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by driscoll42 4y ago
I encourage anyone who wants to read more about the history of the Great Lakes, in terms of human activity and wildlife, I highly recommend The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
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by driscoll42 5y ago
Reddit without RES (also uBlock Origin) is reddit that's only 50-75% usable. Though I would also say old.reddit is infinitely superior to the newer reddit interface as well.
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by driscoll42 5y ago
To be fair, the ship was considered to be not worth repairing, but did not sink. It could have been repaired. But your point is accurate that it in drydock and it is embarrassing that the fire couldn't be put out sooner.
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by driscoll42 5y ago
Looks like it might be time to download everything I care about and spin up a Calibre server finally.
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by driscoll42 5y ago
There's a decent blog article here with some more strategies for Battleship: https://datagenetics.com/blog/december32011/index.html
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by driscoll42 5y ago
Agreed, while I understand he used random maps to generate the heatmap. Using the distributions from actual games would likely be far more useful.
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by driscoll42 5y ago
Where's the article? I click on the link and it gives a headline, picture and... that's it
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by driscoll42 5y ago
Why those blogs? Without any context it's hard to know why they're good.
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by driscoll42 5y ago
Sure... but then you also need to make sure you are close to them. I used to belong to a hackerspace, but it was a 30-45 minute bus/bike ride from my place and eventually quit. It was and is a great resource, but nothing beats just wal
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by driscoll42 5y ago
There was a guy from Google going around reviewing all the cables testing them: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/11/google-engineer-leav... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_Leung
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by driscoll42 5y ago
My former employer blocked GitHub, though not Google or SO, however I barely used SO (did use Google though). It was an Oracle shop, and really there's not much Oracle documentation on SO. Some SQL stuff from time to time, but really l
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by driscoll42 5y ago
100% this. I love that in python I can handle most all problems reasonably well. I don't need perfect, I need a good, versatile language that I know how to code. Even if Julia is better in some things, the switching cost of learning th
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by driscoll42 5y ago
Or I read it as "We want to make life as easy for our userbase as possible, so we will put more work on ourselves to make our users lives easier" which is an attitude I very much appreciate.
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by driscoll42 5y ago
One alternative is SteamDB's solution: https://steamdb.info/blog/steamdb-rating/
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by driscoll42 5y ago
He compares it at the bottom of the article: Compared to Wilson's formula, it's very short, and it's not nearly as difficult to understand the idea behind how it works. One could easily get the question "Why would this r
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by driscoll42 5y ago
The War Zone looks interesting, but I find the combination of detailed military asset reporting from a website otherwise devoted to automotive news and car reviews odd.
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by driscoll42 5y ago
I have a Garmin 945, lasts a whole week and love the thing.
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by driscoll42 5y ago
I was trying to use Darts earlier for some multivariate data and was struggling to figure out how to use it for it and eventually just gave up and switched to making my own code. Is there a good "how to" multivariate data example?
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by driscoll42 5y ago
The problem is that if you want one aircraft carrier on active deployment, you really need three physical carriers. One on patrol, one about to go on/off patrol, and another in maintenance. So really 11 carriers lets you actively patro
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by driscoll42 5y ago
Rtings recently started reviewing vacuums which does a nice comparison: https://www.rtings.com/vacuum
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by driscoll42 5y ago
And if you want, you can go dive the wrecks of those ships at Bikini Atoll. It's on my bucket list: https://thedirtydozenexpeditions.com/bikini-atoll-wrecks (for one example) But it's about $10000
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by driscoll42 5y ago
That's useful, but ultimately you can't search captions in Google/DuckDuckGo if you're trying to find out if the video even has the info you're looking for. Plus it sucks trying to copy code to reuse
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by driscoll42 6y ago
Huh, well that's cool that they took my source code and modified it! Glad to see it's being used!
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An Analysis of the $82M eBay Scalping Market for Xbox, PS5, AMD, and Nvidia(dev.to)
3 points by driscoll42 6y ago|0 comments
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by driscoll42 6y ago
Seconding many here, I used these 10+ years ago in my Calc, Diff Eq, and Linear Algebra classes. Far superior to many of the texts I had to work with. So glad people are still getting value out of it. I remember checking a couple years ago
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by driscoll42 6y ago
This project will probably be more successful if it can tie into BOINC, which grew out of SETI@Home, and has several hundred thousand computers working on various projects. It'll be a lot easier to get people already donating time&#x2F
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Dolphin Progress August and September 2019(dolphin-emu.org)
1 points by driscoll42 7y ago|0 comments
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by driscoll42 10y ago
Is there any way to do this datamining, but not just looking at amazon links? By that I mean that I'm sure people mention "Code Complete" often enough, but don't bother linking to it on Amazon. That'd be interesti