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721.
by sesqu 16y ago
You seem to have impressed a wrong spelling into muscle memory.
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by sesqu 16y ago
The first time I saw it, it looked old. Way too much sheet plastic, close quarters, massive constructs, lack of lighting, utilitarianism, and general weather. And the guns sound like they were made by people who wanted to shoot big bullets.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Sci Fi changed its name not because of copyright issues, but to distance themselves from science fiction. According to Wikipedia, the trademarkability of Syfy was of less import than the unambiguous spelling and the ability to justify 70% n
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by sesqu 16y ago
This is exactly how I do it in my head. I was never taught to, but found myself multiplying multifigure numbers in my head often enough to come up with the gridding system. It becomes laborious after five figures or so. I was never that fon
725.
by sesqu 16y ago
Right. Recursion has a problem with stack overflows, but that can sometimes be automatically fixed by turning it into iteration and throwing out the superfluous frames. Which one is the special case now?
726.
by sesqu 16y ago
Iteration: until condition iterate state=update(state). Recursion: recursive(state)=if atomic then state else recursive(refined(state)). condition=atomic, update=refined. One is not a special case of the other; they are just different model
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by sesqu 16y ago
According to this 2007 report on marines: http://www.cna.org/documents/D0016910.A1.pdf Young blacks became underrepresented after the Iraq wars, but high NCO ranks are still heavily overrepresented. Conversely, marine accessions are on th
728.
by sesqu 16y ago
When you hit Turing completeness, special casing is no longer a useful exercise.
729.
by sesqu 16y ago
I tend to dislike sites that use target=_new. If I want to open a link in a new tab, I'll middle click it.
730.
by sesqu 16y ago
According to the link above, there were approximately equal amounts of 24-year-old men and women getting bachelor's degrees in 1980, but undergraduating men proportionally outnumbered women in natural sciences and engineering 2.66:1. By 199
731.
by sesqu 16y ago
It's basic university math, yes. But very few people are currently taking basic linear algebra, so it's nice to have better documentation.
732.
by sesqu 16y ago
just remembering the answers to several of the same questions that are probably being recycled from test to test. I assumed this is how she did it, but assuming all questions are recycled, 4 options in 40 questions, perfect memory, no kno
733.
by sesqu 16y ago
I can't upgrade Ubuntu without it reinstalling the things I removed, or updating the drivers I don't want updated.
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by sesqu 16y ago
If you assume causality, eventually you reach the problem of Primus Motivator. If the universe expands because of the Big Bang, what caused the Big Bang? What caused that thing to cause it; why did it do it? Causality is such a fundamental
735.
by sesqu 16y ago
You're right, a 0.5 strategy is better than random chance. Unfortunately, the simplest generalization of that strategy yields only 0.5^(n-1), which is not good enough - you need to start with a bigger base case.
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by sesqu 16y ago
And the TOS forbids anything else (I just signed up): You agree not to do any of the following while using the Site, Content, Files or Services: * Attempt to access or search the Site, Content, Files or Services with any engine, so
737.
by sesqu 16y ago
Interesting. When I noticed how all the mmorpgs have periodical content creation to go with the subscription, and how many creators seem to really like evolving the backstory, I wondered if anyone would ever try and sell just the story. In
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by sesqu 16y ago
Based on the normal distribution of worker skills The what? Imagine a world in which people could be hired for $2 per hour (where that's all their skills were worth). This reminds me of Metropolis. Is a world where a large portion of pe
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by sesqu 16y ago
Anyway, when did it become the role of members outside a group to tell them whether or not they should be offended by the name they are called? Um, when they started calling them names? Now, don't take this the wrong way, but that sounds
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by sesqu 16y ago
Beginning with Windows 98, it has been more trouble than it's worth to try putting your files where you want them in the filesystem, instead of letting the application find a place for them. After I realized this, I tried putting My Documen
741.
by sesqu 16y ago
Can't see why it would be. That kind of thing parallelizes really well. Granted, oversight would likely thin a bit.
742.
by sesqu 16y ago
There are several games with alternate storylines and choices that do not affect the score. Those choices often don't affect the storyline, either, because it's too much work. When playing such games, I used to save, try various alternative
743.
by sesqu 16y ago
I've noticed that we don't share the same sense of humour. Generally speaking, I've seen too many people assert that quicksort is blazingly fast to believe all of them were joking. It doesn't particularly help that the major sorting algorit
744.
by sesqu 16y ago
Bullshit on the too fast. Mergesort never needs more comparisons than quicksort, and mergesort was featured.
745.
by sesqu 16y ago
There's also a comment in Kelvin regarding how the triple point of water is defined to be at 0.01 °C, not 0 °C, that reads a little confused. I wonder why it's defined like that, anyway. The bit is used for information because information i
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by sesqu 16y ago
The original question wasn't "why is encryption without authentication a bad idea"; it was "why is it worse than nothing". The only thing I can come up with is that some users look for https instead of the newer security banners. The addi
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by sesqu 16y ago
The addition wouldn't fail; it would just not be very useful. Interval scales do support addition, which comes in handy when you want to, say, calculate the center of mass for interesting events. What would fail would be trying to determine
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by sesqu 16y ago
I started Deep Thought 2010 years ago. It consisted of two geographically distributed identical units, networked by means of ether. One I put in London, another in Mecca. The former was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, 344 years ago.
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by sesqu 16y ago
10 °C = 50 °F (temperature) 10 °C = 18 °F (temperature difference) Celsius and Fahrenheit date to before temperature was understood to have a lower limit. Both measure only temperature difference from their respective zero points,
750.
by sesqu 16y ago
there is no difference to the browser between a TLS connection bearing a self-signed cert and a TLS connection that was supposed to bear a CA-signed cert but isn't. As long as my browser can tell the difference between a Citibank with a C

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