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by sidpatil 5y ago
Good point regarding ILP—that had slipped my mind.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
The original MAME license is the first one that comes to mind, regarding non-commercial restrictions. As for no-derivative restrictions, I'm not sure.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
I don't understand why software projects use Creative Commons licenses for source code. CC themselves recommends against it.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Isn't this a knapsack problem [1]? It looks like it can be represented as a linear program: Maximize sum(x) subject to constraint: P•x = 43.94 where P is a vector of prices of each toy, and x is a vector of quantities purchased of each
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by sidpatil 5y ago
I've noticed the same thing. Nowadays I quickly check the end of the article before switching to reader mode, to make sure it's still there.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
From the title, I thought this was going to be about something like Lotus Improv [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Anyway, the quote is: We fall in love the most with those we know the least. Another similar quote is "familiarity breeds contempt." Pair it with "distance makes the heart grow fonder," and you're led to the id
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Are you from Buenos Aires?
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Original: https://theconversation.com/sugar-heres-why-some-people-expe...
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by sidpatil 5y ago
I agree. This is something I tried to explain to others in my last job, with little success. A person using a language long-term is only a novice for so long. After they've figured out the basics and become comfortable solving problems
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by sidpatil 5y ago
There's a Dasher Mobile app in the App Store. I had it installed for a while.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
That's the OCR-A font. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A ). As you can guess from the name, it was designed for readability by both humans and computers. These days it looks like that font is more popular for gr
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by sidpatil 5y ago
GitHub does render Org-mode documents to an extent. I haven't done a comparison with its Markdown rendering though. There do exist mobile apps for Org-mode, but it's been a while since I've used them. I agree with your third
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by sidpatil 5y ago
jq is a single binary which I can easily just drop into a remote server or throw into my ~/.local/bin, where as JSONata requires NPM.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
That's a good point; I didn't consider that.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
If there was no copyright, you wouldn't need copyleft.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> it is water resistant Is it? I wouldn't want to test that claim on any books I own or have borrowed.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
So, DOS?
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by sidpatil 5y ago
The article mentions a circuit simulation package named JuliaSPICE, but I can't find any intonation on it. Can someone please provide a link?
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Shapecatcher's front page mentions Detexify as well.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
A while back, I read someone had done a cost comparison between nursing homes versus cruise ships for long-term residence. It made a lot of sense, and I hadn't even considered the two as comparable until then.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Where does this end? In the context of Audacity, wherever a community-managed fork begins (à la LibreOffice)—at least until it gets bought out (à la CentOS).
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> 12 meters east / 3 meters north is a much more interesting 4 units-east-per-unit-north. Wouldn't it make more sense to describe those distances as vectors instead of overloading their dimensions?
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> HN is the place we come to for dedicated tech related news, views and blogs. According to who? Certainly not the site guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by sidpatil 5y ago
A similar interest payment structure exists for conventional savings accounts as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize-linked_savings_account
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> I probably won't let it destroy the friendships because what is 1.5 years compared to 10+ This sounds like a sunk-cost fallacy to me. You've already pointed out that friendship length isn't correlated with friendship qua
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by sidpatil 5y ago
I use a pencil extender to get more out of the stubs. I like the Staedtler 900 25 for this purpose.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Unicomp was selling them for a while, if I remember correctly. I don't see them on their website anymore though (but maybe I didn't look hard enough.)
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by sidpatil 5y ago
I'm reminded of this clip from ST:TNG: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KlhzX7UKKNU
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by sidpatil 5y ago
I suppose it depends on the material. Textbooks for intro-level general courses (e.g. calculus, physics, statistics, etc.) tend to get republished yearly. Since the fundamentals of the material are unlikely to change within the span of a ye

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