stolio

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by stolio 12y ago
Your "evidence" is underwhelming, I don't really understand the point you're trying to make. My argument wasn't based on the "STEM crisis" so debunking it is irrelevant. If you look at figure 1 of your G
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by stolio 12y ago
None of these arguments are very moving. The best argument of the article is that it's good to learn programming even if your interests are in the hard sciences. But computer science is a STEM field. STEM majors already cross-train
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by stolio 12y ago
Well, r/science and r/askscience are filled with "real" scientists and in general they're two of the calmest and most respectful communities on the site. You may not want to admit it but that shows a lot. That&#x2
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by stolio 12y ago
> And sure, some of these philosophers don't always know as much about the physics as they should, but their ignorance in this respect is usually nothing in comparison to modern physicists' ignorance of philosophy. . > &quot
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by stolio 12y ago
Also, consumer headphones in this day and age will be designed specifically around hiding the deficiencies of a phone/music player because that's their most common use case. And they absolutely should be, people want their headph
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by stolio 12y ago
I just want people who pretend to be scientific to take themselves seriously enough that if somebody says "Your headphones suck" that they say "do they? Why?" That article is better :) 192 is silly pretty much always,
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by stolio 12y ago
Are you really unaware of how rude philosophers are to pretty much everybody? Just because the insults are often shrouded in intellectualism it doesn't make it any less disrespectful. Science has some jerks, too, but I'd take th
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by stolio 12y ago
I'm getting kind of tired of the pseudo-scientific smackdowns. I like my headphones just fine, and I couldn't tell the difference on them! So what? Those are consumer headphones, they're designed to sound _good_ not _accu
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by stolio 12y ago
I'm very aware of these things. I'm not sure what they have to do with what I'm saying.
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by stolio 12y ago
What time controls were you looking at? I'm half-jokingly wondering if the big dip of correct moves in the upper 2800 range is Nakamura's crazy opening style :) (He's rated upper 2800's in blitz and rapid)
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by stolio 12y ago
Here's commentary on the Carlsen/Anand double-blunder: http://youtu.be/6K86f27uuP0?t=14m36s It's not easy to see.
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by stolio 12y ago
I think you missed my point. In room X you only have so many things you can do with the reverb. Period. With an active sound system like the one in the article you would have new options that would be physically impossible otherwise. The
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by stolio 12y ago
Adding more sound absorption is a one-way street, it reduces reverb. This could (theoretically) take an overly muffled room and give it the reverb of Carnegie Hall, or a jazz club, or whatever sound profile you have in your computer. And
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by stolio 12y ago
> 1. Hot-button issue arises wherein the majority of the science agrees with one position, but very specific legitimate issues persist. Yep. I suppose I'm "anti-GMO" in the sense that I view interspecies and intra-species
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by stolio 12y ago
> The claim that physics plays that special role within philosophy is itself a philosophical claim. If you want to justify it you'll have to study some philosophy! Only if I want to justify it to philosophers, but since I'm mor
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by stolio 12y ago
This came up in the other thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9008776 ) and it sounds like there's a good chance of dependency hell. (ctrl-f "dependency hell" to jump to the discussion)
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by stolio 12y ago
> (And sure, some of these philosophers don't always know as much about the physics as they should, but their ignorance in this respect is usually nothing in comparison to modern physicists' ignorance of philosophy.) I realize
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by stolio 12y ago
Not just fun, I don't always enjoy switching desktop environments. I've never used LXDE (I'm sure it's great) but I'd imagine switching to it is just like every other migration: it takes time before you're as
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by stolio 12y ago
In short: Crunchbang is/was Debian with a customized Openbox window manager instead of using Gnome/KDE/XFCE/etc. Crunchbang++ will probably continue the tradition.
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by stolio 12y ago
Awesome. A while ago somebody did something similar but with really hard math: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/mapping-wi-fi-dead-zo... It's always nice to see multiple approaches to the same pro
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by stolio 12y ago
I saw the title and thought "is it the one from Interstellar!?!?" Thorne said he was going to publish based on their simulations so it's awesome it's here. I agree it might be nice to have the context in the title since
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by stolio 12y ago
Calling it hateful is just a political smear. Living in a democracy I'm uneasy when I see large-scale mobs form to punish and intimidate people for participating in our political process in "the wrong way." Take note that I&
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by stolio 12y ago
Losing one of the most important people at one of the most important open source projects is a loss in and of itself. That was twenty years of experience and technical knowledge that walked out the door. Losing one of the only people in a
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by stolio 12y ago
This is what your angry mob looks like. https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/03/mozilla-statement-on-... https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/
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by stolio 12y ago
There are different levels of accessibility. The courses are still there, there isn't an audio captcha making sure deaf people can't read the notes, read the book (when available) or do the problem sets. This is nothing like an
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by stolio 12y ago
What, stop defending people who are being forced out of society by an angry mob? No. I dislike angry mobs, it's kind of my thing.
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by stolio 12y ago
> "Because I’m sort of a believer in currency having value," Paul said in a separate interview, "if you’re going to create a currency, have it backed up by—you know, Hayek used to talk about a basket of commodities? You co
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by stolio 12y ago
Sidewalks are infrastructure. Free online courses from MIT are not. They're a luxury.
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by stolio 12y ago
The people who fought for Eich's departure like to downplay just how much knowledge he carries around in his head. I think deep down they're afraid to admit just how much damage they did to Mozilla, Firefox and the entire open so
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by stolio 12y ago
Just because somebody's idea of diversity is different from yours doesn't make them hateful, it just makes them different. It's ironic that this is lost on people who argue the most loudly for inclusiveness.

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