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by cema 14y ago
Ordered.
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by cema 14y ago
Yes, I was originally coming from the same place. However, not all instructors can handle this, and many peer students could not stand it either. When I say "student", I mean anyone in the audience, and "instructor" is anyone at the podium,
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by cema 14y ago
Many people would claim the military use is intended for the Good. Opinions differ.
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by cema 14y ago
I have learned (hopefully learned!) to only use this style of learning when I am one-on-one with an instructor, and never in a classroom full of peer students. Even then, not every instructor (or a person who effectively serves as an instru
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by cema 14y ago
You gain respect from others who get shit done by getting shit done. I have often found it ("getting shit done") contagious. Somehow it feels right to roll up the sleeves when people around you do the same.
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by cema 14y ago
Thank you. This needed to be said.
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by cema 14y ago
Often in Russia. You are right that it was (and is) intended for the on-land, not on-water, landing, although there are provisions for the on-water landings as well. See Wikipedia entries for Soyuz 23 and, more generally, splashdown.
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by cema 14y ago
And then running. I guess the point is to make the first step. After that, you just keep making the first step.
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by cema 14y ago
A loon wearing a towel can still observe the towel day!
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by cema 14y ago
You do it all with money? No, money can help, certainly. But I think the point of the (grand)parent post was life is more important than its hacks. In this, you seem to be in agreement.
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by cema 14y ago
VLC is a great product. Has consistently been among the top media players for the big platforms for quite a while. (Despite occasional slips like the recent changes on OS X, still one of the best.) I have, as others mentioned too, noticed a
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by cema 14y ago
Kilt is rather formal.
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by cema 15y ago
You mean Эспрессо, Капучино and so on. :-)
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by cema 15y ago
Every particular string may be made memorable, but you'd have to memorize it. Instead of it being natural, as in: a natural extension of how people think about things.
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by cema 15y ago
I would offer a somewhat more optimistic take: humans are still better learners than machines are, and our algorithms still do not capture well the way our thinking (and intuition) works. Really, we have only started with machine learning a
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by cema 15y ago
What a sad reading this whole thread is.
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by cema 15y ago
Other relevant links: Live hexadecimal stream http://150.203.48.55/RainHex.php (They also have a binary and "color" streams, as well as static info.) A (small) article in phys.org http://phys.org/news/2012-04-fastest-random-silence.html
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Quantum Number Generator(photonics.anu.edu.au)
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by cema 15y ago
A good list, which can be extended. Just recently, for example, I came across the unpleasant fact that interfaces in C# cannot be nested (in fact, a C# interface is not allowed to define any nested types). Inconvenient, breaks encapsulation
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by cema 15y ago
I marked C#, Clojure and Javascript. I use C# and Javascript at work, and enjoy both. (Not saying I enjoy .NET though, just the language.) I like the way C# is evolving towards functional programming and includes new paradigms while retaini
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by cema 15y ago
SQL by far. I would have said "Visual Basic" but I have not had to use it in a long time. But I cannot avoid using the damn SQL!
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by cema 15y ago
A good use case, indeed. Thank you!
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by cema 15y ago
what's the fundamental difference? Perception. And it should not be neglected. (Especially by the researchers who study it!)
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by cema 15y ago
Many commentators talk about what the "American car" means, that there is no such thing any more, cars are internationally designed and produced, etc. All correct, I suppose. But notice that the linked article is using the combination of wo
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by cema 15y ago
Returning false is equivalent to calling both preventDefault() (that's what you want) AND stopPropagation() This is so in jQuery. In basic Javascript "return false" does not stop the propagation. See http://stackoverflow.com/ques
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by cema 15y ago
Getting to '/^GET/ { print $3 }' takes a lot more characters in python than awk. True. Then there is Perl which is closer to awk/sed (intentionally, too) and thus more compact than Python. perl -lane 'print $F[2] if (-m /^GET
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by cema 15y ago
if you can call a victory taking something back to where it was all along Yes, I would say you can. Democracy requires constant vigilance by the public (in contrast with the despotism where only the despots and their political ma
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by cema 15y ago
What makes you think those words weren't carefully chosen? The words you chose were "ignorance" and "trolling". This was name calling and an ad hominem attack, not a mutually respectful discussion. Moreover, it is apparent to me tha
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by cema 15y ago
Your ignorance was excusable a decade ago How about you think about words you are using? They have meanings, you know.
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by cema 15y ago
Incompetence is not "evil in the most absolute sense of the word". The recently passed century has given us glimpses into what evil may look like, and it does not resemble the current US administration. I think injecting politics with heate

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