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by steamer25 7y ago
I've heard that the stripes make it difficult to track an individual zebra against the backdrop of the whole herd. I.e., a lion might start chasing zebra A, but become disoriented and move onto zebra B who hasn't been worn down fr
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by steamer25 8y ago
I agree it's not worded well. I think they might have intended to mean a jab at U.S. surveillance dragnets via the Snowden affair .
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by steamer25 8y ago
One pattern I've heard (I think previously via Hacker News) is to start with a mobile design and progressively enhance the site for browsers with grid support. That way, older browsers fall back to the same experience as the mobile des
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by steamer25 8y ago
> Evidently, the costs associated with using an orm are greater than the benefits for someone who is fluent in SQL. I largely agree although I've recently discovered the beauty of re-usable, type-checked sub-clauses by composing C#
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by steamer25 8y ago
That was my thought. It seems like it'd be similar to enforcing fractional reserve bank loans--audits and accountants and judges to determine if people are colluding, etc. It also seems similar to anti-trust. Another possibility might
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by steamer25 8y ago
I think what he means is that he's defining 'concurrent' as a sort of abstract parallelism which can run on 'n' CPU cores. It becomes concrete parallelization when you set n to 2 or more but can still be considered
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by steamer25 8y ago
My Costa Rican brother-in-law was just telling me that a couple Central American countries are working on new canals because the Panama canal is fairly saturated.
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by steamer25 8y ago
If I'm interested in a particular show, I usually use https://justwatch.com to see which streaming service(s) carry it. Once that's narrowed down, it's usually not a problem to pull up the respective app and start
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by steamer25 8y ago
I don't remember why I dismissed liquibase when I was looking at the options. Maybe it was seeing that 'Role-Based Authentication' is only supported in the paid version? I ended up getting most of what I needed out of pgquarr
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by steamer25 8y ago
dbeaver-community does the day to day stuff really well. One great feature is built-in SSH tunneling. There are also frequent updates. The only thing I haven't been able to find a great solution for yet is comparing schemas between DB
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by steamer25 8y ago
I find the following to be of consistent enough quality to subscribe. Mostly ones that might not already be listed: Electronics: https://www.youtube.com/user/greatscottlab Fun and practical making https://ww
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Ancient tool technology: precision soft soldering [video](youtube.com)
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by steamer25 8y ago
I actually didn't realize that the notes of the major scale and it's modes were contiguous on the circle of fifths until seeing guitardashboard.com last night. That's what the down one, up five is saying. A fifth is seven sem
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by steamer25 8y ago
Each doubling of frequencies is divided into twelve somewhat evenly-spaced semitones. If you go up seven out of twelve (using index 0 for your initial frequency), that's essentially half way to the doubling of the frequency with a rati
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by steamer25 8y ago
I think jules means to consider how many millions of dollars and euros and hours and hours were spent developing the modals for thousands of different websites and how that money might have been better spent.
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by steamer25 8y ago
Not a book but here are some recently published debates between Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris that are moderated by Bret Weinstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Z9EZE8kpo https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by steamer25 8y ago
Yeah I could imagine an article coming from the opposite direction, deriding ivory tower calculations in favor of real world experimentalism in some case where the developers didn't do enough physical testing. There are definitely plen
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by steamer25 8y ago
This reminds me a bit of atomic orbitals and how they're based on spherical harmonics. I was curious why there were e.g., eight electron 'sockets' in the second shell. Eight seemed like a very arbitrary number to me and my hi
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by steamer25 8y ago
> the CIA has shot down democratic regimes to enforce small-government-free-market policy in developing countries when these policies are rejected in polls I haven't read the book but from another perspective it sounds like the CIA
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by steamer25 8y ago
In a recent video, Ryan Dahl mentioned that he regrets incorporating package.json and NPM into Node: https://youtu.be/M3BM9TB-8yA?t=588 He has a very early attempt at breaking from compatibility with Node called "Deno&
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by steamer25 8y ago
Yeah it seems analogous to bike shedding or Paul Graham's 'blub' paradox. I.e., "we don't understand that and haven't [realized that we've] needed it to date therefore it's probably not important and
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by steamer25 8y ago
FWIW, I read the article and found lots of hand-waving. Strong counter-examples came quickly to mind for most of it's claims. It's saying pretty much the same thing as, "Think of how productive the world would be if there wer
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by steamer25 8y ago
Yes, I've often thought we can't all live in North America* but we could all live like Americans if the freedom loving peoples of the world were given a chance to import the better parts of our culture. E.g., what if the Mexicans
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by steamer25 8y ago
Prior to reading the article, I'm struck by the thought of a possible analogy: An internet with no firewalls and free, unauthenticated root access would be $78T richer.
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by steamer25 8y ago
I've been using react-native-navigation from Wix. The documentation is a little sparse but so far I've gotten it to do everything I need it to do.
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by steamer25 8y ago
Dot dot is range notation: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/flow_control/for.h... Here's the reference for the drain() method on vectors which takes the range argument: https://doc.rust-l
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by steamer25 8y ago
+1 for text explanations. I have a decent internalized understanding of western music theory and it's application on guitar but it seems like it would be a pain to try and decode the meaning of all of the colors, polygons and icons. Ev
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by steamer25 8y ago
I was thinking they need to start recording and widely publicizing exit polls using the approval system so that people can get a sense of what the alternative 'feels' like. The big problem is that it'd take at least ~three el
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by steamer25 8y ago
Theoretically, I'd think you could just wrap most of the central compartment(s) with a (permanent/sealed/static) vacuum chamber--like a big thermos. http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/ene
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by steamer25 8y ago
3Blue1Brown has a good series on YouTube for building intuition in linear algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x... In one of the last videos in the (relatively short) series, he discusses eig

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