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by taejo 8y ago
GIMP is called the GNU Image Manipulation Program, but that doesn't mean it should do every imaginable kind of image manipulation. Scientific image processing and the things that GIMP and Photoshop are useful for are different enough
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by taejo 8y ago
I think the features you want are in a niche very far from general-purpose photo-editing. Moving GIMP in that direction would be the kind of mission-diluting step that can kill a project. What you're looking for a tool specialized for
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by taejo 8y ago
I think usrusr is referring to non-car road users. Bicycles and motorbikes need to stand out from cars, but can't keep up with them in a lighting arms race due to power and weight.
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by taejo 8y ago
> Once a month on the assumption that most sessions are only attended by a handful of MPs. Most sessions of the House are attended by a handful of MPs, because no real work is happening there. Meaningful debate in the House is rare, an
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by taejo 8y ago
Or tetrapter, to stick with Greek roots (though I'm personally fine with heteroradicalism!)
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by taejo 8y ago
Nah, it's basically right. The process just ended before it was complete, apparently triggered by the collapse of the St. Francis Dam.
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by taejo 8y ago
What do distinction do you make between "dialects" and other languages? I understand "dialect" to mean something like "one of several (usually regional) variants of a language", but that is only really meaningf
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by taejo 8y ago
Like "dynamic programming", it suffers greatly from the vast change in meaning of the term "programming": its meaning has become specialized to a point that it's hardly recognizable as a subset of the original meani
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by taejo 8y ago
> Anyway, my point is not that you should interpret probability functions in a linear fashion just that non linear interpretations are not nessisarily more accurate. Was I supposed to understand that from your previous comment? I didn&#x
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by taejo 8y ago
> More importantly probability informs you about how many times you should expect an event to occur, not what to do with this information if the event does or does not arise. Bayesian probability absolutely tells you what to do when ev
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by taejo 8y ago
Thanks, I can count :) Of course 0.001 is closer to 0 than 0.003, but my point is that linear distance is not a very good way of comparing probabilities-as-degrees-of-certainties: rather than differences of probabilities one should consider
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by taejo 8y ago
> I wouldn’t personally use probability 0 for cryogenics either, but if someone insisted on it the way to interpret that would be to say, “Out of uncountably many trials, a successful resurrection occurs only countably many times.” It&#x
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by taejo 8y ago
0 and 1 are really extreme probabilities. It's often better to think of a probability of 0.001 being closer to 0.5 than to 0. As odds ratios it's easy to see that 999:1 is closer to 1:1 than to infinity:1. 0 probability means th
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by taejo 8y ago
No: HTTPS is more secure than HTTP. This is true regardless of the intended audience. Explaining why may be beyond a particular audience, but that doesn't justify weakening the truth with weasel words.
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by taejo 8y ago
I think the fact that there is a distinction between doctrine and dogma, both of which exist, and with the boundary between them subject to serious scholarly debate, just shows how dogmatic/doctrinaire (which are synonyms in everyday n
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by taejo 8y ago
Absolutely, sandworm101 is wrong about yeast and I clarified that up-thread.
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by taejo 8y ago
No, they're referring to real bagels (chewy, with a shiny exterior) as "Jewish", as opposed to fluffy-white-bread-roll-with-a-hole that is sometimes marketed as a bagel.
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by taejo 8y ago
All bagels are leavened (real bagels with yeast, whether commercial or sourdough, but I'd be surprised if even 1% of bad bagels are made with non-yeast leavening). The difference between an airy bagel and a tough bagel is the type of f
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by taejo 8y ago
Hence "i-z" (in Germany the notes of the chromatic scale go up to H; the German H = English B, Germany B = English B-flat).
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by taejo 8y ago
Your comment mentions its own fatal flaw: "becoming western style consumers". From what we've seen in the last hundred years, that's strongly positively correlated with (and probably causes) decreasing birthrates. The on
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by taejo 8y ago
I'm sure I charged very little on top of the ingredient cost since I was an amateur (my mother just provided some guidance, really) and they were family.
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by taejo 8y ago
About ten years ago my then-girlfriend asked my mother (a retired baker) and me to make a cake for her cousin's wedding. We proposed some recipes to the bride and groom, they chose one, told us how many guests they were expecting. They
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by taejo 8y ago
The sociopath comment was indeed triggered by your question, though it wasn't fair that it got directed at you rather than any of the hundreds of other comments that make me feel the same way, and I'm sorry for that, but I suspect
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by taejo 8y ago
Marpa is a general parser: it can parse any context-free grammar. Owl can only parse the visibly-pushdown grammars, which are a much smaller class, even smaller than the LR(k) grammars that traditional parser-generators can parse. Besides g
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by taejo 8y ago
Buybacks are one, but I'm not sure what the incentive to Facebook would be to buy back non-voting stock.
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by taejo 8y ago
All floating point numbers are rational, but not all rational numbers are floating-point, including very simple ones like 1/3, and ones common in finance like 1/100, which is the point.
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by taejo 8y ago
It is the "-lein" in "Fräulein", but "-lein" isn't only for feminine nouns: the word "Männlein" also exists. I suspect "-erl" is the same, though I don't speak a dialect where it&#
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by taejo 8y ago
A bad migration can be worked around by a clean install, but blindness can't, so there's one. Legal reasons are another (e.g. the Americans with Disabilities Act). OT: does anybody know of a site with similar interesting content a
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by taejo 8y ago
Give you the IP address of their captive portal.
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by taejo 8y ago
There are anyway US states that are dependent on federal funds: the transfers are just sneakier and less efficient than in places where this is a constitutionally recognized process.

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