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by qubex 5y ago
> I remember having a very intriguing conversation about heat issues and the xbox 360 years ago Lucky you. I can barely remember conversations I had in the mid nineteenth century.
482.
by qubex 5y ago
Having seen photographs of the “diabolical chandelier” I expected 664 to be a centred cubic number, but it isn’t. That leaves me somewhat perplexed as to how they actually arranged the geometry of the fissile material.
483.
by qubex 5y ago
I’m a nudist. I’m wondering whether we’ll be a persecuted minority (as opposed to merely derided comic relief).
484.
by qubex 5y ago
> ammonium nitrate is an incredibly common farming input True, but this stuff was intended for use as a mining blasting agent in Africa so lacked most of the stabilisers added to the agricultural stuff specifically to make it less suit
485.
by qubex 5y ago
Aren’t the population statistics of the NH karma distribution known? Histogram, percentiles…
486.
by qubex 5y ago
Cryptonomicon.
487.
by qubex 5y ago
I also used BeOS back in the mid nineties, first on an actual BeBox-133 and later on a dual PIII-450 PC. I still have bouts of nostalgia for that setup. The GUI and UX were extraordinary.
488.
by qubex 5y ago
My operant definitions are: 1. Mathematics is the study of pattern and quantity. 2. Physics is the study of motion and position.
489.
by qubex 5y ago
I’m going to draw from the article and from my personal experience (somewhat related viewpoint of computers in small companies’ chemistry labs) and point out the leading cause of this obsolete technology persisting: cost (or rather, price).
490.
by qubex 5y ago
What is the objective? I can see the controls and I’ve made a few interesting patterns but what is the thing I’m trying to achieve? What’s the gameplay significance of the graph? What exactly is it even measuring?
491.
by qubex 5y ago
One way of looking at it is that Bezos has just acquired Trump’s Apprentice outtake tapes.
492.
by qubex 5y ago
For the uninitiated, usocapione is the legal process whereby those who are in possession of an item (in this case, land) can become legal owners over a period of time. Presumably the lack of enforcement over a very long time (60 years bei
493.
by qubex 5y ago
> Information is not power, information is a power multiplier. That’s deep and insightful, and now that you’ve written it, perfectly obvious in hindsight.
494.
by qubex 5y ago
I worked at a company where Monday was the main interface between the back-office and the B2B clients we serviced. That was about as bad as you can expect.
495.
by qubex 5y ago
The problem with this is that you can easily bankrupt a company by codifying exceedingly onerous terms. Google (to take your example) happens to be able to (barely) afford 10% of their revenue taken from their income. Another company with a
496.
by qubex 5y ago
Indeed… throughout my whole school career (ending with my graduation in 1999, albeit from an international school featuring the International Baccalaureate) nobody ever gave a fraction of a dam about what calculator we had, as long as it di
497.
by qubex 5y ago
I’m somewhat aware that Texas Instruments enjoys some kind of quasi-monopoly on high school graphical calculators in the USA. However, when I was taking IB Maths Higher way back in 1999, I was using a Casio. Right after that I bought a HP 4
498.
by qubex 5y ago
I’m in Italy, actually.
499.
by qubex 5y ago
“Will the housing market crash?” “Experts see prices rising instead.” These two facts are not mutually exclusive. And isn’t that exactly how bubbles occur?
500.
by qubex 5y ago
I have one of these. It’s a nice little device but it falls a bit short in one key area: it lacks a CAS (Computer Algebra System) for symbolic calculations. That functionality was available in an earlier release of the software (Epsilon) bu
501.
by qubex 5y ago
That’s delightfully brutal and… soviet in design philosophy.
502.
by qubex 5y ago
Basically what you’re suggesting is a kind of AST decompiler (in an IDE front-end?) that allows developers to view and edit the code in an essentially arbitrary syntax?
503.
by qubex 6y ago
> about Cutie he may have been joking That’s a pretty high barrier to credibility in a text explicitly titled Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman . ;)
504.
by qubex 6y ago
What is said of women who frequent topless bars? Does it matter whether they are straight, bi-, or lesbians? This is getting quite ridiculous.
505.
by qubex 6y ago
Actually the light bulb that was supposed to be on to signal that the beam was on had burned out that very day.
506.
by qubex 6y ago
Upon meta-consideration, I believe (but cannot prove, even subjectively) that it speaks volumes of the cumulative consultancy expertise Amazon has evidently hired to bear down upon this issue just how reasonable Amazon’s requests felt. Su
507.
by qubex 6y ago
The ship is twice as long as the canal is wide.
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by qubex 6y ago
I disagree insofar as the scenarios you describe (implicit trust in computer security, trust that another driver won’t swerve into your vehicle’s path) are perfectly good examples of the overall definition I posited above. Indeed, if one di
509.
by qubex 6y ago
I’m hereby notifying you that I have now appropriated that term for my own future use. :)
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by qubex 6y ago
Depends what you mean by “understanding ESAC”. Of course I understand CASE/ESAC. I ‘understand’ Duff’s Device in C (even though I don’t think I could’ve ever come up with it myself). I’m just saying that this strikes me as rather... in

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