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by bloaf 11y ago
Not quite. I think you could read it that way, but I suspect Chesterton had a bit more of a principled idea in mind: It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign
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by bloaf 11y ago
I was actually surprised the article didn't mention the Ghost in the Shell series. A big part of that universe was the idea that even without concerted manipulation, the simple fact that the information consumed by the public is too
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by bloaf 11y ago
Is it at all like Opera Turbo? http://www.addictivetips.com/internet-tips/what-is-opera-tur...
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by bloaf 11y ago
I'm curious if a municipality could threaten to eminent domain-ify themselves the utility poles.
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by bloaf 11y ago
I think the trick is to pick the right goals for the chain method. Something like "walk 10 miles every day" is too constraining of a goal, because realistically there are going to be days where that is impossible (e.g. when you&#
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by bloaf 11y ago
Its not clear from the article what they're doing for internet access going forward. It sounds like the may actually be increasing the bandwidth, since they no longer have to deliver TV channels on the same line as the internet. What
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by bloaf 11y ago
And they graduate from "a bit hard" to "downright painful" if you want to do it in windows. The consequences of doing it wrong can be severe[1]. [1] https://github.com/atom-haskell/ide-haskell/
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by bloaf 11y ago
I think the big application of visual programming is in domains where the concrete "unit operations" map neatly to programming functions. For example, things like this: https://www.aspentech.com/uploadedImages&#x2
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by bloaf 11y ago
There is a reason the Catholic Church uses Latin for important documents. The fact that Latin is a dead language means that the meaning of those documents won't change over time.
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by bloaf 11y ago
Sure, lets look at the specific criticisms here: 1. They rip hard drives from external enclosures. 2. They have too much vibration in their pods. 3. They don't correct for temperature. 4. They worked the drives too hard. The whole arti
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by bloaf 11y ago
This is precisely the core difference I was talking about. If you want someone to learn about the details of their differential equation solving, then you could probably construct an argument for Sage. But that is not always the education
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by bloaf 11y ago
So does Mathematica: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/Differential...
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by bloaf 11y ago
Tools for solving differential equations in SageMath: http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/calculus/sage/calc... Differential equation solving in Mathematica: https://reference.w
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by bloaf 11y ago
The problem isn't completely solved, though. https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/401h2o/hosts_fil... In windows 10, the DNS Client does something that is O(n^2)
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by bloaf 11y ago
Just gonna plug hostsman, which has been doing this on windows since forever: http://www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman Lets you chose which lists to use, and automatically update those lists. Also makes it easy to temporarily
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by bloaf 11y ago
Except what I find tends to happen is: 1. You google the problem and find results from stack overflow and some out-of-date blog posts from 4 years ago. 2. You choose stack overflow! 3. The stack overflow question most related to the one you
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by bloaf 11y ago
All that and reviewers who have made a name for themselves in a small-ish field can view new entrants into that field are competitors rather than collaborators.
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by bloaf 11y ago
>Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw In Amer
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by bloaf 11y ago
You mean like the dorms foxconn provides?
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by bloaf 11y ago
Hence the after I deliberately emphasized. If they had already visited the house and not found their phone (especially if the police were there) then subsequent claims of theft against the couple would be much closer to libel.
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by bloaf 11y ago
I wonder if the couple could make a profit on this mishap by suing anyone who accuses them of stealing phones (i.e. on social media) after visiting their house.
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by bloaf 11y ago
Just as a historical note, teevox actually predates multitwitch. It used to be called WarpPrism, and was intended for streaming SC2 events. It fell out of favor circa 2 years ago, after some big changes at twitch broke a bunch of its feat
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by bloaf 11y ago
Certain kinds of events and tournaments (e.g. dreamhack) will divide their games across multiple streams. If you wanted to keep tabs on all the games, this is one way to do that.
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by bloaf 11y ago
I would add some nuance, to make the list look more like: 1A) Ability to create new mathematical ways of talking about your systems. This means things like inventing new notations, conventions, or combinations of mathematical methods fro
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by bloaf 11y ago
The benchmarks on http://julialang.org/ have a few more.
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by bloaf 11y ago
http://12000.org/my_notes/rankTest/test.htm Mathematica can get performance on par with Matlab. I think the real problem is that Mathematica's performance can feel inconsistent to beginners (i.e. some things
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by bloaf 11y ago
If I had to guess, its because Matlab looks a lot more like "traditional" programming and so is more approachable to engineers & scientists with a C/Fortran/Basic background. I also think marketing plays a part. Mat
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by bloaf 11y ago
That reminds me of the old G.K. Chesterton quote, which was originally about religion. Provable correctness "...has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."
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by bloaf 11y ago
Yes, but the set of things people expect to do with the Oculus is likely larger than the set of things in the Oculus platform store.
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by bloaf 11y ago
I think the only thing that could really torpedo the VR industry is if the Oculus experience isn't pleasant for the early adopters. If their system requirements are accurate, and they have built a decent piece of hardware, then I do

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