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by jakear 5y ago
Not just spiders. I’ve a caterpillar solve puzzles I would have thought impossible via long running search with clear indications of evolving understanding of the environment and refinements to physical technique. I was hoping to keep it ar
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by jakear 5y ago
Fleet of small scale autonomous drones? Bonus points if they're water soluble.
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by jakear 5y ago
You'll see that in the Elements panel, it actually puts a grey " == $0" after the selected element to point you towards this feature. Also, $1 is the previously selected element, $2 is the one before that, etc.
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by jakear 5y ago
Yep… this is why the “thank goodness these functions aren’t colored!” people confuse me. Colored functions are a very good thing , they make it explicit where context switches happen and make understanding async interactions easy . People
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by jakear 5y ago
Not the parent and not a “dualist”, but I sometimes like to engage in thought experiments comparing us to intelligent entities on a webpage that have been given access to a REPL on their current context: We discovered document.body.innerHTM
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by jakear 5y ago
It's just like how Younique is the future of beauty products. Those who profit the most from more people believing it do a very good job of convincing more people to believe it. Do they "truly" believe it themselves, or are t
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by jakear 5y ago
Thanks, looks like it was set to auto-install security updates and prompt for the others.
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by jakear 5y ago
Funny thing is I click “not now” or whatever it is when they pop up asking if I want updates, yet it still gets locked.
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by jakear 5y ago
Those darned apt locks have to be the second biggest PITA of my Linux development experience. Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea for an automatic system maintenance process to entirely block the user from doing their using f
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by jakear 5y ago
Semantic diffing would be great, but until then you want an ignore revs file: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-blame#Documentation/git-bla... Real world example: https://github.com/microsoft/v
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by jakear 5y ago
The trick is to get a disk that works; wire it up to boot up, run your job, then shut down, on whatever schedule you need; then never touch it for anything besides business logic changes. Brownie points are awarded for persisting the setup
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by jakear 5y ago
For some real fun try accessing a redirect's resource when the redirector requires an Authorization header. You'll need 4 separate round trips, and the final endpoint will need to restrict requests based on Referer in addition to
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by jakear 5y ago
Neat that the Roomba is written in a lisp. It has it’s quirks and hiccups, but on the whole is extraordinarily well designed, standing head and shoulders above the usual slew of “home automation” products I wouldn’t touch with a 10’ pole. T
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by jakear 5y ago
I’m not aware of an analog for Integral control in standard bike/car suspension. Integral control is steady state loss minimization, and the precise steady state position isn’t a big deal for most suspension systems. An exception could
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by jakear 5y ago
A good demonstration of the perils of Proportional-only control -- if the only input to the system is only the instantaneous distances to obstacles, the car can't make any decisions that take into account its momentum. This means it&#x
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by jakear 5y ago
Semi-related, moth larvae (in my case Wooly Bears) are astonishingly intelligent. Put in a challenge arena they immediately begin a beam search and will learn over time what paths are futile, which require further exploration, how to pass p
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by jakear 5y ago
RegEx => DFA conversation can lead to exponential growth in number of states... don't know how big it'd be in this case.
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by jakear 5y ago
I remember doing this with some homework assignments back in college, the very many filler words available in English make it pretty easy. The linked text uses copious fillers and doesn’t even maintain the same width across paragraphs.
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by jakear 5y ago
You can check instanceof of course, but the idea behind doing this is that object literals and raw data from JSON/whatever can be treated as a first class entity, rather than mucking around with all the boilerplate dataclass junk a lot
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by jakear 5y ago
Take the number of users in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate encountering this issue, B, multiply by the average time wasted working around the issue, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the time to make a fix, we do
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by jakear 5y ago
Picture a tree. At every instant, every branch tip in the tree makes a decision: keep growing linearly, spawn a new branch, or stop growing altogether. How the tip makes the decision is unknown, but in the end the tree is perfectly balanced
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by jakear 5y ago
> If you supply water, try to change it daily. There's some bacteria going around. I know the answer is obvious, but I don’t know what it is. Why is promoting animal growth better than promoting bacteria growth?
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by jakear 5y ago
White men are not the only folks involved in researching fundamental physics and you know it. You comment devalues their work more than anything on this page. Your account is old enough I’d expect you to know what dang’s about to say alread
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by jakear 5y ago
Please don’t repeat the same comment over and over, it comes off as spam even though that’s not what you intended. This doesn’t even address this particular parent’s question. Better would be to make the comment once, where it is most appro
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by jakear 5y ago
My dog (Aussie) is more than happy to catch a frisbee (backflipping along the way if need be), but still refuses to bring back a ball. I think simple retrieval can be too boring for such breeds, even with high value treats it's much mo
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by jakear 5y ago
Exactly. When I’m tinkering around in Scheme crafting cutesy little interpreters a simple text editor is great, and having an IDE would feel like having someone standing over my shoulder whispering to me every rule of a game I already know
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by jakear 5y ago
Baseless speculation: this is less about ongoing protection against keeping CSAM on their servers and more about a one-time sting operation requested by some sort of acronym’d official. The basic idea being: have a bunch of catfish agents s
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by jakear 5y ago
Do you also hate when people say 3+4i is closer to 5i than 5?
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by jakear 5y ago
Your argument is identical to: “I hate when people project matrices onto lower dimensions; do they not see how that loses information? People should only ever deal with matrices in their original form, that way no data is ever destroyed. If
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by jakear 5y ago
Why should low cap business owners be able to exploit foreign laborers just because they’re low cap?

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