drostie

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   by drostie 15y ago

   Not to spam, but I took your suggestion and implemented it at: https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/130027
2. 902.▲
   by drostie 15y ago

   Due to this comment, I have implemented the comment-folding feature as a Firefox+GreaseMonkey script (which also seems to work in Google Chrome as a Chrome Extension for me). It lives at: https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/130027
3. 903.▲
   by drostie 15y ago

   I tried to be clear in my original comment that I'm not displeased with this action of Red Hat, and that I view it as an issue with myself that I do these strange numeric comparisons. I certainly don't blame Red Hat and I was very car
4. 904.▲
   by drostie 15y ago

   Both of those are covered under "our causal intuitions have come detached from their immediate objects." ;-)
5. 905.▲
   by drostie 15y ago

   Okay, does anyone else have the unfortunate problem of automatic numeracy? After a lot of physics tests, basically comparing numbers and subtracting exponents is something I do almost automatically. Like, I enjoy that they're donating at al
6. 906.▲
   by drostie 15y ago

   Interesting, and useful to know!
7. 907.▲
   by drostie 15y ago

   I'm surprised that this is even a question -- when's the last time you knew a cat or dog owner who was like, "yeah it's that time of the month for her, she's bleeding all over the house." But yes, for those of us who didn't grow up on farms
8. 908.▲
   by drostie 15y ago

   "Most" is indeed key. For example, as far as "complex vocal patterns" go, there are birds which can learn to duplicate human speech and therefore have the vocal capacity of humans. Or, as far as bipedalism goes, you have the kangaroo -- and
9. 909.▲
   by drostie 15y ago

   Cute fact: quantum mechanics under Heisenberg was originally called "Matrix mechanics." ;-)
10. 910.▲
    by drostie 15y ago

    I've been compiling a list of these things which "set us apart" from most other mammals: the "ones I'm more sure about" column contains: we can form complex vocal patterns, we walk upright, we don't tiptoe everywhere, we're essentially nake
11. 911.▲
    by drostie 15y ago

    The great thing about languages with macros (or lazy evaluation) is that you can have it. ;-)
12. 912.▲
    by drostie 15y ago

    You can see a prototype of an open system for this sort of thing here: http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/ . (Actually, that site is pretty interesting to visit if you're on a friend's WiFi or at an airport or internet cafe -- I just found
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    by drostie 15y ago

    I use Firefox's bookmark-keyword feature. It means that I type directly into the URL bar "i cute ducky" and it matches the following bookmark: Name: i jump Location: https://blekko.com/ws/%s/images Keyword: i Thus it dynami
14. 914.▲
    by drostie 15y ago

    Thank you, Google, for making me uninstall some nVidia packages from Ubuntu that were apparently stopping WebGL from working. The tool you built is also kinda nifty, and I might even use it when trying to help people online with mathematics
15. 915.▲
    by drostie 15y ago

    It's a round, not a ceiling function. If you were going to pay .98, .99, .00, .01, or .02 you will now pay .00; whereas if you were going to pay .03, .04, .05, .06, or .07 you will now pay .05 . In other words, after the very first interval
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    by drostie 15y ago

    Move to the Netherlands. The one-euro-cent and two-euro-cent bits don't exist here unless you're doing a bank transaction; cash transactions get rounded to the nearest 5 cents.
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    by drostie 15y ago

    Ah, the good old Wikipedia Effect. I think we could phrase it more precisely like this: when following anything anecdote-like, your mind becomes unaware of the causal process of following connections, and perhaps even unaware of the time sp
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    by drostie 15y ago

    It used to be the case that life was considered as some sort of fluid stuff which was added to the Elements to turn the 'inorganic' material into 'organic' material -- the low-level chemical distinction between 'nonliving' and 'living'. In
19. 919.▲
    by drostie 15y ago

    It is made out to be about mathematics but has got nothing to with it. Well, as I understood it Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's last theorem ultimately also came down to counting doughnut holes in things which you wouldn't normally regard
20. 920.▲
    by drostie 15y ago

    Sorry, yes. I went back and forth between -action(B' : B) and +action(B : B') and I apparently settled on an inconsistent phrasing! Silly me...
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    by drostie 15y ago

    The simplest way I've seen to explain Noether's theorem comes from Feynman's Messenger Lectures. Suppose -- as we have in modern physics -- that the laws of physics can be phrased in a certain way. Namely: (1) There is some number we can ca
22. 922.▲
    by drostie 15y ago

    This is very interesting -- is there any hope to get video of the talk?
23. 923.▲
    by drostie 15y ago

    There is something slightly more specific, which is that we have some technology-related gris-gris [1]. The basic problem is that everyone feels more or less qualified to guide a company's technological progress. One very chilling story wh
24. 924.▲
    by drostie 15y ago

    (however{Fu} (look{Fu} this :like-a (adj{M} resource compact '( good :for (noun-form{M} (remember{Fu} (prep{M} idiosyncrasies :of common-lisp )))))) (ask{M} (can{Fu} we :at-least (drop{Fu} (the{sO} (adj{M} (noun-and{M} {M}s {Fu}s
25. 925.▲
    by drostie 15y ago

    This is the closest I've seen to "3D editing which looks fun": http://vimeo.com/18423305 ("World of Love 2010: Eskil Steenberg", runtime 26 mins). It also discusses why you normally need this "patience and dedication" -- you're often wra
26. 926.▲
    by drostie 15y ago

    Thanks! I don't know how to pay you back, but I shall try to pay it forward.
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    by drostie 15y ago

    If you don't mind my asking, as a Python person, how did you learn Clojure? I'm mostly programming in Python and JavaScript today, and I want to learn Clojure, but I keep seeing these very strange talks. I don't know how to articulate it, r
28. 928.▲
    by drostie 15y ago

    It is worth the observation that we can only really upvote the languages that we have used -- others simply aren't eligible for the 'favorite' moniker; even if we've seen a little code written in them, we haven't really felt them. So, lik
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    by drostie 15y ago

    (1) Apparently many people, including you, are up in arms about this too. (2) It's pretty confirmed that a lot of our intuitions regarding "theft" require us to see "profit" as a component -- and therefore we are much less likely to see the
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    by drostie 15y ago

    Well I'm glad that they feel competent with web APIs, because their web UIs are a bit confusing. My brain flagged their download links as an ad and skipped it and went straight to the image saying "Download Now" beneath, which required putt