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by lodi 8y ago
Right, but suppose I know or suspect that a specific person is trying to send me a hashtag, but I don't know what that hashtag is: let's use the example given in the posted website of a new romantic partner wanting to take things
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by lodi 8y ago
Doesn't this leak too much information if both parties aren't being honest? E.g. you could just submit spouse + every likely hashtag--#breakup, #haveKids, etc.--and then see what ends up matching.
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by lodi 8y ago
When you boost an orbiting object in this manner there's only two possibilities for what can happen next: a) you give it enough energy to reach escape velocity, in which case there's no problem. b) you blow out the circular orbit
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by lodi 8y ago
In my opinion, it's already long been "there" for seated, cockpit games. If you mostly play racing/flying games then you're using VR basically all of the time. Otherwise there's still a dearth of "traditi
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by lodi 8y ago
> Anyone can screenshot or take a photo of any decrypted message. Yes, but ordinary decrypted messages don't claim to have superpowers like self-destructing.
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by lodi 8y ago
It hasn't been established that it's better, only that he or she thinks it's better--and we're all trying to understand why that is. Because we're (or at least I am) 99.99% sure that it's much, much worse. T
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by lodi 8y ago
I think it's a British thing.
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by lodi 8y ago
You're proposing to fire some material around a planet in such a way that it comes back to a mothership with more momentum than it started with. Now imagine that instead of going "there and back", you find a trajectory that
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by lodi 8y ago
> do you have to pick up another language in order to gain from the book? No, there aren't any prerequisites going in. The book is basically a huge tutorial on Idris, functional programming, and dependent typing, so you'll be
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by lodi 8y ago
I read this as soon as it was released, but here's a book I wish was written earlier! https://www.manning.com/books/type-driven-development-with-i... Completely changed my view of programming. Best "textbo
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by lodi 8y ago
I thought the way these things worked is that each of the N computers can see the state of the other N-1 computers; if your local state differs from the majority opinion you overwrite it, thereby joining the majority.
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by lodi 8y ago
I completely agree; you discover timelines in the process of doing the work. The problems start when you need to give an estimate before even being allowed to start working on something.
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by lodi 8y ago
I would be thrilled to see this as well; currently there's no cloud hosting at all for private pijul repositories afaik.
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by lodi 8y ago
Who cares if it’s trivially hackable; we’re talking about a legal checkbox that you have to tick.
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by lodi 8y ago
Here's exactly how the mining mechanics work in sc2. 1) only one worker can mine from a mineral patch or gas geyser at a time 2) workers phase through each other while mining, so they don't lose time pathfinding around fellow work
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by lodi 8y ago
Reading only the headline, I thought this was going to be a claim that it'd accelerate so fast it would lift its front wheels off the ground--like this... https://youtu.be/_59wxPsC9NU?t=142 But what he actually said...
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by lodi 8y ago
That'll certainly help a bit--you'll pick up several km/s of delta-v--but even this will still be pretty irrelevant in terms of interstellar distances.
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by lodi 8y ago
I like this analogy: it's like writing about a difficult or nuanced subject using only "simple English"; each sentence is superficially simple, but the work as a whole is much more difficult to make sense of.
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by lodi 8y ago
> "...just alter the density of air so that we don't need to worry about lift for these airplanes we're building; they'll just be buoyant!". By and large, you can do that kind of thing in code... A wonderful meta
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by lodi 8y ago
> In plain English, "Tea or coffee?" means one or the other, not both. It's called the "exclusive or." And then the followup, "Milk or sugar?" is an inclusive or. English... amirite? Another favourite
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by lodi 8y ago
"Light years" is a bit optimistic. Voyager 1 is about 20 light-hours away (144 times further from the sun than we are). https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
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by lodi 8y ago
Not really, no. These probes don't really accelerate by burning fuel; instead they pick up velocity by doing a bunch of gravity assists. The more of these you do, the faster you go, but sometimes you have to coast around the sun for
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by lodi 8y ago
> ...this will not change ever. I'm sure the Europeans thought the same thing barely a hundred years ago. Army size, August 1914: Russia: 5,971,000 Germany: 4,500,000 France: 4,017,000 Aus
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by lodi 8y ago
That's something different. There's two effects going on: 1) Each 'slice' of the slinky, whether near the bottom, middle, or top, wants to fall down under the influence of gravity. 2) Once the top is released, spring fo
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by lodi 8y ago
High frequencies are passively attenuated by the foam inside the earcups. It's the mid frequencies (speech, etc.) that survive both active and passive noise cancellation. Still, a high end pair of ANC headphones does a good job on sp
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by lodi 8y ago
You don't own the airspace over your house (over some minimum altitude), why would you own the land under your house (below some minimum depth). I would have absolutely no problem with a tunnel running 20m--or whatever the safe, silen
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by lodi 8y ago
Ikea has a motorized desk now for about $400: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022538/ It's slightly wobbly at max height, but otherwise not bad.
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by lodi 8y ago
Anki won't really help here. Flashcards work for natural languages because there's a huge vocabulary that you have to learn (10k words minimum for 'simple speech'). Sheet music is written with a very small "vocabu
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by lodi 8y ago
> Perhaps more remarkable was that the Model 3 Performance’s new record in the Willow Springs Streets actually ended up beating one of Motor Trend‘s Best Driver’s Car winners in the past — the 2011 Ferrari 458 Italia, which completed the
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by lodi 8y ago
Because it's effective. If you're advertising specs like "grams of sugar in your cola", someone else can swoop in and make a competing product that surpasses you in whatever concrete metrics you advertised. If you can

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