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by spacemanaki 13y ago
Even worse is other tools that rely on Github, like Homebrew (Mac OS X package manager) which breaks in various silly ways when Github is down. Anyone happen to know a way around this specifically? Trying to install some stuff and brew just
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
Streaming TV and movies has got to be the most boring thing you can do with a Raspberry Pi, at least after letting it sit in the box in a drawer.
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
Your comment really hit a nerve with me, probably because I'm the same age as the OP and playing around with programming language implementations is a bit of a hobby for me, so I'll apologize for my reaction ahead of time, I tried to tone d
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
That's actually exactly what I was trying to point out. It may be significant practically, or might not, and definitely would be if you were really washing the dishes ;) But in terms of big Oh, they're the same. If you assume that all of th
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
Sorry if I've misread your example, but I think this isn't quite correct. While the "batch" method of dish-washing (washing all at once, then drying all at once) is probably more convenient and efficient for humans, if you were to formalize
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
Yep, I think it's photoshopped: http://www.flickr.com/photos/isafmedia/4995227882/
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Machine Code For Beginners(gomsx.net)
1 points by spacemanaki 13y ago|0 comments
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
Could you elaborate on this? I would agree with "Haskell is not an ML" but I think the MLs (SML, OCaml, Mythryl, F#) are close to Haskell, and closer to Haskell than to other programming languages, certainly closer than to Scala. Haskell
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
> Do they mean that people actually pretend to be surprised about someone's lack of knowledge? Yes, I think so, or at least the common reaction is usually over-dramatized. I've observed this behavior in friends, colleagues, and in mysel
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
No, I haven't, but does it add more to ML than a bunch of syntax changes? It looks like an attempt to make ML more palatable to programmers familiar with C and Java. I skimmed the docs on that site and saw that it does have ML-style modules
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
I don't think anyone's disputing that false color could be useful to scientists or that we should put cameras on satellites that capture true color images for the benefit of blog posts targeting the general public, and I certainly was not c
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
But here's a "natural-color" image of the same hurricane: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia1494... "Images with red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural-color view, which is what the
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How to Read Floating Point Numbers Accurately [pdf](cesura17.net)
5 points by spacemanaki 13y ago|0 comments
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
The first edition of PLAI has a nice introductory chapter on types that explains this notation and has a whole section on type inference. It's also freely available online, so that's nice. (chapter 10 is on types) I haven't looked at the se
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
> It always seemed to me that people are actually drawn to Haskell's syntax. Totally anecdotal, but this is really not the case for me. I have only dabbled in Haskell, and never really used it for a project from end-to-end, but have use
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
> you just might be using crappy libraries. Maybe, but sometimes you're stuck with crappy libraries or even crappy frameworks. The last time I had to really dig deep into (ie spend more than 30 mins reading) 3rd party code was when I wa
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
I believe you're mistaken; the Time Warner that owns HBO is not affiliated with TWC anymore.
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
> they tend to crash quickly and loudly In some scenarios, this is a serious issue all by itself. My day-to-day work is mostly on Android, and eliminating nullable references altogether would eliminate some crashes, which are highly vis
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by spacemanaki 13y ago
I've recently been using shells inside Emacs exclusively and not even starting Terminal.app any more. I've got a couple of tips for anyone doing this, based on my (limited) experience: 1) Try eshell which allows you to use Emacs Lisp for sh
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Literate Blogging With Org Mode and Octopress(spacemanaki.com)
1 points by spacemanaki 14y ago|0 comments
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
You know this for a fact? Not to be too cynical here, but do you have a citation for any of your claims? Who is able to review these taped feedings in order to confirm that they're being carried out in a humane way? Could I, as a citizen do
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
That's funny, I always get confused and disappointed when hearing/reading people talk about "ML" only to realize they're talking about "machine learning" and not Milner's ML ... I hadn't thought there might be yet another overloaded definit
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
A similar example was highlighted on BB the other day, with an interesting twist about cognitive bind-spots leading to security holes: http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=277 http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/04/nice_security_...
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
Good catch! I guess you'd have to take it to a lawyer to be sure... I wish that On The Media bit did a better job with citations.
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
All right, I'll bite, I think it was a little condescending. I consider myself pretty proficient with Git, with maybe above average understanding of the internals and the porcelain. I use the command line for most git operations, but have e
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
The N Carolina law mentioned appears not to have any reference to distribution: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S648v1.p... However this law in Indiana does, http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/SB/SB0373.2.html
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
Actually, I think some of the laws DO ban distributing the videos: Many of these bills are explicit about not just targeting the people who do the investigation but the people who distributed it, who republish it. For instance, ther
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
Sorry, you're right, by "the norm" I meant that the majority of meat etc consumed comes from factory farms. I agree with you that setting unreasonable or unrealistic goals is problematic. Although I personally stick to a 99% vegan diet, I'v
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
A few comments up thread pyre suggested that it is not possible to meet the demands of cheap, plentiful meat while providing animals reasonable quality of life. This seems to be born out by the fact the factory farms are the norm, and small
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by spacemanaki 14y ago
You're right, I should have used the word "trimming" since "debeaking" is a bit loaded. I didn't know that it was still necessary or recommended for raising chickens in smaller operations, thanks for enlightening me. I still think that most

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