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by cpa 14y ago
The french title actually says that's it is an ATM ("billet" means bank note in french)
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by cpa 14y ago
Any idea why the results are not symmetrical? Upload from Virginia to California is twice as fast as from California to Viriginia (and it's even worse with US <-> Japan). Are there strategical interests to not have a symmetric link?
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by cpa 14y ago
> it allowed people to add pictures to their documents. Which very well may be a good definition of technical superiority for the lay man :)
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by cpa 14y ago
FWIW, it's the EU's opinion. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/03/digital-softw...
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by cpa 14y ago
It's quite common in Haskell to give 1-letter names to variables that are short lived. Also, Haskell programmers use 1-letter variable names in functions that could/should be made point free [1] but aren't for some reason [2]. [1] \c ->
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by cpa 14y ago
Would be cool if one could directly call howdoi from the python shell. >>> howdoi foo bar Or as a magic function for ipython.
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by cpa 14y ago
In France, virtually all public areas have doors that open outwards. To the best of my knowledge, there is no law that make this mandatory, but the reasoning is that in case of an event that requires evacuation, doors that open inwards wou
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by cpa 14y ago
My personal anecdotical evidence suggests otherwise. I believe that in order to get the general audience interested in open source it will need a better branding and design. Note, that some organizations are taking steps towards this direct
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by cpa 14y ago
pretty obvious?
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by cpa 14y ago
I get the following error when trying to register: Cannot POST /
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by cpa 14y ago
Could you share your sources? (I'm genuinely interested vs. trying to be a dick)
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by cpa 14y ago
Indeed, but the specification for unmanned planes carrying 300+ people will probably be much harsher than the spec for military drones... I think that first thing we will witness is freight done by huge drones.
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by cpa 14y ago
Is it possible to ensure a reliable connection to the plane, even when things go wrong? Or are there some physical limiting factors, like electromagnetic disturbances that could cut the link?
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by cpa 14y ago
That's pretty cool! Is there an analysis of this song (or album) somewhere?
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by cpa 15y ago
No scale? Not a map.
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by cpa 15y ago
Ah, I think I see your point. You would be happier with E = 1/2k x^2 is a family of quadratic forms, indexed by the real number k, I guess. A bit nitpicky to me (as long as k != 0), but fair.
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by cpa 15y ago
Nope, check the introduction section of your wikipedia link. It's like saying that f(x) = ax is a function of two variables. Indeed it is, but it's commonly accepted in mathematics to use it as a function of one variable (x), with a paramet
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by cpa 15y ago
I don't see why E = 1/2 k x^2 isn't a quadratic form. It's a quadratic form in a vector space of dimension 1 (here, the real numbers), which matrix is just (1/2 k). In fact here, we're dealing with a (degenerated) conic. What's your point?