ben11kehoe

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by ben11kehoe 4y ago
An article that sums it up well for me is "Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk" in Current Affairs (2021) https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/04/surely-we-can-do-bett...
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by ben11kehoe 5y ago
They keep the train centered by the differential effect. The angle of the cone is very slight, nowhere near enough for gravity to overcome friction to cause the train to slip laterally into the center. And then keeping the train centered
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by ben11kehoe 5y ago
I think this may be the primary reason why narrow-gauge railways are better at tighter curves: the shorter axle means the same wheel radius difference (caused by lateral displacement) causes a smaller turn radius versus a standard-gauge axl
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by ben11kehoe 6y ago
Agreed about arg parsing. One day I decided to figure out how to get Python arg parsing in a bash script. The horrifying result: https://gist.github.com/benkehoe/c469ebb76ad80d45405077e1093...
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by ben11kehoe 7y ago
I don't think it requires sign-in for content that's not behind the paywall. I think it occasionally prompts the user to sign up or sign in, but you can click outside the box to move past it. It's hostile that they don't
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by ben11kehoe 7y ago
I think people don't realize that Medium doesn't require articles to be behind the paywall. There are two ways an article gets paywalled: 1. You opt-in to getting paid for views. 2. If you put your article up for curation AND it g
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by ben11kehoe 7y ago
> ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE Sounds about right.
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by ben11kehoe 8y ago
It's even worse when comparing Google's attitude with, for example, Microsoft releasing a dedicated, extensible accessible controller for Xbox https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessibility
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by ben11kehoe 9y ago
Also featured recently on the New Hampshire Public Radio podcast Ouside/In http://outsideinradio.org/shows/coydogs
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by ben11kehoe 9y ago
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by ben11kehoe 9y ago
Mathematica has the cool ability to do symbolic tracking of numerical precision, for the ability to tell you when, for example, your differential equation solver is giving you meaningless results.
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by ben11kehoe 9y ago
It gets better: https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/123010716162/thesparkofrev... > But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in
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by ben11kehoe 9y ago
It's also more or less equivalent to the Dymaxion map but stretches instead of disconnecting, which is a bit misleading, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
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by ben11kehoe 10y ago
iRobot | Cloud Robotics Software Engineer | Boston area As a pioneer in the robot industry, iRobot's goal is to drive innovation, serve as an industry catalyst and change the world by fueling the era of robots. iRobot is at the bleedin
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by ben11kehoe 10y ago
Yes, all programmers are the same; none of them have different needs or desires.
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by ben11kehoe 10y ago
We are finding that unit testing is pretty straightforward with Placebo [0] (also Mitch Garnaat!), for which we use a common "boto client getter" library that the unit test framework can hook into to inject Placebo. The really har
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by ben11kehoe 10y ago
iRobot | Boston area | on-site | full-time As a pioneer in the robot industry, iRobot's goal is to drive innovation, serve as an industry catalyst and change the world by fueling the era of robots. We are building out our cloud robotic
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by ben11kehoe 11y ago
It's hard to take someone seriously when they ascribe floating point rounding error to a language defect.
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by ben11kehoe 11y ago
This still seems more limited than the Mathematica syntax, which includes postfix operators, for example. I also appreciate that parentheses are used only for grouping, not for function calling and such. I'm not saying this couldn&#x27
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by ben11kehoe 11y ago
And with good cause, I think. Mathematica syntax (both the verbose form and with the various syntactical sugar) is immensely more readable to the average person than Lisp. Of course, this could have been done on top of Lisp anyways (and wou
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by ben11kehoe 11y ago
PowerShell gives a good alternative: the things passed between the programs should be objects. It requires, of course, that everything is communicating with a common runtime, but for a shell that is not the biggest burden.
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by ben11kehoe 11y ago
Trillian still works with Facebook chat: http://www.trillian.im/ They wrote a little eulogy when imo dropped 3rd-party chat support, I'm sure they'd be happy to see Pidgin add FB support! http://blog.tr