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by kd0amg 16y ago
Not sure how far you can practically get with that -- I've seen some rather steep roofs have a lot of snow build up. It's generally accepted around here that roofs have to be shoveled (or otherwise cleared off).
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by kd0amg 16y ago
This whole thing feels like a solution to a problem that's already been solved. If students want to decide where to go to school based on academic strength rather than the gym facilities and sports teams, they are already free to do so. I k
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Non-scrolling headers/footers break the way Page Up and Page Down work, because the visible size is no longer the size of the scrollable area. It also seems to break their "Parent" links -- it ends up with the top bar partially covering t
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Young-Earth creationism is ignorance of physics, not biology. And you'll find a lot less objection to YEC physicians than to stork-theorist physicians (remember, the example Dawkins started with, and the one you quoted).
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by kd0amg 16y ago
What about, say, imperative vs. functional languages?
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Would you refuse treatment from an ophthalmologist who believed: 1. The seasons are caused by Earth approaching and receding from the Sun? 2. Fixed-wing aircraft fly because air moves over and under the wing at the same rate? 3. Thomas Edi
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by kd0amg 16y ago
The NP-complete problems are a subset of NP ("nondeterministic polynomial") problems, specifically those to which all NP problems are polynomial-time reducible. They are, in essence, the hardest problems in class NP. It's pretty trivial to
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Looking at the list of what's included with lazynewb, I really don't see much in there that I'd expect to reduce the difficulty for a new player. Plenty of utilities and such for making the interface easier to understand, but the gameplay m
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by kd0amg 16y ago
What's purple and commutes? An abelian grape. What's purple and commutes and is worshipped by a limited number of people? A finitely-venerated abelian grape. What's purple and had all of its children committed to mental hospitals? A simple
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Yeah, I came in expecting something like a discussion of a grading system with options A, B, Incomplete and what effect it's had on students' learning/progress.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Yes, apparently we have. While I didn't really expect it would be heard in person (and rather doubt it is all that often), this sort of attitude has been fairly easy to find online for some time now.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
What's the use of a 1,000 houses in a town of 100 people? I don't think we gain much by assuming that a person with a PhD is only good for one thing when trying to find another use for them.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
The better upload option is for teachers to allow submissions in the Assignments tab. Is there a way to quickly download all submissions for an assignment at once? So far, I've been stuck with going into each submission's sub-page and cli
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by kd0amg 16y ago
I'd rather you be the hacker and I be the developer What exactly do you mean by this distinction?
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by kd0amg 16y ago
That summary looks about right to me. Though there is probably some value in pointing out that a lot of people who try to get into cooking really don't know where to start and end up looking in exactly the wrong place, e.g. a recipe depende
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by kd0amg 16y ago
If it's for work I'm not interested in, in a place I'm not fond of, the name of the company making the offer likely isn't enough to hold my interest.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
That would be a case of "something was always there."
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Bcrypt is backed by Blowfish, designed by Bruce Schneier. Go look it/him up. It's secure. Well, yes, I trust the Blowfish cipher (and GP probably does too). The question is how we can be sure it isn't being somehow misapplied, i.e. whethe
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by kd0amg 16y ago
I've seen plenty of very informative posts which were essentially slapping down a troll.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Due to the way Prolog backtracks to find a final solution, it can be increadibly slow, and it has to be able to 'undo' an operation. On top of that, from what I recall, it's pretty easy to have the backtracking to stumble into an infinite
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by kd0amg 16y ago
There is no smallest nonzero distance in Euclidean geometry.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
The compiler itself may introduce a fair amount of dead code related to temporary variables created during code generation, and some optimizations can reveal dead code that previously looked live.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Politeness should not be required, but impoliteness on his part is counterproductive. People are too likely to dismiss him as someone who just should not have gone looking for a fight (even if he should have).
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Video and first-hand account are here: http://informationliberation.com/?id=33127 It doesn't help that he wasn't exactly as polite as possible in dealing with the TSA agents in the screening area. Can anyone point to the statute making it
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Probably wouldn't help -- loot that hits cactus gets destroyed.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
I'm trying to read through it, but it looks like gibberish. It's a succession playthrough of a game called Dwarf Fortress. It's something of a city simulation and has been cited as part of the inspiration for Minecraft. You start by gener
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by kd0amg 16y ago
How does he keep the feathers from getting pushed up against the cacti? I've been avoiding this problem with drowning-based traps. When I do use cacti, it's just to filter out spiders (which need a differently-shaped drowner).
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by kd0amg 16y ago
Our monthly gas bill has never exceeded $140. Split across the 5 of us, that's pretty affordable. Edit: Perhaps I should also add that it stays below $40 for at least half the year.
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by kd0amg 16y ago
And no place I've seen matches Houghton on cost of living. The linked article says $1700 for a 2-bedroom apartment. My friends and I rent a 5-bedroom house for less than that.

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