benrbray

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by benrbray 8y ago
By your reasoning you're not expecting people to use the same software for more than ~4 years. I bought Adobe Master Collection CS4 (student edition, for $1000) way back in 2008 and have been using it for the past ten years. It runs e
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by benrbray 8y ago
See also Pomax's "A Primer on Bezier Curves": https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
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by benrbray 8y ago
Shouldn't your same argument apply to the "under 18 crowd"? Why is it a "nanny state" to force adults to wear helmets but not children and teenagers? Alternatively, shouldn't grown adults be able to make thei
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by benrbray 8y ago
I never really understood fingerprint scanners on phones. Is it really more useful to you than e.g. a headphone jack?
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by benrbray 8y ago
Realistically though, they really did have no choice but to take out expensive loans for the best school they could get into. Long term, choosing to go to e.g. a cheaper community college or not attending college at all costs much more tha
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by benrbray 8y ago
Would you feel the same way about an article lamenting "black male culture"?
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by benrbray 8y ago
Starting a family before the age of 25 is an example of GOOD decision-making??
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by benrbray 8y ago
I once tried to take the Taylor series idea further and define the "cosine" of a type as the Taylor expansion of cos(x), but didn't get anywhere with it. Can you do anything else weird with ADTs?
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by benrbray 8y ago
I think you might have it backwards. Permanent DST would result in more light in the evenings. (Unless there's a difference between EU and US daylight savings that I am misunderstanding). As it is now, in November we will subtract on
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by benrbray 8y ago
Well said. News articles/editorials/blogs are especially bloated these days. It often not worth spending the mental effort when not a lot of mental effort was put into the writing.
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by benrbray 8y ago
For what it's worth, I love the fact that Jupyter is browser-based. > It's the entire reason it's so easy to format text / math in a Jupyter notebook. There's Markdown + MathJax for basic interactive formatt
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by benrbray 8y ago
I would argue that mod is more intuitive. I imagine the integers being partitioned into contiguous bins of size b, and computing a % b means counting which index in the bin it is. This can be done visually too!
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by benrbray 8y ago
What are the loopy things? What do the starbursts correspond to??
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by benrbray 8y ago
He updates them every so often too! I hadn't seen them in a few years and I was impressed by all the new visualizations when I checked recently!
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by benrbray 8y ago
These are relatively new features, and they arguably wouldn't have been added if not for the popularity of flux ;)
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by benrbray 8y ago
What is your favorite?
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by benrbray 8y ago
Yeah, this space feels pretty saturated already, and people seem to use the same topics / presentation / ordering over and over. What a ton of duplicate effort! It'd be nice to see a course try to put its own spin on "m
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by benrbray 8y ago
Looks interesting. Is it worth reading in English with the heavy censorship? From what I can tell English readers aren't left with a real conclusion to the story.
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by benrbray 8y ago
Food spoils and we can't predict how long a war will last.
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by benrbray 8y ago
I would call it a smoothie, not a shake. To me a shake is a smoothie with ice cream in it.
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by benrbray 8y ago
I think this is too black and white of a perspective. First off, plenty of people buy cars they can't afford out of necessity. Or, rather, they NEED a car for work and buy a cheap used car that inevitably needs repairs and sucks up mo
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by benrbray 8y ago
I left Skype for Hangouts as soon as they started putting autoplaying ads with audio in my calls. You have to be completely disconnected from the needs of your users to even consider doing such a thing.
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by benrbray 9y ago
I'm not in need of a job at the moment but I just wanted to say that Plex was a primary sponsor for my high school FIRST robotics team! Indirectly your company influenced my life in a big way, so thank you :)
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by benrbray 9y ago
Neat! By clicking on some links I found the blog of who looks like primary developer of Impact, Dominic Szablewski. http://phoboslab.org/log It's nice to see a blog with articles from ~10 years ago that aren't br
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by benrbray 9y ago
I grew up in Michigan and attended UM. I can say anecdotally that very, very few people I knew (mostly from math + engineering) stayed in Michigan after graduating. On the other hand, many people I knew who graduated from Michigan State e
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by benrbray 9y ago
I think that's a very uncommon use case and I can't think of a time I've ever wanted to do that. I've sorted by "has-attachment" but why would you need to sort by size?
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by benrbray 9y ago
I had the fascinating experience of sitting in on a high school English class during my time in Beijing. One of the common assignments was to practice speaking by calling American phone numbers that students in the intro programming classe
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by benrbray 9y ago
Machine learning models are pretty good at reasoning with (or can be made to reason with) conditional probability, which I think can solve this problem. For example, people from X race might be more likely to commit crimes in the absence of
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by benrbray 9y ago
What's wrong with it?
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by benrbray 9y ago
> When plugging headphones stops being a complicated and finicky process Apple solved that problem by not even letting you plug in headphones!

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