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by tbabb 10y ago
I get that. It's not just a flash, either; it's usually a highly regular geometric pattern, like a checkerboard or something like [this]( http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/poincare/tess_5_4.gif ).
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by tbabb 10y ago
I absolutely agree with this. There was an incident where I work where an employee (a new hire) set up a cron job to delete his local code tree, re-sync a new copy, then re-build it using a cron job every night. A completely reasonable thin
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by tbabb 10y ago
"Choosing to believe" in the supernatural is the opposite of "theology does not require belief" in the supernatural.
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by tbabb 10y ago
How can you study the properties of something you don't believe exists? Edit: People are downvoting this, but I genuinely want to know how "theology is the study of supernatural things" and "theology does not rely on bel
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by tbabb 10y ago
How does theology not involve a belief in the supernatural?
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by tbabb 10y ago
Holy crap. 125,000RPM for a 5mm disc means the edge is spinning at nearly 9,000mph. On top of that, the g-force would be a = v^2 / r v = 2 * pi * 5mm * 125000/60 s^-1` r = 5mm ...giving 87,000 gees?! I start to
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by tbabb 10y ago
I have no horse in the SVG vs. CSS race, but: Web designers, please, do not think that all the super-annoying gimmicky animations (rippling text inputs, wiggly text, excessively stretch-and-squashing motion) are a positive for user experien
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by tbabb 10y ago
Who says they didn't repro the failure?
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by tbabb 10y ago
CPT still holds, though, right?
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by tbabb 10y ago
What are these magical alternative routes to space the author speaks of? Outside of the atmosphere, the only way to propel yourself is Newton's laws, and that implies a rocket. In the context of Spacex's more recent successes in i
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by tbabb 10y ago
He doesn't mention that many companies who want to be friendly to their creative tech employees' habits have a legal/approval process for carving out specific side projects.
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by tbabb 10y ago
This theory strikes me as teleological rather than explanatory-- it explains phenomena in terms of their effects rather than their causes. Effects come afterwards, so they can't be the explanation for something that's already happ
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by tbabb 10y ago
Nautilus' main activity seems to be dressing bullshit up as intellectual depth.
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by tbabb 10y ago
Again, not my field of expertise, but worth asking: There's going to be much much more air between two mountains 80km apart than between the surface and 80km altitude. I believe the quantity of air in a column above you at sea level
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by tbabb 10y ago
Those gains would make sense for geostationary satellites, but SpaceX is planning on putting its fleet into LEO, at just a few hundred km. Would you expect the same for that altitude? Also with 4000 satellites, you probably wouldn't ha
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by tbabb 10y ago
Oh good lord. That edge-initialization code made my jaw drop. Did he not think about the problem _at all_ before putting code down?
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by tbabb 10y ago
That doesn't reduce the number of cells touched, and would make the algorithm more complicated. It would also probably hurt cache locality. Going backwards is also pointless complication, you could just as easily cut into two sections
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by tbabb 10y ago
The results at starbucks really make me think that we should mandate visible calorie counts for food establishments. No need to regulate calories directly, just inform people about what they're eating and let behavior follow.
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by tbabb 10y ago
I do my best to mentally invert the Tesla/Musk hype, and my own affinity for what they do, but: 1) It doesn't seem like Tesla was dishonest about anything. 2) MobilEye seems to be very whiny/wimpy about getting a tiny, indire
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by tbabb 10y ago
If "funny tasting water" upsets you, then sugary drinks-- which kill thousands of people through obesity-- should scare the daylights out of you.
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by tbabb 10y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
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by tbabb 10y ago
It seems a strategic error from a sales perspective. Why call attention to the fact that the car is expensive? They could have pointed out that the car funds the Model 3 without highlighting the high price.
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Short fiction: “Specter”(bzarg.com)
2 points by tbabb 10y ago|0 comments
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by tbabb 10y ago
It seems obvious to me that the reason for the decline is drones. If you want to look at something from above, it's now $200 instead of $2,000,000.
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by tbabb 10y ago
Very interesting video, but given this title I was expecting far more interesting math than a simple helix.
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by tbabb 10y ago
And also, again, not diminishing SpaceX's achievements, but the space shuttle was a substantially more ambitious project than the f9.
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by tbabb 10y ago
Cool idea, though I'd sooner suspect most "supernatural" phenomena are more easily explained-- with fewer assumptions and suppositions-- by simple psychology, misinterpretation, fallacy, drugs, sleep paralysis, fear, rational
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by tbabb 10y ago
Whenever the publisher is Nautilus and the headline ends with a question mark, I pretty much just assume that the actual answer to the titular question is "No".
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Brexit and crumbling structures(bzarg.com)
1 points by tbabb 10y ago|0 comments
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by tbabb 10y ago
Someone who is personable or eager or hardworking (or the opposite) is as much so because of the cards they are dealt by nature or their upbringing as a person who is intelligent (or the opposite). When you get down to it, everyone is excl

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