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by tgb 8y ago
So the author both learned persistence and the toleration of frustration but also admits to turning in half-done homeworks (if at all), half-assing midterms and generally not trying hard. Or maybe this is just-so story without much merit.
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by tgb 8y ago
The example of Neverwinter Nights was already mentioned but my favorite example of radial menus is from a similar game The Temple of Elemental Evil, also based on DnD but this time fully turn based. Beautiful menus that were entirely text b
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by tgb 8y ago
On the other hand, I feel almost nauseous every time I see a panning shot in a standard 24fps film. They look choppy to an extreme that makes me wonder how anyone let that through production but I guess it's just standard now. I would
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by tgb 8y ago
That's what the OEIS sequence they link to says. I hadn't realized that it makes such a beautiful pattern!
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by tgb 8y ago
No, it's not because people consider it imaginary or non-productive: it's because they consider it insufficiently productive for what it costs the globe and that the rewards are obviously localized while the costs are global.
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by tgb 8y ago
That's 300 kWh not kW.
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by tgb 8y ago
Thanks but how did you find this? I guess the fact that it was co.uk meant my site-restricted searches failed.
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by tgb 8y ago
So this is veering off-topic: I remember but cannot for the life of me find a blog post from Google about either the number of bytes in their front page or the number of words on the front page. Apparently there was some guy who would email
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by tgb 8y ago
Yeah that would be a good course to learn it - functional analysis is basically linear algebra on infinite dimensional vector spaces. (Though that sells it a little short - moving to infinite dimensional vector spaces requires incorporatin
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by tgb 8y ago
And they exist in situations where determinants are difficult or impossible to define! Infinite dimensional vector spaces can still have transformations with eigenvectors but you generally can't define a determinant coherently for them
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by tgb 8y ago
> did a quick check How? Thanks.
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by tgb 8y ago
The author is missing the most obvious rule that they should have taken away from their experience: don't use the number and email provided by the candidate. Jim's email or number is probably readily available on the company websi
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by tgb 8y ago
Surely this is better explained as just another instance of best-player-of-most-popular-sport-is-popular? The same dynamic happens in countries where the considerably less violent of the two "footballs" is played. And star basketb
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by tgb 8y ago
I loved this book and it made me think a lot but in what way did it make you introspect ?
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by tgb 8y ago
Here's a possibly dumb proposal: don't support wheelchairs on buses, instead give them a city/state-run uber-for-wheelchairs service. The problem is that supporting wheelchairs adds an inordinate burden to buses and makes sti
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by tgb 8y ago
I feel like the real motivation behind this is that far too many people believe that the hard part of getting solar panels adopted is in finding places to put them. So this law "solves" the problem. But that's never been the
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by tgb 9y ago
Isn't this actually a marketing ploy to get people to read about the negative effects of social media?
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by tgb 9y ago
The author's experience with GMail seems to be the opposite of mine. The new features for disappearing/unprintable/etc. emails sound like they're just going to cause annoyances while Gmail sorting things into promotions
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by tgb 9y ago
But isn't the virus inside of you at a higher temperature than that? You can't change your body temperature without problems so how do you plan on killing viruses by heat once you're already infected?
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by tgb 9y ago
Can you elaborate? My reading of the top comment is about how tinder has radically different experiences for men as for women. What is the similar dynamic on gay dating apps?
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by tgb 9y ago
I agree - the fact that MT:G is actually an extremely good game seems to be underestimated here. I spent a fair amount of money on that game when I played it but almost exclusively the (at the time) $10 fee to play in a draft. So that was a
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by tgb 9y ago
Moreover Nalgene water bottles became popular for consumer use (previously they were a laboratory equipment company) in the 70s according to Wikipedia. I believe that well predates the rise of cupholders in cars.
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by tgb 9y ago
Related: in [1] there's a VR version of the hyperbolic plane where there's "more space" than the Euclidean space we live in. So the person in the demo walks a loop and a half in order to end up back where he started in h
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by tgb 9y ago
What are you thinking of for New Hampshire? I'm assuming adobe or similar for Arizona.
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by tgb 9y ago
The most incredible part of this story is the fact that it is the first fatality in a US-registered passenger aircraft accident in over nine years and the first one in Southwest's 51 year history. (Though looking into it, that overlo
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by tgb 9y ago
After learning about light interference creating the iridescence of butterflies and of CDs, I wondered whether you could burn a CD to control the structure of the CD to change that interference enough to, say, draw an iridescent image. Howe
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by tgb 9y ago
The men had asked to use the restrooms and were told they were only for customers. [1] [1] https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/17/us/philadelphia-starbucks-911...
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by tgb 9y ago
In what ways are these "brutalist"? The first two I clicked on had (in one) music auto-playing over a video with your mouse pointer a Terminator-style claw and (in the other) a 3D animated leg that you could spin before hitting &#
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by tgb 9y ago
I'll assume that downvotes mean I wasn't clear: the US is currently spending that much ($150B apparently, I haven't checked) on R&D for drugs. It's just doing it through different means, presumably by paying higher i
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by tgb 9y ago
It's not politically practical, but why would you expect that paying for the stuff we already pay for is too expensive?

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