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by drostie 9y ago
Very cool, thanks for mentioning.
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by drostie 9y ago
Note that you would not have an encoding for negative numbers then, and you would have to use the alternative base64 table, +/0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz as the normal one is not order-preservi
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by drostie 9y ago
Maybe he told the police that and maybe he told the public that -- he DID NOT testify this at his contempt hearing.
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by drostie 9y ago
I mean, he could have testified at the contempt hearing or presented any sort of evidence that he just plain forgot the password, and the court might have heard that. He opted to not testify or introduce any testimony at this hearing. So th
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by drostie 9y ago
A solar panel tower at the North Pole of the Moon might be a really good idea for solving these problems, yes. Vacuum is only one of the best insulators around if you're near other warm things, I'm afraid. Out in space the dominan
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by drostie 9y ago
Actually looking into it a bit more to answer your question, I'm entirely confusing two different things. Mercury is tidally locked 3:2, it rotates 3 times for each 2 times it orbits -- but that is a result of history and not general-r
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by drostie 9y ago
I'm glad you asked! So there's an important physics reason why the equator is warm and the North and South poles are cold on this planet, and it has to do with how you point a surface. If you ever find yourself in a dark office wi
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by drostie 9y ago
Yeah, it does. The real concern is that the moon-day is a full month long and there is no atmosphere transferring heat; any permanent structures on the surface will get very very cold during those two weeks in the dark. If we don't sol
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by drostie 9y ago
It's worth remembering that there is an important difference between "the Web" and "the Internet". This is the only way to understand something like when Alan Kay says, "The Internet was done so well that most
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by drostie 9y ago
I've said this before and I'll say it again: this is not an SJW issue. It's just not a social justice issue. The CoC existed long before these concerns, and it's going to exist in the mainline fork no matter what happens
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by drostie 9y ago
Resigning committee positions at Node.js and forking the project is just about the only "non-lazy" option in open source. Like, the closest thing we have to a sit-in is a DDoS and while that might be suitable for Anonymous's
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by drostie 9y ago
I mean, that's not what has happened here; the CoC has been around for a while. What's happened here is just that there is someone who is "above the law" that the CoC provides for and a bunch of others are just like &quo
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by drostie 9y ago
The issue is that people have apparently on many occasions said "Hey Rod, don't do that, it's against the CoC (code of conduct)" and his attitude has been "I don't care about the CoC, I don't believe in Co
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by drostie 9y ago
The abstract belief is that there are actually a ton of people who have felt systematically worn down and excluded from the community, both by this one person's hostile attitude and the broader problem of the CoC being used to attack &
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by drostie 9y ago
No, but you can be forgiven for thinking that with an NPN junction of a BJT looking terribly much like two PN junctions of two diodes wired together. So let me give the physics backstory here. Both N-type and P-type doped semiconductors are
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by drostie 9y ago
> The logic leap from "he harassed me" to, "that's why I ... avoid his derailing responses" clearly isn't rooted in any conventional definition of harassment. Um, yes it is. A harassing response which does
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by drostie 9y ago
I mean, Node.js has made this particular choice that they're going to believe in CoCs; other projects can of course choose not to: but they chose to and that's what the Node.js technical community is publicly about. That is their
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by drostie 9y ago
It's not needless censorship even though it might not have been requested by Rod himself. The question before the TSC is "hey should we take action against Rod for shit like this: ________" and necessarily that blank is fil
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by drostie 9y ago
As a measure of how easily talk of averages degenerates into talk of individuals, let me point out that the comment you're replying to is talking about averages and you are talking about individuals. Your response to "hey this m
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by drostie 9y ago
Yep, that's why I changed it to a random one as soon as I found the site that randomizes such things.
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by drostie 9y ago
I may be an exception, I preferred 59273 because it reminded me of the Federation's logo (from Star Trek), but my name does not have an A in it.
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by drostie 9y ago
Hey, sorry this took me a while to respond to -- I have a script which polls HN to custom-order the posts I see, so I am not often on the main site. SICM is basically a mainline classical mechanics textbook of the form that I was able to do
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by drostie 9y ago
That's very unlikely to be true in general, as the proofs that a problem lives in NP usually have a very high signal-to-noise ratio -- i.e. in order to prove that solving this problem is at least as hard as solving an arbitrary boole
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by drostie 9y ago
I help out on Physics Stack Exchange and the Freenode ##physics channel can still be nicely active sometimes, though not as active as ##math is. If you want that sort of story, one textbook that you might incredibly like would be Griffiths&
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by drostie 9y ago
My personal laptop has pen-input but it's got the rotation feature that the article complains the Surface doesn't. (It says "360-degree" which makes no sense to me; my screen turns 180 degrees and can then be folded down
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by drostie 9y ago
For many cases one can ignore division, but yes, as the article said that generally required an abacus. Multiplication doesn't in general require an abacus if you're trained in roman numerals. Let's take your "more compl
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by drostie 9y ago
Also it's not "really" hard. Think of subtractive notation as a way to write down what's really an int1 - int2 expression in normal roman numerals, with the out-of-order characters representing int2. To add these togethe
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by drostie 9y ago
I'm talking about the overall post (i.e. JoshTriplett's submission) there, not the parentmost comment by payne92. I read payne92's comment as dreaming about an alternate past where something like Let's Encrypt was availa
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by drostie 9y ago
I've thought about it a bit, and I must say I'm not really sure what to make of it. I got some of my CS courses from a man named Kevin Walsh who I think was a Ph.D. candidate at the time; I think he's now teaching at Holy Cro
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by drostie 9y ago
I mean, I agree, it's not a total failure--but I'm sure people in this community can appreciate the feeling of "dammit I failed at this stupid problem, these other people are kicking ass at it and I just suck" when hinds

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