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by etatoby 7y ago
From the article, the poachers are not directly hunting for gorillas or other monkeys. When they find them in the traps, they leave them there to die.
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by etatoby 7y ago
What, you don't? That indicator light is one firmware hack away from being turned off. Granted, if someone gets into my laptop I have bigger worries than having stealth selfies stolen, but still.
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by etatoby 7y ago
If you look at the bottom of every page, including the homepage, the author references his own relevant peer-reviewed articles. I'm not saying his theory is right, or that the presentation doesn't smell a bit of crackpottery (it d
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by etatoby 7y ago
Yes, being right about one thing doesn't make you right about everything, but being wrong about one thing makes you wrong about everything. It is known. (Especially when aliens are involved.) It's a fundamental breaking of symmetr
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by etatoby 7y ago
> I suspect that most people know that I don't think so. Spielberg and colleagues clearly didn't know it, or didn't realize the depth of the connection, and they influenced the public's perception of dinosaurs to a la
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by etatoby 7y ago
Just thought I'd add the same benchmark on the latest Dyalog APL. Dyalog APL/S-64 (17) ⍴+.×⌿?2 3000 3000⍴1e10 - size 3000: 6.6s, 0.5GiB RSS - size 10000: 101s, 5.4GiB RSS Conclusions: J's implementation is s
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by etatoby 7y ago
Besides, I've fixed / expanded / rearranged my own electrical wiring more than once (which is legal here without a license, if you do it on own property for non-commercial purposes) and I didn't use any of my electronics
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by etatoby 7y ago
Freshly brewed coffee is exactly one of the many, many things you can buy at Japanese convenience stores, which are franchises open 24/7, at walking distance from any inhabited neighborhood. Also comparable to Italian coffee shops or &
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by etatoby 7y ago
"there are people on this campus in the Gender Studies Department who use books by one of these ideologues and literally have classes basically saying that what I’m saying is wrong." Q1. What purpose does a Gender Studies Depart
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by etatoby 7y ago
> usually, my bank tells me at least once a year that I need a new number because my card has been compromised What!? I have been shopping online all over the place since the time Amazon was only a bookstore (read: decades ago) and thi
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by etatoby 7y ago
I think it's fine for a student, or temporarily. I wouldn't necessarily want to live in a tiny nor shared space if working full time.
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by etatoby 7y ago
“Sharehouse,” very common in Japan. Most of the times it's a repurposed hotel or family house, but in the past it was not uncommon to see buildings designed with this purpose in mind. Usually the shower, bathroom, and kitchen are in co
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by etatoby 7y ago
I agree. Some “safeguards,” eminently type systems (with algebraic types and inference if possible) I've slowly come to value a lot, especially when maintaining a codebase for an extended period of time. But otherwise, I still prefer t
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by etatoby 7y ago
I found it extremely hard to learn Emacs and memorize all the keystrokes. They made no sense. After some time I gave up. Learning Vim was a breeze compared to it.
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by etatoby 7y ago
If I were you, I would look into writing equation and graphing calculator plugins for an existing animation tool, such as Blender.
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by etatoby 7y ago
You mean such as the entire 3blue1brown YouTube channel that it was created for?
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by etatoby 7y ago
I begrudgingly use IDEA because for some languages I cannot get nearly the same level of productivity with better tools, such as Vim or Sublime. But that doesn't mean I like using the damned thing. As soon as I can ditch it, I will and
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by etatoby 7y ago
Isn't that Haskell? Or any other declarative, lazily-evaluated landuage. Granted, you need to use something like the ST monad to be able to "change the value of x," but once you do, all other values fall into place like domin
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by etatoby 8y ago
Update: I ran a quick benchmark (large matrix multiplication) between GNU APL, J, and NumPy (standard pre-compiled linux amd64 packages, all running single-core.) Here are the results. GNU APL (1.7) ⍴+.×⌿?2 3000 3000⍴1e10 - size
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by etatoby 8y ago
I've long been a big fan of APL, since I learned it many years ago. I started by studying on the classic book by Gilman and Rose and trying to use the scarce freeware/shareware implementations available at the time. At the time it
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by etatoby 8y ago
The visualization I liked the best in Interstellar was that of the wormhole, seen from the outside. (The "travel" through it was rubbish.) The thing would look like a mirror sphere, floating in the middle of space, reflecting the
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by etatoby 8y ago
Because they're very small, very dark, and very distant, compared to visible objects like planets in our solar system, stars in our galaxy, and other galaxies.
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by etatoby 8y ago
If you haven't been following the deep learning trend, a "Cat vs. Dog" picture classifier, or variations of such, are now taught in introductory AI classes. Applying the techniques taught in the courses, you can easily reach
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by etatoby 8y ago
Append-only CSS. That's a great definition!
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by etatoby 8y ago
The reality in countries that have legalized it (Austria, Germany, Netherlands, and others) seem to be the opposite. Prostitutes are still for the most part desperate immigrants, held hostage in various ways, and exploited by the companies
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by etatoby 8y ago
Stripper poles?
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by etatoby 8y ago
Judging by the video, the swinging weight is used to provide all sorts of acceleration: forwards, back, and to lift the payload. This is a smart usage of a dead weight (batteries) that makes all the other motors smaller and lighter.
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by etatoby 8y ago
A car does not have an arm that picks up heavy objects. The ones that do (crane trucks) need outriggers and jacks to stabilise the machine and stop any motion before they can extend their arm.
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by etatoby 8y ago
It should have a positive effect, because you're avoiding larger charges and keeping your battery at optimal levels.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Oh wow. That sucks. Maybe you could just add your grandfather's name as a middle name, or something like that.

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