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by nategri 8y ago
> "And now we no longer worry about Python version 2 or 3 (is it ever upgrading?)" I just threw out my back cringing.
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by nategri 8y ago
Yeah you can go ahead and miss me with every single one of these vim-via-Electron monstrosities. CLARIFICATION: For me the whole point of learning vim was that it's lightweight and ubiquitous. Stuff like this is 0 out of 2 on that fron
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by nategri 8y ago
A little light on pointers, considering how important they are and what a conceptual stumbling block they can be. I wrote C/C++ for years in a scientific setting and didn't completely conquer the damn things until I had to write s
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by nategri 8y ago
Line 20 in Application #1 has an unfortunate typo.
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by nategri 8y ago
This seems like a classic case of what a good coder would call "premature optimization." Nutritional science, is far, far from settled. It's not even clear that is such a thing as a baseline, universally-applicable nutrit
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by nategri 8y ago
Hooray! GIMP is probably one of the top 5 pieces of software I think of when I'm in an evangelistic mood about open source. There's just something so beautiful about providing such easy access to creative tools. I'm no power
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by nategri 8y ago
What a loaded headline. Get it together, NYT.
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by nategri 8y ago
Oldie but a goodie. Play it again, Paul.
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by nategri 9y ago
I'd love to see the same thing done with an Arduino Mega and a wi-fi shield. It would be a much cleaner build since most arduino boards are 5V standard. But then I'm sure you'd pay for it in the hairiness of the aruduino&#x2F
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by nategri 9y ago
This is precisely as dumb as saying that efficient use of a chalkboard is important to being a great physicist.
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by nategri 9y ago
This is strictly a first week "problem." Having lost 22+ pounds since February on a (renewed) low carbohydrate diet, I can assure you not all of that was water weight. Previously I lost over a hundred pounds by eating this way and
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by nategri 9y ago
Since it's an identity thing, I'm guessing people are not going to want to let this one go. Just like they won't let go of their identity as a Meyers-Briggs I-N-T-whatever-the-hell, even though there's zero evidence fo
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by nategri 9y ago
Seeing a "mercola.com" domain show up in the first page of google results for this phenomenon just increased the difficulty of parsing whether or not the effect is legit or not by an order of magnitude.
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by nategri 9y ago
This is a data point of one, and I am certainly not implying that there is only one kind diet that works for everyone, but: Every time I've lost a significant amount of weight (currently at -70 lbs from my peak) it's because I h
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by nategri 9y ago
An orbit that swirls only around the poles wouldn't be a real orbit, but there are lot of real "nearly vertical" (90 deg inclination) orbits that just barely miss the poles. Taken together these objects give the impression
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by nategri 9y ago
We're at a hardware disadvantage, but with some practice human beings can also detect light polarization with the naked eye. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger%27s_brush
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by nategri 9y ago
> contributing something back to society It is really challenging to contextualize a lot of service industry jobs this way.
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by nategri 9y ago
Might go a little ways toward explaining how I got a D the grading period integrals were introduced in my 7:30am AP Calc class, yet still ended up as a physics PhD.
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by nategri 9y ago
I can't remember which book I read on 6502 assembly (may have been Randall Hyde's, actually), but learning it was one of the most satisfying programming experiences I've ever had. Strongly recommended for coders of all types
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by nategri 9y ago
Interesting, although you'd likely need to verrrry precisely define what is meant by "arts" to have any meaningful discussion about it here.
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by nategri 9y ago
I don't doubt you may have a point in general, but this article in particular is challenging material. Period. If it was much easier to read, I would become suspicious.
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by nategri 9y ago
Was surprised to see how chill (very relatively speaking) he is about Twitter. In fact, it was apparently unobjectionable for some period.
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by nategri 9y ago
What a CPU/GPU is up to at any given point is pretty abstract for most people, but they do notice battery life, which a miner would definitely affect. Even fairly non-technical mobile users can be extremely vigilant about battery con
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by nategri 9y ago
Quasi-related fact: Radio frequencies with a wavelength of 21cm are one of SETI's favorite places to look for artificial signals. Since it originates from atomic hydrogen (of which there is a lot ), it's one of the notes that the
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by nategri 9y ago
Haha I really expected the "pothole problem" to be some kind of mathematical conjecture. Nope, literal holes in literal roads.
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by nategri 9y ago
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis
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by nategri 9y ago
As a counterexample, Dark Sky is one of the few apps I pay for that has an endless array possible alternatives. The last time I looked all substitutes were ugly, clunky, bloated by ads, or all of the above. I pay so I don't have deal w
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by nategri 9y ago
Bonus content: Terry Davis randomly shilling TempleOS in the comments.
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by nategri 9y ago
> A more circular orbit of Earth around the sun — leading to years with no great difference between summer and winter — might have also helped doom most of the fish. Oh man please do not say this without additional clarification. People
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by nategri 9y ago
Extremely cool until even the smell of navy beans makes you wretch. Also, given the generally poor state of even contemporary nutritional science this strikes me as something akin to a particularly beautiful set of solutions for a universe

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