsts for me. First (real) github project. First open-sourced project. It still needs cleaning up (sorry), but I thought I'd go ahead and get it out there. I don't have any examples that show how much power
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by batbomb 13y ago
Yeah this article is actually quite good, better than most science articles I've read from most major media outlets. I wasn't meaning to belittle this specific article, but I thought I'd point an actual interview with author
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by batbomb 13y ago
They have more on this on the Nature podcast. I also highly recommend listening to the Nature podcast. It's free, and they usually interview authors of these articles, and it's presented in an elevated fashion that you won't
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by batbomb 13y ago
C++ on C++ = Cling, although it's a bit physics centric
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by batbomb 13y ago
Maybe it's a little different because I grew up in New Mexico next to the Navajo reservation, right smack in the middle of tons of pueblos, but you have a very euro-centric view of the world if you think everybody in America thinks 100
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by batbomb 13y ago
The entire vengeance trio is amazing, but I actually like Sympathy for Lady Vengeance the most. Park Chan-Wook's I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK is good too. You should check out Battle Royale if you liked Oldboy.
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by batbomb 13y ago
Assuming there's not too much iron and steel in the land fill, it's might be possible he could find it with a sensitive enough magnetometer at 1 meter, maybe more so if you built a motor to move it around rapidly. I think the fiel
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by batbomb 13y ago
Apparently you don't know much about lightning if you are multiplying by 365.
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by batbomb 13y ago
Can anyone tell me if there is reason for this in bash? DEST=~~/public/walmart.graphs
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by batbomb 13y ago
If it's unencrypted (it is): Use a network hub + ethernet (not a switch) OR: use wireless OR: Make your router/switch replay the packets to a port of your choosing. Then most people use wireshark. But you can use tcpdump/pcap
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by batbomb 13y ago
> If we really lost antibiotics to advancing drug resistance — and trust me, we’re not far off When did journalists become biomedical experts? I don't want to read a story about a serious subject that says "trust me".
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by batbomb 13y ago
I was trying recently trying to estimate write-ahead log performance for my 2GB droplet, and for random sized (2-8k, 4.3k avg) sequential writes, my droplet is able to throw out 230MB/sec or ~60k 4k writes/second. I haven't a

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