lfnoise

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by lfnoise 6y ago
I grew up in Alief too, back when you had to drive past miles of farm fields to get there. We moved there because my dad, a pilot, flew out of Andrau Airpark. (Also, seeing your post history, I am a friend of Roger Linn.)
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by lfnoise 6y ago
..and for months in the freezer, apparently.
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by lfnoise 6y ago
My pet theory is that the universe isn't expanding. Rather, all the objects in the universe are shrinking. If your ruler is shrinking then it looks like space is expanding. /:-)
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by lfnoise 6y ago
var exhibition = proposals[Math.floor(Math.random() * proposals.length)];
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by lfnoise 6y ago
"The slits are wider facing outward to allow a wider range of firing angles and narrow on the inside to protect the archers." That's exactly the opposite of any castle I've ever seen. That would funnel arrows into the c
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by lfnoise 6y ago
Choosing the Orion capsule as a reference seems unnecessarily large. The Gemini capsule had crew 2, and was 3,851 kg.
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by lfnoise 7y ago
Where did you get Mountain View? I watched the press conference. They wouldn't name which city in Santa Clara County when asked.
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by lfnoise 7y ago
Agreed. You really must not. No sane developer would do it. Unfortunately, there are some insane developers.
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by lfnoise 7y ago
I had someone on the Swift compiler team tell me unequivocally that they make no real time guarantees. Unless you can point to somewhere in the language documentation that the runtime is guaranteed not to ever do X, then I would not assume
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by lfnoise 7y ago
Best sentence in the article: "It also happens to be trained on a large chunk of Reddit, since the author decided that this was undeniably the perfect location to obtain high quality, impeccable prose."
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by lfnoise 8y ago
Chart unreadable for red/green color blind.
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by lfnoise 8y ago
In my experience, sleep apnea treatment in the US is a racket. The sleep center tried to maximize the number of office visits they could bill before prescribing treatment and the insurance tried to delay approvals and minimize the cost and
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by lfnoise 9y ago
relevant: A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/generative-theory-tonal-music
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by lfnoise 9y ago
people who use red and green on charts can go to hell.
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by lfnoise 9y ago
The Comcast installer ripped out the AT&T lines and the lines to my aerial antenna along the side of my house when he installed cable. At a previous house I rented, the Comcast guy cut the AT&T line from the pole and left it hanging
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by lfnoise 12y ago
20 light years per 70000 years in miles per hour = 191604.751 miles per hour, according to google
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by lfnoise 12y ago
Alan Perlis on APL: "What attracted me, then, to APL was a feeling that perhaps through APL one might begin to acquire some of the dimensions in programming that we revere in natural language — some of the pleasures of composition; of