nemo1618

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by nemo1618 4y ago
> for no good reason When a language has some property that surprises you, consider whether it might have been designed that way on purpose, not simply because the creators were ignorant/lazy/negligent/drunk/lost a be
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by nemo1618 4y ago
In fact, there's even a (mildly insane) proposal to intentionally add Teflon to food, because the extra mass makes you feel full even though the Teflon just passes right through you.
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by nemo1618 4y ago
> Operator overloading allows for things like complex numbers, arbitrary precision numeric types, etc., to be done with a library module. Why is this desirable vs. implementing those types in the language itself? I think we've gone
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by nemo1618 4y ago
Like many things, it's a spectator sport. Most people just parroted the opinions of the Go team -- which isn't a bad strategy, given how smart they are! Don't worry, the anti-generics crowd is still here, waiting to see how t
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by nemo1618 4y ago
PROTIP: If you open a song in Audacity and tweak it slightly (I usually slow it down by 5%), you can trick your brain into processing it as a "new" song again. The returns are still diminishing, but I find I can eke a few more day
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by nemo1618 4y ago
For all the people asking how this differs from Beeminder: my first reaction was "finally, a version of Beeminder that lets me pay $1000!" Beeminder is obviously amazing, but it really "loses its sting" when you can&#x27
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by nemo1618 4y ago
After I met my now-fiancée on OkCupid, I deactivated my profile, turned off notifications and forgot about it for a while. A while later, I thought it be nice to revisit the first messages we sent to each other, only to find that... OkCupid
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by nemo1618 5y ago
Crysis 1 was definitely more fun. Tranq darts, freeze rays, throwing frying pans with Maximum Strength, "hacking" your .ini file to make yourself absurdly overpowered, etc. But I have to give Crysis 2 credit for its graphics. Comp
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by nemo1618 5y ago
I actually love the foo.* syntax. Think about it like this: if foo were a struct, then foo.x would give you the x field. But what if you want all the fields? Then you'd write foo.* -- a Unix glob!
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by nemo1618 5y ago
Trump (almost) never apologizes, going through great contortions to avoid it whenever possible -- and clearly he doesn't suffer from any self-esteem issues. I always figured that his reasoning was "apologizing = showing weakness =
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by nemo1618 5y ago
I really enjoyed the book, particularly Ann's trip reports, but fair warning: it contains a lot more love triangle drama and, uh, old people sex, than I was expecting. Also, I wish I could buy just the first half of the book -- I don&#
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by nemo1618 5y ago
Tom Hanks' son also mentioned offhandedly that he was "sent away to a wilderness program:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy47RTZRy9w#t=3m29s "It's 4 in the morning, there's two huge dudes in
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by nemo1618 5y ago
I was hoping this would explain a bit more about why the algorithm does the things it does. Do we have proofs for why certain types of mixing are more secure than others? Also, it's funny how even world-class cryptographers can think
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by nemo1618 5y ago
Yep, it didn't take long for Bitcoiners to arrive at this idea. Here's Andrew Poelstra arguing in 2015 that PoW should approach the thermodynamic limit: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/asic-faq.pdf
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by nemo1618 5y ago
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware > The awareness of impermanence, or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gen
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by nemo1618 5y ago
Warning to anyone thinking about buying one of those portable induction cooktop ("just to see what all the fuss is about"): if it plugs into a standard 120V socket, it's probably not going to boil water any faster than your e
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by nemo1618 5y ago
I've lived in NE all my life, and I certainly enjoy all the seasons, but the summers are just a bit too long and hot and the winters are just a bit too long and cold. I think the perfect climate would be something like "New Englan
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by nemo1618 5y ago
done!
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by nemo1618 5y ago
I emphatically disagree, but I did notice that the full range of temperatures in the NOAA dataset is -30 to 120. I've updated the site to use that range.
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by nemo1618 5y ago
Ha, no, not yet. Looking more closely at NC though. I want to have a nice mountain view, so maybe I need to incorporate topological data too somehow.
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by nemo1618 5y ago
About $800 IIRC. I didn't shop around at all though.
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by nemo1618 5y ago
I honestly have no idea how the heck grid works haha. Maybe someone else can chime in. The MVP site took >1 second to rerender when you dragged the slider. I got it down to a few dozen ms, which makes it a lot more fun to use. Pretty pro
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by nemo1618 5y ago
You are very tolerant, haha. I can't stand anything over 80F or so. btw, you can also view individual months if you only care about a particular season.
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by nemo1618 5y ago
Not sure if NOAA provides a dataset for that, but I totally agree!
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by nemo1618 5y ago
Hi all! Some background on the project: I want to build a house someday, and the first step is deciding where to build. I knew an interactive map like this would be useful, but after fiddling with leaflet.js for a while and googling for cli
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by nemo1618 5y ago
Yep. Personally I'm interested in finding two locations: one with great weather throughout the summer, and one with great weather throughout the winter.
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by nemo1618 5y ago
Sorry! I'd love to extend this to other countries, but I wasn't sure where to get the data.
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by nemo1618 5y ago
Hmm, I can probably incorporate humidity data without too much trouble. Is there a standard way to calculate a "feels like" temperature using humidity? btw, thanks for reminding me of the pleasant places map -- I think it must hav
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by nemo1618 5y ago
Good call! I hate hot weather too. I'll try breaking up the range a bit more. btw, you can also view on a month-by-month basis.

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