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by tfinniga 12y ago
That's an interesting point. How would you take advantage of this? I think the main reason why people buy more food than they need is because the demand is somewhat unknown, and food is so cheap that it's safer to err on the side
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by tfinniga 12y ago
In the UK I've had packages delivered by "Amazon Logistics" before.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
The goal is to have a video that can be used as evidence in court: what you're seeing actually happened. You can guarantee that the framebuffer recorded by the trusted camera is indeed an accurate recording of the photons that entered
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I have a theory about why that is. In the book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" there are a number of experiments described that show that human thought can roughly be separated into two systems, one of which is intuitive, fast, heuristi
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by tfinniga 12y ago
This is a fascinating problem. - We have mechanisms to prove that video is taken after a certain time (show a newspaper on the video, or get the video cryptographically timestamped via a trusted server). - We have mechanisms to detect if so
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by tfinniga 12y ago
The advantage of the #ifdef DEBUG method is that it's possible to ensure that all of your allocations are clean at the object level, not just at the arena level. In the limit, you could make one arena for your entire program and then d
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Google doesn't write the bloatware, but its actions allow bloatware to exist on android in a few ways, as far as I understand. - Android has an open source version (that is, a version that is completely open source). Like you mentione
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I guess technically those were separate online services. They only connected up to the internet near the end of their lifetime.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
*not closely related
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by tfinniga 12y ago
You might not remember this, but that's exactly what originally happened. You had CompuServe mail, and Prodigy mail, and AOL mail, and any number of internal mail systems at different companies. There was not a single mail format or a
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by tfinniga 12y ago
So, here's something I've been wondering about smart watches, maybe someone here can answer. It seems like the big dealbreaker for these is battery life. But a cheap watch with quartz timekeeping and digital lcd display can last
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Yup, just got there. Oops.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I don't understand why HFT is still around, if it's considered a problem. Naively, couldn't all the craziness about HFT be resolved by enforcing a 1-second tick on the markets? Like, right now it appears that trades occur ins
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Man, I just learned about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon the other day, and now it seems to be popping up everywhere.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Learned this in my image/signal processing class at university. Most of the terms are just fancy / specific ways of saying simple things. There are a few key concepts to learn, and then the rest is implementation and learning the
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by tfinniga 12y ago
A convolution in image space is a component-wise multiplication in fourier space. As the size of your convolution kernel increases, sometimes it is more efficient to convert the kernel to fourier space, multiply pixel by pixel, and then co
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Different technology to get results that are in the same category.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I think it's fair to say that Apple blocked flash. They didn't implement flash in Safari, which is where you're right. But they also disallowed any interpreter on iOS, so even if Adobe wanted to make a flash player on iOS (th
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Yeah, I realize my view on this is a bit skewed. A lot of the examples people give where C++ is still justified are things that I have done in my career - image processing, video editing, rendering software, CAD software, solving large spa
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I think C++ is justified when you're constrained by CPU, RAM, or other resources. That is, if the limiting factor is development speed, or network traffic, or waiting for user input, then C++ probably isn't going to be worth it.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Is it possible to write C++ programs that are slower than their counterparts in other programming languages? Yes. Is it possible to write programs in other languages that are just as fast as good C++ implementations? Often it is not. That
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Here's my proposal: America goes metric, and the rest of the world starts driving on the right hand side of the road.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
The author of the egg, Andy Weir, recently wrote a full-length novel (The Martian). The book started with Mr. Weir planning a series of mars missions, thinking about possible emergencies and what equipment should be sent to handle those con
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by tfinniga 12y ago
That is a bit like worrying about the innocents working on the deathstar. They know what kind of job it is. They do it anyway.
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by tfinniga 12y ago
I think the short answer is that the maze will look very different. It's very possible that the verts of the maze would be in exactly the same position, since that's a regular pattern. But the maze walls will be extremely random
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by tfinniga 12y ago
It depends on the pseudorandom number generator that you're using, but you'd be hard pressed to find a standard library prng where similar seeds produced similar random numbers. That would be pretty bad design. For example, here
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by tfinniga 12y ago
With maze generation, you need some way of deciding which subset of the possible walls you're going to keep. Usually you rely on some random or pseudorandom numbers to feed into the algorithm or use internally. Having the maze verts i
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by tfinniga 12y ago
Thanks for the link to Elinor Ostrom. It seems like what she was saying is that if the people who own and use the common resource have the ability to create rules and enforce them, then they can avoid a tragedy of the commons. I'd tot
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by tfinniga 12y ago
So I'm a bit confused by your phrasing. Are you saying that the tragedy of the commons isn't something that actually happens? I agree with your point that there are natural pressures that would keep the number of taxis down if th
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by tfinniga 12y ago
On the other hand, the limit on taxi medallions protects a common resource, room on the streets. Maybe the balance isn't right, but you're going to need some artificial limitation or else you're going to have a classic trage

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