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by pure-awesome 7y ago
EDIT: On reconsideration, I may have been too hasty in dismissing your line of reasoning. If we consider a space-filling curve for the unit circle which is built like the onion curve (which is just a limit of round spirals), it WOULD be eve
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
March is already summer here (Southern Hemisphere). We have all sorts of weird eccentricities due to "cultural norms" (we use snowflakes on our Christmas cards in mid-summer, whereas the Steam Summer Sale happens mid-winter). Not
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Agreed. I think it's not the length, directly, but the lack of substance. The author starts with the unqualified assertion that convenience is bad. I'd expect they'd continue by providing evidence or an argument to support th
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Do you mean that if you get electric cars running off coal power plants now, then that frees you up to replace the coal with e.g. solar power later on? (From a programming perspective - since this is Hacker News, after all - we could view e
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
> It doesn't particularly matter. Centralized clean energy production is often significantly easier to solve than figuring out clean alternatives to gasoline use. Especially when the problem with clean alternatives to gasoline is po
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
In my experience, banana peels are quite slippery, especially when they form that 'layer of slime' (when the banana becomes quite ripe) and on a smooth (though not necessarily inherently slippery) surface. Since you asked for a st
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
You shouldn't blindly perform standard statistical analysis on such data with the usual techniques. But to declare it statistical garbage is simply going too far. In fact, anecdotes are the way in which we are able to make sense of the
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Since you were backing up the partial results, I assume this means you could load such a backup and continue from it if something happened to the running machine. Does that mean that you could, if you wished, have switched to a different ma
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
I don't understand: What's the difference in them passing on the sales taxes and passing on the corp. taxes, or indeed any other expense?
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Yes, same here. Mild amusement but no discomfort. Had a discussion about it in a Facebook comment thread, and asked on or two of my friends. From my _very_ small sample size the number of neutral vs uncomfortable people seems about equal. I
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
The title gave me pause, and I sat thinking about what it possibly mean. How can a galactic entity "fail"? Does this affect us? Surely not since such things would be on the timespans of millions to billions of years. What is a &qu
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
The metaphor is slightly off-the-mark. Testing a fancy new white cane would be like testing the accessibility tool itself. If you are developing that, then you definitely need an expert in such tools (probably a blind person). However, deve
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
What about updating the specification before updating the UI?
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
Just take a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio... And these are just the ones we know about, and the page only pertains to experimentation. You have to give some consideration to
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
> I’ve taught public school teachers, who were incredibly bad at formal mathematical reasoning (I know, because I graded their tests), to the point that I had not realized humans could be that bad at math — but it had no effect on how th
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
I'd like to contest the use of the term "actual" pilot for the the more deliberate pilot. For some reason, we as humans seem to like thinking of our conscious / deliberate pilot as ourselves, and the subconscious /
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
With the level of IT competence displayed here, I doubt they've even heard of Agile.
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
Yes, I was slightly disappointed to discover this fact. From the title, I thought it would be something I'd be able to run semi-automatically on a neural net (presumably defined in a standard / widely-used format like a Tensorflow
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
Sloth sounds like if you tried to pronounce lsof.
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
Sounds like a form of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
I remember the days when I had to include "AND" and "OR" between words in the queries.
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
Is DuckDuckGo good now? When I first tried it out a couple of years back, I found it didn't give me enough (relevant) results on my searches, so I stayed with Google. I assume it must have improved in that time; maybe I should try it a
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
> I'm wondering if you and the others who replied just below are serious or if you're trolling? No-one here is trolling - this is part of a contentious philosophical debate. It does not help to assume bad faith on the part of
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
This site's name, of course, more slanted towards the original meaning rather than the criminal one.
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
Before you can solve general and difficult problems, it is often useful to solve toy versions of the same problems with many of the parameters simplified, or only focusing on individual aspects of the full problem at a time. It would be inc
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
This part is just another threat, yes. Some of the other things he did is (portrayed as) kindness.
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
Hindsight bias is a thing - people tend to overestimate their ability to have known or predicted something they've found out. This page describes the effect quite well: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WnheMGAka4fL9
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
Actually, addicting is considered an acceptable form of the word; https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/20327/whats-the-... ...wait a minute.
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
> I do think it shifts norms, which is important. Sorry, I'm not sure I understand. What, exactly, shifts norms?
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by pure-awesome 8y ago
I don't know if I'd call sending nudes an "odd use-case", but that's what I've always understood to be Snapchat's primary use-case. (The fact that temporary photos can be quite easily screenshotted, photog

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