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by gwillen 13y ago
Ok, I was figuring the handwriting would be fake, or produced by some third party. The idea of capturing your own handwriting, and printing it on the card, is pretty ingenious.
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by gwillen 13y ago
It seems like you could easily fix this problem by substituting a different atom instead of exciting one of them. It would be interesting to see if the results are the same.
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by gwillen 13y ago
It's not every day I say this to a Republican -- in fact, I'm not sure I ever have before -- but seriously keep up the good work. We're all counting on you. :-)
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by gwillen 13y ago
A dinner plate spinning in the vacuum is not in a ground state -- it has substantial kinetic energy that is being converted into heat and electromagnetic radiation as it spins, and it will gradually slow down and stop. (Veeery gradually.) T
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by gwillen 14y ago
'Turning around' implies it's the same group of users doing both. I, for one, have never persuaded a user to depend on a startup; I am squarely on the side of advising users never to depend on anything without a well-understood business pla
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by gwillen 14y ago
Or, in more humorous form: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
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by gwillen 14y ago
Everything before 'Did I get it right?' is correct. I have no opinion on the bit after that. :-)
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by gwillen 14y ago
You are wrong; -t does not change the ctime. It changes the atime and mtime. You cannot change the ctime using touch.
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by gwillen 14y ago
That's very interesting. I had been wondering whether they were hiding matches from me for the 'attractiveness' matching; empirically it seemed unlikely. Are you saying that, if I never use 'Special Blend', I am unaffected by the attractive
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by gwillen 14y ago
Ctrl-F confetti, the comment is now gone.
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by gwillen 14y ago
I think Betteridge's Law of Headlines clearly applies to this one.
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by gwillen 14y ago
ctime is also useful because it's harder to forge. You can normally set the mtime on your files to whatever you want, but forging the ctime normally requires either directly modifying the filesystem structures on disk, or changing the syste
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by gwillen 14y ago
It's hard to measure ambient light correctly for something like this, because in a dark room, most of the ambient light is actually coming from the screen itself.
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by gwillen 14y ago
I'd be curious if you have data on the risk of lane-changes. (Knowing how dangerous they are would probably cause me to do fewer of them.)
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by gwillen 14y ago
I suspect you have adblocking software that's blocking the affiliate redirect. The links do work for me.
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by gwillen 14y ago
You will never be able to buy cash or cash equivalents with a credit card without paying a hefty fee; the credit card company will count it as a 'cash advance'. (And of course it's unlikely you'll ever be able to buy bitcoin with a credit c
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by gwillen 14y ago
I think BitInstant is about as easy at it gets if you're in the US.
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by gwillen 14y ago
Given that I've never yet used an infinite scroll implementation that had reliably-working 'back' button behavior, I'm skeptical of the claim that yours worked. I'd put some money on the hypothesis that it worked under ideal conditions, or
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by gwillen 14y ago
If I remember nothing else from Physical Mechanics 1 -- and I probably won't -- I will always remember that the calculus of variations and the principle of least action are fucking dark magic.
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by gwillen 14y ago
I don't know where the truth lies, but I can tell you that the author of this piece is clueless.
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by gwillen 14y ago
Unfortunately, I suspect they will not get nearly a proportionate amount of input saying 'software patents delenda est', because the people who feel that way also know that the USPTO is not likely to take their input seriously.
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by gwillen 14y ago
NAT traversal barely scratches the surface. The Zephyr protocol is a crime against nature and nature's god. :-P (I do like the class/instance structure, though, and that's never been duplicated anywhere else as far as I know. A friend and I
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by gwillen 14y ago
"Vic Gundotra, who is in charge of Google+, says he sees little in-house controversy today. "There was more resistance two years ago," when the project wasn't well understood internally, he says." This is absolute bullshit. As I've mentione
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by gwillen 14y ago
I'd love one, gwillen@nerdnet.org.
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by gwillen 14y ago
See my self-reply.
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by gwillen 14y ago
Is there some way I can contact you directly the next time I find an example of this? I'm happy to send you all the diagnostic data your heart desires. I suspect in some cases it may be due to timeouts or row count limits. I tend to do very
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by gwillen 14y ago
See my self-reply.
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by gwillen 14y ago
Replying to myself since I can't edit: I see two replies suggesting that what I want is a multi-city trip, but that's not the same thing. Flights will happily let me do the same search I can do on Orbitz, with my start/end city being "SF me
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by gwillen 14y ago
I don't use it because, last I checked, it's unable to handle what I think of as basic corner cases, like booking a roundtrip going out from one airport in a metro area and coming back to a different one.
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by gwillen 14y ago
The moderators can and do change titles, and it is oft-remarked that they tend to do it from useful towards useless, rather than vice-versa, for unclear reasons.

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