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by drostie 11y ago
Well, it could power the U.S. if transportation weren't an issue . I worked with the Wind Energy Project Group several years back at the TU Delft and when I asked why the US didn't just exploit its huge reserves of wind and solar
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by drostie 11y ago
Honestly the situation was a little confusing because I like to think about a thought experiment which is similar (a coordinated three-person game called "Betrayal" which exemplifies the weirdness of quantum mechanics) and due to
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by drostie 11y ago
There's something that I'm missing here. Can anyone who is involved with this project clarify this example: function getFullName( id ){ return ajax( "/user/" + id + "/name" ) + &quo
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by drostie 11y ago
The problem is that we don't truly believe in the strongest notions of the Anthropic principle. You can relativize it to yourself and then apply it to future events: "I will sit locked in this room where this bomb will detonate un
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by drostie 11y ago
Very cool!
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by drostie 12y ago
This is the start of a solution in Haskell: import System.Environment import qualified Data.Vector.Unboxed as V import Data.Vector.Unboxed (Vector) display :: Vector Double -> String display ds | V.null ds = "
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by drostie 12y ago
I have to comment to specifically highlight this comment above. You can easily understand monadic I/O when you understand chousuke's comment; until you understand that comment you will have trouble understanding how Haskell does I
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by drostie 12y ago
Since I moved to Missouri, I've been upset by a similar grammatical error: quotation marks used for emphasis. You would expect, say, all-capitals or an underline or italics, but you instead see 'Come taste the "best" bur
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by drostie 12y ago
I'm probably guilty of this, as a guy who is learning Haskell. FizzBuzz can be just main = putStrLn $ unlines $ map fizzer [1..100] where fizzer n | n % 15 == 0 = "FizzBuzz" | n % 3 == 0 = &q
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by drostie 12y ago
If you're lucky then the top of the thermos is plastic. Safe way to solve the situation with a metal thermos with a plastic cap: clamp thermos to workbench, pre-drill hole in large sheet of plywood, drill through pre-drilled hole into
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by drostie 12y ago
I take serious issue with the "lesson" that this article is trying to teach at the end, which is that you should not generalize your particular problem into something abstract, solve that abstract problem really well, and then sol
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by drostie 12y ago
That's probably the weakest compliment that I've heard for a set of headphones ever. I have something like 7 pairs of earbuds and I pine for the bass that I remember from my crummy Philips HS820 (foldable neckband) headphones. For
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by drostie 12y ago
Right. You'll notice this in the Pachelbel rant; he very specifically only sings "da, da-da-da, da-da da-da-da-da-da-da--" (the first half of the violin theme) before abruptly cutting off because with this progression you ess
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by drostie 12y ago
Why is there "no way this is possible"? The 1 is the key, which is to say, the lowest note played in the progression. If it's less than 25% then that means that 4-chord progressions frequently do not choose their minimum as t
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by drostie 12y ago
> so it doesn't have any legal force. There are lots of things which aren't contracts which have legal force, so this is a huge non-sequitur: you can't leap from "EULAs aren't contracts" to "doesn'
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by drostie 12y ago
Looking it up in a reference, natural lead is about 1% Pb-204, 24% Pb-206, 22% Pb-207, and 53% Pb-208. These are all of the stable isotopes. If Pb-204 absorbs a neutron it turns into Pb-205, which isn't stable but its half life is ten
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by drostie 12y ago
At Gragg, I've been experimenting with a different approach: I wrote a self-describing schema language for all of the JSON payloads that'd be sent, wrote a service and tested it with a "blob" type that doesn't valid
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by drostie 12y ago
Glad to help. Sorry if I was overly negative; things like this are actually pretty darn cool.
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by drostie 12y ago
There's something seriously messed up with these algorithms. Take as input: a -> a According to 'dpll: better' this is unsatisfiable. (It isn't; it's a tautology.) The algorithm 'dpll: naive' d
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by drostie 12y ago
I think the point of the Oculus Rifts and Water Jetpack and Martian Terrorist Proofing is that once you've said, "oh, we'll try to help out only those people who need it," you've invited a political process into the
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by drostie 12y ago
Right. The basic idea is something like the transition (manifolds) from doing special relativity to general relativity. The special "linear" says that given two inputs x and y to a function f, f is linear if f(x + y) = f(x) ⊕ f(y)
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by drostie 12y ago
Is sex somehow fundamentally different than every other act that it should be treated so differently? Yes, sex is different from other things. That was the point of the post you're replying to. If I used my power at work to make you
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by drostie 12y ago
There's a much simpler definition of "rape" as "being coerced into having sex that you do not want to have." It, of course, is not the present legal definition of rape. But it's something that's easy to ta
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by drostie 12y ago
Well, it's also that it's not consistently applied across the board. In the actual definition of notability, it is made clear that the policy is purely about verifiability: something is notable when we can say more than a couple
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by drostie 12y ago
I was surprised that Common Lisp was not Voldemort. You need something powerful, strange, obsessed with a sort of purity even though it's not so pure itself, and whose name no one dares speak. I guess the C/C++ Voldemort/Snap
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by drostie 12y ago
Git's user interface is awful until you understand how the organic hairball underlying it is organized, at which point you can mostly "get it." Darcs' hand-holding approach to this is a great example of how to do it; Mer
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by drostie 12y ago
Well, I mean, the author goes on to make a bunch of salient points like the difficulty of diffs of nested directories (solved in [1] but not widely implemented) and saving all of the binary blobs in every checkout (solved by [2] which has n
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Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity(bitquabit.com)
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by drostie 12y ago
So, XKCD is not actually all that funny in itself. Trying to "find a joke connecting panels together" is the wrong way to digest XKCD. The joke in this case is the same as most of the Beret Guy jokes: He has some sort of alien v
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by drostie 12y ago
Yeah; the initial title said "is now Free", suggesting by lack of capitalization of "now" and capitalization of "Free" that it was being open-sourced. I'm glad that the edited title uses lowercase for that

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