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by bfe 13y ago
That goto is considered harmful.
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by bfe 13y ago
Karno's first book changed my life. After reading the first couple chapters, I had to put it down to go outside and go running that minute. I was soon doing marathons and ultramarathons, and I am still setting new personal records. To
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by bfe 13y ago
"...when he's never been one of the top 10." Not correct. He has won the Badwater 135 Mile and the Vermont 100 Mile ultras, and has come in fourth place in the Western States 100 Mile (iirc). Jurek has a more impressive recor
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by bfe 13y ago
"Nobody knows what they're capable of until they try it. Maybe half a percent of people have the brains and sheer determination to do this kind of thing. Start-ups are hard but doable, in the way that running a five-minute mile is
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by bfe 13y ago
Weisberg and Taylor showed, with 30 years of data, that the orbital decay of the binary pulsar PSR 1913+16 agrees with the gravitational radiation prediction of general relativity to within 0.2%: http://arxiv.org/abs/as
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by bfe 13y ago
"Most of its components come from the auto industry" is incorrect. Tesla makes most of its components from scratch.
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by bfe 13y ago
The SRBs don't just impose higher operational complexity, but also far higher acoustic load that requires much higher structural strength and therefore weight on everything else.
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by bfe 14y ago
Awesome, just got back, found it working, and signed up. Thanks again garry.
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by bfe 14y ago
Thanks. Getting an SSL connection error there, and it's actually sunny in Portland right now so I need to get outside for a run, I'll check back after.
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by bfe 14y ago
Thanks very much for making this available, garry, I appreciate it. (FYI I'm still getting the 503 for now but I'll keep checking in.)
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by bfe 14y ago
I'd suspected as much based on the decline in performance and the vanishing of the previously wonderful customer support.
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by bfe 14y ago
Wow, they've changed that a lot from when I first looked into it, which predates the oldest form I could find now in the Wayback Machine.[1] The brochure used to not mention LASIK either way. I was told about the LASIK ban by Bob Cabana. It
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by bfe 14y ago
I use Google's "My Tracks" app every day to record my running, with a GPS tracked path imposed on a Google map, and it easily shows tiny shifts in position such as which side of the street I ran on or whether I ran on or slightly off of a d
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by bfe 14y ago
For those considering it, just keep in mind that getting LASIK will prevent you from getting accepted as a NASA astronaut (due to the risk of explosive decompression of your corneas in the event of a sudden loss of pressure in a space vesse
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by bfe 14y ago
I don't think it's a problem retaining great journalists. The job market for journalists is outrageously tight, and working for the New York Times is still considered prestigious and just about the top of the profession, and they have some
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by bfe 14y ago
This is really damning. I became way more suspicious when Mr. Broder started trying to weasel in lots of C.Y.A. wiggle room once Elon called his bluff: "Mr. Musk’s logs may show I hit 75 m.p.h. for a mile or two during my trip, although it
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by bfe 14y ago
I get that feeling every time I read about North Korea. At the very least, the ongoing tragedy there thrives in the absence of attention. Imagine how much outcry and public pressure for action there would be if there were video footage of t
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by bfe 14y ago
I have to agree with you and disagree with the author, strictly in terms of artistic merit, Hitler's paintings are better than President Bush's... I'm just trying to figure out if there's some meta-violation of Godwin's Law going on here.
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by bfe 14y ago
Conventional wisdom is that China prefers to maintain the status quo in North Korea as a buffer against American power. Xi Jinping hasn't really signaled yet whether he will change direction on that. Yesterday the White House specifically r
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Hourly finder charts for asteroid 2012 DA14 this Friday(cloudynights.com)
1 points by bfe 14y ago|0 comments
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by bfe 14y ago
This link is to the (non-paywall) original peer-reviewed article, which isn't cited in any of the pop-sci blurbs I've seen on this.
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Valve-Based 3-D Printer for Human Embryonic Stem Cells(iopscience.iop.org)
2 points by bfe 14y ago|1 comments
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by bfe 14y ago
It's been that way for a long time.
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by bfe 14y ago
It's great how he walks through the mental process of iterating his code, with examples at each step, and how it demonstrates the power of the language.
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by bfe 14y ago
RZA must have cut the line about how being cache oblivious becomes asymptotically equivalent to being cache aware.
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by bfe 14y ago
It's more important to understand that there's not one monolithic "Chinese perspective" at any level.
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by bfe 14y ago
The article says Zack was 16 in 2008 and is 19 in 2013. Has Zack been impressing the importance of scientific literacy by promoting it from a relativistic spaceship? Or should he also start promoting numeracy to journalists?
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by bfe 14y ago
As cool as this is, the original humans probably did most of this route by boat along the coast. They had to have done the hop to Australia by boat circa 45,000 years ago; they probably crossed the Red Sea by boat; and why else would the di
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by bfe 14y ago
Maybe the Universe somehow has a natural form of this effect in the intergalactic medium (or in spacetime) that causes negative pressure and is the mechanism of dark energy? "Negative temperatures imply negative pressures and open up new pa
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by bfe 14y ago
PSA: the published form of the article at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6115/52 includes revisions from the arxiv.org draft copy.

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