meandthebean

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by meandthebean 2y ago
> Sennaar didn't gel with me, because language-based deduction imply an "arbitrariness" ("wobbliness"?) and mis-interpretations After not too far in, you eventually start confirming the meanings of words. Eventua
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by meandthebean 4y ago
I've switched to Weather Underground 10-day view: https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/md/baltimore I used the customize button to remove everything but temp, chance of rain and wind. It's no Da
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by meandthebean 10y ago
You can't apt-get in cygwin, but you can apt-cyg: https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg
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by meandthebean 11y ago
http://ken-jennings.com/blog/archives/99 There was a winner. "MW: Again, I can’t recall who won. Interestingly the winner was the one who identified the least number of false words. I think there was some sco
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by meandthebean 11y ago
> Having an armed citizenry serves as a protective measure of last resort and was based on the model of Switzerland. The intent is not to allow people to run around shooting people up as a form of protest against lawful government action
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by meandthebean 12y ago
The salt thing is mentioned in the article. According to the author it's better to add salt before cooking.
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by meandthebean 12y ago
Here's an email I got from FreeDNS last year: Your account at freedns.afraid.org has not been visited in at least 5 1/2 months. User: Xxxxx Xxxxx (xxxxxxx) Last visited: 2013-09-21 (169 days ago) Unless you visit the site anytime
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by meandthebean 12y ago
Going down the list of Babun features, it doesn't look like much more than repackaged cygwin. I thought pact was the biggest innovation, but as a clone of an existing project it seems misleading to call this "a new Windows shell.&
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by meandthebean 12y ago
Trashy Little Subroutines is going to be my new band's name. https://code.google.com/p/virtualagc/source/browse/trunk/Lum...
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by meandthebean 13y ago
It doesn't work like an analog stick, though, it works like a d-pad. It just maps to up, up-left, left, down-left, etc of the d-pad, like in any other DS game played on the 3DS.
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by meandthebean 13y ago
Maybe they used that imagery because a series of tubes is an apt metaphor for internet bandwidth.
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by meandthebean 13y ago
I think the point of the article is that most of the arguments made against PHP can be made toward any other language as well (i.e. you can write insecure code with it), so the defences can be made for any language as well. It's unfair
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by meandthebean 13y ago
Here's a weird case: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=43.047565,-123.758926&... Zoom in one and out one. The patchwork brown flops in some of the grid.
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by meandthebean 13y ago
I recommend a smaller mutation rate. You see the inheritance of the previous winner a lot better.
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by meandthebean 13y ago
Corrected link: http://theinfosphere.org/Nibbler%27s_shadow
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by meandthebean 14y ago
Same reason it's not illegal to sell a closed padlock without a key.
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by meandthebean 14y ago
Aside: when did 20px become an acceptable font size for content text?
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by meandthebean 14y ago
The dropdown was broken for me on Windows 7/Chrome.