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by drostie 12y ago
I'm also interested in how this varies by different languages. For example, a programmer decently knowledgeable in JS will probably start with the "pre-data-structure-change" solution presented in the article, because if you&
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by drostie 12y ago
Right. It's hard I think for people to remember that Linux distros are just another program -- even more so, now that we've developed virtualization tools. I spend most of my time in a Kubuntu Linux VM within Windows because my wo
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by drostie 12y ago
I speak as someone who is also 2m tall but who never puts his knees up against the seat in front of him (and views that as a little childish). My perspective is that the airline has made the seat-space smaller in order to make the flight ch
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CryptaMail – Secure decentralized email built on top of a cryptocurrency(cryptamail.com)
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by drostie 12y ago
That's really hard for me to answer, because while I can address the physics side pretty well the physiology side is not really my forte. More importantly, you have to have someone who knows the studies holistically rather than piece
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by drostie 12y ago
The sand/bullet one is probably apt, if indirect. The issue is that different "kicks" get absorbed in different ways by the stuff which makes up your cells. One gets absorbed by the chemical bonds and tears them apart; one ge
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by drostie 12y ago
It's worth understanding that the light which you see is the result of many photons -- though it's usually estimated that maybe, if our rod/cone cells were a little more sensitive, they might have been able to perceive indi
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by drostie 12y ago
So you've got a bunch of responses, but as a guy with a Master's in applied physics I wanted to chime in with a bit more of a long explanation. The word "radiation" just means that something radiates -- it travels off
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by drostie 12y ago
One interesting thing that comes to mind is spinor calculus. Spinor calculus is a bit like geometric algebra; there is a mention to them in the paper (more precisely, to "twistors"). The central idea of spinor calculus relates lik
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by drostie 12y ago
To put it crudely, you're thinking with a deity's mindset. PyPy has to accept that annotations can be wrong under this proposal. PyPy is trying to implement Python, and in Python, those annotations are strictly advisory . PyPy
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by drostie 12y ago
Given that someone uses fat JSON, it seems plausible that you'll have to face those sorts of problems (either simple selectors with logic for potentially dealing with multiple responses, or complex selectors into the tree). What you&#x
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by drostie 13y ago
It's because they wanted to say both: if (a) b; and if (a) { b; c; } which tends to make you think of curly braces as a syntactic feature which can appear anywhere , turning many lines of code into one line of code. I
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by drostie 13y ago
The basic answer is that (1 year) / (1 day) = 365.242199... is a pure number with no units associated to it, so there exists no set of units which can eliminate it. The question then is, should we synchronize on the year, or on the day
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by drostie 13y ago
I'm just glad that nobody in Europe seems to use YYYY/DD/MM. This means that the format "YYYY-MM-DD" is unambiguous and the lexical ordering of dates is the same as their natural ordering[1], which is useful for sor
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by drostie 13y ago
It is extremely inconvenient that time is base-24 and base-60 while everything else in the metric system is base-10; it leads, for example, to a difficult conversion between the "meters per second" of the physics class and the &qu
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Show HN: nermal, the cutest secure JavaScript authenticated encryption container(github.com)
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by drostie 13y ago
Explanation: bufOps is a dictionary which holds a bunch of functions accessed with the getters on it. For the sake of this comment, we can concretize and use (buf_empty bufOps) as [] and (buf_append bufOps) as ++. This code then essentially
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by drostie 13y ago
I think the point is that for each wallet stolen we would send a guy to jail for, say, two days. If we think that the guy has stolen approximately 100 wallets we prevent the next 900 from suffering by imprisoning him for the most part of a
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by drostie 13y ago
Well, it's not without controversy, surely. You're (a) focusing on the very short term; presumably people would only commit one burglary under this model over their entire lifetime; and (b) you're not being generous to the or
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by drostie 13y ago
This one was fun: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#6,6,1,2,2,5,3,0,0...
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Celebrate at the Internet Archive, 10/24(blog.archive.org)
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by drostie 13y ago
The construct is a complexity class , meaning that it is a set of problems which can be[1] solved by quantum computers[2] in a reasonable[3] time. Those three aspects correspond to words which get initialized as the name of this complexity
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by drostie 13y ago
The "issue" is that you can just put the simple content in a noscript tag and then your simple content site does not require JS. The content cannot be simple if JS is required .
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by drostie 13y ago
> Government is a place that is ripe for disruption, but the walls around it are so high, I don't know how to really breach them. I have had this attitude before, but I am not sure it's a healthy way to look at the problem. W
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by drostie 13y ago
It seems like there should be a way to define player1 as its own (root) lens so that one is simply writing player1.location.x .~ (+10), or so. Are we simply not doing this because it makes reading the data structure rather difficult?
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by drostie 13y ago
In the most naive way of doing such things, there is indeed such a tradeoff. So let's say that my Player is now allowed to collect Rice, which he will use in certain eat() functions. If Player is a data structure, I could add the rice
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by drostie 13y ago
11. Did you know that there's this thing called HTTPS? Blocking pornography can only be haphazardly done at the ISP level, because porn sites like most sites do not encrypt traffic by default. (I'm still not sure why this is, but
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by drostie 13y ago
ZoHo might be able to do that for you, but I'm not sure -- they might separate it at the domain level. But I'd think mail forwarding for 10 inboxes shouldn't be a stretch for them.
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The only problem is MIT's news office; "roughly speaking, P is a set of relatively easy problems, NP is a set of incredibly hard problems, and if they’re equal, then a large number of computer science problems that seem to be incr
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by drostie 13y ago
I think you're taking this as much more ideological than it is. When someone honks their car's horn at you, it's not because they have taken time to construct a reasoned analysis of the legal status of your behaviour -- it&#x

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