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by janzer 5y ago
Mako is also a fairly popular python template library. https://www.makotemplates.org/
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by janzer 5y ago
There was a brief discussion/effort to reimplement Eurisko on LessWrong about a decade ago[0], of course it rapidly devolved into whether such effort would promote the end of the human race. [0]: https://www.lesswrong.com&#x
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by janzer 5y ago
My guess is the trick is needed four times per frame. For every field you need it once to start the static portion drawing, then once more to stop.
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by janzer 5y ago
There have already been USAF flight tests of starlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_user_tests
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by janzer 6y ago
Basically just technology improving over time. Just looking at wikipedia, 5.25" was introduced in 1976 not clear at what capacity but it fairly early on settled into 360KB. The 3.5" was introduced in 1982 at 720KB with 1.44MB broa
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by janzer 6y ago
According to https://www.twilio.com/lookup 1.5 cents per lookup, would be 1 cent without the carrier information.
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by janzer 6y ago
Also of note is that in some regions it is apparently common to run the power to the fixture itself, then extend down to the switch. Which means there will always be hot wires at the fixture unless the circuit is shut off. My experience wit
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by janzer 6y ago
I'm guessing that it is this one https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/analog/article... Unfortunately it looks like all the figures are 404 on the article, fortunately IA seems to have them https:&#
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by janzer 6y ago
The blog post[1] (which seems like a better link than the landing page) says, "Today, we’re adding support for coupons, tax rates, and two new payment methods". 1. https://stripe.com/blog/checkout
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by janzer 6y ago
That may be more true than most realize. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-p...
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by janzer 6y ago
While rather more dense, I find Gwern's article/list[1] a bit more extensive (although missing a few from this list), while also having some interesting commentary on security implications. [1] https://www.gwern.net&#x2
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by janzer 7y ago
Just a note that while there are [1] 3 transmission lines of 14, 14 and 28 miles in the UP, the lines themselves were mounted on (essentially) telephone poles. The end of each line does have 1 to 3 miles of buried horizontal ground wire th
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by janzer 7y ago
Just want to note that is only a proposal which: * The steering council decided that they will make the final decision on it directly. [1] * Their has definitely been a less than enthusiastic response from the python devs overall and some o
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by janzer 8y ago
Well, you could drive straight up for the 4 hours just so you could wave as it passed you going 70+ times faster than a formula one race car. Alternatively after the drive you can have the worst car accident in history.
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by janzer 8y ago
The difference in definition between a planet and a dwarf planet is just that a dwarf planet has not cleared debris from it's orbit. So not directly dependent on the mass, diameter etc. I'm unsure why the further would orbits requ
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by janzer 8y ago
For anyone wanting to dig into the ICS the authoritative introduction is the NIMS IS-100[1] course. Be aware that it's your standard government produced course, i.e. not entertaining in any way but generally manages to get the point ac
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by janzer 8y ago
National Heritage Areas (NHAs), while administered by the National Park Service, are not National Parks. To quote from the NPS website[0]: NHAs are not national park units. Rather, NPS partners with, provides technical assistance, and dist
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MINERVA-II1: Successful image capture, landing on Ryugu and hop(hayabusa2.jaxa.jp)
162 points by janzer 8y ago|11 comments
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by janzer 8y ago
From what little, and indirect, contact I've had with the US criminal justice system my impression is most defense lawyers are paid for by the state (e.g. the public defenders office). A quick search turns up this[1] report from 2000 t
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by janzer 9y ago
While last year was a very abstract theme, this year follows a space combat theme somewhat hearkening back to the aichallenge.org Planet Wars. The contest is open source and github repo for the contest can be found at https://git
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Halite II Programming Contest Launched(halite.io)
11 points by janzer 9y ago|1 comments
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by janzer 9y ago
To be clear, I'm pretty sure the narrator in these films is not Jam Handy. There is an interview with Mr. Handy himself here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlDdE3Q5BWM Possibly interesting sidenote, to this day a larg
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by janzer 9y ago
> remember human vision is 570+ megapixels This seems to come from http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html But that number is a calculation of the maximum resolving power of the human eye filled acro
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by janzer 9y ago
Before anyone else is confused while reading the article, this was published January 4th.
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by janzer 10y ago
At least in Michigan yellow lights certainly have legal rules enforcing them, from MCL 257.612 (b): If the signal exhibits a steady yellow indication, vehicular traffic facing the signal shall stop before entering the nearest crosswal
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by janzer 10y ago
A PDP-11 is the classic example of a microcontroller. ;) Here's a picture of the model used for the Therac-25 the PDP-11/23 http://www.physics.purdue.edu/~jones105/pdp-11/images/IMG_28...
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by janzer 10y ago
A bad css reset file seems to be the problem. It sets `vertical-align: baseline` on just about everything, including the sub and sup tags. Then never sets sub and sup back to anything reasonable.
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by janzer 10y ago
(2013)
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by janzer 10y ago
Any language that can read and write stdio is supported.
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by janzer 10y ago
Congratulations on your launch and I hope you enjoy running it. It can be a lot of fun and quite the challenge at times. This looks like a very nice spiritual successor to the ai challenge ants contest.

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