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by swolchok 16y ago
Don't forget that the email they sent out on April 1st said "you should expect your WakeMate no later than 07/30/2010, but probably significantly sooner" (your email may vary because the date depended on your pre-order date). We can infer t
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by swolchok 16y ago
What's going to be hard is preventing users from devaluing their Flattr clicks to get past Flattr-based paywalls. Simplest version: I have a personal array of strawman sites, which I click on a lot in order to funnel almost all of my Flattr
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by swolchok 16y ago
> No I don't. Your schooled teenager has almost zero input into their curriculum. It is a false dichotomy that the only alternative is to entirely put it in their hands. Where would you classify magnet programs? Mine let me max out on A
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by swolchok 16y ago
The biggest Python 3 annoyance I have is forcing Unicode strings on everyone. My code is not for widespread/enterprise release, so I do not care at all whether people for whom ASCII is not good enough can use it. Python 3 forces me to dis
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by swolchok 16y ago
Is it slow and clunky on real hardware, or is that just because I'm running it in qemu? (menuet64)
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by swolchok 16y ago
One of my friends thought it looked like base85, but it is not.
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by swolchok 16y ago
http://scott.wolchok.org/listrev.c is what I was satisfied with yesterday. I seem to have exaggerated slightly about the non-driver code being the same length as the reverse, but it's close.
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by swolchok 16y ago
I tend to replay events from earlier in the day or the day before in my head, and sometimes I find myself responding or criticizing my actions verbally. It's usually while traveling to and from work, but it's mildly embarrassing when I've a
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by swolchok 16y ago
You've probably also been asked to do it at some point during your formal CS education, if you had one. Grading this problem on the final for the introductory CS course was a load of fun, let me tell you... (and yet, I had to do the exercis
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by swolchok 16y ago
What extra code? I've got a struct definition, a print_list function, cons, and a really dumb testing driver that builds the list [1 2 3], reversing and printing it a few times throughout its construction. The line count of all that [EDIT:
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by swolchok 16y ago
During the course of my freshman year in college (2005-2006), I received 2 or 3 completely unsolicited date requests from women via Facebook, all of which went well. Despite being single for significant portions of the remainder of my colle
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by swolchok 16y ago
This is clearly not as bad as Perl, but it's still raving a bit. My key complaints are the complete lack of clarity as to what kind of thing split is, as well as what exactly is going on with select. (I'm assuming it's getting passed a pred
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by swolchok 16y ago
I don't get it.
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by swolchok 16y ago
> Compare Didot to Garamond. What am I supposed to see? I'm afraid I'm having trouble seeing the conclusion you're getting at. From the samples on Wikipedia, the most apparent difference is that parts of the capital "A", like the feet a
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by swolchok 16y ago
s/peak/peek/
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by swolchok 16y ago
Interestingly, file(1) can't identify lzma(1)-compressed files (they show up as data), but unlzma(1) reassuringly knows the difference between LZMA and random data. This came up once or twice in DEFCON CTF quals ( http://www.vnsecurity.net/
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by swolchok 16y ago
I neglected to mention the assumption that failures in different executions of the process are independent.
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New "atomic" server: 512 Atom CPUs take on Xeons(arstechnica.com)
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by swolchok 16y ago
> I'm confused by the 'likely to create an event in the next 30 years' part - either it's unlikely or it's likely. Let's suppose the event is an accident occurring during some industrial process. This process is going to happen very fre
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by swolchok 16y ago
Even if there really is more to life than X, that does not imply that X is not a useful part of life. (I guess I take issue with both the saying in general and this particular application of it.)
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by swolchok 16y ago
It may not be just the lectures that matter, but I definitely learned a lot and developed technical maturity as a result of my courses . Could I have learned them on my own if I had known exactly what to study? Maybe. Were there bad cour
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by swolchok 16y ago
College students meet each other in ways that exclude non-students. For example, a significant portion of the top EECS undergraduates at Michigan spend a good amount of their social lives with a particular honor society. This society is, of
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by swolchok 16y ago
I'm torn. I've been waiting for a $100 "netbook" for a long time, but I wasn't expecting them to be quite so small. I seriously doubt that I could touch-type on that keyboard. EDIT: Yes, I know that it's not meant for "normal use", but that
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by swolchok 16y ago
It's possible (albeit slowly and indirectly) if you have enough energy to spawn, because dead cells always drop 25 energy. (They take 50 energy from their creator and start with 25 energy, so spawning doesn't create extra.)
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by swolchok 16y ago
This is a non-statement -- if the code is IO-bound, then of course CPU performance is not a problem (except for things like, say, power usage, but we'll ignore that). The "power" of Python is to make code that should be IO-bound CPU-bound
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by swolchok 16y ago
Switching to Bing for pretty photos also significantly impacts Google search behavior. Also, if the photo is user-configured rather than changing every day, it can be cached.
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by swolchok 16y ago
Seems to be identical to ben.py.
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by swolchok 16y ago
benvolution makes some tweaks to ben in order to defeat it. :) It does have a reasonable chance of stalemating, and of getting overwhelmed if the starting locations are close together. http://gitshub.com/swolchok/cells/blob/master/minds/be
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by swolchok 16y ago
Sorry, I think Perl crept into my brain.
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by swolchok 16y ago
The evolving chaos is able to take out the crawling chaos through improved colonization behavior and the possibility of developing several disparate strains. Haven't tried porting the fixed behaviors back to the crawling chaos and seeing if

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