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by ntumlin 10y ago
The section of the wikipedia article on qanat's in Iran is huge (3700 words) in general, and especially compared to the sections about qanats in other countries. Between that and this video on qanats in Iran; what makes them so much mo
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by ntumlin 10y ago
Any idea where I could go about learning to do this myself? A few google searches mainly led me to things saying it was impossible.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
How strongly do you recommend these books? Unfortunately I'm a college student without much cash to toss around, but I can scrape together enough for a book if it'll make me a better programmer in the long run.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
Is there a president you can think of that wasn't a genius? Being president requires you to manage so many different things; it couldn't be done by someone who wasn't smart.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
Presidents are extremely smart and can quickly pick up on topics. Combine this with advisers giving you a detailed run down and you get this.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
And "banned", in the case of blackjack.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
This does need a warning, but PDF isn't the reason.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
Or just leave it chronological and post an ad every few seconds.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
Who should pay for it then? Google's expenses are in the billions of dollars, and I certainly don't want the government to own "the world's most powerful system for freeing the mind" given that it would give them an
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by ntumlin 11y ago
I don't think it's so bad, and more importantly I don't see the solution. Google does what it does to make money, and ads are how it does that. If there's a more ethical solution it'll only be implemented if it&#x27
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by ntumlin 11y ago
My father has trouble reading despite being really smart otherwise, and unfortunately it's gotten him to think he's not smart. I'd love to show this to him, but my only concern is that everything is geared towards parents to
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by ntumlin 11y ago
There are a couple of things on this list that claim to be free, but when you click through aren't. One example is the 10 Days to Better Design course that is actually $10.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
20% * 300 billion = 60 billion is where they're at now, add on 58 billion to pay for basic income and you've doubled taxes.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
It's like negging. How lovely.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
In my opinion the most powerful and useful thing a computer does isn't flappy birds or finding massive primes, but allowing people to communicate more easily. Everything the computer does on top of letting people tell things to other p
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by ntumlin 11y ago
I'm aware this is a reference, but for people who didn't know this already, inflammable is like the word inflamed, which doesn't mean "not in flames".
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by ntumlin 11y ago
I'm on a Macbook Air in Chrome and can barely scroll.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
If someone's being rude to me I don't mind being a little condescending.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
Is there any major downside to the 3.5mm jack? Especially that hold a candle to the cheapness of them and how widespread they are?
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by ntumlin 11y ago
Does adding a light to Glass really solve the problem of covert recording? Does getting rid of Glass even do that? Cameras are tiny. Privacy is dying.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
Something similar to your idea was done for images recognized by neural nets and posted to HN recently. https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/five/why-do-neural-netw...
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by ntumlin 11y ago
Does anyone have a link to specific tricks used or even implementations of spellcheckers from then?
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by ntumlin 11y ago
Similar to that, when he mentioned constantly interrupting = egomaniac. I've noticed that I'm fairly bad about interrupting people, but I don't think it's because I feel I'm way better than everyone else and my opin
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by ntumlin 11y ago
I'm hesitant to even run it locally and try. I looked through the source briefly and didn't see any dead giveaways, but with how obfuscated, etc. you can make code it almost seems like it'd be safer/faster to re-implemen
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by ntumlin 11y ago
A little background on the quote about eggs of Columbus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus
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by ntumlin 11y ago
I watched a TED talk by him and got the same impression. Maybe he is a genius, but it certainly is off putting to my own ego for him to laud how great he is all the time. Maybe I should just get over it.
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by ntumlin 11y ago
Well, it's not my only comment, I think that older ones only show up to me though past a certain point and I haven't commented in a while. And surely I'm not too crazy to think he could be serious, I mean there's so much
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by ntumlin 11y ago
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but is this satire? I actually can't tell. Between go rewrite, criticizing the language choice, and wanting to just stick a tube in your mouth and be automatically fed soylent this almost seems g
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by ntumlin 11y ago
There's a lot of videos on YouTube of people using Fresnel lenses from old projection TV's and melting various things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrje73EyKag
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by ntumlin 11y ago
Additionally, it takes a second for each bit to load in after you scroll to it, which is pretty annoying. Chrome Windows 10.

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