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601.
by pacaro 9y ago
Circles can do 8 fold symmetry by reflecting along the diagonals, i.e in addition to (cx ± x, cy ± y) also (cx ± y, cy ± x)
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by pacaro 9y ago
The challenge with the classics example is that if you aren't capable of translating yourself then you are dependent on other peoples translations and therefore their interpretations, so you are adding a layer of indirection, sometimes
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by pacaro 9y ago
So now you are advocating increasing the social burden for any employee who has an (possibly unknown to you or coworkers) reason for not being able to move their desk. This is something that it is worth being a little careful about,
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by pacaro 9y ago
When I was moved from single offices to open plan (Microsoft 2012) we were told that we had asked for it(!) But the architecture firm who designed the space did give a really good walk through of how they designed the space. All their stupi
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by pacaro 9y ago
This looks like a lot of fun, but would it really hurt to link to the actual video, rather than a rabbit hole of links and blog in another language? It feels like "we did this cool thing and took some photographs, but couldn't be
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by pacaro 9y ago
And just because I didn't know this until yesterday, Linseed is Flax seed, just different names for the same stuff. You can use your kitchen grade flaxseed oil for painting, putting your art supplies linseed oil on your quark is more q
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by pacaro 9y ago
Ask yourself who is defending the counter protestors when the police are defending the white supremacists, kkk, and other assorted fascists. Historically the police have a poor track record when it comes to choosing sides in the fight again
608.
by pacaro 9y ago
While many antifa are anarchists or anti-capitalists, the defining feature is opposing fascism. Don't succumb to a trivializing caricature of antifa as being primarily about wanton violence against property.
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by pacaro 9y ago
I consider myself antifa in part because my great grandfather was murdered by the Nazis, and I consider it to be part of my social and civil responsibility to oppose fascism. Edit: ¡No pasaran!
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by pacaro 9y ago
I think that the step from dugout to outrigger canoe is relatively small and comes with massive advantages While they are obviously the end point of a technological development, Polynesian outrigger sailing canoes are both extremely efficie
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by pacaro 9y ago
And makes living off the coast much easier, from fishing and shell fishing. Walking along a coast is a fractal enterprise
612.
by pacaro 9y ago
The U.K. does the same. Starts with ground floor, then first
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by pacaro 9y ago
Rails to trails has occasionally happened on an ad hoc basis in the U.K. too. When Beeching's axe fell [1] at least some were converted. I used to cycle from Fareham to Gosport largely along one, the main challenge being that the oth
614.
by pacaro 9y ago
Yeah, also it is not averaging well given geographic constraints, so the 4, 7, and 10 distances are the same(ish) for all directions except north and south and directly along i90, which makes their distribution seem oddly narrow
615.
by pacaro 9y ago
I would assume that you could somewhat trivially defend against this by validating the top n hypotheses from your classifier against reference images.
616.
by pacaro 9y ago
This was my take too. Some reinforcement about the utility of tests. 4.5k is a relatively small amount of code (particularly in C or similar)
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by pacaro 9y ago
Yeah, I suspect that with dogs that overbreeding is a bigger issue. We have a Bernese Mountain Dog, they don't have a good health profile, for example all the "large chested breeds" are at risk of "bloat" or gastric
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by pacaro 9y ago
Yeah, this happened at Microsoft. Back in the day there wasn't such a clear line between contractors and FTEs. The lawsuit did a lot of damage in both directions. It's not clear who benefitted other than the attorneys. Also, if yo
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by pacaro 9y ago
Not putting it in neutral when stopped can contribute to failing your driving test in the U.K.
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by pacaro 9y ago
My sister is bilingual, but because she only lived in the U.K. as a child and teenager, there is vocabulary that is used more commonly in adult conversations that she knows, but has a hard time with. So while she is bilingual by any useful
621.
by pacaro 9y ago
Probably from Wales, although depending on where in the principality he lived, the accent may be quite interesting, and while British, certainly not most people's stereotypical idea of a British accent. If he lived in Whales, then (if
622.
by pacaro 9y ago
Westward Ho! Only British place name with an exclamation mark. The village is named from the book, not the other way around, and was developed to cash in on tourism inspired by the book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We
623.
by pacaro 9y ago
If you're not British or a serious Anglophile it can be hard to believe that Nempnett Thrubwell or Newton Poppleford are real places. We used to drive to Portishead to listen to Portishead.
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by pacaro 9y ago
I have no idea about the treatment you describe, but the mammalian dive reflex is very real, and is a useful way to induce bradycardia. For example, splashing cold water on your face can legitimately help with a panic attack
625.
by pacaro 9y ago
Thanks! It's been 25 years since my last pharmacology class, the details are all getting a bit vague.
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by pacaro 9y ago
I'm not sure that I'm quite as critical, the technique itself looks useful for some scenarios. I've worked on a Windows project where we solved a similar problem by booting from vhd, so you can "just" write a new vh
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by pacaro 9y ago
Aspirin is a bad actor in this regard. It tends to revert back to salicylic acid, which is ok for some specific topical uses, but has potential to be pretty harmful orally. Sniffing an old bottle of aspirin will tell you whether they'r
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by pacaro 9y ago
Works for me only if I turn wifi off. A good reminder to try re enabling IPv6 on my router!
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by pacaro 9y ago
The constraints were entirely organizational, many better technical solutions were suggested
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by pacaro 9y ago
In a sense these are all crazy outliers, regardless of era. This is the essence of survivorship bias.

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