lvncelot

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   by lvncelot 6y ago

   That's a really smart trick, it reminds me of trying to learn a musical piece and getting really proficient at the parts that come just before a section I struggle with because I play them the most often.
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   by lvncelot 6y ago

   I also think that it's separately notable that Rich Hickey is a prolific speaker. Granted, he almost always talks about Clojure, but I think a lot of people outside of the language still watch those talks, and it would make a lot of se
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   by lvncelot 6y ago

   tcp over hackernews comments?
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   by lvncelot 6y ago

   Oh, I need to start doing that, that's really clever.
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   by lvncelot 7y ago

   That is really cool - as chance would have it, I've just spent this weekend converting all my personal infra stuff to Jsonnet and I'm having a blast! This is some really nice inspiration.
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   by lvncelot 7y ago

   Physicists are amazing in coming up with names, from WIMPs (Weakly interacting massive particles) to something like Nuclear Pasta[1], with all sorts of culinary phases. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pasta#Ph
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   by lvncelot 7y ago

   Most of those phrases and their associated "translations" are common knowledge, so it's really just a hidden rating system with bad reviews embedded in everyday positive language.
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   by lvncelot 7y ago

   John von Neumann is someone that often comes up in this context - there are numerous anecdotes on how he was perceived as frightingly clever; also his body of work is beyond impressive.
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   by lvncelot 7y ago

   Houdini for instance runs on Linux machines
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    by lvncelot 7y ago

    Also as a result, even the proposed solution is wrong for certain cases, takes longer, and doesn't convey what it's achieving as elegantly as `len(str(n))`. Because the length of the string representation is - exactly - what is be
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    by lvncelot 7y ago

    I also use KDE and to be honest, the (deliberate?) opaqueness of the settings when not viewed through the settings app is really annoying to me.
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    by lvncelot 7y ago

    > but it wouldn't hurt and possibly help to remove it once user generated content has reached certain milestones, i. e. user karma, or hitting the front page. Wouldn't that also give a lot more incentive to reach those mileston
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    by lvncelot 7y ago

    There have been observations where the observed additional matter 'lagged behind' colliding galaxies, because dark matter only interacts gravitationally. If gravity itself were to behave differently, and the additional mass would
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    by lvncelot 8y ago

    "And no, tools like the python REPL, wolfram alpha, or siri/alexa do not replace an engineering calculator" Honest question, why is that? I left my calculator in high school and almost exclusively use wolfram alpha / the
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    by lvncelot 8y ago

    I'm using kind of middle way to what's described in the article. I'll hack away in a Notebook because the problems that arise early in coding are problems that can be fixed quickly, and the time spent waiting for the code vs.
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    by lvncelot 8y ago

    I'm from Germany and so the cost of being enrolled amounts to ~600 euros a year (and I get free public transport), so in cases like mine you'd be absolutely right - I'm mostly working freelance jobs and doing the odd course h
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    by lvncelot 8y ago

    On the one hand, I agree. I've spent whole days just checking out software alternatives, booting new distros, DEs, hosting webapps, just to see what they were like, and it's always great fun. On the other hand it can hurt - for ex
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    by lvncelot 8y ago

    I'm sorry, but if you are going to dismiss a co-workers opinion like that, it seems like you don't value their work at all. Do you trust them enough to write decent code, but not enough to value their concerns? That doesn't s
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    by lvncelot 8y ago

    - "This makes a lot of sense" I say to myself, opening your blog link in a background tab.
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    by lvncelot 8y ago

    Regardless of whether I agree with his point or not, using a "real life" photo as an example, when it's heavily filtered is just ridiculous.
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    by lvncelot 8y ago

    "The language of algebra is symmetric". This is the key phrase where he gets it wrong, in my opinion. He talks about algebra when he should be talking about formal logic, which absolutely has the power to describe causal relations
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    by lvncelot 8y ago

    I think what stands out about those videos is that people who have no prior higher math education still get a shadow of intuition of what's actually going on, and people who already 'grokked' the concepts still got an alterna
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    by lvncelot 10y ago

    I've read that the transplant can be defined through what part has to be kept alive during the procedure. So when you're transplanting a heart, there is a brief period where the heart is without a body to support it - ergo heart t
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    by lvncelot 10y ago

    Did anyone get the example code at https://github.com/corbett/QuantumComputing to work? I always get "'QuantumRegisterCollection' has no attribute 'get_qubit_named'". Scanning through the