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721.
by nemo1618 12y ago
Good point. You'd probably want to match "piece strength" with weight class then, so that a pawn vs. queen is not a fair fight by any means.
722.
by nemo1618 12y ago
I was hoping this would be a team sport: - Each team consists of a chess player and up to 16 boxers - When one piece captures another, their corresponding boxers fight each other - The winner of the bout determines which piece is removed fr
723.
by nemo1618 12y ago
I'm sure you know this, but that's a very dangerous mindset! People aren't meant to be compared; comparison implies a winner and a loser. The truth is that there are no losers here, just different people walking different pat
724.
by nemo1618 12y ago
Haha not exactly, but I do frequently give to the homeless. The money goes even further there.
725.
by nemo1618 12y ago
As someone who's both received and given tips, I love them. Why? Because they're a dead-simple way to convert money to happiness. When I received a big tip, it always brightened my shift a bit. And now, every time I go out to eat,
726.
by nemo1618 12y ago
Finally someone took the initiative. I guess I'm glad that it's a company as big as Google. There are already lots of sites that run on donations; what's missing is a standard model for doing so. Maybe with Google's back
727.
by nemo1618 12y ago
Technically true, but the point is that arrays were the only collection type in Pascal, whereas Go also has slices (which, in my experience, outnumber arrays 10-1 in most codebases).
728.
by nemo1618 12y ago
agreed, I think INI-style (specifically https://code.google.com/p/gcfg ) is a better choice for simple config files. That said, they might be anticipating more complex configs in the future.
729.
by nemo1618 12y ago
I count: mysterious woman (?), cats, old jazz record, urban ennui, cooking, weird sex, Tokyo at night, unusual name, and vanishing cats -- no bingo! Is Murakami really this predictable though?
730.
by nemo1618 12y ago
The issue is that there's a conflict of interest when the same person who proposed the hypothesis is the same person attempting to prove that hypothesis. This sort of bias is why meta-analysis exists.
731.
by nemo1618 12y ago
That was my first reaction too, but I think we're reaching the point where the increased computational complexity is manageable. Efficiency has certainly never been one of Perl's selling points. I imagine there's a trapdoor a
732.
by nemo1618 12y ago
Indeed, though I'm a little more optimistic this time around. I think Leary and the rest assumed LSD was more-or-less guaranteed to produce profound spiritual insights in anyone who took it. Therefore, the primary problem was distribut
733.
by nemo1618 12y ago
Neat idea. I generally just use Wolfram|Alpha for these types of calculations, but Frink seems more programmable and doesn't require an Internet connection.
734.
by nemo1618 12y ago
Hoffman's "Bicycle Day" dose was 0.25mg[1], whereas the mythical "thumbprint" dose is upwards of 1mg (perhaps substantially more)[2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lysergic_acid_di
735.
by nemo1618 12y ago
I love this. Learning a Lisp has been on my todo list for far too long. Once I saw what this was, I filed it away under "For later," but I stuck around for a bit to see if I could do a challenge first... Totally got sucked in, and
736.
by nemo1618 12y ago
you need to start using the computer first. Try "look at computer"
737.
by nemo1618 12y ago
I like how he cited "a silly rap song" by Lil Jon as an example of "gloomy music."
738.
by nemo1618 12y ago
Very reminiscent of Alan Watts' "The Wisdom of Insecurity." And also something Terence McKenna said: "My technique is don't believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believi
739.
by nemo1618 12y ago
I would agree that the average person is too sentiment-driven. Rational thought is unquestionably beneficial in many circumstances. But I take issue with the absolutist position that reason is always the best tool for the job. When I subscr
740.
by nemo1618 12y ago
>he hates to see them lose, he said. “They’re always rationalizing,” Randi told me as we walked to dinner at the casino steakhouse. “There are always reasons prevailing why they can’t do it. They call it the resilience of the duped. It’s
741.
by nemo1618 12y ago
what...the hell am I reading. The last two pages especially -- "Dimensionalize exponentially?" Not to mention all the golden ratio BS. I'm struggling and failing to imagine a scenario in which this document could be presented
742.
by nemo1618 12y ago
Anyone have a not-dead link to the comic he's referencing? (looking forward to a future where an image's URI is its hash and this problem evaporates)
743.
by nemo1618 12y ago
Guess I could have just looked at the URL, huh. Well, it was fun trying to reverse Whitney's code anyhow. Humorously, it looks like this code would have received a poor grade. It meets just about every standard for low quality outlined
744.
by nemo1618 12y ago
Sure: https://gist.github.com/lukechampine/e759098e717e42bc11c5
745.
by nemo1618 12y ago
I tried cleaning it up a bit: https://gist.github.com/lukechampine/f54fce8fd756254cefb2 But the actual meaning of the program is still lost on me. I can only guess it has something to do with parsing files (note the ch
746.
by nemo1618 12y ago
another user brought up a good point in the comments section of the imgur post: >GIFs being lossless, editable and universally supported are a pretty big part of what spawned this “culture of the GIF”. Sure, video editing tools exist, bu
747.
by nemo1618 12y ago
Some may be offended by your characterization of LSD as a "shortcut," but that's exactly how I see it. And that's a good thing! LSD (and other psychedelics) can give you a fascinating glimpse of what is possible -- then,
748.
by nemo1618 12y ago
A bit of quantization (automatically aligning notes to the beat) would really improve this. Not sure how computationally feasible that is though.
749.
by nemo1618 12y ago
you can already control rtorrent via ssh, though admittedly it has a steeper learning curve.
750.
by nemo1618 12y ago
Awesome! I've been wishing for something like this for a long time. Features I would appreciate: - filtering out videos not tagged as "music" - links to the facebook wall post

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