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by peeters 12y ago
I expect relief pitching would quickly re-enter the picture. Starting pitchers pace themselves to go 7-8 innings (100 pitches is the unwritten rule, as much as I hate it). They might be able to deliver a higher quality start if they are t
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by peeters 12y ago
> Why not just fully use computers, then? Because that will kill interest in watching the game much more thoroughly than a more accurate strike zone. Viewers like the subtle things, like that moment's pause that leaves viewers on t
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by peeters 12y ago
It's possible, but it's also difficult. The strike zone is not a static box; it's relative to the batter. Thus, the umpire needs to be able to compare the location of the pitch to the batter himself, and so the zone should
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by peeters 12y ago
> Does a modern software engineer not need to demonstrate an ability to design efficient algorithms that solve problems that haven't been encountered before? On the job? Sure they do. In an interview room? That's not an adequ
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by peeters 12y ago
There's an important correlation vs causation distinction in there: > People are more likely to be home in the morning and evening; EV owners may be especially likely to use more power at those times because they have bigger homes a
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by peeters 12y ago
Was there a particular need to model the World Trade Center towers with a plane flying at them? Is that part of the functionality of the hard drive?
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by peeters 12y ago
I don't know, I think that part needs some work. Of the 10 questions on bitmask, I had 2 questions show up twice, with the same values too.
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by peeters 12y ago
I'm guessing most lawyers would never give you the "all clear" to allege sexual misconduct in a public venue. The liability for libel is high.
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by peeters 12y ago
> I'm not even joking, Canada needs a tropical island. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_provinces_and_territor... Lobby your MP! :)
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by peeters 12y ago
> you heat the whole house with hot water As others have said, try cooling a house with rads. It's not like North America is oblivious to radiators; they were very much a standard way of heating houses before the popularity of AC m
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by peeters 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number . Illegal prime number is just a minor specialization of the same concept.
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by peeters 12y ago
Fair enough. Would child porn be a valid comparison then? It's illegal to possess child porn. So should this reasoning fly? "Sir, this is NOT a pornographic image featuring a minor, it's just a very large number!"
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by peeters 12y ago
"Illegal number" is a loaded term designed to point out the ridiculousness of certain copyrights. However, I've always found this odd. Since pretty much any information can be conveyed as a number, why aren't people com
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by peeters 12y ago
I would assume this is what we should stay tuned to? http://www.sonatype.com/clm/secure-access-to-central
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by peeters 12y ago
No love for the Apocrypha though it seems ;-). Not being Catholic, I don't know how much teaching is done out of those books, but this might reach a larger audience if the books to show were configurable.
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by peeters 12y ago
My point is that what constitutes "late" is a function of the speed of traffic. If you define "late" as "the latest point at which you can safely merge without causing negative traffic reactions (e.g. by forcing som
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by peeters 12y ago
Speaking about educating drivers, I wish we could just kill that mentality once and for all. It drives me crazy when someone obviously beats me to a stop sign, then waves me through as though they're doing me a favor. No my friend, y
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by peeters 12y ago
No, it's provably optimal in flowing traffic as well. However, the "merge point" is variable depending on traffic speed. Obviously when you're going 100 km/h, the ideal merge point is significantly farther back tha
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by peeters 12y ago
> It is optimal only when the local driving culture allows it to be. Yeah, which is why almost the entire article was about the campaigns to change the culture, not about justifying zipper merging as optimal.
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by peeters 12y ago
I like the idea of #1. But it seems from my experience in the U.S. and Canada, that there is a tendency towards unambiguous right-of-way. That tends to rule out collaborative scenarios where there's no clear "winner" when t
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by peeters 12y ago
> I mean the deeper you go the more freezes on it and the thicker it gets? As the article makes a point of mentioning, unlike nearly all materials, added pressure is more likely to melt ice than cause it to freeze, at least at the pre
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by peeters 12y ago
You're assuming it had to be intentional, which is an overwhelmingly unjustified assumption. All it would take is the person in control of the weapon to think it's a military transport.
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by peeters 12y ago
> If he were more politically savvy, he'd build the thing in Python and then, if the software were to run on 100,000 boxes, rewrite performance-critical pieces in C++, and justify a bonus for himself by pointing to the 20,000 CPUs t
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by peeters 12y ago
That's not my logic at all. The GP asked what this has to do with Google. I'm saying there are clearly scenarios where Google has a responsibility to limit access to content, even content they don't provide. In my opinion,
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by peeters 12y ago
How about drawing parallels to a similar situation? A child porn ring manages to stay online via using ever-changing URLs and relying on Google's indexing. Prosecutors of course go after the people maintaining the network. But Googl
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by peeters 12y ago
One problem is that these battery swap stations need to be almost as ubiquitous as gas stations (at least along highway routes) to be convenient, otherwise it'll take very careful planning on road trips. But because swap-outs are the
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by peeters 12y ago
I already created a bot that would pass the Turing Test, according to these specifications anyway: <Josiah, an 8 month old from Nashua, has entered the room> S: Hi Josiah, I'm Steven. What do you like to do? J: <no response&g
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by peeters 12y ago
Maybe format it like Mafia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game) . Instead of an informed Mafia trying to survive, you have an informed group of AIs. Each player can TALK, NOMINATE, and VOTE when a vote is c
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by peeters 12y ago
If you haven't tried them, test out their datasource tools in IntelliJ, which this seems to be mostly a repackaging of. Especially if using JPA, it's pretty incredible to be able to use all of the standard shortcuts (go to defini
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by peeters 12y ago
It's an interesting claim. Basically the AI's success is because it covers its shortcomings by claiming to be 1) young (plausibility for not knowing commonly known things), and 2) speaking in a non-native language he's not fl

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