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by thisrod 11y ago
Put yourself in his shoes. You have a choice of the following headlines on the New York Times . A: President can't pronounce 'nuclear'. B: President orders ten thousand nuculer bombs. The smart choice is of course A.
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by thisrod 11y ago
From a quick scan of the manual, I can't imagine why anyone would use this instead of MetaPost. You might need to write some macros to generate conic sections, but that would be easy enough. Am I missing a killer feature?
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by thisrod 11y ago
I think Watson and Crick's letter to Nature ends with the best sentence of the 20th Century: "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the g
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by thisrod 11y ago
Congratulations! The preparation scheme sounds very clever.
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by thisrod 11y ago
Note this criticism in Crikey: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2015/08/19/is-being-t...
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by thisrod 11y ago
I didn't suggest that it did. However, in the context of moral outlooks that people form in that sort of environment, Pol Pot's values are quite normal. Many German soldiers formed similar views during the First World War; they w
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by thisrod 11y ago
I greatly admire Trefethen's writing. I worry that there must be some really important aspects of numerical analysis that I ignore, simply because he hasn't written about them and so I understand them less well.
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by thisrod 11y ago
Let's not forget the context in which poor and unsophisticated people decided that was a good idea, and the names of the international aggressors whose crimes encompass the evil of the whole conflict: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by thisrod 11y ago
There might be a broader point here. It's now OK for gay men to act like gay men in public, and straight people are starting to do it too.
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by thisrod 11y ago
I must have missed something. Since when does HTML have elements called article and section?
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by thisrod 11y ago
Most schools here in the United States, and I think most schools in Britain too, do not have a "pastoral staff," The American schools I've seen did have such staff, but they called them guidance counselors or something like
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by thisrod 11y ago
There's a solution to this. Know that the best stuff will stay written longer than you will remain a reader, and expect that the stuff you read will mention it eventually.
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by thisrod 11y ago
Imagine what might happen if HN spent as much time maintaining Plan 9 as we spend talking about it.
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by thisrod 11y ago
OK, got it. Let a_n be the number of sequences of 0s and 1s of length n, that do not contain a pair of 1s, and end in 0. Let b_n be similar, except that the sequences end in 1. These satisfy the recurrences a_{n+1} = a_n + b_n, and b_{n+1
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by thisrod 11y ago
Which is the number of 0,1 sequences of length n that contain two adjacent 1s It sounds a lot simpler than that. There are n-1 places to put the adjacent 1s. For each of those, there are 2^(n-2) ways to complete the sequence with 0s and
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by thisrod 11y ago
[Greek and Latin] were languages that wives and servants could not understand, and therefore in which secrets were told. ... Women’s lack of Greek and Latin — in their own sex-segregated schools, they were taught French and German — kept t
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by thisrod 11y ago
Yes.
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by thisrod 11y ago
There's a higher order solution. Read the AWK book, do the exercises, then ignore blog posts about regexps. Make an exception when it's Russ Cox demonstrating how often this wheel has been reinvented in square form.
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by thisrod 11y ago
No, it's inconceivable that brain surgeons could act as crazily as programers do: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2015/05/25/4239823.ht...
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by thisrod 11y ago
> our advances in engine ering Think about where that word comes from.
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by thisrod 11y ago
or this: http://usingcsp.com/
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by thisrod 11y ago
Talking to architects. That must be folklore; sorry.
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by thisrod 11y ago
That's the least of the problems: there's a reason this "building" ended up open to the public. It was supposed to be a house, a private place for people to live in. But no one ever could, because a crashing waterfall
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by thisrod 11y ago
This looks like a place to start: http://www.glbcc.org/index.html . Call them, or just walk in, and chat to the receptionist. Think of it as like the moment when Harry Potter walks into Diagon Alley. Though it's almo
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by thisrod 11y ago
Hmm ... that sounds a bit grim. Tell me the city and I'll look up the phone number. That's not identifying information: there are lots of gay men everywhere.
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by thisrod 11y ago
Do you read Dan Savage? http://www.thestranger.com/columns/savage-love Your new city probably has a gay counseling phone line. If it doesn't, you need to move somewhere that does. You're the reason volunte
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by thisrod 11y ago
Who would have thought that the only totally effective treatment for mental illness, Coming Out Therapy, could cure another whole class of crazy people overnight? </snark>
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How Uber rolled the taxi lobby and won the world(crikey.com.au)
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by thisrod 11y ago
A lot of this sounds like transport layer instead of application layer. I'm curious why it ended up in HTTP instead of TCP. For example, you could specify that ports 49152 to 50179 formed a block on a given host, and so on in groups o
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by thisrod 11y ago
Good work.

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