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by fractalsea 12y ago
True, although I wonder if doing it over even a 100m cliff, but with a much larger weight, would be cheaper than the drilling operation.
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by fractalsea 12y ago
This is exactly why I contributed. In fact this morning, by coincidence, I had my first ever PR accepted, and it was for this piece of software [1]. I was using youtube-dl to download VK videos, but I really wanted to be able to download an
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by fractalsea 12y ago
I don't understand why they need to dig holes to do this. Why not build something equivalent onto the side of a cliff?
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by fractalsea 12y ago
Is this actually serious? I would actually really love that. Would save so much strain on my fingers and it would probably even give my legs a bit of a workout.
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by fractalsea 12y ago
Interesting. That is probably the reason why ex-councel houses are rented out for so much money after they are bought from the council. They are often in very desirable areas. I wonder what the measurable/measured effects of this delib
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by fractalsea 12y ago
I have no idea. Probably an interesting project for the author, or maybe they are trying to fix some backwards-compatibility debt from the aforementioned languages. Either way, it would be good to see this mentioned as the first point on th
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by fractalsea 12y ago
Agreed. People seem to talk about more "friendly" cultures as being objectively better than less friendly ones. And by friendly they usually mean random strangers starting small talk with you more frequently. Personally, I normall
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by fractalsea 12y ago
Compared to the maps of living-area-by-race in the US [1], it seems like there is much less segregation between black and white people in London. I wonder why this is the case? Also, I wonder why there is still heavy segregation in regards
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by fractalsea 12y ago
Sounds interesting, but your link goes to a 404 page.
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by fractalsea 12y ago
This looks great. I have recently started a simple physics-based rope swinging game in Elm. It's a lovely language to use, but I have found the workflow quite frustrating. I love the "try elm" editor on the website for the qu
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by fractalsea 12y ago
It wasn't his aim to have no apps, just apps that are distracting and time-wasting. For example, he says that he likes having useful apps like Google and Uber installed. This is the same view that I have towards my smartphone, although
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by fractalsea 12y ago
Bear in mind that this increase has come about because of improved treatment of particular diseases, not because of progress in tackling the root causes of ageing. The point is, it seems to be very hard to push the human body above 100, and
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by fractalsea 12y ago
Why is the fact that it is NP-hard a fundamental problem for real-world systems? Sure, it is hard to solve in the mathematical sense, but in the real world it appears as though approximate algorithms for practically all well-known NP-hard p
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by fractalsea 12y ago
If anyone is curious about numbers. In 2012, out of 134,100 police officers in England and Wales [1], 6,756 are authorised to carry firearms [2]. So roughly 5%. Even if a police officer is authorised to carry a firearm, they must be authori
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by fractalsea 12y ago
I have a Contour; I bought it mainly because specs-wise it was much cheaper than gopro equivalents. There was also some driver issues with the latest gopro model at the time. In hindsight though I think I should have got a gopro. There are
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by fractalsea 12y ago
But I thought that Netflix required Silverlight on the client to work. What is this using then?
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by fractalsea 12y ago
You say there are internship possibilities, but on the jobs page you link to, it says there are none available. Is this the case? Or can these be arranged informally?
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by fractalsea 12y ago
Sent! My name: WillSewell
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by fractalsea 12y ago
That may explain how the target corrects its trajectory towards the actual target, but how does the bullet determine what the "actual target" is in the first place? I would imagine this would be simple in test cases, but in the re
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by fractalsea 12y ago
That works too well. I found the comment "that's pretty damn intuitive" the most funny with the image of it being a sex toy in mind.
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by fractalsea 12y ago
Did you try and install the package "haskell-platform"? That's probably the easiest way to get Haskell up and running. Then it's a simple matter of using cable to install other libraries, including Hakyll.
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by fractalsea 12y ago
I didn't see Hakyll [1] on the list. It is a minimal static site generator written in Haskell. I have just set it up for my first personal site [2]. It is my first experience using a static site generator, and so far I can highly recom
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by fractalsea 12y ago
Hi, OP here. Just thought I'd add that I set up this site today. Having a personal site, along with a blog is something I have meant to do for a long time now. It is obviously rather minimal right now, and I would love to hear any feed
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Chrome Extensions to Make Wikipedia Clean, Usable, and Beautiful(willsewell.name)
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by fractalsea 12y ago
Out of curiosity, what do people think of reading a programming book in ebook form? I love using my Kindle for novels, but I tend to read programming books in quite a non-linear fashion, and like the fact that I can quickly flick through th
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by fractalsea 12y ago
And a unrelated question here: Is there a way to edit my comment? I typed it on my phone, and reading it back, it appears the auto-correct did not favour me. I couldn't find any information on this in the faq or the "Unofficial Ha
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by fractalsea 12y ago
The idea of having the camera on the front is powerful. I have heard people complain with the rift about the fact that they cannot see their arms. I.e. that their "virtual arms" do not match up. it would be cone if their was a way
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by fractalsea 12y ago
Very interesting video. I had no idea. It would have been interesting to see how the program was actually executed. Do the rings around the rope core somehow create a circuit that allows the processor to "know" in which order the
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by fractalsea 12y ago
I find this very impressive. The fact that you can rotate arbitrarily and see correct textures applied to all surfaces of buildings/foliage is amazing. Can anyone provide any insight into how this is done? Is there a dataset which spec
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by fractalsea 12y ago
Off the top of my head, I would assume that it's because in nature solar systems form by dust gradually accumulating into planets. This is different to just plonking a brown dwarf right into the fully formed system. I also think that t

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