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by sesqu 16y ago
What about your next job? As long as education is done at the start of one's life, we can't look at its manifested usefulness for "young" people. You can maybe make preliminary tallies at 45-50, at which point I would expect the course of t
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by sesqu 16y ago
I think I copied this from HN once. Paste to terminal: dc -e '[lolssdsl0lqx]sx[1+lddd*lld*-ls+dsdrll2**lo+dsld*rd*+4<kd15>q]sq[q]9ksk[d77/3*2-ss47lxx-P1+d78>0]s00[d23/.5-3*so0l0xr10P1+d24>u]dsux'
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by sesqu 16y ago
I saw a documentary on people over 100. Just about all of them felt their time had come some 20 years earlier, and some were very bitter about it. Now, you could make the argument that they wouldn't want to die if they were in good health.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Ah, but a cluster doesn't mean they all collaborated with each other. For example, take a look at the big one in the middle: 3 identical ones and one pretty close, for a 4-person clique. Chances are that there are actually 3 connections ins
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by sesqu 16y ago
I'm guessing graphviz (just because it's popular), but the layout algorithm could have been better. The structure of the two big components is difficult to take in at a glance. It's a hard problem, sure, but the simple circo algorithm reall
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by sesqu 16y ago
(I think you'd need to timestamp each vote for an improved decay function.) Well, somewhat. You'd need a timestamped sufficient statistic, but not necessarily each vote. Consider ACO. Given +1: t0=last_change_timestamp s0=score_afte
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by sesqu 16y ago
I believe the idea is that the problem of moving is atomic. To move, you must know how to move (assuming the world is not discrete). It is the same as "you cannot arrive", except in reverse. Or that "you cannot rotate one of two parallel li
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by sesqu 16y ago
Any restaurant that takes credit cards.
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by sesqu 16y ago
The intro image alone was not worth it. Please don't copy linkbait.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Curved mirrors. So not movie holograms; you can't put anything behind the projections. That makes the illusion very fragile at some touch surfaces. The sensation technology has the same projective limitation, so you can't have anything else
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by sesqu 16y ago
An update procedures takes up noticeable amounts of CPU time and bandwidth. Automatic updates means your system slows down arbitrarily, often with no indication as to why. Users are able to make observations at the level of "since I install
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by sesqu 16y ago
I can't properly explain something I was wrong about. But yes, "dental fricative" is the "th" sound made by pressing your tongue against your teeth. An example would be the sound in "teeth", written "ti:θ" with the international phonetic al
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by sesqu 16y ago
I don't have that book, so you'll have to explain the reasoning if you want to convince me. I did find the MIT OCW lecture transcript on randomized quicksort, based on the book, and it described how randomization probably defeats an adversa
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by sesqu 16y ago
I assumed it was a parser eating the code point for a dental fricative, added in some misguided attempt to re-introduce ligatures at the data level. Pronoun neologisms never occurred to me. It seems there's real harm in knowing about useles
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by sesqu 16y ago
Perhaps this is because the other side is not well defined. In particular, you cannot expect them to follow the whole debate, merely excerpts and the general lines of it. So to keep the debate going, you have to debate most of the whole poi
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by sesqu 16y ago
Some of it is definitely conscious. In particular, a certain class of people "trying to break in" consciously spend above their means in order to be perceived as having the means. I have not encountered a whole lot of evidence that this wor
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by sesqu 16y ago
There's a plugin for Xfce4 called Notes that I use. It's hands-down the best such program I've used, so much so that it's a real barrier to switching away from Xfce. In the past, I've used text files on the desktop and e-mail drafts. This p
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by sesqu 16y ago
First of all, we're not trying to break a proof of anything. There's a demonstrated attack on comparator-based sorts. Whether you want to allow the scenario doesn't much change the fact that that scenario is vulnerable. Second, this method
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by sesqu 16y ago
"We have to make the healthy choice the easy choice," Dr. Foltz said. That's the ticket. Implementation over theoretical qualities. I eat a salad pretty much every time I'm in a restaurant with a salad bar, but rarely otherwise.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Stop thinking about arrays. Think ordered relations. Think collections and comparators. The sort is vulnerable to an attack at the highest abstraction level, where only necessary conditions are used. The usual implementation, using arrays o
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by sesqu 16y ago
I wonder how they handled the case where X claims relationship with Y, but Y doesn't agree. I once amused myself for a few minutes by dreaming up an app for Facebook that would let you claim a relationship with someone and send that person
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by sesqu 16y ago
I'd be careful with inferences like that. It's not a directed graph, so talking about flow in time is very speculative.
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by sesqu 16y ago
I would expect time of year is a significant factor. Are you sure you're comparing to this time last year? I do believe what you say, but memories are terrible data.
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by sesqu 16y ago
...by getting scolded by more senior programmers for playing amateur hour and allowing authenticated, unauthorized actions?
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by sesqu 16y ago
Some of the most upvoted submitters on YouTube are quite attractive. I have no actual data, but off the top of my head I can think of the word of the day girl, the trainer girl, and the old spice guy.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Sure. Drop me an email if/when you get started.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Right. I attempted to argue that this was because the comment they disagreed with failed to make them stop and think about why disagreement exists, and re-evaluate their position. That is, downvotes are generally a sign of failure. Certainl
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by sesqu 16y ago
It would not be immediately useful to me personally, but it is something I've been intending to build over the coming winter (for educational purposes and for interface experimentation).
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by sesqu 16y ago
I disagree. If you're not getting downvoted, that could just as easily mean you're not unconvincing. Downvotes are ideally for low-value content. If your viewpoint is contrary to popular opinion, the onus is on you to explain your reasoning
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by sesqu 16y ago
What makes you think he wanted to add humour? Granted, the previous clip was from a comedy, but it was there as inspiration for commentary. It wasn't a tack-on joke. The clip in question this time appears to have been an excerpt from The La

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