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by rrmm 8y ago
The dreaded emacs lock-in: before you know it, you're browsing the web and editing your photos in emacs.
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by rrmm 8y ago
I think web browsers just end up being a convenient place to start a user interface that targets a bunch of different platforms. I am 100% on the emacs bandwagon myself, but it's hard to ignore the ubiquity of a browser.
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by rrmm 8y ago
The annoying thing about C++ is you need a big huge book to tell you which features are safe and how to combine them and stay safe. Maybe if they started defining a 'modern c++' subset that you could limit it to via compiler flags
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by rrmm 8y ago
3 times as big is still a comfortable size for a small pc and a small price to pay for using commodity/replaceable parts. Most of the people who might buy a mini would probably buy a mini that was 3x as big. At least for me, what I re
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by rrmm 8y ago
If any crimes were committed, they might be able to get a match on the vehicle the perps were driving!
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by rrmm 8y ago
We can see the shadow of it. The neat part is you can see the disturbed ground that the astronauts left while they moved around on the surface. NOTE: these were taken from lunar orbit, not earth-based telescopes. (shadow) https:/&#x2
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by rrmm 8y ago
Yeah, I have no intuition with this. The telescope they used was 8.2m and they used 300-400 second exposures (with spectral filters). I guess it comes down to space being really really dark and cyrogenically-cooled CCDs having pretty good
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by rrmm 8y ago
The paper this article refers to actually refers to 'Planet X' as the theorized large planet in its section on orbital stability models. I think the planet X moniker originally meant 'x' as unknown (it was coined during
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by rrmm 8y ago
The pre-print pdf is https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.00013.pdf Inclination of 11.669 degrees The diameter listed in the paper is 300km assuming a moderate albedo of 15%. The paper suggested this object provides more evidenc
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by rrmm 8y ago
The fun thing is that Planet X/Nibiru/Nemesis are basically crazy talk (but different from each other), and Planet IX is quite possibly true, but also distinct from the foregoing. But they are all synonymous in internet conspira
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by rrmm 8y ago
Yes, SNRI/SSRI's can precipitate panic attacks. And I agree aerobic activity of any sort can be very effective for controlling stress/anxiety and even depression. The important thing is to find some things that work for you
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by rrmm 8y ago
Usually testing. Just because code works flawlessly doesn't mean it isn't embarrassing; and just because you are proud of the code doesn't mean it's bug free.
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Lots of people bat many eyes as well as organize against and boycott goods from those places. Saying that human rights are 'nothing more than a tool from the west to impose their will' is wrong on its face. Sure they can be used
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by rrmm 8y ago
We did (to an extent) which is why we implemented the environmental laws we now have. But living so long without the severe negative environmental impacts leads us to slacken our resolve, because it's easy to think we got to this poin
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by rrmm 8y ago
I'd venture to guess so. Stress has a way of coming out one way or another especially for those people who are very 'distant' from their emotions and feelings. Whatever the biological mechanism (chronic cortisol, inflammato
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by rrmm 8y ago
As far as I understand (not an MD), benzos are not generally considered a long-term anti-anxiety drug. They treat the immediate symptom for people who need immediate relief from debilitating anxiety attacks and occasional 'flare-ups&#
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by rrmm 8y ago
Headline writing was the worst thing to happen to science ever: And the math I did proves it.
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Calculus provides the foundation for finding the optimal solutions to the math problems you set up. This is through a few methods: differential curvature for gradient descent, and the theory of real functions provides gaurantees regarding
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by rrmm 8y ago
Please please please can we get rid of headers and have modules? I find it super annoying having to specify things half in one place and half in another. Unfortunately, there still seems to be a bit of disagreement on the implementation a
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by rrmm 8y ago
I usually close blocks with "#end <whatever>". It doesn't automatically format, but it at least makes it clear to me should the formatting get messed up. I keep thinking about changing the emacs mode to respect this,
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auto-antonyms.
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Hillis gives a written account of it. He wanted to do stuff that actually needed to get done; not BS. http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine... """ We were arguing about what the n
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by rrmm 9y ago
I don't know if it's generally that useful (in my experience). There are usually too many things one doesn't know: Many parts don't have models, or the right kind of models, and it can take more time and effort than it&
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by rrmm 9y ago
I'd second this: the case tends to be a bigger constraint than the board (which you can modify at the design stage). Even when you are fabricating the case, the manufacturing constraints are usually more difficult. Although sometimes
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by rrmm 9y ago
To be fair, there's always a dividing line. Usually, "knowing how a computer works" for a programmer is equivalent to knowing the programmer's model for a cpu. A programmer's model is most definitely not how a com
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by rrmm 9y ago
In large schools, lower-level intro classes can be huge (many classes with many students in each class), so there's usually an extremely standardized (and mechanized) curriculum that ensures everyone learns basically the same thing and
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by rrmm 9y ago
This is an amazing experiment which took an amusing detour through scientific denialism via Phyllis Schlafly's son. Here's a summary I found surrounding the issue. https://arstechnica.com/features/2008&#x2F
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by rrmm 9y ago
In the exchanges, no one seemed particularly surprised at the speed, just that it was relatively fast. So my WAG would be like mach .8 to .9 maybe? The anomalous thing they were focused on was that it wasn't squawking a transponder c
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by rrmm 9y ago
No one in the calls even seemed particularly surprised at the speed, so maybe in the high-performance business jet territory.
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It sounds like they had trouble tracking it with primary radar which means there might be something else going on. It'd be amusing to find out how the people on the other side of this are reacting: Either "hey that was a pretty s

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