kyteland

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by kyteland 6y ago
Ireland was certainly producing plenty of other crops than potatoes but when I said they were lacking biodiversity I was specifically referencing the potato monoculture. The poor were overwhelmingly reliant on the potato and it was wiped o
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by kyteland 6y ago
One thing to point out is that global pandemics don't just afflict human populations. Biodiversity within the agricultural crops we grow helps to protect them from being totally wiped out. The Irish potato famine was the result of a
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by kyteland 6y ago
Electric blankets aren't intended to be used while you are in the bed. Your own body heat can keep the bed warm and they're dangerous to run while sleeping. Their intended purpose is to warm the bed before your own body is in th
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by kyteland 6y ago
They don't lower the internal temperature of the freezer. The frost generally forms first on the evaporator unit and that is the part that is heated periodically to remove the ice buildup. It's possible for ice to build up elsewh
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by kyteland 6y ago
To me COL adjustments are a proxy for the underlying metric of replacement cost. Employers are not going to pay someone more than the cost to replace them. For a lot of professionals this is dictated by their local employment market and COL
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by kyteland 6y ago
My (admittedly limited) experience with curbside pickup seems to be that a dozen eggs is really 11 and you'd better thoroughly sort your produce after you get it. Expect a few losses.
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by kyteland 6y ago
I have YouTube history turned off along with other publicly visible tracking and this kind of nonsense still happens to me. Their algo is working on more data than just what they make visible to the user. "The only winning move is not
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by kyteland 6y ago
The problem with this is that many delivery drivers use the tip to determine if the delivery is worth their time to accept. If you put in $0 (assuming a cash tip at delivery) nobody will want to pick up your order. On average it will arrive
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by kyteland 6y ago
As a childless person with a great home office, this is exactly how I felt being forced to work in an open floor plan office. There was no time to concentrate on my work unless I got in early or stayed late. There were constant distractio
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by kyteland 7y ago
It's a great read if you're not too in depth on the topic and want an overview, but it is badly in need of a modern revision that removes some of the more speculative parts of the last chapter and replaces it with what actually ha
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by kyteland 7y ago
I read an article this morning that South Dakota has become a tax haven as well due to their trust laws. An interesting read. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-amer...
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by kyteland 8y ago
I have no idea about what happens in the moment but it is best determined long before a situation like this arises. My mom is an RN and has seen first hand the need to have this set up prior to a serious situation happening. I have health
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by kyteland 8y ago
Rivers Casino is across the city line in the suburb of Des Plaines. It is not within city limits.
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by kyteland 8y ago
Yeah, this may the 3rd or 4th time I've said something along those lines in a HN thread he's active in over the last 10 years.
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by kyteland 8y ago
I took CS 173 and 373 from Jeff nearly 20 years ago, with 273 from another great professor. That course sequence along with Combinatorial Game Theory (which I took on a lark) has had a greater impact on me than the rest of my university ex
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by kyteland 8y ago
I shifted to being an early riser around 30. All it really took was for me to move into a place with unobstructed east-facing windows. Within a matter of months I was waking up at sunrise and bedtime had shifted from 2am to 10pm without any
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by kyteland 9y ago
As someone that makes casino games and is an active gambler, I have to disagree with this assessment. The amount of money a person initially brings to the casino is often a function of many variables of their life outside the scope of a ca
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by kyteland 9y ago
> Whoever the designers are who came up with this stuff, fuck them. Are you sure you're laying the blame at the feet of the right people? I'm a design lead on a mobile game and I find myself in a constant battle against these
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by kyteland 9y ago
My parents taught me (most likely inadvertently) all kinds of financial lessons very early in life. I had a weekly allowance that was earned doing generic chores. There was a list of bigger spring-cleaning-style chores that had their own
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by kyteland 9y ago
I use the right click context menu on the archive file to 'Extract Here' which seems to accomplish the same thing.
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by kyteland 10y ago
It absolutely is exaggerated. I left a job at a real money slot manufacturer 3-ish years ago where I was a mathematician and 'the rng guy'. Even then our machines weren't susceptible to this attack. We had a fix. And by &
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by kyteland 10y ago
Jeff is also a great professor. If you ever get the chance to take a course with him, do it. You won't regret it. I had him for both 173 and 373 back in the day, and credit his teaching style for the immense amount of material I picke
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by kyteland 10y ago
Just run your projections through http://www.firecalc.com/index.php and project what your historical odds of going bust are.
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by kyteland 11y ago
They have a few of the top games in the social casino category on both iOS and Android. I work there and make some of the slots games. If you're a fan of gambling they're actually really good games even though you're not play
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by kyteland 11y ago
I think a cheaper/easier solution is to just reintroduce the beaver back into the habitat and let them get to work. http://www.resilientdesign.org/how-beavers-are-coming-to-the...
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by kyteland 11y ago
There is, and I can't recommend it highly enough. http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-2nd-Henry-Warren/dp/03...
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by kyteland 12y ago
Each of the state jurisdictions have different rules regarding minimum RTP percentages in games. With regards to poker autohold there aren't any rules that I'm aware of other than it has to be above the regulated minimum for the
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by kyteland 12y ago
Another purpose of autohold is to provide a floor for unskilled players in a game of skill. They don't use it in Las Vegas specifically to allow players to make as many mistakes as possible. Optimal strategy on 9-6 JorB is 99.54% RTP
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by kyteland 12y ago
I worked with GLI when I was doing it. Edit: Now that I've (finally) finished the article I see it was a WMS machine. I worked for WMS and on this exact product before I left. I'm not sure why they didn't name the manufactu
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by kyteland 12y ago
I used to work as a mathematician making OSL video poker games and I can tell you that there is no requirement that the autohold in the game use optimal strategy in Oregon. I don't remember if it was even required to have autohold ena

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