mtdewcmu

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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Unfortunately, despite not being rich, the poor don't have a monopoly on love. The way reality works is that, if you're able to make yourself rich, something obviously must be working out for you in your life. That thing that help
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
That reminds me of this slightly crazy guy I knew in college and roomed with senior year. He had been an RA, and "somehow," during some meeting, he managed to discharge part of a pepper spray canister, which led to the meeting hav
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
The conclusion I drew from what was described was that the soldier knew exactly what to do and dispatched the situation the most efficient possible way. He sounded so much more skilled than the highwayman that the effort to disarm the man w
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Homo erectus lived 1.8 million years ago. Neanderthals lived 33,000 years ago. There's a difference.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>>Which any skilled coder can do away with in a few minutes. I think the skill you're talking about must be skill with CSS. General programming knowledge doesn't help much in a CSS trainwreck scenario -- at least, it doesn&#
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Needing a preprocessor to be usable doesn't argue for CSS not being broken. On the contrary.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I didn't mean to suggest that you would work slowly. Your clients expect you to work with CSS, because it's the accepted solution, and anything else would be reckless. Within those constraints, CSS is a good solution -- circularly
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>>Everything I need, I get from CSS + a decent preprocessor (usually LESS these days). Maybe this is a symptom of using CSS, but I rarely even encounter people describing layouts in the way GSS appears to want me to code them. I'
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Ordinarily, different species can't produce fertile offspring. A species thus isolated could go extinct without any ambiguity. So it seems worth making a distinction between complete extinction and when closely-related genetic lines re
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Mules are sterile, too, so every mule is exactly 50%.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
How many Neanderthal genes make a Neanderthal?
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
That is a different sense. Totally different timescales, and dinosaurs were many species.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
That's probably where flight research would currently be if a few of those approaches hadn't achieved stunning success. Those successes would have silenced any groups that were holding out for artificial birds.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
The sensational headline seems to have worked. I'm not sure if I've heard of this specific project, but to me it didn't sound all that novel. It reminds me of the semantic web.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I wondered this about Neanderthals, now Denisovans: in what sense are they extinct if their progeny still walk the Earth?
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I'm not sure if it's actually a race; it probably depends on how bash is implemented. But this prints what is expected: echo "1\n2\n3\n4\n" > numbers && cat numbers | { sleep 1 && cat > numbers &amp
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
The human clinician would (hopefully) be operating the machine.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Someone will have to parse the study to find out what's really happening. My guess is that most of the deaths that are being called alcohol-related are not chronic alcoholics; most are probably accidents and violence in which alcohol h
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I will not be happy the day I go to the E.R. with some emergency and I have to talk to a machine...
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
That was a contrived example. The shell sets up the pipe and file redirections for each process in the pipeline, then lets them go. It has no control over when the child processes read or write. It could be a race condition, but it's w
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Not predictable or well-specified in comparison to what? Buffer overflows are not caused by the language. They are a well-known risk of developing in native code. Well-known risks are not surprises. Part of being unsurprising is being one o
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Why does it stop at 2011? The last that I've heard of Haswell was that it was a paltry improvement, and that core will be around for the next couple years.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Yeah. As in, better done in awk. The opposite of awkward is sedward.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
My theory is that it has to do with not having any operators, except parentheses, and using exclusively prefix notation, where other languages allow infix for doing arithmetic. Also, in Scheme loops are usually recursion, which means they h
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Nah, the military doesn't have a sense of humor.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I was a little surprised that it was called a myth that CPUs are not getting faster. CPUs may still be getting a little faster, but they are way off the exponential curve that they were on at one time. They look like they're asymptotic
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
If that were the case, it wouldn't be a stool, it would be an ELGHR. It looks pretty uncomfortable, too, especially for upwards of $10k.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
All the stools I've ever sat on would be about as tall as one of the wheels and would have been crushed to splinters...
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Was it propaganda? I watched it with no sound, but I was thinking about Pierre Sprey's critiques the whole time. At least we have excellent pilots.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
No need when you've got video.

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