hetman

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by hetman 13y ago
The above is true because it is defined to be true. The meaning of the material conditional (i.e. "->") might itself produce some surprising results for anyone attempting to intuitively equate it with the English word "imp
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by hetman 13y ago
Sounds to me like focusing on the slight shift in tab location, as pioneered by Chrome, is exactly the kind of nitpicking you're complaining about. It's not like moving the tabs up a couple pixels fundamentally changed the browser
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by hetman 13y ago
Yeah, it probably depends on a lot of factors, including social sub-cultures within dialects. To me using "I can't remember the last time X" to mean "I actually can't remember X happening" still sounds incredib
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by hetman 13y ago
You must speak some mythical human language that makes sense :P
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by hetman 13y ago
Indeed, the last time I saw it was so long ago I can't remember when it was. The phrase "I can't remember the last time..." is idiomatic usage in my dialect of English for: "This has occurred to me in the very dista
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by hetman 13y ago
In the other hand see a car do it on a weekly basis where as I can't remember the last time a bicycle did it (and in the few cases I saw it, there was no obstruction of traffic and in fact they were getting a head start to allow traffi
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by hetman 13y ago
Because the bike paths are unsafe. Frankly cyclists usually annoy me, but he's following the law, and probably better than most of the self entitled idiots in cars who get by with the VERY minimum of safety awareness on the road.
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by hetman 13y ago
Perhaps the physical disparity between these two modes of transport makes them so incompatible they just shouldn't be sharing the same space at all. Unfortunately cities just haven't been built with this in mind, so making the adj
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by hetman 13y ago
How do we determine "unintentional"? Does having a blase attitude towards the road qualify? Most people don't even internalise the fact they're driving a ball of steel weighing over a tonne with the potential to mame or
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by hetman 13y ago
It's ironic seeing so much criticism from citizens of countries such as the USA which hasn't exactly solved its own poverty issues from the perspective of plenty of other countries. So where do you draw that arbitrary line? Also,
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by hetman 13y ago
I'm not sure if you can call the fractions of semi-tones of the equal tempered scale (used in most modern Western music) as neat. Indeed, its widespread introduction was very controversial because it was always considered a compromise
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by hetman 13y ago
For anyone curious, here is a reconstruction of the Song of Seikilos mentioned in the article: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xERitvFYpAk It is based on the musical notation found on a tombstone and is, I think, the oldest
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by hetman 13y ago
Because until the entities, likely to exert huge lobbying pressure on legislation, are brought to heel, changing those laws will prove very difficult indeed.
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by hetman 13y ago
Yes. Changing some background colours seems like it would add a lot of value to the app...
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by hetman 13y ago
Of course, I'm sure any military actions regarding Taiwan, the Spratly islands, etc, isn't going to need any kind of UN approval since they're already Chinese territory that has been unjustly annexed by foreign powers.
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by hetman 13y ago
Yes but in the real world there are inefficiencies. We can't even transfer energy efficiently enough into the reaction yet to get a net energy gain from the fusion reaction. And once you reach that milestone, you still have to make tra
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by hetman 13y ago
Just take the word "nuclear" out, like they did with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging. No one will ever suspect a thing ;)
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by hetman 13y ago
Except my brain isn't a Turing machine. What expressiveness means then is how easily I can fit the concepts of the code in my head (not on my harddrive). This is not the same as how short the code is, though the two are often closely r
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by hetman 13y ago
Unfortunately the documentation still states that at this point I can choose either threads or a dynamically linked run time library. For an embedded system, static linking isn't much of an option because there are real memory constrai
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by hetman 13y ago
I think he meant effective economically, not necessarily politically.
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by hetman 13y ago
I believe it's 90 seconds in Australia.
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by hetman 13y ago
I don't know about weak. It makes the other party look rather hypocritical if they should ever complain about being treated in kind. This can be manipulated to sway public opinion and that can at times be a powerful thing.
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by hetman 13y ago
Could you explain what you mean? In Windows The GUI itself is scaled but it is still rendered at the native resolution of the display. Resampling virtual resolution pixels to physical pixels is the OS X approach. Edit: It appears that Windo
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by hetman 13y ago
I never said crackpots are guaranteed to be visionaries, though I'm sure it made a convenient strawman for you to argue against. My only point was that you can't be certain either way a priori, to be sure you must actually investi
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by hetman 13y ago
What often distinguishes the crackpot from the visionary is whether they are eventually vindicated. The latter usually begins their career being perceived as the former.
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by hetman 13y ago
While the hypothesis itself seems rather unlikely, I think the evidence is interesting enough that further investigation would certainly yield some interesting results in their own right. Major leaps in scientific thinking can often start w
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by hetman 13y ago
I believe he addresses that by suggesting backcrossing with the chimp line. Still seems extraordinary such a cross should originally be even remotely viable.
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by hetman 13y ago
One could only hope these types of strong arm tactics against a diplomatic mission would lead to repercussions serious enough to make future incidents much less likely. However, since it seems there is nothing more to be gained by continuin
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by hetman 13y ago
I think we're talking about different periods of time when referring to the "short term". My short term is probably your medium term. While there are some technologies to dispose of the waste, such as breeder reactors, even b
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by hetman 13y ago
Until we figure out how to make large scale energy storage economical, we are still going to be stuck with the problem of providing a base-load for the grid. As far as environmental impact, nuclear fission still seems like the best option t

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