jtolmar

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by jtolmar 8y ago
Most of the variation in how long mine takes is during the spin cycle, which seems like an easy thing to get a sensor on. Drain the water then spin until you stop getting more water to drain.
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by jtolmar 8y ago
For #1, try to explain it to a friend, preferably in person, possibly via a chat app, but definitely not via email. Then base your writing on the way you explained that. (But like, with complete sentences.) This is the best method I know fo
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by jtolmar 8y ago
If your intuition is saying it should have gotten splashed apart: so what? The portion traveling in the same direction as the main body of the star would fall back into one body. The rest would be somewhere else, no longer a star.
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by jtolmar 8y ago
The classes with access to jousting were the same as the ones making decisions, though.
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by jtolmar 9y ago
That's not inherent to markets, it's caused by allowing a market system to have a feedback loop where investments are rewarded proportionately to their size (capitalism). The people able to participate in the feedback loop inevita
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Both definitions are useful. Different pay for the same work is obviously unjust at the surface because it affects individuals. But a different mixture of jobs that leads to unequal pay, while it doesn't involve anything so easy as poi
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by jtolmar 9y ago
What if your file system didn't distinguish between underscores and spaces, your GUI displayed them as spaces, and your command line displayed underscores? Then this problem goes away entirely and you instead have the problem of not be
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by jtolmar 9y ago
> Consider indefinite loops, which require someone to reason about potentially infinite executions of a block of code. What if we didn't have them? I've been thinking about making a language that's primitive recursive, and
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by jtolmar 9y ago
I think we could use a reasonable middleground between the awesome standard libraries of Python and Java and the ocean of tiny packages of Rust and Javascript. It'd be nice if a package-managed language could import the huge awesome st
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Even on modern versions of Maps, South Korea uses bitmap tiles. On a phone, scroll so Pyongyang and Seoul are in the same viewport and observe what happens to them if you try to rotate the map.
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Well that's good to know. I'll change that problem to "the playback speed menu items don't show their shortcuts" then.
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by jtolmar 9y ago
It's missing keyboard shortcuts for some operations (slowdown and speedup) and missing some common shortcuts that other video apps have mostly converged on (unmodified left/right for short hops, up/down for volume). Many of t
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by jtolmar 9y ago
> The most common response I’ve gotten to this post is that we should expect programmers to be well-paid because software is everywhere and there will be at least as much software in the future. [...] Yet electrical engineering comp isn’
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by jtolmar 9y ago
They did, so actual GPS location chips weren't thrown off. But apparently there are GPS-based clocks out there that don't actually bother to read the almanac. (I'm a few layers removed from the error report where I saw this s
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by jtolmar 9y ago
I don't think the giant chain of subcontractors explains the problem - I've been a part of the same process in the US and the resulting website[1] was quite pretty. [1]: http://www.spaceneedle.com/
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by jtolmar 9y ago
A few months ago one of the satellites was still broadcasting while it was down for routine maintenance, reporting some time that was off by a third of the distance to the sun. There are enough weird GPS errors that I'd hope they have
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by jtolmar 9y ago
I don't think what matters is whether someone could be expected to know a feature, but rather whether they could be expected to correctly guess what it does. That comma operator is pretty odd; someone could easily be surprised by that
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Using the traditional approach on a pure CRUD app, your server transforms form inputs to inserts, page requests to queries, and query results to HTML. Each of these transforms can be pure functions, and all the state updates can be handled
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Google, Apple, and Twitter have hidden the actual launch alert behind three layers of sub menus. Facebook has three layers of sub menus too, but that's the drill and the actual launch is on the front page. Microsoft just has one of the
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by jtolmar 9y ago
The way a library OS normally works is that you compile your OS+App on one machine and install it on another (virtual or otherwise). What I'm suggesting is that you compile on one machine and then reinstall your OS on the same machine,
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by jtolmar 9y ago
> I wonder if we will see a new paradigm anytime soon. I'd like to see something like a self-hosting library OS. The entire OS is a single giant application, software is installed by adding the source code and recompiling the whole
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by jtolmar 9y ago
> an AI actor totally dedicated with either the infinite and immediate improvement or replacement of itself makes no sense to me. If I decide that a problem is so hard that the best solution is to invent a superhuman AI to solve it, then
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by jtolmar 9y ago
An hour a day for standup, five hours a week for retro. Grooming sessions never made a dent in the backlog. 30 person team, VP in the room during some standups. Obviously that monster was not what anyone intended by agile, yet the trappings
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Thank you, but be careful. It sounds wiser because that last line is so pithy.
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Until it's been independently tested and used in the real world for a while, it makes sense to be suspicious of any form of energy transmission or storage. Energy is dangerous. Just don't let the suspicion last long enough to beco
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Pi is within 1% of 22/7. Edit: Another way of putting it, pi is not infinite. It's a number between 3.14 and 3.15.
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Good analysis. It's an interesting technology, but trying to use it to create UBI doesn't make sense for the reasons you stated. I think you'd get something interesting if you dropped the universal constant rate of money crea
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by jtolmar 9y ago
That's a very strange extrapolation - we don't need to be any smarter to extract more energy. We're building more renewable energy capability every year, even though humans aren't getting any smarter. Building a dyson sw
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by jtolmar 9y ago
ELO ratings level out eventually for a given pool of opponents. If a player already wins every game against all available opponents, there's no evidence that can tell you if they suddenly got twice as good. If tracking improvements pas
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by jtolmar 9y ago
I was thinking of just doing a generic tree search + optional heuristic thing to start. As a game developer, my experience has been that even really stupid AIs help a lot to understand what my game plays like. If having something simple in

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