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by jcl 7y ago
It's a surprising pattern... Most U.S. state capitals are not their largest cities, and most large cities are not capitals. Phoenix is the only city in the top 10 that is also a capital.
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by jcl 7y ago
The classic parody textbook "Science Made Stupid" theorized that earthquakes are triggered by vibrations from agitated animals. ( http://www.chrispennello.com/tweller/ , page 38)
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by jcl 7y ago
His autobiography?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWoz
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by jcl 7y ago
Yes, San Francisco has rent control. However, the SF South Bay Area does not contain SF. It is usually considered to contain around twenty cities and towns, only four of which currently have rent control: East Palo Alto, Los Gatos, Moun
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by jcl 7y ago
The page makes provisions for for-profit schools: "Private and/or for-profit schools are not included. However, if you email us with the information listed above we can put together a quote that includes an educational discount (u
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by jcl 7y ago
SpaceChem's omission is probably just oversight. The SpaceChem page itself makes a similar offer, with the same link to Zach's e-mail: http://www.zachtronics.com/spacechem/ A fun anecdote from a GDC talk ( h
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by jcl 7y ago
A surprising CS connection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie#System_of_measuremen...
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by jcl 7y ago
Funny... It must need to synthesize the obscured portion of the eye highlight. I wonder if it grabs it from the back-facing camera, or if it's using stock images/texture synthesis?
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by jcl 7y ago
It's a little surprising that the article itself calls out creeping thyme as one of the bee-friendly candidate plants for MN, then, as does the article it ultimately sources from: https://www.startribune.com/program-pay
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by jcl 7y ago
"Big Face Box" was a fun project I saw at a Makers Faire: https://makezine.com/2017/05/25/bigfacebox-a-simple-way-to-g... I'm not sure where they got the plastic sheet lenses from... I know old
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Why are some feathers blue? (2012)(smithsonianmag.com)
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by jcl 7y ago
I'm not sure I follow... The motivation for Badge is to have methods on VFS that only Device can call, without exposing VFS's internals to Device. Without Badge, what prevents non-Device functions from calling register_device()?
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by jcl 7y ago
One of my favorite SCons features is that it determines the necessary build operations from file hashes rather than timestamps. Working on a project with a long link step, it was wonderful to be able to rephrase comments, rename local vari
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by jcl 7y ago
I guess it's analogous to the pros/cons of allowing software to send crash reports... Withholding your data protects your privacy and prevents abuse, but it also causes your problems to be underrepresented in a public data set, w
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by jcl 7y ago
Jiménez certainly designed the thing that killed him. As far as I can tell, Heselden's involvement was just finanical. The deaths are both ironic, but in different ways. FWIW, it was enough to get him on a different list: https:&#x
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by jcl 7y ago
He bought the company after the product had already been invented. (Now, if Dean Kamen somehow died to a segway...)
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by jcl 7y ago
In case it wasn't clear from the article, it's not a real check. (But certainly worthy of framing.) https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html
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by jcl 7y ago
It could be better phrased: "whilst CPython can be multi-threaded, only 1 thread can be executing Python code at any given time." Other threads can be doing other things at the same time -- just not actively interpreting Python
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by jcl 7y ago
Funnily enough, it looks like noa is built on the Babylon.js engine, which was the side project of some Microsoft employees, released under the Apache license, written in TypeScript. So it seems that open source software has stimulated som
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by jcl 7y ago
He explains how he does lateral movement at 1:21 in the video. He's lifting the block enough to get an off-center pivot under it. Once the block is on a pivot, he rotates it 180 degrees, then tilts it onto a new pivot and repeats. B
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by jcl 7y ago
On his website (now only available via Internet Archive), he claims to have used the same Herodotus machine to raise and place the lintel as he did for raising the initial supports: https://web.archive.org/web/201611070
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by jcl 7y ago
You're not the only one who was confused... Apparently there is yet another Zoom company -- the one whose ticker symbol happens to be "ZOOM" -- who has seen an increase of 54,000% in share price since March, purely on news
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by jcl 7y ago
It would be nice, but I'd be surprised if they make much of an effort. There's little financial motivation to make available a huge library of practically free games, especially if people are willing to pay for new "nostalgi
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by jcl 8y ago
The first four paragraphs water down the title's claim to the more comfortably defensible: "Nobody knows how to learn a language... to native fluency without significant effort."
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by jcl 8y ago
Not sure if you're already aware, but tracker keyboard shortcuts for note entry typically mimic a piano keyboard: 2 3 5 6 7 q w e r t y u, etc. I thought this was pretty slick when I first encountered it.
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by jcl 8y ago
You must not have used a brick 37,112 times yet. :) http://phillipecantin.blogspot.com/2013/02/legos-magic-numbe...
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by jcl 8y ago
Exactly! The taxi, ambulance, and firetruck missions were some of my favorite parts of the GTA games, and featured relatively nonviolent, legal activities. They could easily be standalone games... One could argue the taxi missions already
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by jcl 8y ago
Reminds me a bit of Jeff Vogel's blog post about the first Red Dead Redemption: "What was more surprising, though in retrospect it should not have been, was how instantly attached my eight year old daughter became to the game the
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by jcl 8y ago
Maybe Sugarizer? Looks like the easiest Linux install is going to be as a Chrome web app: https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/blob/master/README.md
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by jcl 8y ago
You might enjoy "Learning a Manifold of Fonts" from SIGGRAPH 2014. Here's a point in the middle of the paper's presentation that demos the navigation within the learned space: https://youtu.be/oHwuJJU760

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