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by breadbox 10y ago
One Z, two blanks. It can be done. A bigger problem is that it's one letter longer than the Scrabble board admits.
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by breadbox 10y ago
This is an excerpt from a book "Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries", one of the stranger programming books I've ever owned. About half the chapters are discussions like this one -- taking a (relatively) small, practical program
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Could no new particles at the LHC be exactly what physics needs?(medium.com)
1 points by breadbox 10y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 10y ago
Certain aspects of his campaign -- e.g. his lack of effort to appeal to anyone outside of his base, to the point of actively alienating the vast majority of US voters -- make perfect sense now.
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The c-word and gendering mansplaining(separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com)
1 points by breadbox 10y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 10y ago
Also, signals become much easier to deal with if your program is single-threaded. Once threads get involved, it becomes more complex to know which thread(s) will receive a given signal.
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by breadbox 10y ago
More details can be found here: http://iupac.org/elements.html
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Hunt and the Hunted (part one)(byline.com)
1 points by breadbox 10y ago|0 comments
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Chinese man arrest for naming his liquor “Eight Nine (or Brew) Six Four”(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
2 points by breadbox 10y ago|0 comments
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Can you make a blacklight with your phone and markers?(madartlab.com)
4 points by breadbox 10y ago|0 comments
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Majority-Female Council in Seattle Faces Backlash After Sports Arena Vote(nytimes.com)
1 points by breadbox 10y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 10y ago
Feels to me like you could improve a lot of the noisiness by adding || (or) to the end of each line. So the script would stop trying things once it found something that worked. Then maybe you could reintroduce the git clone command -- comin
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by breadbox 10y ago
Some current evidence suggests that "because this is a scam." https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2016... Other commenters have pointed out other inconsistencies in the story.
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by breadbox 10y ago
Space was less empty when it was younger, so I suppose you could say that the answer to your question is "because it's over 13 billion years old." But really, "why" questions like this come with too many hidden assu
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Everybody Freeze: The extropians want your body(thebaffler.com)
2 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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Go Forth and Make a Piece of Pi(madartlab.com)
1 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
Not really. The fictional world is used only to contrast it with how badly it mirrors the reality. It's invoked merely for the author to have a chance to say "mea culpa" (and maybe to help illustrate that these wrong ideas
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The Future of Astronomy: The Starshade and Exoplanet Imaging(medium.com)
1 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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The Bug That Ate Thursday(bit-player.org)
1 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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Was Uber’s Branding Done While Uber High?(madartlab.com)
257 points by breadbox 11y ago|204 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
I hate to say it, but I was rather unimpressed by this list, and nothing in it surprised me. While I certainly agree that the C preprocessor is a relic, and has not weathered the test of time well, I would suggest that a number of the suppo
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Why a “moonshot to cure cancer” is doomed to failure(freethoughtblogs.com)
2 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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Making a Unique Keyboard(muppetlabs.com)
3 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
Yes. If a quote ends with a period, then it ends the sentence. If the sentence shouldn't end there, then the period is replaced with a comma (even if the quote was of a complete sentence). > He wrote "I live here," and the
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Top physics predictions for 2016(medium.com)
2 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
"Motel of the Mysteries" by David Macaulay (978-0395284254).
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by breadbox 11y ago
GNU tar also has easy-to-remember long options for all the major compression programs: --gzip, --xz, --lzop, --lzma, --lzip.
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by breadbox 11y ago
Not many single-letter options were available. Tar is kind of like ls that way. At least it's easy to remember for those of us who already learned to use lowercase-j for bzip2.
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More Than Half of Kepler’s Giant Exoplanets Are False Positives(medium.com)
17 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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Mad Max Economics(bit-player.org)
43 points by breadbox 11y ago|70 comments

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