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by hugh3 15y ago
I know how to do exactly one thing in sed, and that's sed 's/blah/blahprime/' somefile . If sed has capabilities other than that, I don't particularly care... but that's one thing that I need to do frequently which is more painful in awk o
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by hugh3 15y ago
It seems to me that a more interesting question than "how did the malware get there?" is "why are they telling us that they found it?" Presumably the default thing to do under these circumstances would be to shut up about it, so the fact th
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by hugh3 15y ago
That has some features along the right lines, but I see that the 3D modelling bits really slow down when given more than twenty atoms to draw. Is that a limit of WebGL, or could I get better performance out by using lesser shading... or som
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by hugh3 15y ago
He is, indeed, the only one in this story I didn't want to tell to get over his or herself. (Question: is it "his or herself" or "him or herself"?)
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by hugh3 15y ago
OK folks, anyone know much about WebGL? For my work, I'd be very interested in something that can do a decent job of rendering atomic structures in a ball-and-stick view. Say, hundreds of balls and a similar number of sticks. Is this within
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by hugh3 15y ago
If you go down and ask them, you'll no doubt get a different answer from each of them, varying in level of coherency. But of course, opinions on how the country should be run are like assholes. Everyone's got one, and I really don't want to
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by hugh3 15y ago
Frequency analysis from textalyser.net: i: 36 steve: 35 jobs: 20 mathematica: 20 So the good news is that Steve manages to just pull ahead of Mathematica in his own obituary.
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by hugh3 15y ago
For that matter, how does that even remotely follow? I can only assume it was based on the fact that the OP is called "steveb". A brief look at his profile, however, is sufficient to satisfy me that this is not, in fact, Steve Ballmer.
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by hugh3 15y ago
As usual, the sensationalist headline implies something very different from what is actually the case.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The ongoing miniaturization of silicon technology has to end fairly soon, as the atomic scale is approaching rapidly. The 11nm node is scheduled for 2015. The silicon-silicon bond length is 0.235 nm. There's no longer plenty of room at th
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by hugh3 15y ago
* And he lived the median number of years for those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer * The median number of years for those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, or the median number of years for those diagnosed with this particular type of rar
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well yeah, that's what happened afaik Whether the nine month delay before getting surgery increased the likelihood of remission is a question I'm not qualified to answer. But until contradicted by an oncologist I'm going to go with "probabl
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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't know anyone who is denying that the economy sucks. The reason we make fun of these people is that they're protesting against the fact that the economy sucks. This is much like protesting against the weather. Nobody has a magic "ma
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by hugh3 15y ago
So they're frustrated that despite the fact that they've been whining for years that the world isn't perfect (where "perfect" means "precisely the way I want it to be), the world still isn't perfect? The solution: more whining?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Not really. Look, Steve Jobs was an extremely important dude in the field of computers. If you go round reading a news site for and by people who work in the field of computers on the day he dies then yes, you're going to find a lot of trib
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by hugh3 15y ago
"By definition, alternative medicine has either not been proved to work or has been proved not to work. You know what they call alternative medicine that has been proved to work? Medicine." - Tim Minchin
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by hugh3 15y ago
As I understand it (and I'm only going by what he said in his Stanford commencement speech here) he had a rare form of pancreatic cancer which is treatable: The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable,
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by hugh3 15y ago
There's something to be said for retiring at the right time, but no, I don't think Steve Jobs' legacy would have been robbed of anything if he'd lived to enjoy thirty years of comfortable retirement. Even dashing young actors aren't diminis
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by hugh3 15y ago
Don't forget Pixar.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yeah, but without death the whole world would be filled to the brim with protobacteria, and none of us complex life forms would ever have had room to exist.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I think he was probably downvoted for bringing religion into it. Since this is not the time or place for a very boring religious flamewar let's just leave it at that.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Virgin Mobile is $25 a month with unlimited data (and text) plus 300 minutes of talk. edit: I have no idea what "unlimited" really means here.
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by hugh3 15y ago
So was the first McDonald's a startup?
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by hugh3 15y ago
The expression is "minimum viable", not "minimally viable". They mean very different things.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I just want something that doesn't make me feel like a menopausal housewife.
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by hugh3 15y ago
it's worth pointing out, by comparison to other world leaders, Angela Merkel has a PhD in Physics (Quantum Chemistry in fact). In other words she's more than capable to grasping the complexities of financial markets. I also have a PhD in
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by hugh3 15y ago
Ever heard of "Greek Orthodox"? I believe it's quite popular in Greece.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Sounds like Animal House: "You fucked up! You trusted us."
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by hugh3 15y ago
What's "smaller" in this case? I thought that most countries didn't need to borrow money internationally, they just sell bonds primarily to their own citizens.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The competition for a $2000 Nano isn't "walking", it's a used Toyota or Hyundai. I'd rather have a used "proper" car than a new worst-possible car.

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