dukoid

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   by dukoid 8y ago

   Wouldn't humans who haven't seen Elephants before or who are not trained to recognize the general category of mammals / animals be prone to make similar errors?
2. 302.▲
   by dukoid 8y ago

   I had to make our software work on it, that was certainly not a fun experience... IIRC, the main issue with the Razr was memory though. JSR support often didn't mean much anyway, as many features were optional (probably intended for la
3. 303.▲
   by dukoid 8y ago

   Third rail is incompatible to the existing system in the area, not suitable for high voltages and creates issues at railroad crossings. Moreover, even if unused sections are switched off, there will be some minimum section size, which means
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   by dukoid 8y ago

   The risks are real (as we have seen) and I think they should be insured accordingly.
5. 305.▲
   by dukoid 8y ago

   p.s. Looks like 1403 is the printer unit for the IBM 1401....
6. 306.▲
   by dukoid 8y ago

   Does anybody have a scan of a sample printout? If I google it, I just get IBM 1403 results... :-/
7. 307.▲
   by dukoid 8y ago

   How can you argue for such a thing while at the same time using am/pm (opposed to 15:00-23:00 etc.)? O:)
8. 308.▲
   by dukoid 8y ago

   Another argument to rework the whole zoning thing....
9. 309.▲
   by dukoid 8y ago

   It might be a 20% project. Also, there is a process to clarify / obtain the copyright: https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/
10. 310.▲
    by dukoid 8y ago

    "Popular speculation about californium as a weapon material has usually centered on Cf-252 due to its neutron-emitting celebrity. Its comparatively short half-life (for weapons purposes), intense and penetrating neutron radioactivity,
11. 311.▲
    by dukoid 8y ago

    Believable escalation path concerns might be what prevents a war in the first place though.
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    by dukoid 8y ago

    I have done software screen mirroring for RTL languages on an Atari ST ages ago. There I had both full images available and I'd just compare source and target rows, skipping 8 rows (IIRC) until detecting change, in which case I'd
13. 313.▲
    by dukoid 8y ago

    Sounds like a bad case of Goodhart's law
14. 314.▲
    by dukoid 8y ago

    "Sonne" -> "Sun" "Galaktische Scheibe" -> "galactic disc" "Bulge" -> "bulge"
15. 315.▲
    by dukoid 8y ago

    Shameless plug: I have created an Android game for learning propositional logic that's probably more suitable for younger audiences. Source code: https://github.com/stefanhaustein/emojic (the page has a playstore
16. 316.▲
    by dukoid 8y ago

    "Google’s top performers were massively over-represented among those that had the lowest interview scores" -- source?
17. 317.▲
    by dukoid 8y ago

    Maybe he has watched too much "Space 1999"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_1999
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    by dukoid 8y ago

    p.s. The process is shown in this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE06rNkxlks&feature=youtu.be...
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    by dukoid 8y ago

    My bad, I had assumed fission was splitting atoms by adding neutrons, but actually fission is just the "splitting" part, so both cases are indeed fission....
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    by dukoid 8y ago

    I think that's just short term thinking: When the sun expands into a red giant, the gas drag will slow down the moon. I think that means it will crash into the earth if it's not removed before.
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    by dukoid 8y ago

    Wouldn't "passive decay" mean it's not based on fission -- but the article and video both mention fission...?
22. 322.▲
    by dukoid 8y ago

    How about just sending it to the moon instead? Perhaps then we could use the moon as a giant space ship by blowing up the nuclear waste?
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    by dukoid 9y ago

    There are two API levels for Android Apps: The minimal API level and the target API level. Perhaps it makes sense to see the target API level as the "maximum" API level the App fully understands. For instance, Android can't e
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    by dukoid 9y ago

    Unlike QT, SWT, or AWT, Flutter doesn't bind native widgets, but renders everything itself, so the way it works is more comparable to Swing though...
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    by dukoid 9y ago

    I have been working on a programming environment for Android phones / tablets for a while in my spare time. I'll do a proper ShowHN when I have some more reasonable writeup about the motivation and background: https://
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    by dukoid 9y ago

    You may want to take a look at flowgrid.org. I think the main problem (compared to tradtional code) is that drawing is quite "verbose"... Perhaps it could make sense to re-focus the project on AndroidThings GPIO...
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    by dukoid 9y ago

    Here is one written in Java: https://github.com/stefanhaustein/expressionparser In addition to a simple math expression evaluator, examples include a BASIC interpreter and a simple computer algebra system O:)
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    by dukoid 9y ago

    The sad thing is that there would be probably more work / employment in subway construction in total if subway construction was cheaper...
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    by dukoid 9y ago

    Thanks! Case sensitivity: I'd prefer to make the language case-insensitive (or at least avoid uppercase in anything builtin), but then I'd need some other way to distinguish types and other identifiers. Any suggestions? There is a
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    by dukoid 9y ago

    Would you mind taking a look at https://github.com/stefanhaustein/codechat ? WDYT?