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by ricree 11y ago
>Could've been a nice article. But it said "fish" and "sharks" far too often Why's that?
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by ricree 11y ago
Ideally, it would bias strongly towards blocking destructive activities, and hinting but not executing inferred commands. Perhaps with something like "really" (where usage is similar to sudo) that would both override and train the
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by ricree 12y ago
I don't know the context around which this was presented to students, but it's much easier if you think of it as a set operations problem than a pure logic one. Also nice to see that the age old act of providing irrelevant distrac
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by ricree 12y ago
Though for what it's worth, I've seen a lot of professional authors that warn about that as another kind of trap that beginners fall into. That is, paying too much attention to the revision process, at the expense of producing act
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by ricree 12y ago
Except, perhaps for rule five, all of those seem applicable to nonfiction. Though the measures for "talent" are rather different between the two. In the case of seven, "Write to be informative" might suffice, in the sens
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by ricree 12y ago
It's neat that you still have it, though. Pretty much everything of mine from around then has long since vanished. (though apparently a few utility programs I wrote for class were still being passed around after I graduated. I sometime
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by ricree 12y ago
I particularly like the Liam Clancy recitation of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sydUOvELvg#t=29
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by ricree 12y ago
>If I have the resources to make an iron sword and you don’t, I can cut your bronze spearhead like butter Bronze isn't particularly worse than iron, when it comes to making weapons. Its primary drawback is its scarcity, compared to
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by ricree 12y ago
Maxis had a nearly 18 year run after the EA purchase. A lot of independent studios die over that sort of timeframe. They released every entry in the fairly successful Sims series, as well as two well regarded entries for SimCity. It's
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by ricree 12y ago
That's largely a non-sequitor, as 1942 would have predated most of the laws jkot would be referring to.
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by ricree 12y ago
and repeats.
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by ricree 12y ago
I think five year increments might be a little short, but I agree with the general idea. One of the biggest problems with indefinite copyrights is that you wind up with big chunks of culture that get sucked up into this copyright black hole
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by ricree 12y ago
Many modern hearing aids already have ways to do what he's looking for. Bluetooth receivers for television or phones, for example. In other cases, I've seen lapel microphones meant to be worn by the person speaking. If analog want
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by ricree 12y ago
Is that what it shows you? I just searched for that exact thing. The first two were ISO standards, the third wikipedia, and the fourth a paper on crane hook stress analysis. Not as good as a directed search by a professional, sure (and I ha
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by ricree 12y ago
>True, but our ground troops (some relatives and friends) love this thing because it can hang around for an extended period of time. The F-35 and helicopters cannot To what extent do/will drones fill this role? My understanding was
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by ricree 12y ago
>Your question presumes that prosecutors are looking for the truth, right and wrong, innocence and guilt. >They are not. >Their job is to prosecute That's not entirely true. Their job (or at least their office's job) is a
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by ricree 12y ago
>The 3rd century is also when the Chinese Han Dynasty fell And the Parthian empire, for that matter. At around the same time (the early 220s). An interesting timing for the three of them, although the worst of Rome's troubles didn&#
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by ricree 12y ago
Only because of adjective ordering. The fact that great usually comes before green means that when the usual word order is reversed, it is because "great" is binding closer than normal for some other reason besides normal adjectiv
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by ricree 12y ago
One could just as easily say that about a great many crimes.
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by ricree 12y ago
>by contrast most suburban homes have a ~40 year lifecycle Do you have a source for this number? It seems quite a bit lower than I'd expect.
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by ricree 12y ago
I'm assuming this was in response to the "and serve data that I decided to pull down." part.
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by ricree 12y ago
If you're ok with hosting the images yourself, I'd recommend matplotlib ( http://matplotlib.org/ ) as a pretty good chart library.
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by ricree 12y ago
If I'm remembering correctly, only certain characters get transformed. So maybe you could use Huffman coding to map the text into a safe character set before you sent it. (might still have to strip out unacceptable characters to get ri
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by ricree 12y ago
They spun off of Justin.tv, which was in YC summer 07.
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by ricree 12y ago
On the other hand, the site renders fine with nothing whitelisted on noscript, so you could give that a try.
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by ricree 12y ago
The most polished I'm aware of off the top of my head is Spring ( http://springrts.com/ ), which started off as a Total Annihilation clone, but grew into a pretty solid engine in its own right.
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by ricree 12y ago
That's more or less the idea behind Perlin noise. Start with a low frequency high amplitude smooth function, then sum it together while increasing the frequency and decreasing the amplitude. See here for more: http://freesp
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by ricree 13y ago
They've been here on and off for a long time. For example, issue 8 of Hacker Monthly back in 2011 had an article on the SR-71 as its cover story. http://hackermonthly.com/issue-8.html
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by ricree 13y ago
I have mine mapped to the compose key. Don't need it a ton, but it's nice to have it close by and convenient when I do. Would probably have been better as esc or ctrl, but I didn't feel like having to relearn the muscle memor
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by ricree 13y ago
Being mildly familiar with the US political system, but none of the specifics here, my best guess is that it was a combination of political donations and hiring some sort of lobbying company. As a mild form of corruption, it's fairly c

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