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by dwringer 9y ago
How do you know it's "very very fine" if you've never had it? Is that something like the emperor's very fine clothes?
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by dwringer 9y ago
After reading this thread I had to read this [1], which I found helpful in understanding the discussion. I think in some cases it is just more natural to write microservices but at the end of the day if done right the end user won't r
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by dwringer 9y ago
I'm not sure how to respond to this. I can't tell if you read both sentences of my previous comment. My point was that the Bourne reference would have been funny without the objectification of women by the inclusion of the phras
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by dwringer 9y ago
I don't really think there's any call for such an objectification of women. The joke would have been just fine without it.
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by dwringer 9y ago
Unless I'm misreading something, both the text and graphic of that page seem to indicate it's 4.1km/s from low Mars orbit to the surface of Mars. I can't find anywhere saying it's 4.1 from LEO.
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by dwringer 9y ago
I wonder more about how this data affects what the people they know see.
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by dwringer 9y ago
That seems like a very interesting and useful application of theories in pre-attentive processing. When everything is aligned to the same orientation then the attribute of orientation may become almost effortless to perceive and cognitive
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by dwringer 9y ago
"The spirals are actually there" - the unbroken spiral is not there, and it is an illusion of one, not multiple. At least to me. I guess if you want to be particular, the circles are broken by the pixels on my monitor, but at 4k
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by dwringer 9y ago
For me the illusion here is no trick. Looking at it I have considerable difficulty not seeing a single unbroken line spiraling out from the center to the perimeter. In reality there are huge disconnects, it is concentric rings and not a c
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by dwringer 9y ago
A lot of the fun in KSP can be finding the line between bad design and good design, and then trying to pilot your way through it (IMHO). I will never forget my first Apollo-style mission and just how many dozens of struts it took to hold t
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by dwringer 9y ago
Something tells me people are self-censoring these results. And I ain't just talkin' StackOverflow.
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by dwringer 9y ago
4k got me to stop complaining about the loss of 16:10. A 4k screen at 16:9 is still not as wide as even two 4:3 monitors side by side -- and you still get the screen real estate of four HD screens in one. Is the aspect ratio my favorite?
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by dwringer 9y ago
Not sure which is funnier, the Web developer/Windows API/Enterprise Programmer sections, or the comments from people underneath complaining that nobody used memoization.
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by dwringer 9y ago
"When the typist presses a key, a pawl on the key lever depresses a matching metal bar (interposer) for that key. The interposer, which is oriented front to back in the machine, has one or more short projections (lugs) protruding from
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by dwringer 9y ago
It really is amazing how much of a difference that contour style makes - I picked one up for long stretches of coding when I otherwise tend to develop "hunched-over-the-computer" syndrome. The pressure relief on the chest and sho
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by dwringer 9y ago
I think the concept of "flow" as it relates to Kairos is best described by the classic song, "Row, row, row your boat".
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by dwringer 9y ago
I feel the same way you do about how the article explained the concepts. I found what seems like a fuller explanation of a conceptualization of Kairos here [1] - even if it may not be the most transparent: [1] https://link.sprin
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by dwringer 9y ago
"Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not"
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by dwringer 9y ago
The spiral images have tiles that are reflected, not just rotated. You'd otherwise need a third dimension to do another rotation. I think that might be considered two different tiles by the rules laid out in the article.
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by dwringer 9y ago
> Imagine you see a squadron of fighter jets flying in above in the sky. Then, one of the jets inexplicably breaks formation and flies off by itself. A clear-cut case of Paternal Conflict Syndrome.
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by dwringer 9y ago
I've had emails from family members go straight to gmail's spam folder on two different occasions, and a third occasion in which the mail appeared to have sent according to the sender's mailserver, but never showed up anywher
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by dwringer 9y ago
A lot of pop songs go through the hands of several different producers, each of whom might work on a specific element for a desired effect. In many cases these producers are selected for specific sounds deemed to be chartworthy. I would b
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by dwringer 9y ago
Sliders and knobs are one thing, but this format really invites the use of XY controllers where sliding a finger in the x-dimension modulates one parameter, while the y-dimension modulates another. I am certain more complex schemes should
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by dwringer 9y ago
The thing about jarring ads is a great point. I have lynx installed for those times when I've been jarred by one too many. It can be refreshing to navigate the web in a console window.
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by dwringer 9y ago
I think the problem stems also in part from that while the 1900's and 1910's may have been called the 'oughts and 19-tens or 19-teens, those terms aren't extremely common today and "twenty-teens" also sounds st
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by dwringer 9y ago
I hope you don't consider mine a shallow objection. I rather liked the change :)
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by dwringer 9y ago
Something like that time lapse video at the end could be shown to kids even in preschool.
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by dwringer 9y ago
If some form of anxiety and the ability to cope with it are major factors in affecting one's potential ability to do math, then in theory anyone could benefit from learning to cope with anxiety and to persist in mathematical study. Th
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by dwringer 9y ago
> _Google hopes prove ..._ I am guessing that was meant to be "hopes _to_ prove", or else we're at the point now where for Google, merely hoping for something to be true makes it true. Or are we using the mechanism of &quo
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by dwringer 9y ago
Thanks, I actually do understand what you mean but then I simply must refer you to the rest of what I quoted. There is no distinction, it simply comes down to a diagnosis based on a number of factors - otherwise we are "all a bit auti

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