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by jsharpe 5y ago
It's not that close. The moon is 384,400km away, and JWST will be 1.5 million km away (i.e., around 4x as far as the moon). It would be a pretty serious undertaking to get to it and get back.
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by jsharpe 5y ago
There's some rumination in this article on how difficult it is to get rid of gifts. I find Marie Kondo's advice on this very practical: https://konmari.com/gifts-that-dont-spark-joy/ “The true purpose of a pr
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by jsharpe 5y ago
Completely agree. As a user, I often find FAQ pages to be the single most useful documentation pages. I rarely read the entirety of the documentation for something, but I usually will read the entire FAQ for something I'm interested in
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by jsharpe 8y ago
That's not a great analogy. Haskell is a neat language in part because it doesn't have mutability. Python is a neat language despite being slow. I can't imagine anyone would object if Python could magically be 10x faster.
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by jsharpe 9y ago
Stick it in an index fund and you'll probably get at least 4% per year on average. That's 200k.
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by jsharpe 9y ago
Conversely, the remaining 80 percent are the ancestor of everyone living today. To nitpick, this is not necessarily true. You can imagine a person who had exactly one descendant, who had exactly one descendant, and so on, to the p
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Start with a Toy(gordonbrander.com)
1 points by jsharpe 9y ago|0 comments
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by jsharpe 10y ago
This is a tautology. You're saying that in every election where fraud was obvious ("democracy actually left"), fraud was obvious. There is probably a lot more subtle election fraud that is never detected.
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by jsharpe 11y ago
I got that distinct impression as well. Also this: "We have problems, but they are less serious than those faced by just about any other nation on earth." Seriously? The US has much more serious problems than just about any other
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by jsharpe 11y ago
This reminds me of babies. A lot of people assume that changing diapers or sleep deprivation is the hard part of having a baby. For me, though, the hard part is actually just that babies are kind of boring, and the boringness of having to w
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by jsharpe 11y ago
It becomes necessary to have a fallback vote counting method that you can rely on, in order to detect fraud, because compromising electronic voting is orders of magnitude easier than compromising paper ballot voting. It may be that these pa
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by jsharpe 11y ago
Sometimes it helps to go back to the basics. Just write the simplest possible app, without frameworks or anything. You'll figure out what the pain points are for you, and suddenly frameworks and tools will make way more sense.
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by jsharpe 11y ago
Why not let people opt into it? For a lot of people, even if there are some benefits, they aren't going to make up for the lack of social contact.
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by jsharpe 11y ago
You don't want a scheme where you know your course mark before the final, because then you have no incentive to try, and median allows this. If your marks are 75, 80, 80, 90, then regardless of what you get on the final, your mark will
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by jsharpe 11y ago
Why not both? Some of my favourite classes have said, "Highest of midterms + assignment marks or final exam mark."
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by jsharpe 13y ago
That's a good point. You'd have to restrict to information available to someone at the current time, and not based on future randomness (like winning lottery numbers). Otherwise, you could make (effectively) unbounded money by jus
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by jsharpe 13y ago
I agree that that makes a lot more sense in a way, but there is another interpretation. Suppose you are omniscient but that you have a terminal illness, and have 256 time units left in your life to give value to your heirs. Due to your illn
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by jsharpe 13y ago
It reminds me of when athletes' contracts are discussed - "X gets $100 million!" - with no mention of how many years the contract lasts. It matters!
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by jsharpe 13y ago
This is an invented objection. In reality, in classes of sufficient size, there is always a subset of students who work hard (or are extra smart, or whatever), a subset who is average, and a subset who slacks, or just doesn't understan
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by jsharpe 13y ago
Another approach to discourage use in production would be to randomly return incorrect or garbled data. It's still easy to use for learning, but would lead to embarrassing errors or omissions if used for something real.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data(courseweb.stthomas.edu)
1 points by jsharpe 13y ago|0 comments
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Triggers(randsinrepose.com)
1 points by jsharpe 13y ago|0 comments
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by jsharpe 13y ago
Yes, but the fact that they are being so difficult on such a small claim is not a good sign when you try to use the "Guarantee" on an amount that's actually substantial. Why am I supposed to believe that the Best Price Guarantee means anyth
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by jsharpe 14y ago
I use python's Tornado webserver directly on the network. Don't know if it's the best idea, but seems to work fine for my purposes.
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Avoiding Burnout: How to take a vacation from your email(fitz.blogspot.com)
1 points by jsharpe 14y ago|0 comments
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by jsharpe 14y ago
Snaking in F-Zero GX or Mario Kart. Especially in the former, it makes the game even crazier than it already is.
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by jsharpe 14y ago
I am wondering that too. He also gave the example of Ford beating Reagan (in the Republican primary), Carter beating Ford in the general election in 1976, and then Reagan beating Carter in 1980, but this is also not a great example since th
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Terry Pratchett: Sex, death and nature(newstatesman.com)
2 points by jsharpe 14y ago|0 comments
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Scott Adams: I speculate that Larry Page has Spasmodic Dysphonia(dilbert.com)
5 points by jsharpe 14y ago|0 comments
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Some Best Practices for Web App Authentication(codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com)
1 points by jsharpe 14y ago|0 comments

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