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by jpfed 9y ago
This was the first place my thoughts went to. But a passive device like this seems like it would oppose the gambler's fallacy: after you roll, the weight distribution of the die shifts to be as energetically favorable as possible fo
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by jpfed 9y ago
What would you say are the worst pain points?
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by jpfed 9y ago
I hope video doesn't become the default method of communication. I don't like my face or voice and would rather not bother others with them when there's always trusty ol' text.
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by jpfed 9y ago
A couple CS games not mentioned: * Lightbot (covers much the same ground as Robozzle) * Manufactoria (explicitly manipulating Turing tapes)
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by jpfed 9y ago
Doesn't the time-bandwidth reciprocity fall out of the same math as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? Does this work have implications for HUP "workarounds"?
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by jpfed 9y ago
>Parasites can offer a beneficial service to the host but cannot live without it. Incidentally, this is not what biologists consider parasitism. To a biologist, a parasitic relationship is one that benefits one while harming the other.
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by jpfed 9y ago
I got a chance to do this when an office reorg temporarily granted me a third monitor. The occasional horizontal scroll was more than compensated for by the feeling of godlike power.
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by jpfed 9y ago
Even lower-effort initial observation: I have to scroll horizontally to see the whole page with my portrait-orientation display.
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by jpfed 9y ago
>All goes well until someone aligns something visually, like so: I have been programming for most of my life, and I still don't know why people do this. I just don't feel the need to align stuff.
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by jpfed 9y ago
This by itself disproves the Just World hypothesis.
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by jpfed 9y ago
So it's more that Program mode is an imperative means to add objects to the diagram, and switching between modes commits those changes?
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by jpfed 9y ago
Am I correct in thinking that diagrams have something like a "program-mode" part and a "normal-mode" part? From a new diagram, if I place some objects in normal mode and then switch to program mode, there's no textu
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by jpfed 9y ago
Cool- I suppose dropping a 1 kg object on someone's head is morally equivalent to dropping a 1000 kg object on someone's head. It's really only a matter of scale.
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by jpfed 9y ago
Interestingly, when I heard about Mastodon it was via Metafilter, where the main thrust of conversation wasn't "finally, we get an unmoderated space"; it was more "finally, we can inhabit/create better-moderated spa
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by jpfed 9y ago
Next time you use Facebook, pay attention to how much time you spend scrolling past videos or images (including images for link previews). That time is partially Facebook's fault because (instead of just showing every post to every fr
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by jpfed 9y ago
From your genes' perspective, successfully reproducing on Mars would be one the best things you could possibly do. The population of another planet would have a hell of a founder effect.
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by jpfed 9y ago
Really understanding this means knowing why a closure is a poor man's poor man's closure.
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by jpfed 9y ago
Apologies for my many disorganized thoughts here. Consider also soliciting suggestions from mothers. Do you think Elixir will help him solve a problem that is interesting to him? Kids would probably be most immediately motivated by a lang
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by jpfed 10y ago
Yeah, like when I take pictures to remember what my kids were doing that day, really all that must be done is to extrapolate their stage of growth using their birthday (derived from publicly available databases), infer their likely location
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by jpfed 10y ago
I have nothing constructive to add, but when I was still a UW-Madison student, I did karaoke with Paula Niedenthal. She absolutely killed.
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by jpfed 10y ago
It was obviously designed to be a cunning way of limiting the expansion of the military-industrial complex; they can't just keep building adjacent pentagons because they don't tesselate.
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by jpfed 10y ago
My son is obsessed with PICO-8, and he does indeed spend more time making music and drawing sprites/maps than he does coding.
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by jpfed 10y ago
Imagine selecting two nodes and getting a Lissajous figure out of it...
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by jpfed 10y ago
Some parts of Microsoft are newer than others.
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by jpfed 10y ago
I'm not a Buddhist but I was curious about whether Buddhists thought Mr. Rogers was a Bodhisattva. From what I could find the answer was "he doesn't use Buddhist language, but other than that he totally is."
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by jpfed 10y ago
>I'm game Could be a problem if you're trying to hunt poachers.
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by jpfed 10y ago
Am I the only person who is made nauseous by the rotating snakes illusion? I had to hit the back button before the page was done loading.
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by jpfed 10y ago
Mind going into all the work that's being done to get the government out of heterosexual marriages?
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by jpfed 10y ago
And, of course, there are places where the county's reach exceeds the city's. For example, the city of Milwaukee is deep blue, but Milwaukee County elects Sheriff Clarke.
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by jpfed 10y ago
>the issues that Americans considered at the national level would be very strongly dominated by the concerns of the most populous urban centers, which would lead to even more fractiousness between urban areas and "flyover" area

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