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by kyzyl 11y ago
"It was so simple! Just add 3-gamma to the M-structure!" slaps forehead
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by kyzyl 11y ago
I'll second the recommendation. That's a really fantastic book.
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by kyzyl 11y ago
Indeed. I, for one, am very grateful that most of my high school papers have since faded into the abyss ;-) ... or so I hope.
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by kyzyl 11y ago
Deference to authority is a funny thing eh? I find that in life, and especially in running my business, I pretty frequently lock horns with people who disagree with me on account of a seemingly differing opinion of some other Experienced Pe
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by kyzyl 11y ago
The power coming from the sun is approximately constant. The power hitting any given spot on the planet is far from constant due to weather, day/night cycles and seasonal shifts. For a given solar installation, there might be a time wh
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by kyzyl 11y ago
It might be that they consider it important to be able to interrogate the in-memory or on-disk representations without the help of a decoding step. Protobufs are great for getting objects into a nice compact format to throw on the wire, bu
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by kyzyl 11y ago
Is Shedskin still actively maintained? I haven't looked in a long time but last I saw it hadn't gotten any updates in a couple years (maybe I have corrupted memory though ;) Anyhow, the relatively new Nuitka project seems to be ai
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by kyzyl 11y ago
Hey -- I've got a question about that use case. So I'm familiar with Nuitka (and all the rest... ugh) but in my brief tests using it I couldn't really get it to work with any of my python code that did anything real. For exam
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by kyzyl 11y ago
He signed up for their 'Blast' plan ;-)
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by kyzyl 11y ago
Well, aside from being a different data structure with different characteristics that will be more or less suitable for a given computation, they share the same primary trait with vanilla tuples: they are immutable. They also let you improv
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by kyzyl 11y ago
Stronger than wood, in fact. A properly assembled glue joint will be the last thing to break on a wooden part. That reminds me that I should really get back to working on that desk I was building... months ago.
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by kyzyl 11y ago
Well it seems reasonable that they might have chosen to launch in the US only. I think even Google might be leery of launching services to more than 300e6 people at the same time. ;-) Anyhow, my snarky comment was more related to the fact t
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by kyzyl 11y ago
Well, if we're going to get our music via 'alternative' methods, I'd just cut to the chase and use What.Cd (or another tracker).
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by kyzyl 11y ago
Flac? Let's not get our hopes up too high before it's even available in our country ;-)
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by kyzyl 11y ago
"YouTube Red is not currently available in Canada." And they still wonder why people pirate things...
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by kyzyl 11y ago
While I'm not making any statement about the feasibility of the Skarp, I think you might be exaggerating the size of a moderately powerful modern lasers. At my company's R&D lab I have some 1W CO2 lasers that, similar to what
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by kyzyl 11y ago
I'm immediately reminded of the landing gear on the ornithopters from Dune. Hopefully hunter-seekers are a little further off...
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by kyzyl 11y ago
My company is developing sensors that implement these sorts of coherent interferometric ranging techniques, and I can say that it's pretty unlikely that it works from space or from a drone. There are a lot of non-obvious factors that m
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by kyzyl 11y ago
I mostly agree, but I interpret kelukelugames's comment as saying that it's one thing to do your homework and be aware of what you're getting yourself into, but it's quite another thing to actually be living on ramen
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by kyzyl 11y ago
Maybe both men and women irrationally pursued more PhDs than made sense, but the men were historically more likely granted the opportunity to find out for themselves why it was a bad idea ;-) (I get your point though. "Just sayin'
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by kyzyl 11y ago
If what you're interested in doing is analog/digital synth stuff, the AoE has the information you need. It leaves some gaps and presents it in a way that I am not fond of, but that's just me and I'm far from your typica
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by kyzyl 11y ago
If my opinion on the matter is welcome here, I would recommend against AoE. It is, indeed, the 'bible' of electronics, but it's also huge, expensive, and not terribly helpful for someone who isn't in school for electroni
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by kyzyl 11y ago
It really depends on where you want to go with it. I found early on that I learned most by figuring out how to achieve self contained blocks of functionality to accomplish a more elaborate task. For example, to build a tape following robot
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by kyzyl 12y ago
I know nothing about biology, but how about this: The evolutionary path was influenced via selection. Those who made and used tools were more likely to survive/mate successfully, and those who made and used tools also tended to use the
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by kyzyl 12y ago
Overall a good article with some insightful points. One thing strikes me as a bit off, though. The recommendation for one or two cores per GPU seems not quite right. Examining only the CPU<->GPU performance, this might be reasonable.
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by kyzyl 12y ago
Putting aside the question of hardware+electricity vs. g2.2xlarge service charges, I think it's worth mentioning that there's a lot more to putting these models together than just getting the hardware and paying to operate it. I t
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by kyzyl 12y ago
A question that's somewhat akin to asking, 'How robust are humans to flying projectiles?' ;-) Of course, it's all about the energy. I'm not a biologist, so I won't speak to the details of how resilient DNA is t
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by kyzyl 12y ago
Might take a look at Babun[1] as well. It's a fairly pretty emulator with a built-in cygwin tree, and integrated (default) zsh. [1] https://github.com/babun/babun
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by kyzyl 12y ago
FWIW, my brother uses* (and I have used, briefly) a non-thinkpad Yoga daily, and it's a very nice machine. He's had it since ~August 2013. Like any device I could come up with complaints about it, but nothing really springs to min
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by kyzyl 12y ago
Okay, here's my attempt to distill things a bit. Now, I'm not very old, but my time putzing about this field has taught me that there are two components to carrying on successfully: experience, and communication. Right now I run a

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