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by bmer 8y ago
How about his neighbours come meet him, and make friends with him?
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by bmer 8y ago
Can you ELI5 this?
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by bmer 8y ago
What sort of capabilities does sh-lang provide that Python cannot? Does sh-lang have some sort of privileged access to the OS not available to Python?
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by bmer 8y ago
Obfuscation minimizes time to discovery? Indirection is a possible technique for obfuscation?
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by bmer 8y ago
Hi Doreen, As someone who has careened on the edge of homelessness, due to mental illness, but thankfully not yet fallen into it straight out: thank you for your replies and posts in this thread :) Kind regards.
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by bmer 8y ago
Think of dimensions as the number of pieces of information required to uniquely identify the position of an object. In 1D, you only need one number. In 2D, two. In 3D, three. But in all these scenarios, the point in question is "static
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by bmer 8y ago
> Relies on calorie-counting, which is wildly inaccurate. Some sources on this? (not that I doubt you, it's just that you probably have better references than a quick search might bring up) Also, if it's inaccurate, what's
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by bmer 8y ago
Wait a minute. For real?! Real-time ray-tracing? As in, ray-tracing that could be used in a video game?!
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by bmer 8y ago
How old is the universe?
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by bmer 8y ago
/r/low_poly is beautiful! Thank you for that. Why is Silo ( http://nevercenter.com/silo/ --- is that the right URL?) particularly well suited for low-poly art?
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by bmer 8y ago
I'm out of the loop. What's the story here? Why are devs sad about Atlassian and Jira?
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An Exploration of How Simulated Gambling Games May Promote Gambling with Money(link.springer.com)
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by bmer 8y ago
> About C++ vs. Rust; Fear not. Modern C++ can basically 'anotate lifetime' in methods contracts by using smart pointers and move when you need. I prefer the C++ approach, have no problems with leaking, lifetime or whatsoever a
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by bmer 8y ago
How "easy" is it to grow poisonous mushrooms in one's coffee waste? What sort of care do enthusiasts have to take?
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by bmer 8y ago
But in the case of the commenter I was responding to, they had already gathered a lot of experience through work. This isn't a matter of learning (as they "know" what they have to do), but apparently the solution simply requi
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by bmer 8y ago
> But I don't know if I have a book in me. Because every time I try to write things that could possibly turn into a book I read them and they don't sound very good. I know what I'd have to do to change that, namely write a
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by bmer 8y ago
When I used to play MotherLoad, the world was still a bright place, full of possibility. I was on track to finish from a prestigious high school, accepted into a prestigious university, and obviously going to end up pretty comfortable in
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by bmer 8y ago
For those who want to see Dijkstra's mathematics of programs in action: 1) basic (great for kids, math novices, whatever): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470684534/ref=dbs_a_def_r... (ignore the two
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by bmer 8y ago
Interestingly, an Iraqi immigrant was responsible for setting up Norway's wealth management system: https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab... I always think about this when I read comments on
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by bmer 8y ago
> Many of them rarely realize how crappy the selection of Netflix streaming is, as they've been brought up on a diet of crap, and are only vaguely aware that there's a whole world of fantastic movies out there beyond Hollywood
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by bmer 8y ago
You've re-written another comment so that it follows all standard rules for spelling. But to what end? Certainly not to make it intelligible, as the original comment was intelligible regardless of spelling errors. If not to make it i
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by bmer 8y ago
Hmm. Interesting stuff. I am surprised that Julia has come along so far. Where can I read more about Julia's integrators?
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by bmer 8y ago
I saw an ad (math dept. at Canadian university) from the government looking to hire cybersec people. I was pretty interested, but didn't match the requirements they were looking for (experience with cybersecurity). As someone with a ba
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by bmer 8y ago
> MATLAB has matcont which is a great bifurcation analysis library which is unrivaled by Python (PyDSTool is a toy in comparison). I know lots of people who work with dynamical systems (math bio), and most people don't use MATLAB&#
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by bmer 8y ago
Yes, as websites are censored in China due to laws meant to protect consumers from the collection of personal information. I want some of that corrupt, totalitarian, and unjust "protection" too! People like me are the sort who thi
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by bmer 8y ago
As I said: ------------------------------------- Some things I have not mentioned: * vectorization: basically, how to do vector operations "smarter" on non-parallelized hardware[SIMD?], something that many languages (e.g. MATLAB,
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by bmer 8y ago
Yeah, especially since we live in countries where corruption is rampant, along with unjust enforcement of regulations that completely violate their spirit. /s
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by bmer 8y ago
Reasonable means for example, this: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201... Dynamic IPs were considered as possibly being personal info, since a law existed which could allow
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by bmer 8y ago
> The regulator interprets the gap. "Planet-sized gap" means the regulator can choose to be lenient or capricious based on their own preferences. That kind of uncertainty is anathema for modern businesses. (It's also benef
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by bmer 8y ago
Why the assumption that the EU won't side with you, and will definitely only side with the person making the claim? Certainly, if you're compliant, there's a very good chance that you'll get off the complaint, yeah?

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