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by dalke 3y ago
That's far from my experience. Where in Europe and for what kind of payments? I only use POs with my customers. I'm based in Sweden, doing work mostly in Germany, Switzerland, and England, as software sales and contract work. No o
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by dalke 3y ago
Yes. Isn't that the point of the web site? When the water table is shallow, but deeper than your Louboutins - which is much of Florida - you can drill a well yourself, at low cost. After all, the technique only works for down to about
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by dalke 3y ago
I don't think it would be worthwhile to make your own hydraulic drill if there are rental alternatives. More specifically, around 1981 my Dad rented a drilling rig to supply the irrigation pump for our yard in Miami. See, the city was
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by dalke 3y ago
My static pure HTML+CSS site is nearly 20 years old and renders just fine in modern browsers. It's so old it has no https interface. I do depend on my hosting provider to keep Apache and FreeBSD up to date, if only for security reasons
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by dalke 3y ago
Yes, I certainly expect so! In my 2019 paper I earlier linked to I predicted "The VPOPCNTDQ instruction in the AVX-512 instruction set computes a 512-bit popcount, which should be faster still." because at the time I didn't h
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by dalke 3y ago
I work in cheminformatics, and wrote one of the documents cited by Sagar. The answer is "yes and no". My area of focus is a part of molecular similarity. The overall idea is that molecules which are similar tend to have similar fu
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by dalke 3y ago
In case you are curious, here is the algorithm from that 1957 text book (2nd edition): https://archive.org/details/programsforelect00wilk/page/190/... I never did sit down and figure out the notation. It
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by dalke 3y ago
> Real maps show street names labeled on every street. You are specifically describing street maps. There are other sorts of maps, even maps for areas with named streets where the streets are not named on the map. A local orientation o
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by dalke 3y ago
I was cheating about the orange tree. That was the neighbors', whose tree came into our yard and we could get those oranges. They also had banana plants. My grandparents (across the street) had a huge grapefruit tree in their backyard.
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by dalke 3y ago
We had rented a car from San Francisco to San Diego. My wife was going to drop off the car at the airport. We asked at the hotel (by the harbor near Little Italy) how to get back. 'Uber'. We then looked at the map and realized it
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by dalke 3y ago
In geography class in college, the teacher talked about identifying old house locations sites in the Caribbean. I've forgotten the details over the last 30-odd years, but what they did was look for a place with multiple tree species wi
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by dalke 3y ago
Where did the 71 come from? The US inch was 2.54000508 cm and the UK inch was 2.5399977, until the Johansson's blocks convinced everyone to use the industrial inch of exactly 2.54 cm - what is now called the "international inch&qu
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by dalke 3y ago
Is that really true? My commercial airline pilot uncle didn't fly a glider until after he retired, but that's just anecdata. I used to follow Patrick Smith, aka "Ask The Pilot". He didn't start with a glider. Now I
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by dalke 3y ago
The chlorine level isn't the issue - it's the urea reacting to the chlorine. There was even some neat research a few years back to figure out how much came from urea from pee, vs. from other bodily secretions: https://w
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by dalke 3y ago
Swedish pools at the time required you to shower, naked [1], before entering the pool, and to use soap while showering, with special attention to the hair, armpits, crotch, and feet. This helps get rid of the dirt and urea (which when combi
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by dalke 3y ago
I'll forward your thanks to my Mom!
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by dalke 3y ago
Years ago I ported some software from IRIX to some Linux-based OS. There were a few differences in the result. I eventually tracked it down to how on IRIX char is unsigned while the Linux-based OS used signed char. The program used a '
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by dalke 3y ago
Never did, but going back to "exotic", when I moved to Illinois I encountered a lot of new vegetation. "What's this one?" I asked. My friends looked at me with an odd expression. "Maple." Me: "Oh! It
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by dalke 3y ago
As a little kid growing up in Miami, I had to learn that jai alai wasn't well-known elsewhere in the US. I remember watching the ads for it on TV, though (like dog racing) I was too young to go. For me, I thought the large school locke
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by dalke 3y ago
What git links? I use Mercurial. Oh, I see. Some of the commit links result in "502 Bad Gateway" from nginx. How odd! Even stranger, I can't reproduce it on my other repos. I so rarely use the web interface I never noticed. I
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by dalke 3y ago
I thought the README was long enough that I wasn't going to go into those details, especially as 1) I am not an expert on the topic, 2) the choice of curve depends on your application, and 3) there are a lot of resources on the topic.
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by dalke 3y ago
It's definitely not showing the effect of memory fetch prediction, as the entire benchmark should fit in L1 cache. The point of the benchmark was to show how much overhead there is for using the method. It doesn't do any memory tr
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by dalke 3y ago
Just posted my code as a "Show HN" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36762283 . The actual project is at https://hg.sr.ht/~dalke/rectfillcurve . I've implemented a few space-fillin
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Show HN: Rectfillcurve – generate rectangle-filling curves(hg.sr.ht)
24 points by dalke 3y ago|10 comments
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by dalke 3y ago
That did the trick - thanks! I couldn't figure out what the [] meant in this context and thought it was to make a recursive call. (I've been working on basic space-filling curves, and came across that Wikipedia page last week, whi
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by dalke 3y ago
I can't figure out the grammar. I wanted to do the Hilbert curve at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve : Alphabet : A, B Constants : F + − Axiom : A Production rules: A → +BF−AFA−
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by dalke 3y ago
Along the same lines, what about using the first `n` outputs from a random number generator? (With "it depends on the PRNG" replacing your "it depends on the hash function".) I come from cheminformatics, where we've
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by dalke 3y ago
That's a construction issue. If you're used to the stick-built homes and ballon framing, then the article quote from Vanwyck is right: “The majority of North Americans haven’t experienced high-quality housing, and so they also don
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by dalke 3y ago
It's just odd to see code I worked on in a very small way back in the 1990s - the molecular dynamics program NAMD - be used in AMD marketing literature.
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by dalke 3y ago
At college in Tallahassee my friends would have a stronger accent when talking on the phone to family than talking to friends, even at a Southern college. This is either part of, or related to, "code-switching". https:/&#x2F

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