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by bjwbell 11y ago
You won't get very far in spring. The PCT in Washington goes through the north cascades, which has one of the deepest snowpacks in north america.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
You just admitted to lying to law enforcement which is most likely a crime in your jurisdiction. Just to reiterate, yes the police are not on your side. My dad had his arm broken by police purely for not obeying a voluntary evacuation order
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Thanks, search engine link (non-paywall) https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=In+Battle+Against+Alzhe...
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Non paywall link?
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by bjwbell 11y ago
10 times $100 I assume. I'm in my 20's and pay my health insurance myself, it's ~$250 per month for a high deductible plan.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
My favorite curves, geodesics, aren't included in this revision of the notes (he says it'll be added to future revisions). But you can download his paper on them at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~keenan/Projects&
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by bjwbell 11y ago
The article mentions Volcanic Winter. The most famous one is the year without summer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer , due to the Mt Tambora eruption in the dutch east indies.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
It didn't work. See Rich Geldreich's blog, http://richg42.blogspot.com/ . People still try and optimize for looking good vs their coworkers on other teams vs simply doing the best work possible. Examples, http:&#x
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Any large corporation is filled with busy work (~80%), which you can get out of. It's up to the employee to find their way to that 20% that's real work. If wanted it's definitely possible to find that 20% and be /truly&#
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by bjwbell 11y ago
None. From what I know & I used to write graphics drivers, AMD's closed source driver is horrible. An absolute mess, http://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-truth-on-opengl-driv... Their open source drive
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by bjwbell 12y ago
I'm guessing it's more like it died after a short period of time. If you look at the history of head transplants (yes a gruesome area), they ALL end badly for the subject.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Funding & staff are not there! Key quote "The cost... is estimated at over $10 million, ... the doctor has failed to secure funding for the surgery itself and for the staff of 150 doctors and nurses"
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Firefox added Python support in the past and there was no uptake. Brendan Eich has a hnews comment on it. I think 2x-3x perf improvement /is/ possible. I mean we have the example of javascript that went from terrible perf to almos
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by bjwbell 12y ago
I felt the same. It had the surface qualities of a series about nerdy/geeky computers in the 80s. But missed the essence. I identify much more with Mike Judge's work in Office Space & his Silicon Valley tv series.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
It's not six endangered fish species, it's six actual fish... of a species where the vast majority are in the Sacramento not the Stanislaus.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Started off good and then lost me when he talked about using them for stepping stones to the stars. I'm confused about that. A rogue planet in itself makes a terrible colony. And by stopping at one you about double(!) the energy/t
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by bjwbell 12y ago
There is too much radiation... for life as we know it on those planets.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Yep, I can see it now. Overhearing conversation about getting high and food and saying "Do you want the 2-day or 1-day premium shipping for your marijuana + cheetos order?" ;-)
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Great comment! I've been reading occasional articles about latin america's imminent rise for about a decade. Still hasn't happened. I think the reporters are either completely innumerate or pushing an agenda. And heck if it&
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by bjwbell 12y ago
I've never worked on a team that did /daily/ standups & I plan on never doing so. Heck I missed half the meetings we had on my previous job and we only had maybe three a week. Was I a jerk? Yes. But I also got 3x more don
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Thats why I qualified by saying "areas" of webdev.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Peanuts are a new world plant which is probably why it's a more common food allergy. It'd be interesting if people of indigenous decent from south america are less likely to have peanut allergies.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Too bad he didn't talk about GPGPU killing MPI too or not. I don't know enough to say. I'm not familiar with the HPC space but I thought a lot of new work, at least in machine learning, was migrating to GPGPU instead of tradi
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Lower level areas - graphics, drivers. I'm a contributor to Servo, which is new tech but if successful will be around for at least a decade.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
This is why I got out of areas of webdev etc that don't value deeper knowledge. I can't say how much more satisfying it is to be learning stuff that is useful for 10 years instead of the webdev framework of the day/month&#x2F
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Yitang Zhang brings up the deep question of why does someone like him suffer in the world today. He is not showey at all but quiet and unassuming. In particular he is not un-confident but he's not showey in his confidence. I suppose we
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Arc was recently nominated for deletion too, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio... . It was merged into pg's page, which still doesn't seem like the best result.
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Looking at the number of outside contributors shows a bright future for Servo even if Mozilla doesn't fund it beyond research. It is much much more friendly to newbies than trying to contribute to gecko or webkit/blink. And webkit
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by bjwbell 12y ago
http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1603 , version of the paper not behind a paywall. The phys.org summary is light on mathematical details. The actual paper is very readable & if you have a math or physics background more un
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by bjwbell 12y ago
Sometimes I wonder if the usefulness of calculus is overstated compared to other areas of math. Linear algebra & discrete math pop up a lot more than integrals in CS. I loved my real & complex analysis courses but my courses on line

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