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by sago 12y ago
> When all evidence points in the opposite direction? Hmmm, can't let that go. Look, everything done in that situation was a dickish thing, but Adria got dumped on in every exchange. 1. Guys enjoy a bit of innuendo without having th
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by sago 12y ago
None of the victims came across as happy about the situation. Nor should they have. The things Adria suffered were despicable, deplorable and unimaginably distressing for most of us, I'm sure. But she did come across badly. Both relati
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by sago 12y ago
So looking forward to Jon's book on this. "Them" was superb. Also, was it just (white, male, non-Jewish) me, or did Adria come across really badly in that interview?
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by sago 12y ago
Yup. Also, have a look at my response to javajosh, below, I go one step further in describing my 'intuition' for what is happening, which generalises beyond these three cases.
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by sago 12y ago
I sit on the board of governors of a public school in Wales, which has decided it needs to focus on math after bad PISA results. We had an official from the local government come in to tell us that she'd gone through our testing scores
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by sago 12y ago
You picked up on a really important issue that is often assumed. Thank you for not letting me just slip it under the radar without question. To answer your question: we treat the MF and FM differently, just for ease of calculation. What we&
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by sago 12y ago
The first example isn't very good. I see what they're trying to do there, to collapse the ambiguity about which child is the boy. But if you work from the set of possible scenarios just purely from those that match the description
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by sago 12y ago
Right, that's the last case. The eldest is a boy (or a girl, it doesn't matter), so the younger is equally likely to be either. The middle case is 2/3 likely to be a girl. Think of the possibilities of the sex of two children
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by sago 12y ago
She went on later to talk about the Tuesday's child problem, which is even more interesting and confounding. I have a friend who has two children, he has a son born on a Tuesday, what is the probability his other child is a girl? Com
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by sago 12y ago
> a 3-year-old laptop struggled to run the latest eclipse There's a whole world of bad software engineering in that observation!
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by sago 12y ago
I've served on the program committee of the main conference in my field. It has double-blind review. In about 60% of the good quality papers I knew the person or team doing the work. In another 30% of the cases doing a literature searc
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by sago 12y ago
Fired by pre-recorded message? What kind of spineless asshat does that?
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by sago 12y ago
Thanks for that, sorry for my impoliteness in response. HN is sometimes frustrating in its density of people with Dunning Kruger problems. I am sometimes one of them. You bring up a slightly different issue now, which I'm not sure if y
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by sago 12y ago
Mostly modern game engines use an entity system[1], which is a form of database (global data, I guess, in as much as any database is). The main loop then steps through each component (of which physics would be one) and lets it update the en
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by sago 12y ago
Hmmm, you appear to have a high opinion of your ability to determne 'good physics code'. Unfortunately, just a high opinion, not a high ability. The OPs code is fine. And was written by a she, not a he. Your suggestion is what is
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by sago 12y ago
(Edit: I can be clearer, using your approach - more verbose explanation trimmed) In the linked version we are doing ... move, draw, de-overlap, move, draw, de-overlap ... So the move might cause an overlap, which we'd draw on screen. H
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by sago 12y ago
I don't know if the OP reads this, but one very minor note about the core of the update loop. From the POV of the circles, it is effectively: for each circle: if circle is penetrating: apply collision impulse remove
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by sago 12y ago
My apologies, I thought the context of discussing whether someone would get away with a crime they had committed or not (in the context of a conversation about whether crimes are even investigated) would make it clear I wasn't talking
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by sago 12y ago
> a perfect KTH scheme would be undetectable And would be at least powerful enough to solve the halting problem. There's nothing to doubt. A 'perfect' KTH virus is impossible.
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by sago 12y ago
Yeah, that's exactly what it means.
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by sago 12y ago
I've no idea what impact you think that makes on my point. Rape may be 'taken seriously' incidentally (though actually you probably mean certain stereotypes of rape), but its conviction rate is still so low that, unfortunatel
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by sago 12y ago
Yes, as I understand it, police authorities allocate resources for categories of crime based on national and local policing priorities. If your low-priority crime (like criminal damage) can somehow be placed in a higher priority category (l
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by sago 12y ago
According to the official Ministry of Justice figures, there were 745,000 reported burglaries in the UK in 2013 (last figures I could find), and there were 26,300 convictions for burglary. Although the rates fluctuate, they don't chang
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by sago 12y ago
Personally I'm in favour of him being extradited and charged under normal UK and Swedish law and treaties. I'm not in favour of the scale of the operation to enforce that, which I think is primarily a function of the accused'
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by sago 12y ago
Seems a false dichotomy. I wouldn't suggest we "let him go free", but when any public service has resource limits, you have assign them reasonably to the public benefit. As for whether this would happen for another person in
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by sago 12y ago
At the bottom of the page "Where do these numbers come from?" explains the methodology.
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by sago 12y ago
Edit: Reading another source suggests they can charge him in absentia, so the statute of limitations argument is probably moot.
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by sago 12y ago
There are many, many laws, that if it cost £10m to catch one violator, would not be enforced (well, would not be aggressively pursued, it isn't like they'd say "no, you're fine, go about your life"). Police make pri
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by sago 12y ago
Because my math sucks. Sorry. Edited.
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by sago 12y ago
If the original comment refers to me, then that wasn't my intent to insinuate that at all. The published data shows that only a tiny minority of petty crimes end in conviction, however. In my experience (5 times, including family and c

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