rthomas6

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by rthomas6 12y ago
Because they can use both?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Yes. The pressure of space is not sufficient for liquid water, regardless of how hot or cold it is. This means that regardless of how much ice or vapor exists on separate terrestrial bodies, we cannot assume that there is liquid somewhere i
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I've thought about this and concluded that this thought experiment ignores the subjective way people experience reality. If a dust speck fell in your own eye, you would round that experience down to zero. You wouldn't even remem
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by rthomas6 12y ago
That's not true at all. It depends on the pressure. http://d32ogoqmya1dw8.cloudfront.net/images/research_educati...
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Oops, corrected. Thanks!
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by rthomas6 12y ago
They didn't. But I think I understood it anyway and can explain it to you. As a result of Lisp being in prefix notation, which is just a fancy way of saying you always put the action first (for instance you add numbers like (+ x y z)),
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Yes. Whatever Bitcoin pay service the large institution uses usually assumes the volatility risk for a transaction fee and gives the recipient state currency.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I agree with you 100%, but I feel the need to point out that you can still be a "weird nerd" and have progressive values. I do not think hacker values and progressive values are mutually exclusive, but I think they are orthogonal.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Yes, I agree. I mean, that's the point of the NSA, right? That's why they were created, for electronic surveillance.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
VHDL is what I use at work. It does work fine, but isn't it a bit funny having to ignore/unlearn all the procedural leftovers from Ada? Synthesizable for loops are a good example. In hardware these are synthesized such that they a
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by rthomas6 12y ago
That's really cool. It looks like the ARM is doing the heavy lifting, though, and is supplemented by custom hardware (likely Xilinx's many hardware IPs) that the ARM farms things out to. I'm not saying this sort of thing has
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Oh, I meant immutable. Thanks for pointing that out!
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by rthomas6 12y ago
My thinking was that completely immutable functions map better to hardware that can't change its own design, but maybe it would be better to allow state sometimes. The problem with state is that it implies sequentialism. Registers, sig
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Hi, I write HDL for FPGAs in my day job. Programming an FPGA in C seems like a fundamentally bad idea to me. C is a procedural language. Most languages are procedural to some degree, but C is entirely sequential. Digital hardware, unlike a
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by rthomas6 12y ago
This looks like a pretty good article on that subject: http://rawfoodsos.com/2011/05/31/wild-and-ancient-fruit/ A quick browsing indicates that while our modern fruits are all domesticated, there are ple
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by rthomas6 12y ago
There's been some research that suggests that children, unlike adults, have no limit to the amount of sweetness they will tolerate/enjoy in a food. Maybe your sweetness limit just kicked in earlier than your peers.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
It's not like having special eye surgery to visit galleries. It's more like creating special lighting in a gallery for viewing art. The difference being you don't have to use the amplifier all the time, for everything. What y
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Isn't this just an advertisement?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Sounds like I should get my son in Boy Scouts, even though our family is becoming increasingly less religious. My experience with Cub Scouts/Boy Scouts included the following things I wouldn't have got to do otherwise: * Build
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by rthomas6 12y ago
So what you're saying is you quicksort your clothes.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
While javert's comment might have been un-sympathetic, its narrative is true. People have gotten on disability in proportion to the reduction of people on welfare. Check out this awesome Planet Money piece: http://apps.npr.o
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by rthomas6 12y ago
>two parallel operations happened in the wrong order. I thought separate functions weren't allowed to have dependencies like this?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Does coding in a pure functional language like Haskell solve this problem?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Maybe you need to get your first cup of coffee this Monday morning. Sometimes, humans make things for fun, that serve no practical purpose. They're just neat and have novelty, and the person had fun building it. I can't imagine a
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Yes, this is equally true! I think this re-casting of what I said sheds even more light on both history and the present. We're not as enlightened and different as we like to think. Knowledge and technology increases, but people and emo
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I didn't say knowledgeable.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
You just confused 8000 years of post-agricultural society and culture, with medieval western Europe. Yes, people are much more educated now, because technology lets them get better access to information, but I think it's inaccurate to
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast cemented the idea in my mind more than it had been before. http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I think history is a lot more interesting and makes a lot more sense when you finally realize that people in the past were just as aware and smart as us, as opposed to the bumbling idiots we often assume them to be.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
The description at the beginning doesn't say the two prisoners are allowed to communicate and agree on rules for information transmission before being led into the room.

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