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by improv32 7y ago
Indeed, if it wasn't flat it would not perfectly cancel. The drop off applies because the force of gravity is proportional to 1 / distance^2, so in this case the napkin would still have infinite mass, but it would not have infinit
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by improv32 7y ago
How can an infinitely large napkin have a center of mass? It seems to me that all everything would get sucked on a trajectory normal to the napkin's surface. Any horizontal force would get cancelled by an opposite force, at an opposite
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by improv32 7y ago
I believe the area between the dotted and solid lines is a mirror. The blob of light is visible because it's passing through some medium that scatters it, then when it disappears it has been absorbed by the mirror, then we see it reemi
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by improv32 7y ago
If we knew Magic was limited to N states, then we can conclude that a program running on the Magic Turing machine will never halt if it has not halted after BB(N) steps.
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by improv32 7y ago
You've probably heard of it already, but if not you should check out the game Cube/Sauerbraten. It's an open source quake-style fps game, with its level editor integrated right into the game itself, and you can edit levels co
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by improv32 8y ago
Tip: make sure you're using libinput and not synaptics. These days libinput seems to have the most reliable trackpad support.
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by improv32 8y ago
If you're comfortable with emacs, irony + rtags does pretty much all the IDE-type things I need it to. You can autoconfigure rtags based on your build system (supports basically all of them). you get variable type hints, function arg h
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by improv32 8y ago
(Just a layman, but here's my understanding) That's another instance where the holographic principle applies. To hand-wave, the holographic principle applies to any theory describing a system, where you can make an equivalent desc
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by improv32 8y ago
As I understand it, they earn a larger share of the money supply, as interest. But not actual economic profit stemming from some productive wealth-creating investment. Except insofar as their support of the coin itself enables ecomonic acti
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by improv32 8y ago
Enthusiastically agree. Learning to manage serious commitment like that it what has done the most for my growth as a person, I think
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by improv32 8y ago
Wouldn't that add a ton of overhead, if nothing is done in kernelspace and everything gets squeezed through syscalls
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by improv32 8y ago
For most DAWs the primary control surface is usually a physical MIDI device that has real physical rotary encoders, which you would map to the virtual rotaries on the pretty interface. So it's more intuitive to have both be a rotary.
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by improv32 8y ago
Exchanges facilitate liquidity between crypto and other common currencies. This has obvious value. But just like any currency, the value of a crypto is what you can get for it. So in the hypothetical where there are no exchanges, there woul
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Löb and möb: strange loops in Haskell (2013)(github.com)
86 points by improv32 8y ago|10 comments
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by improv32 8y ago
But it was clear what the iPhone was adding. Capacitive multitouch, big screen, desktop browser on mobile, etc...
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by improv32 8y ago
You missed the part where he defines division as a/c = a * inverse(c) for all c != 0
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by improv32 8y ago
It's been suggested that perhaps one way to find evidence of extrasolar life, would be to find exoplanets whose years are integer multiples of their rotational periods, i.e. they've done what you describe just to eliminate leap ye
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by improv32 8y ago
How will Unleashed compare to say FreeBSD? Better desktop support?
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by improv32 8y ago
10 has gotten a lot better at the Control Panel thing, most things can be done in Metro settings finally. Still find myself opening ncpa.cpl whenever I have to touch anything network related though
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by improv32 8y ago
Would also like to hear you POV. It's not often expressed here
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by improv32 8y ago
What the parent means is that when cheating isn't accorded a serious enough response, the signaling value of a degree is watered down, so parent must rely more heavily on the interview, which is unfair to those who perform poorly in in
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by improv32 8y ago
I'm reminded of constructing DFAs that represent regular expressions for class.
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by improv32 9y ago
Parent is referencing an extremely insight-porn rich essay by Scott Alexander: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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by improv32 9y ago
The data structure OrderedDict does what you describe and has been in the stdlib since I think 2.7
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by improv32 9y ago
I thought it had to do with matches
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by improv32 9y ago
surely, tzar meant that in a positive way
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by improv32 9y ago
More hashpower inceeases the likelihood that your find your block before the other guy, but the PoW is stateless, there's no "progress" made u til you find the solution, it's purely random each time you increment the non
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by improv32 9y ago
Which gets right to the point. Bread supply is elastic,you could quickly set up shop and produce more bread to satisfy demand whereas skilled labor is highly inelastic. Training, gathering hands-on experience, it's all a time-consuming
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by improv32 9y ago
Trader Joe's is excellent about this. I'm not sure if it's explicit policy but every single time I've asked an employee where something is they dropped what they were doing, walked over to the exact spot and literally ha
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by improv32 9y ago
I think he meant Unreal Engine, which isn't strictly open source but you get access with a monthly fee

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