jacobolus

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   by jacobolus 8y ago

   Apple hired the author of BeFS to work for them. He has worked on Spotlight, Time Machine, Apple's file systems, etc. http://www.nobius.org/dbg/
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   by jacobolus 8y ago

   Yes that was my point, that sentence seemed quite out of place, and was sufficient to make me skeptical of the author’s motives.
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   by jacobolus 8y ago

   In my opinion it is never appropriate to tell someone who just fell down and is making a crying sound “oh get up, you are fine, stop crying” etc. No response at all would be better. But you do you.
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   by jacobolus 8y ago

   > may have resulted from the presence of dysgenic fertility The effects might be interesting, but it seems like an entirely unsupported logical leap to attribute any effect to this cause.
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   by jacobolus 8y ago

   > I simply mean that I am not going to explain to them why they are not allowed to do certain things or why I want them to do certain things when they are too young because they don't understand why. You might be surprised. Even w
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   by jacobolus 8y ago

   I’m not really sure what you mean by “discipline”. Anecdotally, as the parent of a not-quite-2-year-old, I have found that when I treat 2- to 4-year-old kids at the playground with basic human respect, and pay attention to their interests a
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   by jacobolus 8y ago

   Or try the Japanese anime version, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gankutsuou:_The_Count_of_Monte...
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   by jacobolus 8y ago

   > Bright kids deserve an educational environment where they can be challenged and develop their full potential. All kids in public schools deserve that. It just takes more resources than we as a society are willing to spend, especial
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   by jacobolus 8y ago

   Note that you are quoting (a not necessarily nuanced translation of) Engels, not Marx. http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me06/me06_165.htm You might want to read Hegel and then reading other works by Marx and Engels for co
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    For anyone who wants to try writing (Javascript) code in a literate style, give Observable notebooks a shot, https://beta.observablehq.com
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    If they were just out of school and currently unemployed with no dependents, sure. Otherwise, memorizing answers to homework assignments from an intermediate algorithms course seems like a poor way to spend significant time for someone whos
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    AMS Euler should be much more widely used. It’s great. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    The suburb is best for healthy childless people aged like 40–60 who have few social hobbies and enjoy commuting to work by car and then spending the rest of their time at home, e.g. doing carpentry in their garage, gardening in a large yard
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    I grew up in a suburb and I am sure glad my kid will be growing up in the city with access to transit and a wide range of amenities within walking distance, and streets/neighborhoods actually designed for walking around. American subur
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    > Exact divisors are not what they are cracked up to be. They’re pretty nice if you use base 60, in which case you can figure out how to almost always approximate any division problem by something you already have in your reciprocal tabl
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    In a decimal world it is convenient to count 2, 3, 2, 3, etc. [or for me what I’m saying to myself is more like, 2, 5, 2, 10, 2, 15, 2, 20, ...] In base 12, it is convenient to count 4 groups of 3. This is definitely easier and more efficie
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    Fair enough. Thankfully we haven’t yet had any pebbles shoved in nose or ear, and we play with those on a regular basis. I feel like little objects making it into the mouth is significantly more common.
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    > box of completely inert culinary grade stainless steel BBs to play with? If you did, it wouldn’t really be a big deal. Toddlers daily encounter playgrounds full of tiny rocks, wood chips, etc. which are more dangerous than the BBs. S
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    You missed the point. Almost everyone lets toddlers play with toys that say "Choking hazard: Ages 3+", because that warning comes on basically all toys, including stuff like Jenga blocks, sidewalk chalk, .... Any parent who disall
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    Ah yes, because nothing says “data structure consisting of a contiguous block of memory broken into uniformly sized chunks so elements can be cheaply accessed by index” like a little picture of rice dumplings on a stick. Much better than ju
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    I thought macs gave up on subpixel aa after the advent of retina displays.
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    > Can't quantum computers be simulated on classical computers? The simulation gets exponentially slow, to the point that the fastest classical computers we have are not practical for simulating even modestly sized quantum systems.
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    People complaining about cavities should stop eating so much sugar. Brushing their teeth is only a band-aid and doesn’t attack the core problem. And yeah, that means they should probably stop eating processed food with added sugar. Which me
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    > I often read papers full with math I don't understand and I am forced to go backwards, but it only works because I hit a previous knowledge not so far back in that graph. This is the best way to learn new things (besides spendin
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    And for everyone reading: go play with Observable. It’s fantastic!
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    And this doesn’t even discuss the effect of changing the color scale on the visual appearance (linear vs. log vs. some binning algorithm etc.), measuring counts per region vs. per capita vs. per square mile, drawing a cartogram, etc. There
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    The way newspaper articles work, not every reader is expected to read the whole thing. They are structured to put critical information up front, so that a reader can stop whenever they lose interest without missing anything more important t
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    *Brunel
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    They should absolutely use SVG for this. The browser doesn’t have any better way to do it. The performance will likely be good enough for whatever they are trying to do; CPUs are super fast these days, and can render many thousands of graph
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    by jacobolus 8y ago

    SVG 2 adds a big pile of stuff, some of which seems completely unnecessary to me, https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/wiki/SVG-2-new-features But it doesn’t fundamentally change the concept, which as I said is to be