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by todd8 8y ago
Yes, I wondered about the heading labeled "total" as well! It was a bit confusing to be there next to the actual population of the city number. I had recently looked up the NYC crime rate though and I figured out the "total&q
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by todd8 8y ago
Of course one arbitrarily large precision parameter is enough. Over 85 years ago Gödel demonstrated that every computable function, no matter how complex, has a representation as a single real number. This idea was used in the diagonalizati
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Create virtual cards that protect your money(privacy.com)
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by todd8 8y ago
No, the actual values are quite different. From [1], the same source: City Violent Crime/100k Property Crime/100k Detroit 1759.6 4093.6 DC 1202.6 4
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by todd8 8y ago
While at Texas Instruments, around 1976, I was in the group trying to move the company to use a more modern programming language. I had learned Pascal while in grad school by studying Wirth’s compiler source so I was happy to be in this dep
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Electron Elm Tutorial(2017)(youtube.com)
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by todd8 8y ago
Under the Texas Privacy Act of 2013 [1], a drone operator capturing an image of a person on private property is subject to a $5000 civil penalty. Distributing the image can result in significantly higher damages. If done to surveil it becom
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by todd8 8y ago
I’ve seen this sentiment here several times, but I’ve always loved programming. Maybe not every language or project, but no work is perfect all the time. In general, software has been a great career for me.
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by todd8 8y ago
I see climate change being blamed for this increase in insect bites, but can this be right? Perhaps it’s a factor; however, as I understand it the USA has warmed by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 100 years[1]. There is roughly a
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by todd8 8y ago
Maybe, but from a balcony of a condo I used to have in downtown Austin I could look down at the world’s largest urban bat colony sleeping under the Congress St bridge over our downtown lake[1]. The over a million bats would fly out in an am
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by todd8 8y ago
I’m not sure what you’re proposing. I grew up in Detroit and went to public schools; I learned nothing in junior high or high school there. What could my parents have done differently? I feel that we should have moved, but my parents were c
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by todd8 8y ago
I took the same course! I remember that we had been taught to calculate the voltages and currents for all points in an electrical network as vector algebra operations. Then, for one of our assignments we were expected to just learn APL on o
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by todd8 9y ago
Hmm... an account of a female Roman Catholic poet that should be better known. I personally don't understand this being on the front page of HN, but the diverse interests of HN readers is always surprising and makes this such an educat
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by todd8 9y ago
Public transit matters where people live. Australia, quite clearly, can more easily focus on good transportation in the small percentage of its land mass where people live. My state, about the same land area as France has a population densi
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by todd8 9y ago
I haven’t tried it, but isn’t JavaFX supposed to be the future of JVM based GUI’s? I’m actually very curious about others experiences with it.
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by todd8 9y ago
CO2 is 44g/mol vs 29g/mol for air so perhaps it’s higher density causes more concentration close to your ankles.
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by todd8 9y ago
I share your opinion about the superiority of org-mode as a means to assemble a document out of various pieces. It's not hard to show nicely formatted code, the code's output, the math behind the code and perhaps a graph of the re
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Charles Raison on Depression, Immune-Brain Interface and Whole-Body Hyperthermia(foundmyfitness.com)
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by todd8 9y ago
As the article points out, the big first programming languages, FORTRAN, COBOL, LISP, and Algol each had their own way of doing variable assignment. FORTRAN used "=" and Algol used ":=" the other two languages used comma
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by todd8 9y ago
My theory about these scorpions is that it is protective coloration (aposematism) that warns potential predators, in this case likely birds and reptiles that are capable of seeing uv colors due to tetrachromacy. See [1] and [2]. [1] https:
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by todd8 9y ago
You can just keep your socks on to protect your login toeprint when not in use.
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by todd8 9y ago
Okay, got it. It’s not the way I see it exactly, but I understand your point! Thanks.
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by todd8 9y ago
Am I interpreting your story too literally? Do you mean that our economy will improve if we give people more food? Obesity is now a problem that affects all socioeconomic strata in the USA. See [1] and [2]. [1] https://www.cdc.go
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by todd8 9y ago
Looks like there is a small typo: should read “higher in CO2” whouldnt that produce faster plant growth?
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by todd8 9y ago
Yes, but my friends that own Tesla's actually believe that self-driving cars are almost here. When I say that it's at least ten years away and likely much longer because it will take big breakthroughs (strong AI, lot's of kno
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by todd8 9y ago
Okay, I’ll comment quantitatively. You lost me on your first sentence: > If our energy systems aren't flowing properly then our own magnetic field and energetic defences are prone, weak. This is nonsense. I didn’t downvote you simpl
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by todd8 9y ago
This is so interesting to me. I own a large iPad Pro and pencil and didn’t feel that I could write subscripts very easily, kind of like writing with a Crayon. The zooming in and out also caused me to be unable to visualize as well where I w
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by todd8 9y ago
I used to keep a couple of 9-track tapes (see [1]) of the code I had written. Too bad I don’t have them anymore, I probably had some 50 year old API I came up with that someone somewhere violated. If that seems absurd, consider how few peop
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by todd8 9y ago
The exterior of a potential target could be covered in corner reflectors[1]. Such a surface reflects most of the light directly back to its source. Corner reflecting is the reason vehicle reflectors appear so bright under illumination. I wo
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by todd8 9y ago
I love my gadgets so I’ve owned lots of smart phone, tablets, tablet pencils, and Wacom devices—even a couple of high end Wacom video graphic tablets. I think Apple did a good job with their pencil. However, I rarely use any of them outside

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