snarkyturtle

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by snarkyturtle 16y ago
While their goal is to MOVE TRAFFIC THROUGH, they move it in the worst possible way. Ask any traffic official, they program the system to limit the speed of the vehicles, rather than help them find the most effecient. This "safety feature
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by snarkyturtle 17y ago
This coupled with the size of the largest stars is truly mind-boggling (much less the size of the universe or the size of a quark). It's amazing how we humans, as primitive as we are, can at least have an idea of the scale of the universe.
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by snarkyturtle 17y ago
I like how everything is clean and polished, though the only gripe I have is that the formatting for the results page is a big awkward. Having four different elements in the corners of the screen was distracting and my eyes had to travel a
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by snarkyturtle 17y ago
Whoops, should've researched that. I guess I was too preconditioned to the idea that mathematics isn't practical (thank you, Engineer vs. Mathematician jokes).
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by snarkyturtle 17y ago
Don't know about anyone else, but it was pretty refreshing for me. Being new to HN, I wasn't all that familiar with the UI, and not having scores made me focus on the comments a lot more. With the points being on the upper left corner, y
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by snarkyturtle 17y ago
You know, there's a certain charm seeing someone give a lecture on math in MS paint. Of course, it helps that he has an english accent. In regards to the topic, mathematically 0.9999... is less than 1. Practically 0.9999... = 1. Simple a
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by snarkyturtle 17y ago
I really wish that muxtape would get their act together. Even if it would be "for bands only" the interface and quality of it far surpassed myspace. Why sites liske purevolume and myspace are the defacto site for promoting bands is beyond
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by snarkyturtle 17y ago
While it may decrease accidents, I would think that the increased stress of going through a town with little to no structure traffic-wise doesn't balance out the benefit. It's akin to throwing dead carcasses around the neighborhood to get