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by bladedtoys 2y ago
For example https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man...
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by bladedtoys 5y ago
For the curious, one extremely useful tool used for things like this is “inverse kinematics”[0] In this case you need the wrist, elbow, shoulder, hip, etc joints to bend such that the hand exactly reaches the door knob and stays on the knob
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by bladedtoys 5y ago
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60
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by bladedtoys 6y ago
If I can take a shot at this, there are broadly two: the quantum mechanic explanation and the relativity explanation. But we seem to only be talking about relativity. Relativity explains a couple of counter intuitive things that we actually
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by bladedtoys 6y ago
Molecules are much lower density than black-holes. If an object were infinitely small, it would never be hit by physical collisions. If it were infinitely massive it would never be affected by them. I would have thought that any model of a
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by bladedtoys 7y ago
The most common hundred words is challenging. But maybe not the most common hundred concepts . "Turn out" is ambiguous but the notions of "expulsion" or "away" or "count" and "people" may
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by bladedtoys 7y ago
> Teleautomation [controlled by] Hertz'ian radiations [0] Unusual language describing how we actually do remote control today. With a picture of an example boat no less! [0] Hertz'ian radiations undoubtedly refers to EM
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by bladedtoys 7y ago
You can construct a cool game out of non-transitive dice that does this on the very first move but in a completely counter-intuitive way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice
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by bladedtoys 7y ago
Unless the second is defined on a Hubble flow co-moving observer, it's ill-defined enough to be ambiguous by at least 2 years out of 4 billion.
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by bladedtoys 7y ago
Maybe tangential but I notice that faith in machines seems to create consensus out of ambiguity (whether appropriate or not). For example, in Tennis, replay shown by the Hawkeye system is not video but reduced to a computer animation. The a
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by bladedtoys 7y ago
The closest analogy would be the Flash IDE. Art (3D, 2D, images) is made outside. So is any coding. It integrates nicely with visual studio and Blender (and Maya and Photoshop and the like) so the process is fairly seamless. For example, de
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by bladedtoys 7y ago
Slightly off topic but I understand as the Apollo 11 LEM descended, there were several "computer overload errors". Is this out of memory or skipped input or dropped processing requests or too much power drain? What exactly is an &
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by bladedtoys 7y ago
Even between closely related cultures using the same language, there are color differences. Even though both the British and Americans have the words "pink", "magenta" and "purple", the British use the word &qu
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by bladedtoys 7y ago
I’d actually like to see a minimum set of _concepts_ necessary to communicate among humans then choose the language that best uses them. Such a list would be great to have for many reasons actually.
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by bladedtoys 7y ago
This sounds like great fun, especially having a nice front end. I built something similar on google app engine way back when it was new and cheap. It was browser based so more text than cool graphics. And I didn't get to play with shad
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by bladedtoys 7y ago
I think the question comes from the following understanding: - change requires the passage of time. - particles moving at the speed of light relative to us have infinite time dilation and so no time passes from our point of view. - the arti
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by bladedtoys 7y ago
>..to be instantaneous... By which frame of reference? I never understood the language around "instantaneous". Isn't simultaneity relative? So that where one frame of reference says two events are simultaneous, there or ot
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by bladedtoys 7y ago
Fascinating summary. But I would suggest that the current rationalist claim is "reason and empiricism tell us the most reasonable thing to believe at a given moment" and is almost a-priori true. This is not to claim it is the fina
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by bladedtoys 8y ago
But NASA cares about delta v most. Although that would make Mars closer. So perhaps closest approach is thought to be what laymen mean by closest.
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by bladedtoys 8y ago
Like others have said, balancing play-ability is hard. Another problem is users may perceive the AI cheats which hurts fun. But I'd say another hard thing is that every game needs a different approach to AI. Some need path finding, whi
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by bladedtoys 8y ago
Just to confirm: does Unreal have any similar clause? Do they look like they might go that way too? (e.g. do they have "authorized" cloud partners)
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by bladedtoys 8y ago
No but light only travels .03mm per frame which isn't bad.
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by bladedtoys 8y ago
Wouldn't we expect to see a great many black holes interacting with regular matter and so emitting a great deal of radiation?
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by bladedtoys 9y ago
My understanding was that the bullets that were successful against WWI Zeppelin raids were the incendiary Buckingham round not the explosive rounds. Explosive rounds refused to detonate on the canvas hull. And if you manged to hit an intern
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by bladedtoys 10y ago
Fun article but, has figure II been lost to history? If so then an better scanned version of the pdf should be the first thing we buy from a distant civilization.
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by bladedtoys 10y ago
A light introductory college text on "Symbolic Logic" with exercises and answers if possible. The way of thinking that such a text gives is nearly identical to the thinking needed for coding. Just one example: We coders sometimes
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by bladedtoys 10y ago
Would it be possible to software process images taken by large numbers of amateurs of the same point in the sky to get even better results even cheaper?
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by bladedtoys 10y ago
> There's also nothing that could distinguish it from a satellite passing through the telescope field of view There is no tool that automatically rules this in or out as a possibility? I would have thought it would be nearly trivial
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by bladedtoys 10y ago
longest currently existing aircraft maybe. 20th century zeppelins regularly reached nearly triple that length.
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by bladedtoys 10y ago
Eratosthenes did not know the sun-earth distance and tentatively assumed it was infinite for that measurement. But then his successor Aristarchus under took to measure the sun-earth distance as follows: He looked at the angle the earth and

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