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by fizx 10y ago
Any black hole generator that doesn't itself become a black hole is essentially throwing part of itself in the black hole (Yay conservation laws!). You can replace the catapults with lasers or plasma guns or whatever.
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by fizx 10y ago
> You'd need the sphere to be more than massive enough to collapse under its own gravity, into a black hole; such a structure wouldn't be hypothetically possible. I don't think that's technically true. You could buil
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by fizx 10y ago
RTFA. Twitter didn't get hacked. Browser malware screen-scraped the passwords.
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by fizx 10y ago
I'll always like that terrible Blurred Lines song because I had a really fun time dancing to it at a friends birthday party. I'm pretty sure Macbook is a better person than Robin Thicke. Meaning in music can come from the creator
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by fizx 10y ago
To be honest, learning waveforms for interesting tone or timbre sounds a hell of a lot easier than composing a symphony.
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by fizx 10y ago
Isaac Newton was an alchemist and an occultist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studie...
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by fizx 10y ago
Deciding to do things this way is a tradeoff. Writing data into a search index is maybe 10x more expensive than writing it into a log. But doing actual search typically happens in something like log(n) time. Even for pathological queries
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by fizx 10y ago
I'm excited for Rust for the reasons you talk about, but when I tried it a year ago, FFI was broken. I'd like to find a reason to retry it soon!
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by fizx 10y ago
Let's say you want a GC'd language (no C, C++) on *nix (no C#), good/varied libraries to work with (no esoteric languages), good performance (no Ruby, Python), reasonable options for implementing concurrency (no Javascript),
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by fizx 10y ago
I wish there was an IDE that would present code in your preferred format (e.g. 4 space tabs, curly braces on independent lines, etc), while still keeping the code on disk and in scm the same as the existing style (so diffs stay small, and y
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by fizx 10y ago
Twitter.
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by fizx 10y ago
It's really important to stay hydrated, because your body often mistakes thirst for hunger. Drink water every 10m in the pool. Also, I often take a small amount of heavy protein immediately after the workout (~1/2 of one of thos
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by fizx 10y ago
AFAIK, Selectorgadget's chrome extension is just a wrapper around the bookmarklet. It's pure JS, doesn't use any sort of elevated privileges, and is MIT licensed so you can include the core engine in your own projects.
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by fizx 10y ago
I wrote a language that's basically a superset of this ( https://github.com/fizx/parsley/wiki ) back in 2008 and used it to crawl a variety of insane job posting sites. As crawling complexity increases, pretty
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by fizx 10y ago
https://github.com/fizx/parsley/wiki looks pretty similar. Running this sort of thing as a service/api never panned out for us because you are almost universally robots.txt denied and/or blocked. We brie
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by fizx 11y ago
History tends to distort things. The present is an era. The 1990's is an era. The 1800's is a era. The renaissance is an era. The stone age is an era. Of course accomplishments per era could decrease when we're judging th
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by fizx 11y ago
I think this sort of thing will improve once AIs are trained using the human's enjoyment of the game as the primary utility function. This could be as simple as asking users to rate the preceding game at its conclusion. It could be as
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by fizx 11y ago
Paris's characteristic "beautiful" architecture is six stories tall stone, SF's is three stories tall wood. Unfortunately SF was started on a major fault, and probably without nearby quarries (which would be insane to u
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by fizx 11y ago
Is there research on ways to tax balance sheets?
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by fizx 11y ago
Does the classic "wear funky makeup" to fool face recognition even work with recent deep learning advances? I'd doubt it's nearly as effective. If you're referring to the recent "deep learning classifies this
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by fizx 11y ago
It's trivial for companies to not spend resources helping problem customers.
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by fizx 11y ago
Composing an amazing symphony is probably about as hard as being the best go player in the world. But I think we're much further away than you think. AlphaGo needed a training set of perhaps a billion games to be as good as it is. Th
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by fizx 11y ago
I dont think so. You can download a zip from http://logiclrd.cx/milo/ http://logiclrd.cx/milo/downloads/monospac.zip
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by fizx 11y ago
> Is/are there any such framework/s built with/in Python too? What an awkward regex! :)
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by fizx 11y ago
One of the first programming hobby projects I ever did was a level editor for a similar qbasic game called mono space. So fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_K6yB3OsGs
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by fizx 11y ago
Distributed locking with liveness checks is exactly what zookeeper excels at. I wrote a one-click deploy (via cloudformation) self-healing zookeeper cluster on AWS (wrapping netflix exhibitor for the pretty GUI and config reloads) that ha
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by fizx 11y ago
That's not at all how or why quenching works. Quenching is used to accelerate the rate at which a metal alloy solidifies/crystalizes such that the internal arrangement of the components is affected. Quenching has nothing to do w
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by fizx 11y ago
There's a sweet spot where you're right enough to say "I told you so" and vague enough that no one can use the info.
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by fizx 11y ago
Did you benchmark against GIST? Its hard to tell because you posted very loose benchmarks on a shared VM, but the performance wasn't particularly impressive. Is there a reason that you're unwilling to trust Postgres's query
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by fizx 11y ago
So, it seems like someone doesn't realize that postgres supports a non-cobbled-together full text search? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/textsearch-indexes...

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