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by celoyd 17y ago
Oh! Just a worker.
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by celoyd 17y ago
These theories have been around for decades: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis Needless to say, they don't have a lot of mainstream acceptance.
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by celoyd 17y ago
I'm not sure what's ambiguous. Certainly I'm generalizing ("anyone") from an anecdote; I'm not trying to make a rock-solid historical claim. I think most of her factory work was making shells. She was born in 1921; this would presumably bee
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by celoyd 17y ago
My grandmother had to work in factories under the Nazis toward the end of WWII, and anyone doing this sort of thing would have been taken outside and shot. She says they were told not to work too slow, because that was sabotage, and not too
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by celoyd 17y ago
He's a little contradictory about it. A followup story is a great way of correcting errors (#4) and describing what isn't known (#3). #1 is also undermined by #6: crusades, even when you think you have the facts on your side, are of a piece
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by celoyd 17y ago
Not really, no. Especially if you use barrel-less electromagnetic designs. The Navy is testing a rail gun that fires 3.2 kg at 9k kph. Again, it's the acceleration and heating on the projectile that I would worry about. Then again, I think
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by celoyd 17y ago
Probably not, no. The biggest guns (see Wikipedia on Project HARP) can get a payload to 100 mi, but we can't yet combine that with the horizontal speed necessary to orbit. The problem (I gather) is the atmosphere. Sputnik was traveling alon
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by celoyd 17y ago
Italics are not necessarily slanted. Seria's italic is an example of one that's very cursive but within a couple degrees of upright: http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/singles/fontfont/ff_seria_ital...
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by celoyd 18y ago
Tail call optimization is an example of something that Clojure doesn't have because the JVM makes it hard, although it's easy (I'm told) on the .NET system.
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by celoyd 18y ago
Yep. Clojure is designed around the JVM and libraries written in Java-the-language. If you ported it, by the time you took out the Java-y stuff and added things like TCO and call/cc, it would be a new lisp. And I think new mid-sized lisps a
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by celoyd 18y ago
This is partly very good advice, but think again before trying what it says about blockquotes, emphasis, and good rag. Blockquotes: because there are no guarantees about fonts and sizes, the pixel outdent you find may be annoyingly wrong fo
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by celoyd 18y ago
Not just modern.
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by celoyd 18y ago
Also, only looking at patients older than 50 means they're presumably overrecording the effect on things like heart surgery and underrecording it on things like emergency treatment of work accidents. Still an interesting study.
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by celoyd 18y ago
"Dense" is generous; you could go as far as "unrigorously terse". Sometimes they just don't make sense. But he got results. A good collection of his presentations is at http://www.d-n-i.net/dni/john-r-boyd/ and there's low-quality video o
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by celoyd 18y ago
On spirituality: Yes, a lot of thinking about global warming resembles apocalypticism and moral panic. Some of it is downright horrifying. But that people argue for something incorrectly doesn't make it incorrect. (And apocalypticism and mo
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An example of ATC handling a bird strike (10m video)(youtube.com)
4 points by celoyd 18y ago|1 comments
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by celoyd 18y ago
What's so crackpot? We're already running huge, poorly understood eco-engineering projects. Coal power generation, for example. The idea here is that for the first time some big projects will be aimed at restoring equilibrium. Taking our ch
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by celoyd 18y ago
By area, most of the US is hard to serve with mass transit. But by population it's tractable -- you don't have to lay bus/rail mesh everywhere, only where it's already dense. The 10 largest metro areas in the US are about 75% the area of th
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by celoyd 18y ago
They only provide a Windows binary for drawing them. If you want a start on doing it yourself, here's some postscript: http://basecase.org/code/numberspiral.ps .
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by celoyd 18y ago
If you have 5 minutes, you can learn the rules from http://homepages.cwi.nl/~tromp/go.html -- a much neater explanation than most. It takes a little practice to get good, of course. Just a few years of full-time playing. The best general
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by celoyd 18y ago
I can't shake the feeling that sensational reporting of terrorism is complicity.
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by celoyd 18y ago
At a guess, because it's so popular. They're interested in how social games are used, not how they're designed.
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by celoyd 18y ago
A master model is not necessarily slower. Everything goes through the server either way, and it comes down to how much data you have to transmit and how much the sender, server, and receiver have to process it. At http://draftastic.com/ w
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by celoyd 18y ago
As you say, the particles are random(ish), and this is exactly what makes them hard to describe completely with a simple function. "Random" means "the simplest description of it is the literal one", and the literal description of the positi
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by celoyd 18y ago
Primitive? Poetry is probably the most developed form of lossy compression there is.
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by celoyd 18y ago
For some interesting examples of integrated Unicode, have a look at Project Fortress, Guy L. Steele's Fortran-killer.
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by celoyd 18y ago
Nick (user nickbw) and I applied to YC a year ago with a sketch of an idea and didn't make the cut. But rejection was just the motivation required, and we incorporated and launched while holding down jobs. Please have a look. All comments w
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Ask Hacker News: Review our block-based collaborative editor(draftastic.com)
13 points by celoyd 18y ago|8 comments
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by celoyd 18y ago
I'm a fool. If I'd bothered to look it up first, I would have remembered that the actor model was integral to the invention of Scheme. See Sussman & Steele, Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus (AI Memo 349), 1975 (the
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by celoyd 18y ago
Acid 3 doesn't have to make IE fully compliant in this or the next decade to be a good influence. It's bringing the non-IE browsers into line remarkably quickly, which means web developers can concentrate on IE. And from the large (though i

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