kazinator

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by kazinator 5d ago
Also, renters of well-behaved, toilet-trained, quiet pets are subsidizing renters with ADHD children.
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by kazinator 5d ago
Maybe they should start with something easy, like building a simple wall.
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by kazinator 5d ago
Nonetheless, they were fooled by that function, because it's just keep-if by a funny name that includes "not" suggesting that it contains a complement that might be factored out. If you want keep-if, you don't want to us
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by kazinator 5d ago
> ~ asks a question about a value and gets back a number or a label, never text. Here it is a probability, and the if fires at >= 0.5. In other words this could be done in plain Python using: if squiggle_probability(msg, "cus
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by kazinator 5d ago
Wow, I pinned the tail on that donkey, it seems, with zero fact checking on the figures before posting.
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by kazinator 5d ago
It's vaguely analogous to why ray tracing goes backwards.
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by kazinator 6d ago
Nope! Interest rates significantly affect house prices in an environment in which houses are are affordable by large numbers of people to whom interest rates are of paramount importance.
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by kazinator 6d ago
> there is no way that "the bald eagle" could refer to the class of bald eagles Well, on second thought ...
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by kazinator 6d ago
$15M is dirt cheap for the USA. That buys you like 100 yards of urban light rail or something. :)
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by kazinator 6d ago
Well, yes; for that you need the number of cars that that don't hit a deer. :)
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by kazinator 6d ago
Nope! Because "the" also refers to a class/category which is essentially the opposite of indicating a particular member. For instance, "the bald eagle is native to North America". There is also "The" in na
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by kazinator 7d ago
Fun fact: the hindbrain progenitor cell is shaped like a little lizard.
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by kazinator 8d ago
Nope! Common Lisp's filter is in fact remove-if-not , which is exactly the same thing as "keep if": keep all items which match the predicate (removing those that do not). I suspect the reason the function was deprecated was
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by kazinator 8d ago
I'd much rather have the compiler diagnose an infinite loop than silently pretend that it's not reachable, or that it can be rewritten to a yield. In other words, I am mentally well.
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by kazinator 8d ago
The expansion of paraffin wax is substantial. I have experience wax potting guitar pickups as well as bicycle chains. I use a skinny, tall tin can for this, placed in boiling water. When the liquid wax solidifies, it not only pulls away fro
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by kazinator 10d ago
Rather, what I don't understand is the original argument that roundabouts are bad because the busy direction of traffic has to slow down and gear down unconditionally, whether or not the rare cross traffic is present, so it is then bet
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by kazinator 10d ago
OK, so "worse for pedestrians" boils down to a statistic about body hits. If you are not struck, you are not having a worse pedestrian experience. My bad!
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by kazinator 10d ago
That's a thing that happens.
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by kazinator 10d ago
System requirements for a product are not expressions of belief in them being tight lower bounds. They are a body of excuses for not providing support to a user with any kind of issue plausibly attributable to their system being outdated.
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by kazinator 10d ago
Only large roundabouts take space. Small roundabouts can easily be retrofitted into small, unguarded residential neighborhood intersections without clawing back any sidewalk corners. They just plop a curbed-off circle in the middle of the i
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by kazinator 10d ago
National Roundabout Week should be two weeks separated by a week, so that if you missed the first week, you just wait another week and it comes around again.
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by kazinator 10d ago
Famous scene in Chevy Chase's European Vacation .
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by kazinator 10d ago
A place where traffic slows down, without actually stopping , and becomes congested with no time/space gaps between vehicles, is worse for pedestrians.
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by kazinator 10d ago
Platoons of cars with space in between allow for pedestrians and vehicles to cross the road, downstream. Nothing worse to have upstream of where you are trying to enter a road, or cross it, than a busy four way stop, with cars coming out of
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by kazinator 10d ago
As someone who drives manual, and so actually having to downshift myself when necessary, I would rather negotiate a larger roundabout 100% of the time than having to stop at a red light 30% of the time. On my current gearbox, I can dip to a
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by kazinator 10d ago
Most people have bad taste, preferring elaborately ornate crap with multiple clashing patterns. No surprises here.
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by kazinator 10d ago
Can't we just call the "lasting impact" "interpretation"?
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by kazinator 11d ago
Where is the fire? Is the Emacs ecosystem collapsing because of type errors undiagnosed when .el files are scanned?
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by kazinator 11d ago
I can't help but be reminded of how Edison scaremongered around electrocution: the War of the Currents. Edison was a proponent of distribution of DC, and so he used scare tactics to try to convince people that the competing AC, which c
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by kazinator 11d ago
Consider that the bigger the egg, the smaller its surface-area-to-volume ratio, and so the easier it hangs on to heat, and so the smaller the temperature differential that is required to keep it heated.

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