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by drostie 11y ago
Because the timescales that you're "moving" on are very long from a relativistic perspective. If we localize you in spacetime you're maybe a meter long in one direction, two meters in another, half a meter in a third, an
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by drostie 11y ago
Speaking as a physicist, I in general like this article, however there is a nasty technical point to make, which is that if you actually use distance units to measure time, we look like the "inanimate object, simple pattern", not
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Is no-reinstall Cabal coming to GHC 8.0?(blog.ezyang.com)
1 points by drostie 11y ago|0 comments
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by drostie 11y ago
So a quick summary of the ruling: This was a movement for summary judgment which requires a very high standard: they are basically responding to a threat of a lawsuit by asking a judge to declare in advance that this lawsuit can never tru
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Help us beta test a version of Haskell's cabal that fixes “dependency hell”(blog.ezyang.com)
2 points by drostie 11y ago|0 comments
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by drostie 11y ago
Related: Real Men Don't Play GURPS: http://www.zipworld.com.au/~hong/dnd/realmen.htm (slight trigger warning: the "Real Men use swords to..." list ends on a line which can be read as quite rapey, th
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How Giving Up Refined Sugar Changed My Brain(fastcompany.com)
1 points by drostie 11y ago|0 comments
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by drostie 11y ago
This experiment should neither prove nor disprove it. It measures a parameter of a phenomenon (neutrino oscillation) which is well-known and which is only weakly affected by the premise that neutrinos are Majoranas. So, just as a quick over
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by drostie 11y ago
Well, harmonic drives are cycloid drives that use elasticity rather than eccentricity to do the same task, so let's focus on cycloid drives. It's not quite the same your typical cycloid drive, but it has a strong relationship. Cyc
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by drostie 11y ago
I've read this comment three times and I still can't figure out what you're trying to say. It sounds like you're arguing that all "puzzles" should exist on finite domains so that a brute force solution exists.
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by drostie 11y ago
Why? Nuance is certainly feasible. What happens if you accidentally install NTP publicly, creating a public DDoS reflector? When it gets used, you get emails from people who are getting DDoSed by your IP, saying "hey, some attacker is
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by drostie 11y ago
Bjorn Lomborg is a sad case. He titled his book The Skeptical Environmentalist and everyone got the message, without reading the book, that he was a climate-change skeptic -- and for the most part labeled him as an "enemy" and
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by drostie 11y ago
I think you can do it, but you'd probably want to start with density matrices, or use the Heisenberg picture to keep your wavefunction super-simple. If we're talking to geniuses then maybe we can include a one-off statement, &#x27
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by drostie 11y ago
I did cut him off. That's not a crime, but it was definitely a dick move. It was 2 AM and had it not been so late I'd probably have been nicer and just waited. (He might have been hoping that he'd caught a drunk driver?) I
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by drostie 11y ago
I was pulled over by a cop because I essentially "cut him off" at an intersection, pulling from my complete stop at a stop sign across the intersection while he, further behind but with no stop sign, was turning into the same road
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by drostie 11y ago
> It should be illegal to 'fake' watching ads just to get the content. You mean, like, by-law illegal? Or just something more like "an illegal state" in a program? Because if we're talking about by-law, that&#x27
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by drostie 11y ago
I'm glad that you don't use Flash or Java. However, I'm sure you can understand if they're (a) very common, (b) bundled with adware, and (c) make one of many fine counterpoints to the "you have a moral obligation to
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by drostie 11y ago
I have no experience with either Go or Erlang but if you have blocking reads, it doesn't seem too complicated to get an efficient blocking write to a multiplexed channel. I guess I should be a little more clear on my assumptions going
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by drostie 11y ago
Very cool. There is one thing that I didn't see here which was either a bug or a clever tuning of the numeric parameters: overdamping. When solving the equation: x''(t) = -2a * x'(t) - k * x(t) (spring force k,
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by drostie 11y ago
It's more complicated than that. People who suck at their job can also be more replaceable, and people who are great at their job can be less so. To me what's more interesting is sociological studies of business promotion. I took
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by drostie 11y ago
That's going to be tricky to do with quicksort... you could definitely do it with mergesort, though, but you'd have to abandon the in-place guarantee. The basic problem is that Array.prototype.sort() does not accept indexes for a
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by drostie 11y ago
> There’s just one problem – now we’ve made the function asynchronous, how do we know when it has finished? The most obvious thing is just to call out to a (semi-) global: function quicksort(arr, cb) { var thread_balance =
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by drostie 11y ago
You've got a lot of different answers, here, so I want to raise a question in your head instead: what, exactly, are you categorizing as math ? I have been an academic, an engineer, and a backend-and-frontend web developer. As an acade
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by drostie 11y ago
I think you're confusing things a little: we're not talking about restaurants per se here. I don't know whereabouts in Europe you are, but you have to imagine a store like H&M where you generally place goods on a countert
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by drostie 11y ago
I can understand how you feel that feelings (yours personally? others'?) were not respected. Especially very short comments can sound terse to the point of sarcastic. However, the tone that you're bringing here is not quite approp
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by drostie 11y ago
So the basic math here looks like this: in classical probability theory, when you've got multiple random variables `X, Y` they have a joint probability `f(x, y)` such that the probability that (X, Y) is in the square (x ± dx/2, y
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by drostie 11y ago
> Not at all, YT solved it many years ago with ContentID. Sorry, there is some ambiguity in English about this. I am regarding a "solved problem" as a "problem" (i.e. classification) whereas you are regarding it as &q
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by drostie 11y ago
The violation of IP is a similar problem for torrents and YouTube alike. The "4th option" is that you've got the causality completely backwards in your head: it just happens to be the case that the cultures where distributed
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by drostie 11y ago
The best part about all of this is if you follow the links to the Coo Space web site and then mouseover the links: their web site is hosted on, of all things, geocities.jp.
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by drostie 11y ago
This is a serious problem for me: I want to move to the Bay Area, but it seems like the up-front moving costs and rent will be too prohibitive even if after a few months they settle down to a net profitability. I just don't have $10k

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