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by rflrob 16y ago
Having to use a ! for every system command is a dealbreaker for me. Honestly, it would be a dealbreaker even if you only had to do it once per line, but multiples is just too cumbersome to be a good replacement for bash. If there were some
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by rflrob 16y ago
Pretty cool! There's a bug at 315 degrees: cos is listed as -1/sqrt(2), when it should be +1/sqrt(2).
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by rflrob 16y ago
Not only does TeX collapse consecutive whitespace, when typesetting justified text, it will put whitespace back in the least ugly way it can figure out. It's systems like this that make me think humans shouldn't be responsible for things l
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Modes of Communication on Google NGrams(ngrams.googlelabs.com)
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by rflrob 16y ago
You're absolutely right, and the time I spend worrying about any of these things is relatively low either way. As a moderately fit young adult with a good family medical history, only car wrecks are something that are reasonably likely to
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by rflrob 16y ago
I already found prions terrifying: incurable, nigh-indestructible, and not terribly difficult to ingest without knowing it. This just kicks it up a notch.
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by rflrob 16y ago
I'm having trouble getting the facts through the indignant tone of the article... how much of this is "can't get a better job until I pass the bar, can't pass the bar until I pay off my debts (for which I need a better job)"?
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by rflrob 16y ago
As lots of the other comments suggest, I think a highly context dependent approach is probably best. If the email is a response within a group of people, I'll assume that everyone has read the prior email or two (or has access to it in the
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by rflrob 16y ago
So you could have the root be "Is it for", and the options being the different people, instead of just yes/no. That said, it seems like the tree would be more likely to waste a bunch of whitespace. If the goal is actually to have a working
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by rflrob 16y ago
Any idea what those ~2Hz distortions are? In the a and c series recordings, they have a very strong pitch change, coming in groups of 4...
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Cellular computing using genetic NOR gates and chemical wires(nature.com)
4 points by rflrob 16y ago|0 comments
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by rflrob 16y ago
>But really, the most likely place for lasers as a viable weapon is space. Without air, the difficulties with plasma creation and turbulence are removed. The issue of power and optics remain, but I could plausibly see a satellite or spa
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I tend to use my karma as a proxy for whether I have replies to my comments. I figure if people are up-voting, then it was a worthwhile contribution, and they might be responding as well.
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by rflrob 16y ago
>Words with Friends would make a fantastic Facebook app. Arguably, it already did (cf. Scrabulous/Lexulous http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexulous ). I never played Scrabulous, so I don't know how similar it is to WWF, but since WWF is
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by rflrob 16y ago
Why should he have to point out anything at all about how men can put it into action? Presumably close to half the people who use OKC are women looking to attract men•, so the message to them ought to be fine. •modulo gays and lesbians, of
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by rflrob 16y ago
I suspect the argument is that by showing they're serious about enforcing the GNU license, they're making the current closed ecosystem less attractive, so either a truly Free system will be able to compete more equally, or the current syste
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by rflrob 16y ago
>you can probably only reliably make a profit during rush times (i.e., Thanksgiving, December) Still, it'd be a nice way to get a bolus of cash for buying, say, December holiday presents. >Also, if you guess wrong and a popular flig
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by rflrob 16y ago
As they say, all's fair in love and war. I've been thinking about what part of it, exactly, is dishonorable, and I'm really not sure.
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by rflrob 16y ago
I'm reminded of the poem: I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life. It makes my peas taste funny, but it keeps them on my knife.
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I've found that, for a great many foods, the continental method is more efficient. Assuming you still use the knife with the right hand (and if you're right handed, that should be what gives you the most control over the cutting surface), t
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by rflrob 16y ago
Is there some income level where everyone can agree that nobody is a "sucker", and you're just rich at that point? I would imagine all but a handful of doctors make less than 2 million dollars (40 times the median household's income), and t
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by rflrob 16y ago
There's also the possibility that the placebo effect in this case was due to some attempt to reduce cognitive dissonance: "why would they have me take this pill if it's actually useless?" I suspect the Hawthorne Effect is the most likely ex
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by rflrob 16y ago
There's actually a lot more that could go into figuring out whether a given passage will fit, but arguably a gold standard solution exists, and is freely available: to wit in TeX. While it's probably not trivial to adapt the relevant code,
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by rflrob 16y ago
I, for one, would love to see the drawing code, even if it's totally data free. Nothing else I see on the R Graph Gallery ( http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/thumbs.php ) looks remotely as good as the fb graph, and sharing code like thi
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by rflrob 16y ago
I've tried it too, although I've said to donate to a charity of their choice in my name. In retrospect, I wonder if making them choose made them more or less likely to give...
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Writing these kinds of assignments is hard, however. I find it difficult to come up with something that is both wrong enough to be instructive and non-obvious, as well as reasonable enough that someone might have written the code in the fi
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by rflrob 16y ago
They actually didn't get them all. On the right side of the image, there are some cars about to cross that haven't been painted over. I can convince myself I can read those, though probably not with 100% accuracy.
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by rflrob 16y ago
>And subversives can expose diplomatic secrets, critics can expose scientific hoaxes, and governments can track conspiracies While part of me is still hoping he's talking about Snopes, I know this is a reference to the University of E
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by rflrob 16y ago
Can you elaborate on 2 a bit? As to the other points, I should clarify my statement above: I only meant that they should have no expectation of privacy from the person they're dealing with. Planting a bug in the police station or eavesdropp
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by rflrob 16y ago
> allowing recording of public officials and servants in almost all cases. I'm tempted to go so far as to say that a public official (especially in law enforcement) acting in her official capacity should have no expectation of privacy

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