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by frogulis 4y ago
McMurdo station (the biggest one) is standing on land and does thaw in summer [1]. That's on an island at the outskirts of Antarctica though, so I don't imagine it's representative of stations elsewhere on the continent. [1]
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by frogulis 4y ago
Tell ya what, I come up with some damn catchy gibberish tunes in that state. Here's some recently written-down lyrics from sleep-composition. Meant to be sung in a call and response hip hop kinda style, I think. Professor: freedom&#x27
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by frogulis 4y ago
In the words of The Cat, "So, what is it?"
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by frogulis 4y ago
Awesome, I had a robber fly on my back step the other day. Scared the hell out of the me because I don't think I'd seen one before. They are _robustly_ built insects!
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by frogulis 4y ago
Hiya, just FYI a couple of your links are broken
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by frogulis 4y ago
Mostly asphalt here in Melbourne. No freeze-thaw cycle, but anecdotally the few concrete roads I have driven on are pretty rough and the repairs don't appear to be very effective. (Westall road outside the ikea and Dandenong road in Ca
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by frogulis 4y ago
In Taiwan I had a drink made of sour plum vinegar and soda water. Absolutely delicious and refreshing on a hot day! So good I bought a bottle of the vinegar to take home.
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by frogulis 4y ago
Could you explain that in more detail? I was thinking about buying it.
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by frogulis 4y ago
Try writing some code using loops, if statements etc to - create a new array that is the reverse of the old array - reverse an array by modifying it in place - see what happens if you use the `delete` keyword on an array element - see what
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by frogulis 4y ago
With the "functionally equivalent" rule (i.e. if the wording is different, but the Master can't find a counterexample, the guess is correct) this might not be too hard to find.
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by frogulis 4y ago
What does the phrase "rare as the famous rocking horse byproduct" refer to?
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by frogulis 4y ago
If we're linking to internet toys, here's a bit of shameless self-promotion. Something I made a little while back: https://frogulis.net/little-bits/eye-on-a-string
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by frogulis 4y ago
Great piece. Game design is such a fun topic for me. I was frustrated at the strange incentives in the default rules for the game "Bananagrams" so I've been doing some thinking about how to improve it. This story has confirme
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by frogulis 4y ago
Thanks. I had no idea what most of the comments were even responding to!
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by frogulis 4y ago
I read it as "flash card systems can be low-effort, but the value comes from effort, so taking a low-effort, automated option is not necessarily best". Maybe the paragraph isn't phrased in the clearest way, but I agree with t
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by frogulis 4y ago
"What did you expect" - ha! Nice. The keyboard controls could definitely feel snappier, but once I got a feel for the mouse controls I settled right in. And taking the coach offroad is super fun!
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by frogulis 4y ago
I get what you're saying, but I think you've overcorrected
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by frogulis 4y ago
Yup I totally agree. It would be quite possible to do it in-engine for some mod-able games. For example, I just found this Cinematic Camera mod for Morrowind (one of my favourite games): https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind&#
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by frogulis 4y ago
How are the intermediate and distantly related colours meant to work? For one colour I tried, the intermediate ones seemed random, and the distant ones were all various shades of black.
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by frogulis 4y ago
Interesting. All the microwaves with a beep that I've ever had have all stopped beeping upon opening the door.
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World Wide Words: Aliment (2012)(worldwidewords.org)
1 points by frogulis 4y ago|0 comments
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by frogulis 4y ago
Not sure about that. The reason I personally only write comments occasionally is that the code changes and the more comments there are, the less likely they'll be maintained along with the code. If I'm going to make a comment, it
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by frogulis 4y ago
Well, in that case, a short tip: jot down issues on paper to reduce friction as much as possible, then revisit later to flesh out details and enter into Jira. Once an issue is identified, it doesn't matter so much when you figure out t
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by frogulis 4y ago
I think this question would work better if we knew anything about what the product is. For example, at my company, we talk a little about "dog-fooding", but ultimately our product is one that most people in the company don't
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by frogulis 4y ago
I guess it fills a niche that companies really need filled
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Aerial Photography (c. 2006)(steves-workshop.co.uk)
27 points by frogulis 4y ago|3 comments
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by frogulis 4y ago
> Our water comes supercooled right out of the tap in the winter I'm from a place that never really gets below freezing, so I have to ask. Is this serious? If so, that's fascinating. When you turn the tap on, does the water ins
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by frogulis 4y ago
In my experience, the team whose queue arrivals match their processing speed is probably an "empowered product team", i.e. one which is given problems to solve or outcomes to achieve in the way that they think is best, rather than
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by frogulis 4y ago
Many important "effects" (e.g. non-determinism, IO, asynchrony, environmental context, state... etc) are modelled as monads in Haskell. You _can_ write Haskell code without understanding what a monad is, but composing and creating
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by frogulis 4y ago
Rich Hickey's talks "Simple Made Easy" [1] and "Effective Programs" [2] provide a better explanation of these ideas IMO. The specific definition of "simple" is pretty crucial. [1] https://youtu.

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