quietplatypus

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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Wireless flat panels? Thats quite excessive. I bet you cant even get good bandwidth out of them. Wonder if in the near future complex configurations of directed wireless equipment will become a fire hazard lol
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Slavery is also a great example of partnership (a stable relationship backed by shackles and violence), division of labor (I sit around; you work!) and increasing returns to expertise (I can do more due to having better living conditions an
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
That is claptrap. If it were a family story you'd have a family blog, and a separate family member would write about how they all pitched in to help you get tenure. All of us know that the main takeawy of the story is about you. Your d
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
What I find both fascinating and at least a little frustrating is that many recent advances in CS are retreads in concept (though not context) of 1970s work. If this was the year 2050, what would you guys consider adding to the Classics? If
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
This is why I love Haskell---the check, though approximate, is built in to the language as the type checker. Pair it up with the speed Haskell coder's best friend, "undefined", and you can be just 40 characters into writing p
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
The way this is going to pan out, is that the House Slaves and Tools who love to crab bucket and compete with others will not take any maternity/paternity leave, and politically push out those who would take a reasonable amount of leav
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Yeah that seems to have worked for me. Also it's a great idea to call it iterative deepening. Lower memory requirements but gets the job done anyway! I used to judge myself harshly for not getting something on the first read around, bu
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
I can. I used to do my math homework in LaTeX. I'm not saying I did it on paper and the final stuff was written up, I mean I was thinking in LaTeX. The PDF viewer was "check what I just did mode" and the text editor was &quot
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
I don't know. On the one hand, at the conceptual level, unless you are at the cutting edge of CS theory, I'm pretty sure almost anything else that is done in computer science is a mere re-wording of something that was done in the
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Right, American culture (or the lack of it) definitely represents a tradeoff. Strong culture has an effect of reducing anxieties; you know your place by participating. You probably won't do too well, but not too bad either. In contrast
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
We have to keep up with the game. There's a recent (maybe not lol) prevalence of narcisstic people who love to avoid using personal pronouns and turn up the false objectivity.
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Yeah the first person pronoun prevlaence could just as well be a sign of personal writing style or a very non-narcissistic sense of social responsibility in wanting to be absolutely clear about what one did.
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
That looks cool. To get that face mesh to fit to the video in realtime like that, what kind of processing power do you need? Is this work an application of that or did they do this because now algorithms/hardware is up to the task?
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Atlantic article has a bunch of unexamined underlying assumptions that are then presented as some false dichotomy, in order to inspire fear and self-loathing in the masses? Color me unsurprised. There are times to be nice and times to be a
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Exactly. I can't help but feel like the kind of parents who would let their child get to this point, or the peers of such parents, take some perverse pleasure in their children's deaths. "Is adult entertainment killing our ch
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by quietplatypus 12y ago
Could you discriminate between receivers too, based on picking a particular resonant frequency for the whole system? Or is that how you have to do it to do it safely.
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by quietplatypus 12y ago
Wouldn't the RF coupled version use a magnetic field as well, because the electric field is osciollating? Seems like the difference is in how spatially localized the two are, and % magnetic power vs electric. Presumably though there is
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by quietplatypus 12y ago
Well, compared to Windows, which up until Windows 7 let you run a bunch of very old games (and even then you could still get some of them to work in compatibility mode), I'd say no. And that's a software platform that has to run o
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by quietplatypus 12y ago
Do you think there is still the chance for a well-made, expensive up front iPad game (we are talking like $10 to even $30) to make it based on word of mouth from hardcore gamers and Gamespot/IGN/etc. ? I know that the ecosystem it