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by dspeyer 14y ago
Iirc albatrosses actually can't take off from the ground. They need to jump off a cliff with an updraft. So they're very careful about where they land.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Analogies, if constructed carefully, have a limited use in explaining concepts. The more closely the analogized items resemble each-other, the longer you can hold onto the analogy. To really understand something, you can't be using analog
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by dspeyer 14y ago
If I'm reading the linked page correctly, these metrics were verified by correlating them with individual student improvement on a variety of standardized tests and "more cognitively challenging assignments in math and english". This is be
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by dspeyer 14y ago
You can already MITM if you compromise any CA's private key.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Is there any way for software, even in assembly, to make intelligent use of on-cpu ram caches? I thought they were completely abstracted by the hardware.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
int i; float f = *(float*)&i; I'm not saying you should do this, but you can. Or to use an example the author didn't regret: struct foo { int a; int b; int c; }__attribute__((packed)); vo
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by dspeyer 14y ago
We need a solution to this. It comes up every time a ca misbehaves. How hard would it be to allow a website to have multiple certs? If Turktrust's important customers had redundancy, we could pull less painfully. Or for less rollout, coul
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by dspeyer 14y ago
A distribution is the probability of various values before the random selection takes place. Uniformity is what we do or don't see afterward. The results of a uniform distribution, applied randomly a large number of times are less unifor
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by dspeyer 14y ago
I've seen that a lot. Part of the reason can be plant starvation -- I'm not going to do a big build if I can't power them, so Benelux helps. Also, it helps to select regions with high connectivity (low diameter). If the one player who wa
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by dspeyer 14y ago
> While Agricola and Dominion do a pretty darn good job of it, it's often a matter of individual opinion whether adding randomization is a 'fix' or not. I hate playing a game where I feel like I could lose by pure chance no matter what
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by dspeyer 14y ago
The curriculum didn't occur in a vacuum, though. It's based on what the leaders thought the students could handle. No one wants a curriculum where a lot of students fail. Part of that is heterogeneous grouping. The curriculum is based on
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by dspeyer 14y ago
That's true of all non-african countries.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
IMO and Putnum are comparing the best of each nation. This article is comparing the median of each nation. I wouldn't expect a strong correlation there. Both matter.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Does he really think this sort of invisibility just happens? A road goes over a bridge so smoothly that drivers don't notice the bridge. The result of the bridge-builder refraining from decoration? Mostly the result of the bridge-builder
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Is there any actual evidence that supports this hypothesis?
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Dare I ask what the legislation he wants actually does? Is it another "kill freedom in the name of security without actually securing anything" act?
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by dspeyer 14y ago
You know what other day was preceded by newspapers not predicting a Japanese surprise attack on America? ALL OF THEM. Nothing in this article gives reason to change my expectation of upcoming cyberattack.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Part of what makes Reddit so good at what it does is that it doesn't try to be more social. By assigning very few pixels to users and making signup easy, the focus stays on the content of the discussion. The idea of subreddits applies more
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by dspeyer 14y ago
This project does sound kind of nifty, but I'm confused about the company. What is The Ladders. Do you have a core product?
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Some squirrels do pick fights with bears. That's what Hamas has been doing for its entire existence. There are enough people who would rather die on their feet than live on their knees. Israel has already demonstrated its strength. Now i
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by dspeyer 14y ago
It's hard to judge speeds from this, and they're often more important than direction. It's beautiful, but it doesn't tell me if the next high tide will have an even higher surge.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Last I heard, 111 8th had 4 days of fuel and the generators were safely high up. It's possible I misunderstood.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
At Google, at least, we try to make up new questions frequently and retire old ones.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
How do I control my cache type?
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by dspeyer 14y ago
I often put a wooden spoon across the top of a pot of boiling water just because that's a convenient place to put it. The pot sometimes boils over. I've seen no correlation with the spoon.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
This works on big things. Not so much on little, cumulative ones. Why did A make a tasteless joke about B's outfit? Because he was nervous and his dubious sense of humor got ahead of his judgment. But he didn't mean anything by it and sa
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by dspeyer 14y ago
90% of regulars here could have written the original article. Therefore, there was little to be gained by reading it. The rebuttal may not have been of great importance, but we couldn't have written it. It's one person's experience (thoug
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by dspeyer 14y ago
I think the non-blown cascade is exactly what makes fizzbuzz aggravating. With three noises, the linear solution clearly dominates. With two, the exponential is actually shorter -- but feels unclean.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
He explicitly said "hex"
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by dspeyer 14y ago
So we have two ways of dealing with overfullness. We can use linked-list buckets, which are expected O(n) or we grow and sometimes have to rehash the entire table as part of an add.

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