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by theoh 7y ago
I can't find the Oware reference, and the game is not in the index.
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by theoh 7y ago
She didn't accept that the premise was wrong, just that this particular detail was inaccurate: "Wolf said she appreciated Sweet’s “important correction”, but rejected the idea that it challenged the main thrust of her book. “Outra
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by theoh 7y ago
Bubbles that large are not stable—the sinking effect (which is disputed) would have to do with a significant reduction in density of the water by a large number of smaller bubbles.
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by theoh 7y ago
Pretty sure these "bizarre mental problems" are a manifestation of rivalrous narcissism. Dismissing others in order to feel better about your own intelligence is a symptom of that. It sounds like he would like to be a heavy intell
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by theoh 7y ago
You wouldn't say that about bipedal robots winning the 100 meter sprint. And humans still run the 100 meters although there are faster mechanical ways to go that distance. Human standards of excellence are, and IMO should be, defined b
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by theoh 7y ago
This is gobbledygook. You say that the irreplaceable thing is gone and cannot be replaced, but also that somehow we now have an opportunity to modify it? The cathedral is mostly intact. This is a repair job, just like a repair to an Old Mas
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by theoh 7y ago
Evidently your understanding of "recreating/restoring an original" encompasses brand new creative works. That is not what is at issue here: Notre Dame is an original , irreplaceable structure.
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by theoh 7y ago
Of course fire prevention measures can and should be taken in old buildings. Installing unobtrusive systems with the goal of protecting an authentic structure is routine, as is finding any and all possible ways of mitigating fire hazards wi
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by theoh 7y ago
This idea (replicate old structure in a new material) is not really a thing in building conservation. One reason for this is that the dimensions of structural elements are a function of the properties of the original material: it just doesn
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by theoh 7y ago
This is probably narcissistic rage, and it would be a result of the narcissistic injury of being less intelligent than the parents. There are lots of other potential causes of narcissistic injury, but realizing that one is relatively stupid
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by theoh 7y ago
The way I see it, each of the data types in a sum type is analogous to a channel. The type of the 'message' conveyed by a value is effectively "Either Control Data". In-band signalling is messier than out-of-band signall
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by theoh 7y ago
In Haskell one applicable type is actually called "Either a b". I'm not sure what your point is. If a function has a "unitary" return type (not, say, a list of possible return types out of which one is selected) the
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by theoh 7y ago
Sum types arguably permit a form of out-of-band return value. A function that returns a sum type has the choice of returning the usual type (an integer value, say) or an error value of some other type. IMO this counts as a kind of out-of-ba
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by theoh 7y ago
If it's based on that, it's essentially an implementation of Jos Stam's "stable fluids" which actually uses some tricks to get plausible results. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/stam/real
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by theoh 7y ago
What might be called the "homophone superstition" aspect of it is (apparently?) bigger in Chinese culture than in other language cultures, though. http://www.nautil.us/issue/44/luck/is-the-chinese-la
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by theoh 7y ago
I don't think the message that it's just "tough luck" if you happen not to be born into privilege would fare any better. Graham just doesn't have a nuanced, progressive and sensitive understanding of this issue (amo
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by theoh 7y ago
To get to the point of having a "home feed" you have to choose an instance. It's not like Usenet where there was a default local NNRP server, no decision to be made Having a basic grasp of what federation means is about as im
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by theoh 7y ago
You'll find that comments like this will attract downvotes here. Even if your perception is valid, expressing it like in these terms is something that HN doesn't tolerate. I'm not sure if there is actually a way to reframe it
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by theoh 7y ago
If you want to comment on a post on a different instance, you need to know what is going on at some trivial level to get the addressing/login right. It's not obvious, and some instances have surprising restrictions that make life
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by theoh 7y ago
Do you see the point I'm making, though? Edit: I'm not asking about the rate at which paid leave builds up, I'm asking about how the employee can ever be said to have used it up. Given that zero-hours contracts are a Bad Thin
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by theoh 7y ago
What does paid holiday mean, exactly, in a zero-hour contract? If there's no guaranteed minimum rate at which one is paid during any given period, it seems like there can be no way to assert that one is on "paid leave". I tri
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by theoh 7y ago
I think grid is something graphic designers and typographers really drove. Grid layout is essentially a modernist typographic convention. Once you know it, it becomes completely logical.
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by theoh 7y ago
You might be thinking of this system used by Ikea. https://youtu.be/JRXdlgBe8wg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarte_Carte looks like it might be the airport system you have in mind. The usual European
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by theoh 7y ago
This is part of the law in some countries. Usually it's referred to as Artist's Resale Rights.
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by theoh 7y ago
I'm actually a Twitter user, and I think this is a very jaundiced opinion. I have a lot of different interests and following people on Twitter is a very good grapevine system. Math twitter is a good place, for example. A lot of people
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by theoh 7y ago
Some people used to feel this way about IRC. I'm afraid the reality is probably that you just don't have the motivation to figure it out, for whatever reason. No mass-market product like Twitter could succeed if it was as confusin
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by theoh 7y ago
It's a library of complete physically-based simulation and rendering algorithm implementations. You seem to be assuming that "library" must mean a layer or an API providing certain runtime abstractions or functionality. That&
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by theoh 7y ago
It had a mode for selecting threads to read (based on seeing the subject line). Having selected which threads in a particular newsgroup to read, the user would then switch into reading mode. Threads that the user didn't want to read co
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by theoh 7y ago
The "generalizing" process is called idealization. Whenever Turing machines are mentioned, it's an idealized version of a machine that is being referred to. Every finite physical machine is limited in different way, so it doe
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by theoh 7y ago
When I started reading Usenet in the 90s, trn (threaded read news) was the state of the art in news readers. It might be worth mining the trn user interface for ideas. The author tried to write a major new version (4) in the late 90s, but f

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