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by scrumper 9y ago
What on earth are you talking about? I mean all of it: Republics, invidious prose, copywriters, a literary precedent, England being a republic, rent-a-kings... Eh?
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by scrumper 9y ago
This is a lovely story and I'm glad you got the response you did from Mark. Just wondering, as one one man shop, did you have to negotiate for rights to the Yahtzee name & mechanics?
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by scrumper 9y ago
Well for one, Bieber is doing quite a bit of guitar stuff these days. I've actually been surprised by the amount of very obvious guitar sounds in pop in the last ~12-18 months or so. Try your local top 40 station with fresh ears, it&#x
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by scrumper 9y ago
Exactly this. Right now, Google Docs marries the worst aspects of version control (long, weird, unstructured, incoherent change history) and the worst of no version control at all (the need to keep creating final.v2.edited.JS_changes copi
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by scrumper 9y ago
If it's any help to you, I've had great success using StaSh and git for getting stuff into it.
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by scrumper 9y ago
It's already really useful. You can create local apps with home-screen icons on it. You can install whatever packages you want (download and run StaSh inside Pythonista to get a command line with pip). You can even use git with it, aga
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by scrumper 9y ago
Good for you taking something positive from the experience, but man that must have hurt at the time! I know that at I at least was a lot less humble at the start of my career than I am now.
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by scrumper 9y ago
I agree with your broad point about the fairly poor state of education and its central role in the country's future. I don't agree with some other things: one of which being "at least a random billionaire can have the money a
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by scrumper 9y ago
Huh. I fired up a Chrome instance alongside and got 8kH/s; Safari still chugging away at 2-300H/s.
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by scrumper 9y ago
> Wealthy individuals commit time, money, and effort to important problem. Screw those guys... am I right? No, this is not right and the attitude dripping off your post isn't very constructive either. These individuals have dispropo
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by scrumper 9y ago
Oh dear, 216 hash/sec on OSX Safari on a year old Macbook Pro.
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by scrumper 9y ago
There's a code lock - the PAL - on US Tridents, not just the launch keys. Anecdotally and non-authoritatively I've heard that there are offline backup codes in a safe accessible to the command crew (which is the mechanism I refer
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by scrumper 9y ago
Thanks, I had seen that. I have to rule it out though because I'm really not comfortable with the apparent privacy tradeoff.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Any commercially recorded stereo music will work well in mono: many mix engineers do most of their work in mono and even those that don't will regularly check that it still sounds good in mono. A surprising amount of listening is mono
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by scrumper 9y ago
I'd buy it if you could also use it as a (really good sounding) speakerphone for conference calls when working from home.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Pythonista comes pretty close without being "Xcode for iPad". You can develop apps using it, which can have icons on the home screen.
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by scrumper 9y ago
I use my 12" iPad Pro flat a lot, mostly for taking notes in meetings using the pencil or drawing diagrams. It's no different to using pen and paper in terms of neck angles and the like. I do find myself using the pencil for stuff
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by scrumper 9y ago
This is a good point-by-point discussion and worth a read. It isn't really about 'bro culture', more about underrepresentation of women in software development. As with many such articles, this one talks a bit about the toxic
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by scrumper 9y ago
OK interesting, thanks for sharing. Shielding in general does seem to be a real issue for any spaceflight beyond LEO though; perhaps not as bad as I'd thought.
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by scrumper 9y ago
I don't believe what you have written is true in the case of the US Navy, which parent was asking about. US SSBNs do indeed have PALs. You are correct if you're talking about Britain: Royal Navy SSBN captains are able to launch mi
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by scrumper 9y ago
Fascinating, thank you very much. To me a completely novel way to think about CA. Going to have a play with this.
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by scrumper 9y ago
He didn't say once in the entire article that he thought it was a homage to his work. He simply said it used his favorite rule. Everything he writes is about the beauty of this part of the 'computational universe', about givi
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by scrumper 9y ago
Isn't the problem more those occasional solar flares than steady-state cosmic radiation? All longterm spaceflight so far has been inside the van Allen belts which offer quite a bit of protection (for us on earth too).
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by scrumper 9y ago
I just miss the pokes. Remember when it was fun ? I deleted the app last year. Kept the account because as far as I can tell it's the same difference and I haven't summoned the strength to go retrieve my photos yet. Haven't
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by scrumper 9y ago
I tagged along on one of my wife's business trips to Moscow about a decade ago. I spent a week mostly on my own exploring the city, and consequently much time on the metro (and more time lost). It certainly helped my ability to read Cy
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by scrumper 9y ago
Magnificent. I have a photo buried somewhere of a chap taking his pet eagle for a walk in Moscow. Thing was bigger than his torso, sat right there on his arm looking around at who it wanted to eat.
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by scrumper 9y ago
It stops more coming in; existing holders keep driving (base case) or move to those supervisory roles. Ending the supervisory license and mandate is the end game, done once most of that last generation of CDL holders has hung up their hats.
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by scrumper 9y ago
I haven't heard a single proposal yet. I could imagine a government passing a succession of laws which first required all autonomous trucks to have a supervising human on board (with a relaxation of existing maximum hour rules), operat
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by scrumper 9y ago
Thanks! I see he looks a bit sweaty, on second viewing.
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by scrumper 9y ago
What is the researcher wearing in the first photograph? It looks like a lead smock for radiation protection, but those bags have gaps between them so that doesn't seem likely. Sample containers?

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