nitfol

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Eulogy, Completed(meyerweb.com)
1 points by nitfol 9y ago|0 comments
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An FAQ for the 2012 US Presidential Election(norvig.com)
39 points by nitfol 14y ago|15 comments
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by nitfol 15y ago
I spent 10 minutes trying to log in using Chromium. It half-way showed that I was logged in, but I couldn't actually sign a petition. Logging in with Iceweasel (Firefox), it worked immediately.
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Doing business in Argentina: A constant feeling of crisis(inc.com)
40 points by nitfol 15y ago|26 comments
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Raw Deal: Because I lost a bet I went raw vegan for a week(cookingissues.com)
4 points by nitfol 15y ago|0 comments
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by nitfol 15y ago
Strangely, the vi(1) linked from that page is not for the editor, but for a MIPS emulator http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/vi
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Usability of iPad Apps and Websites: 2 Reports With Research Findings(nngroup.com)
20 points by nitfol 15y ago|0 comments
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by nitfol 15y ago
Also note that sorting by price doesn't actually sort correctly. In this search, a $6.99 card comes before a $5.99 card (both with free super-saver shipping). This is so broken (and has been for so long) that I almost think it must be int
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by nitfol 15y ago
I think this list is greatly erring on the side of caution. Some of the descriptions are incorrect, for example: Aspirin (Bayers) is trademarked in several countries around the world, including Canada and the United States. The word Aspir
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by nitfol 15y ago
The article confuses "exponentially" and "quadratically": scales roughly quadratically with the issue-width. That is, the dispatch logic of a 5-issue processor is twice as big as a 4-issue design, with 6-issue being 4 times as big, 7-issue
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A quintessence of dust(blogs.suntimes.com)
2 points by nitfol 16y ago|0 comments
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Powers of Two: Hand-Pulled Cotton-Candy ‘Round the World(cookingissues.com)
1 points by nitfol 16y ago|0 comments
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by nitfol 16y ago
Pretty cool, but it assumes that many options are independent when they may not be... If I "reduce military to pre-Iraq war size" and "reduce the number of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to 30,000," can I really save the sum of $49 billion
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by nitfol 16y ago
_Godel, Escher, Bach_ describes similar phenomena with camera feedback loops. When I read GEB, I wondered if it would be possible to create a Sierpinski triangle using four specially shaped/curved mirrors. I briefly played with povray, bu
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by nitfol 16y ago
I was excited to try this service out after reading the article. I called them up, and after a couple minutes on hold, was connected to Michael. I didn't need to enter my account number, but it's possible they used my phone number to know
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by nitfol 16y ago
How do they determine the "best layout" at the top? I pasted in a couple hundred lines of code and it claims that Colemak is the best, but Arensito (hadn't heard of it before) has fewer meters traveled and more home row usage (where Colema
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by nitfol 16y ago
http://perldoc.perl.org/pstruct.html takes this a bit further (but less portably), and compiles the code to assembly and parses out the debug records to find the information about the structures.
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by nitfol 16y ago
More information about the errors in the (fixed point) math on the patriot: http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html
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by nitfol 16y ago
In the real world, taking exponential space implies taking exponential time. The fastest you can transmit information is the speed of light, so it will take exponential time to communicate with the furthest pieces of your exponentially lar
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by nitfol 16y ago
Factoring is not known to be in P. You're thinking of primality testing, specifically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test
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by nitfol 16y ago
Compare this article to the recent Groklaw article. While my view is closer to Groklaw, both articles seem to offend me. They both worship a leader (Jobs or RMS) and seem to call for hate of their enemies (Google, Microsoft, Mono). But i
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by nitfol 16y ago
As the Cosmic AC was not in space, but "in hyperspace and made of something that was neither matter nor energy", there should have been no objections to it taking the role of Maxwell's demon and reversing entropy, powering the universe thr
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by nitfol 16y ago
Right, this experiment measures the wavelength of the microwaves. Apparently it is possible to independently calculate the frequency of microwaves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light#Cavity_resonance
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by nitfol 16y ago
Much better than their Flash interface. But completely broken in Firefox 3.0.x (under Red Hat; can't advance past the first page and there are no pictures) and the fonts are too big under Iceweasel 3.5.9 (under Debian). Until they stop re