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by bazzargh 14y ago
The Lovelace & Babbage comic is fun: http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-the-origin-2/ (that's the one Sydney Padua did for Lovelace Day, but there's lots more on the site). The cartoons are in a steampunk comedy style, but back
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by bazzargh 14y ago
"show what the generalization (in this context) offers that the specific concept ... does not" What does group theory tell me in the context of 1+1 that knowing the answer is 2 doesn't? Generalizations are useful because they apply to more
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Which would be to miss the point that monoids are the general principal of which sufficient statistics are a specific application. Also, not sure mathematicians wore skinny jeans in 1904.
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by bazzargh 14y ago
I gave up reserving seats in the quiet car after last time - a man sat next to me and handed his grandson (aged 3 or 4) a Bopit. Yes, one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH4XHwefPVY There followed a short argument where I questi
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Looks pretty good on Chrome on a retina MBP (15"). Also looks fine on firefox. You could at least say which model of mac you're on.
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by bazzargh 14y ago
"Courses that teach those languages spend at least half their time just on learning the notation." Spot on. This describes exactly my experience of my Pascal-based course back in 1986 - and it was way more than half. I didn't come across SI
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Ditto. I just turned off page styles and read the text. There's not much of it.
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by bazzargh 14y ago
There's only two things I use the browser's bookmarks for now - firstly to prime the pump for FF's awesomebar. I rely on that when I delete my history (which I do irregularly during development). The second thing is bookmarklets, which are
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by bazzargh 14y ago
It's been done a few times. Biomega and Puma made a bike with a structural wire that could be used to lock the bike; cutting the wire made the bike unrideable. There's the n'lock, which lets you turn MTB style handlebars sideways for hallwa
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by bazzargh 14y ago
I would disagree that that's the easiest way. C-x C-f /ssh:user@host:/path/to/httpd.conf ... and I have it open in my local emacs, with my own settings, with colour and indenting, and no lag when I'm editing. (this is called tramp mode) And
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by bazzargh 14y ago
I thought that as well. I can't imagine anyone who reads athletics/cycling reports wouldn't have recognized those for what they were. He's not far wrong in the article, to be fair - just in suggesting that the artist invented the technique.
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Slit scan photography has been used artistically before: http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/25/belden-adams.php (the picture of the runner and the cyclist is nicely mindbending) And pretty much everyone here would be familiar with a co
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by bazzargh 14y ago
For any Winsor McCay fans out there who don't know - good quality scans of Little Nemo 1905-1914 are on the Internet Archive. http://archive.org/details/LittleNemo1905-1914ByWinsorMccay (Little Nemo ran on to 1927, but later strips are st
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Endorphins? Where's the link to the science? http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-297--1102-... quote: "I believe this endorphin in runners is a total fantasy in the pop culture," said psychobiologist Huda Akil, Ph.D.,
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by bazzargh 14y ago
So why not a vacuum? Vacuumed KERS systems rotate an order of magnitude faster. I get that a KERS system can afford heavier casing than a HD but still, if your cases can hold helium you ought to be able to hold a reasonable vacuum too.
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Wow, that's a terrible explanation. Try drawing a picture instead. The factorization simply answers the question of where the graph touches the x-axis.
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by bazzargh 14y ago
I'm a gimp user. My mum (who has a mac, but isnt a confident computer user) asked for 'photoshop' for christmas after seeing what I'd done fixing up family photos. I knew if I just gave her Gimp (or Photoshop for that matter) she'd just get
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by bazzargh 14y ago
The article says it would be better with a timed text feed. I'm pretty sure this used to exist - you can see that production of subtitles at the beeb uses timed text for the Embedded Media Player (here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futu
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Surprised at this, you can already share your location fairly easily via a text message on the iphone. Go to maps, press the arrow for current location, click the right arrow and you'll see the 'Share' button. One of the options is 'message
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by bazzargh 14y ago
He was a regular poster on comp.lang.lisp, and one of the contributors there described him thusly: "Ken Tilton is an aquired taste - if you can ignore his inflammatory remarks his advice is usually good. When I first saw some (most!) of hi
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by bazzargh 14y ago
If you read the paper, you'll see that the detail is a little different from the headline claim. In section 6.3 they go through comparing C++ at various levels of optimization to equivalent Halide code, and eventually reach C++ code that is
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Me too, and I'm seeing a whole lot of other people with the same bug on twitter. Apparently AppleCare are saying codes will be reissued, so report the problem: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/25/apple-reissuing-os-x-mou... edited to add:
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by bazzargh 14y ago
That ngrep tool is pretty nifty. Has anyone done something like that with dtrace? (I know about tcpsnoop - something at a higher level)
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by bazzargh 14y ago
You're still doing it wrong. Look at the last line of my code snippet. The code you've used will encode to hex bytes in UTF-8, but then you turn that into a string with the platform default character set, which may not be compatible (eg: an
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by bazzargh 14y ago
It would help to test your code before posting it. You haven't imported javax.crypto.Mac, so it won't compile. Also, your conversion from strings to bytes and back is just wrong - this will not work as expected when run on machines with a d
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Not quite. Taft Hartley prevents labour organizations from pressuring workers into boycotts. I don't think its applicable. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1069361?uid=3738032&#3... The suggested strategy doesn't seem all that differ
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by bazzargh 14y ago
That slow multisort doesn't do multisort at all, generally. If it did, it would be relying on (1) the sort algorithm being stable and (2) the properties being in the reverse order from what you used in the second multisort algorithm. Eg
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by bazzargh 14y ago
There's the problem of regular expressions not dealing with matching parentheses, for one. That makes a lot of questions about code hard to express in a regexp, even something as simple as 'find foo(anything) + bar(anything)' is busted. Fal
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by bazzargh 14y ago
I don't like the idea that it needs to watch us do this first.
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Yeah, I'm aware I can do that, but it gets a bit painful for code that is stateful & executes on load (like IIFE does). You end up having to write a separate test script to run in a separate process for each test case...way slower than

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