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by frutiger 8y ago
> will eventually illicit a market response Completely off-topic and unrelated, but on the small chance that this helps you (or anyone else reading): illicit is something forbidden or illegal, while elicit is to evoke a particular respon
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by frutiger 8y ago
> To the point where writing one large sigma and listing indices under it at the start of each line would significantly slow you down? Yes (in my relativity & QFT classes). But the timesaving aspect was not that important for me. Th
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by frutiger 8y ago
> I've known 2 people who have had LEOs as stalkers What's an LEO? My first thought is Low Earth Orbit, but obviously that's not right. Googling "leo" and "leo stalker" doesn't bring up much apar
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by frutiger 8y ago
> That approach has successfully turned a pile of spaghetti C pre-processor code into a managable secure server application deployed across Aix, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux and Windows NT/2000. I have also weitten and deployed what you’re
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by frutiger 8y ago
You’re absolutely right, I had never noticed this before. The delete link disappears after some time.
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by frutiger 8y ago
What do you want to achieve by deleting your account? I can see basically two options: 1. prevent you (or anyone else) using your handle to post submissions or comments 2. delete all posted submissions and comments in addition to option 1
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by frutiger 8y ago
It turns out that seemingly distinct forces are related in some clever way. The most approachable example of this (though it doesn't quite extend to the other unifications listed above) is electricity and magnetism. Before Faraday&#x2
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by frutiger 8y ago
There are lots of possible models of unification (a short list of where electroweak and QCD unify are listed here[1], not to mention many more models where gravity unifies), and without experimental data, we don't know which one is cor
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Intrepid scientist corrects physiology in Gulliver’s Travels after 300 years(arstechnica.com)
1 points by frutiger 8y ago|0 comments
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Sure, but the command could've been: "Load this file: <stream of bytes>", rather than "Load this file: <path to file>" which necessarily requires the server to parse the command.
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by frutiger 8y ago
Perhaps my point was too obtuse. I was really getting at the fact bacteria, trees and humans are all alike to Nature, and it is thusly indifferent to them all.
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by frutiger 8y ago
Would you feel the same way about an ancient bacteria or similar that wipes out all life from the past 500 million years? I assume not (at least for the majority of readers); it's instructive to consider why one feels trees are more in
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by frutiger 8y ago
I'm having some difficulty imagining that C is safer than C++.
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While true, some very large projects are exceptions. e.g. Chromium or I imagine things like the NT kernel.
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> The other nice thing about it is that if the code is small it can be more easily debugged and audited by humans. The size of the code is independent of the number of files the code is in.
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by frutiger 8y ago
> I've been using computers for a quarter of a decade OT but I suppose you mean century?
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by frutiger 8y ago
Nice effort and I really like the premise. I hate to be negative and I appreciate this may be due to the requirement to make Coconut a superset of Python, but the pattern matching and the partial application look anything but elegant (or Py
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by frutiger 8y ago
Home Counties accent (or even Received Pronunciation) do not pronounce "car" and the opening syllable of "character" the same way, since the 'a' in "car" is elongated (I'm not sure what the corre
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by frutiger 8y ago
Indeed both of those look so much like ML which predates them by a few decades.
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I did read and I didn’t intend to misquote. Maybe my point is not clear. I’m trying to say that even if we have a choice (or an illusion of it), our nature (and nature itself) has and will drive us to do destructive things. I’m not suggesti
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by frutiger 8y ago
> Of course nature is destructive. But there's nothing we can really do about that. There is something we can do about humans being destructive. Aren’t humans a part of that nature? Isn’t that what makes us destructive?
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Japan restarting commercial whaling(arstechnica.com)
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by frutiger 8y ago
For the most part, Linux ships with drivers in the kernel source tree. This ensures it will remain maintained, and allows the developers to evolve subsystems in an incompatible way and update drivers accordingly. The syscall interface is al
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by frutiger 8y ago
Check out the `--mirror` flag.
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by frutiger 8y ago
As all of the comments below are comparing the San Francisco Bay Area with New York City in terms of real estate, transit time, etc. it's worth noting the stark differences between the two. The Bay Area is of size 6,000-10,000 sq. mi.
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LLVM Relicensing Effort(llvm.org)
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by frutiger 8y ago
> these places become susceptible to pot hunters For those (like me) who are unfamiliar with the term[1]: > (archaeology) A person who seeks artifacts for their personal collection or to sell without regard to their cultural importanc
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by frutiger 8y ago
> Commercial compilers are still produced - IBM with its XL C compiler, for example, and Intel's icc. Both are good. We have a few AIX machines and I’ve never heard anyone refer to xlC as a good compiler. It’s an aging compiler wi
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by frutiger 8y ago
The EM field itself is quantized. You start with the classical electromagnetic field and you try to quantize it. The rules for this are not precise nor formal. That means something a little different to "photons can only have specifi
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by frutiger 8y ago
As does the AirTrain for JFK. They happen to be built from the same system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_JFK#Rolling_stock .

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