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by mbq 13y ago
For me the worst thing was the way it handles multiple devices -- AFAIK when there are few clients with the same priority connected, the server delivers messages completely arbitrarily, usually only to a one of them and based on some crazy
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by mbq 13y ago
My observation is that only crazy people are seriously afraid of Russians, while the spirit of patronising Ukraine, Belarus and even Lithuania is pretty strong.
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by mbq 13y ago
Poland already shares a border with Russia, so it doesn't matter. The support for the revolution seems mostly to come from a sort of post-collonial thinking that Ukrainians will praise Poles as saviours and the former sea-to-sea glory
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by mbq 13y ago
E-mail was actually designed to just copy a message file from the sender's computer to the receiver's one; it is sad how it evolved into a plaintext database of private stuff hosted by third parties.
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by mbq 13y ago
So it does not judge whether this effect is due to an actual physical activity or just the fact that the rats had some stimulation and were not dying from boredom like the control group. Not to mention that this data is from only single exp
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by mbq 13y ago
R version for comparison (; length(unique(scan('test.txt',character(),sep=" ")))
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by mbq 13y ago
R is actually one of the most pure languages out there; it basically says "I have vectors; they can have missing values, be nested, and can have other vectors as attributes. And I have functions with lexical scoping. Now go and build t
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by mbq 13y ago
Sure no; but 97% of OS problems are hardware problems and OS/X and Windows are lucky to have hardware makers care to optimise their product for them. Still, with some research _before_ buying you can get a perfectly flawless Linux expe
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by mbq 13y ago
Points ain't fully imaginary; they sometimes give top~100 users stickers or t-shirts (;
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by mbq 13y ago
BMC journals are somewhat going in that direction strongly suggesting to put the methodology after both results and conclusions.
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by mbq 13y ago
Not at all; LaTeX is a wrapper over TeX made exactly to hide all formatting routines behind structural declarations like \section, \itemize or \emph. To this end it is not really different from Markdown; yes, tokens require slightly more ke
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by mbq 13y ago
Vector of vectors, as I wrote; quoting cdecl "declare x as array 100 of array 83 of int".
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by mbq 13y ago
C only has vectors (1D arrays), the implementation of higher dimensions is up to programmer. I know there is this idea to use vectors of vectors to emulate matrices but it is not at all a part of the language (nor efficient).
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by mbq 13y ago
Arrays by row? Why?
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by mbq 13y ago
There is htmltex (i.e. almost full stack emitting HTML), it is called latexml. There is also a lot converters, most notably Pandoc. Still I 100% agree that even HTML is too primitive and too inconsistently implemented for scientific writing
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by mbq 13y ago
Casio also has some powerful calculators, including my beloved Algebra fx2+ and the ClassPad line which slowly converges to a kind of specialised tablet.
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by mbq 13y ago
With IEEE floats, 0 has a sign which can be used to denote the direction of the limit; if you try 1/(-0) in any program or language with sane numerics (i.e. not Excel or other dumb calculator emulators), it should give you -Infinity.
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by mbq 13y ago
Mandatory SMBC reference: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1733#comic
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by mbq 13y ago
I hate when people talk about entanglement as some separate phenomenon, while it is actually an effect of considering non-local QM in local approximation -- such post should be titled "considering entanglement improves DNA model accura
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by mbq 13y ago
Two, well, issues from my experience with gitit (great software by the way): compilation may take huge amounts of RAM compared to what the webapp itself will later use -- it is likely that one will need to use some other, metal machine for
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by mbq 13y ago
The current state of things is that one has to collect many papers about certain hypothesis and analyse them on his own to get any idea of the what the truth may be -- neither the IF nor good names guarantees anything, on the other hand you
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by mbq 13y ago
Still, it just turns off a half of all pixels -- this way the energy consumption is significantly higher than for e-ink.
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by mbq 13y ago
I bet that someone capable of infecting enough offline computers to form this sonic bridge most likely already has enough options to transfer data and commands in a way simpler and more reliable way.
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by mbq 13y ago
Poles did not stole some single Enigma and smuggled to UK but were successfully breaking the code (Germans weren't stupid and were improving the machine so deciphering its cryptograms was a moving target). The whole project was disclos
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by mbq 13y ago
It seems so on a first glance, but if you think about how this 2D phagocyte can be formed (especially on a macroscopic scale) and how would it interact with other structures it becomes much less obvious.
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by mbq 13y ago
Amoebae have a very complex 3D structure; check out some SEM images, like http://www.sciencephoto.com/search?subtype=keywords&searchst... or http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=217
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by mbq 13y ago
Even if DARPA knows that E-cat is bullshit, an act of buying an unit is an easy deception possibly diluting nuclear research resources of certain countries.
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by mbq 13y ago
Imagine that there is a performance bottleneck there and substring is, like 500x faster than engaging a proper XML parser; what would you do? Obviously it is likely an effect of a global design flaw, but such things are very hard to fix.
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by mbq 13y ago
Come one, Arch is maybe one of the easiest distros to break but certainly one of the easiest to fix using chroot from USB live image. Forums are very helpful, and also if some current update is possibly breaking there is a deep post on the
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by mbq 13y ago
There is a one more issue -- the easier it is to manipulate strings in some language the greater chance that they will be used as an internal data structure for things that certainly aren't texts. And this almost always causes substant

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