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by blahedo 14y ago
> Actual radians (ie not expressed as fractions of 2π) I think this is the source of your problem: you view an expression like "τ/8" or "π/4" as less an "actual" radian measure than the inexact ".785". That's a function of how a lot of
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by blahedo 14y ago
Nifty! I wasn't trolling for recognition so much as being puzzled why this was billed as a new epiphany---that makes sense though. I love the idea of recasting the presentation from "list of complex formulae for area and volume" to "seq
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by blahedo 14y ago
No, the tau manifesto agrees: radius is the more fundamental concept. That's why tau is better! Pi is an expression relating the diameter to the circumference, which as you point out is a little counterintuitive.
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by blahedo 14y ago
Huh. Section 5.1 (one of the new ones) is presented as this new epiphany about hyperspheres and tau, but I made a post back in 2010 about this ( http://www.blahedo.org/blog/archives/001083.html ), emailed Hartl at the time, and he said h
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by blahedo 14y ago
The reason for the "slow" apology (which I have now been on both sides of) is that when you're running a faculty search, you don't want to close the applicant pool until your chosen candidate has accepted the offer, signed the contract, pic
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by blahedo 14y ago
Interesting for its sociopolitical primary application, but this paragraph from the discussion section shows its general relevance to a lot of strong-AI tasks: It applies whenever a ‘‘bell-ringer’’ event must be found by sampling with rep
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by blahedo 14y ago
Sorry, didn't realise the fee was only $99; you're right, that's more of a nuisance fee than anything else. I'm still concerned that MS is manning the tollbooth, though, for roughly the reasons you state. :)
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by blahedo 14y ago
Thanks; I was especially thrown because I tried "home", which was the first example in the example image (!) but it didn't work and I thought I'd misunderstood what was going on. I guess I should have blindly tried others from that list, h
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by blahedo 14y ago
Agreed. Microsoft has used their dominant position to strongarm the hardware companies into putting up a tollgate, which forces all of Microsoft's competitors to pay Microsoft if they want to keep competing. Right?
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by blahedo 14y ago
Given that xmodmap has been around since the 80s, probably not.
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by blahedo 14y ago
It's pretty unlikely to be a median; if 20% of machines are 30 minutes off and 24 minutes is a median, then 30% of machines are between 24-30 minutes off, which would seem to be a strangely narrow band. More likely, the 24 minutes is a mean
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by blahedo 14y ago
...just like we've built a poor-man's everything else in the browser. I cringe every time I visit a website with YA (broken) reinvention of YA GUI widget that has been polished and clean on desktop GUIs for two decades. (I cringe a lot.)
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by blahedo 14y ago
The real problem here is that the LTS cycle is synched with the six-month release cycle; so the LTS is simultaneously a "new" six-month release. It might make sense to say that the Even.04 releases are the "LTS beta" or maybe even the "LTS
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by blahedo 14y ago
The posted article mentions that the base technology is not new, that the problem with the existing variants was infections, and that the reported device is a refinement on this decades-old technology.
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by blahedo 14y ago
What an incredibly poorly reasoned post. First of all, the complaint has nothing whatsoever to do with the metric vs non-metric issue---we could as easily report gallons per hundred miles if it mattered that much. More importantly, thoug
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by blahedo 14y ago
The article was July 2002, the events narrated were mid-90s.
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by blahedo 14y ago
A good story, and the best closing line ever: "Mommy, I'm not that weird."
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by blahedo 14y ago
I figured that's why he held on to >50.1%, so he could sell some and still maintain control.
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by blahedo 14y ago
The problem is one of digital vs analogue, and ballistic vs servo. On a keyboard, you either press or do not press a key, and assuming that your finger is aimed somewhere in the right box, you need no visual feedback to see where it is and
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by blahedo 14y ago
> It's not discussed, but I would be interested to see if this means they will be acquiring more data than usual. i.e. does this mean every phone will be analysed, or will they only do it for phones they could (in the past) justify sen
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by blahedo 14y ago
Even worse, you mean. It breaks the standard navigational tools, so after I had hit pagedown several times, I pressed a right-arrow once to shift the page slightly and it skipped me all the way back to the top. It happened again later whe
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by blahedo 14y ago
I was glad to see this paragraph included in the article: > By the time they take the eighth-grade tests in the spring of the year, they already know which high school they will be attending, and their scores on the test have no conseq
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by blahedo 14y ago
I typed in my zip code and got "Can't find shit there. Try somewhere else." Thanks, wtfsie!
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by blahedo 14y ago
See also the keyboard used to develop the original vi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg
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by blahedo 14y ago
The keys I remap are the non-letter keys (Caps, Control, Esc, Backquote, Backslash, Backspace) with all different key shapes, so I just have to go with muscle memory. (Of course, I'm remapping them because I have the muscle memory, so it
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by blahedo 14y ago
The best way to teach someone to be a security expert is to teach them to crack a system; he is doing an analogous thing, I think. Where this project goes astray (and I agree that it does) is that his academic and professional community don
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by blahedo 14y ago
Thanks for posting this---this is a much better rundown of the full background for those of us who haven't been following very closely.
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by blahedo 14y ago
A lot of the OP's comments about online education should be read critically by a lot of the teachers and professors out there who are currently experimenting with a "flipped classroom". Short version: in a flipped classroom, you do the fixe
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by blahedo 14y ago
Ugh, yeah, I'm not really happy with the sysadmin class either, for all sorts of reasons I'd rather not go into here (although if you're curious you can take it to email). I think I agree completely with this last sentence: > If you ha
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by blahedo 14y ago
Did you really read my post and see its central theme as being about "fun"? No, of course it's about learning; but if you go into it determined to make it un-fun, and succeed in doing so, you can't turn around and complain about how drea

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