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by shiro 10y ago
The original character for eclipse was "蝕". We use 食 now in Japan because of some simplification. (But the symbolism of moon eating sun is there, as you see 蝕 has 食 in it.)
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by shiro 10y ago
The term "bushido" itself can be seen from late 16c literature (甲陽軍鑑, written between 1575 and 1586, is said as the first written appearance of the word), but initially it meant more practical skills of combat or survival. I don&
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by shiro 10y ago
Emojis and hieroglyphs aside, 16bit was not enough for CJK characters. It's a real world problem---a character set that can't spell people's name or location can't be universally adopted.
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by shiro 10y ago
It's called in-between. There is certainly an art form of its own, for a simple mechanical interpolation won't produce visually pleasing animation. Disney has some research on parameterizing in-betweening. These days 2D animati
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by shiro 10y ago
It certainly has a wow factor, but once you pass the initial impression, it's interesting that the brain starts recognizing the content (motion of characters and objects) separately from the visual style, and even starts applying negat
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by shiro 10y ago
It's been done as other comments pointed out. But the fact that you can do it is mildly interesting, isn't it? It's a sort of bootstrapping problem. Obviously you can't trigger full GC in your GC code. So you have to
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by shiro 10y ago
Can the cause and result be (at least partly) reverse? That is, poor people is poor not because of their poor decisions, but being poor let them make poor decisions. Or maybe it's a feedback cycle. I don't have first-hand exper
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by shiro 10y ago
Abstraction isn't for hiding complexity. A good abstraction redefines the problem to eliminate complexity.
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by shiro 10y ago
But it only shows up to 1 year... I wish they made the number available on the page only the account owner could see.
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by shiro 10y ago
I agree with you all. All I say is that suggesting delegation in place of inheritance to address contravariance issue seems off the mark.
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by shiro 10y ago
Ah, ok, I mixed up you with continuational. For this context, what I'm saying is that if you don't need to extract an apple from a list of fruits, then you can do it safely with inheritance, so whether using inheritance or delegat
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by shiro 10y ago
Right, if you take type-safety first, you shouldn't be able to. But a list of abstract fruits has very limited usage without the ability to accessing concrete fruit instance. The adoption of downcasting in some OO languages came out
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by shiro 10y ago
That part is fine. The difficulty arises when you want to take out an apple from a list of fruits.
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by shiro 10y ago
On WHO carcinogenicity---note that their "probable human carcinogens" include Red meat, Hot mate, Emission from household combustion of wood, etc. That doesn't mean the list is meaningless. They just say those are "pro
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by shiro 10y ago
Technical curiosity---if I use such a client, and two block chains disagree (on, say, some history that affects the current operation), then won't I end up choosing and sticking one?
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by shiro 10y ago
IMHO, Scheme has two, somewhat conflicting, goals. There's the desire to make it a practical language, with rich libraries (the central package repository is ok, but it'll require quite an infrastructure to implement portable pac
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by shiro 10y ago
Large part of low-level runtime of Gauche (Scheme dialect) is written in "C in S-expression", the same idea with this. I found it so pleasant writing C in S-expr that I gradually rewriting my C code with it.
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by shiro 10y ago
Completely agree. I often got frustrated that the "modern" featureful IDEs don't allow me to incremental/regexp search in drop-down menu items nor to use set-mark-command + kill-ring-save keystrokes within dialog message
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by shiro 10y ago
I also prefer the navi using fixed orientation; if the map rotates, it becomes very hard to track myself in my mental map. I'd imagine once you lose tracking in mental map you tend to blindly follow whatever the machine tells you.
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by shiro 10y ago
Yeah I agree that the first 3 chapters are somewhat archaic, and especially if the reader already has programming experience it looks like it is reinventing some mundane features.
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by shiro 10y ago
Hmm, I didn't get your dichotomy... By "half" did you mean the first half? IMHO the main dish of SICP is chapter 4 and 5 (ch1-3 is just laying foundations), and the content of latter chapters is strongly connected to system-
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by shiro 10y ago
I guess the main complaint of OP is not about finding a particular location, but to create a mental map with the area of concern. To create mental map efficiently, the map has to show large enough to cover the area of concern, yet has to s
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by shiro 10y ago
The citizen and resident registration system in Japan has already become electronic. The online system has little to do for the fraud, since you need human staff to check if the online record match the reality anyway (unless you implant ch
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by shiro 10y ago
Grown up in Japan and got into theatre, I've tried a few of Shakespeare (in Japanese translations), but I didn't fully get it---until I came to US and actually read it aloud in English. I agree that it is much more approachable
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by shiro 10y ago
It sounds very plausible explanation of prion infection. I'm a layman and don't know how far the correspondence go---but if the correspondence holds, is there an agent that complements prions? That is, if prions are damaged rece
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by shiro 10y ago
Right, recording non-proscenium theater plays would be interesting contents. I like to watch (and often perform) round- or three-sided stages in a small theater. That kind of shows are difficult to capture in traditional camera for it lo
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by shiro 10y ago
What I like about acting on stage is immediate, live reaction from audience. Film acting largely lacks that, though there are techniques to compensate it. I'd imagine "VR film shooting" would be similar to film acting in tha
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by shiro 10y ago
A common illusion in films is that in one scene, you think you are watching a fixed space/acting/events from just several different cameras. In fact, it is often the case that acting, positioning of actors, backgrounds or even loc
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by shiro 11y ago
I write a bit of Haskell in small projects but my background is largely Lisp/Scheme (the mud ball approach). I do admire hard-core Haskellers who seem "thinking in types". I wonder if there are good articles that tell how t
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by shiro 11y ago
During the design stage, you do need working components, independently implemented, and experiment various combinations. If you use types, that means frequently rewriting types to match the reorganizations of control flow. Types still hel

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