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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 8y ago
It's not perfect law, but will these proposed changes to the Act result in better protection? Of course not. There is a consensus among biologists that the Act has been successful to a significant extent. Barring cost consideration at
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 9y ago
A good idea if only because the natural world contains technology far beyond what humans are capable of engineering today. I use the word technology loosely here. Plants and animals are self-sustaining, self-replicating, intelligent, et cet
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Ask HN: Why does instagram think I'm Irish?
2 points by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 9y ago|0 comments
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 10y ago
Quite Nice. Just FYI, the very first command, :(){ :|:& };: is a fork bomb and you probably shouldn't run it in your shell
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 10y ago
As an engineer, I usually know better than to use the phrase I hate to hear: "why don't you just..."
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 10y ago
I'm surprised people bother spending so much energy looking for someone who is both a statistician and a computer scientist knowing they are so rare. There are so many more statisticians who can at least communicate and work effectivel
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 10y ago
Yes, I totally agree with this. I spent weeks debugging some some unexpected behavior with a flash memory chip, only to learn that some crucial information was "explained" in one very cryptic sentence. It turns out the datasheet w
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 10y ago
One thing that got my minesweeper game times down was to never actually mark the mines as such, just click the unturned squares you know aren't mines.
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 10y ago
This is great. I wonder how many of the radio devices advertised or described in here would even be legal to operate today.
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 10y ago
If it is completely true, then surely "pain = progress - reflection" must also be completely true.
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 10y ago
The City of Los Angeles has a really interesting shape: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Los+Angeles,+CA/@34.091182...
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 10y ago
Again, yes, but to clarify, the 60+ Hz I was referring to was not the servo loop update rate, but the rate at which (loosely speaking) the servo loop setpoint is updated. (1) For example, KUKA robot arms can operate in a mode where a motion
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 10y ago
Yes, and I'm compelled to add that robots are typically actuated by servo motors and/or hydraulics, which are very commonly under the control of PID loops. Those PID loops allow the actuators to reach their set-points (whether pos
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Google patent: Glue would stick pedestrian to self-driving car after collision(mercurynews.com)
3 points by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 10y ago|0 comments
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 11y ago
This is a introduction to fundamental statistics, and not a very instructive one. For example, this is incorrect: "By definition, one standard deviation is the amount of variance within a set of measurements that encompasses approximat
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 11y ago
This is how I first came to a good understanding of assembly language. A basic, working knowledge of how transistors and logic gates operate was really helpful. The PIC12F615 remains my favorite <$1 computer.
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 11y ago
I loved the idea of a googol and a googolplex when I was a kid. I may also be remembering incorrectly that a googolplexplex meant a 1 with a googolplex zeros after it. There was also the notion of the word googolplexplexplex... (Appending a
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 11y ago
This might be a bit tangential, but these ideas remind me of the importance of voting with ones dollars (as well as ones time). As an American I find that the freedoms I enjoy to spend my money how I like contribute far more to my sense of
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 12y ago
This is a great suggestion, especially if we accept the authors suggestion that hiring agents are only interested in exceptional foreign programmers, not the merely competent ones. Also, what's a good ratio of exceptional programmers t
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 12y ago
I went down this rabbit hole myself, it's great fun. On our camera we noticed The RGB sensor data lined up well moving right-to-left, but misaligned when scanning left-to-right, creating a subtle rainbow effect. http://topol
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 12y ago
As someone in the comments section of the original post put it, "newer doesn't mean better". Obviously software with security, stability, or performance issues should be re-written, but software doesn't "age" i
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 12y ago
We would want to do that for the same reasons that people write textbooks. Mathematica was not designed for building applications like Java or C++, but as a tool for research and learning. To that end, Mathematica is well designed and the d
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by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 12y ago
check out http://www.classiccat.net/bach_js/