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by torrance 9y ago
This reminds me of the backwards brain bicycle a bit [1]. I get that the argument they’re making here is one of physics - but failing to ride a counterintuitive bike isn’t something that can just be ‘done’ without a lot of practice! [1] ht
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by torrance 9y ago
I was interested to read about CVMFS - is this something people have experience with outside of CERN?
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by torrance 9y ago
The title on this needs to be corrected to match the article.
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by torrance 10y ago
When I read this, I assumed it was an indirect jab at Trump.
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Marginal evidence for cosmic acceleration from Type Ia supernovae(nature.com)
1 points by torrance 10y ago|0 comments
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by torrance 10y ago
That title is some serious clickbait. It's just as strongly expected that the signal will disappear on closer inspection.
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by torrance 11y ago
I appreciate this if only as a great example of using jupyter notebook and pandas. Thanks!
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by torrance 11y ago
The Breakthrough Initiatives project was announced earlier this year, and was accompanied by a neat video created by Seth McFarlane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrXeRK2B6z8
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by torrance 11y ago
Seriously, thank you for this. This makes so much of what I've been learning make sense and helps with the intuition around determinants. Why isn't this the first thing they teach about determinants?
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by torrance 11y ago
Apple News isn't available in a lot of countries for whatever reason. So this not only means its inaccessible to non-iOS9 devices, but it's also inaccessible to, eg., all of New Zealand.
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Best practices for a new Go developer(medium.com)
153 points by torrance 11y ago|90 comments
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by torrance 11y ago
There's also a video introduction by Seth MacFarlane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrXeRK2B6z8
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Breakthrough Initiative: aimed at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth(breakthroughinitiatives.org)
2 points by torrance 11y ago|1 comments
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by torrance 11y ago
Zoom out far enough, and it looks suspiciously like the Death Star in the making.
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by torrance 11y ago
I would be on board with these if it wasn't for their terrible environmental impact. I'd be interested in an analysis on that - but until these capsules can basically compost I'll be sticking to loose grounds thank you.
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by torrance 12y ago
"A common question that comes up is “why not just convert to the IR of {llvm,gcc,...} and go from there?” [...] I’m happy to be convinced otherwise - maybe we should throw our effort into getting frame maps out of {llvm,gcc,...} and f
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by torrance 12y ago
I think the word you're looking for is 'transparency'.
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by torrance 12y ago
The other replies above have failed to mention the single important bit: it's a Debian-based distro that uses _Openbox window manager_. See http://crunchbang.org/
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by torrance 12y ago
Hands down, the configuration file for opensmtpd is the best I've ever seen. It's easy to grok and its declarative style beats Postfix's plethora of flags anyday. Looking forward to it making its way into the standard Linux d
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by torrance 12y ago
Why Typescript, out of curiosity?
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by torrance 12y ago
Great intro. But more importantly, where did you learn to type at that speed??
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by torrance 12y ago
From my brief reading of the spec, the three modes are mostly just a matter of where the keys are generated and stored. I think the messages themselves are indifferent to the mode (and therefore intermediaries can't determine between t
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by torrance 12y ago
Is this question implicitly restricting itself to European Middle ages? If not, surely it's worth mentioning the scientific advances in the Islamic Golden Ages? [1] As I understand it, these were so important that in Europe if you want
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by torrance 12y ago
Maybe you missed it, but he did suggest a reason why we do work so hard still: income inequality. ie. the bulk of productivity gains have gone only to a minority of the population.
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by torrance 12y ago
Looks like the parachute failed to deploy cleanly.
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by torrance 12y ago
I couldn't care less about trying to reimplement classes in C — structs and functions will do just fine thank you very much. What about something actually useful, like RAII to simplify memory management?
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Modern C++: What You Need to Know(channel9.msdn.com)
1 points by torrance 12y ago|0 comments
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by torrance 13y ago
As someone who has written a fair bit of Go code, I also find myself keeping a close eye on Rust. The things that really appeal to me are the possibility of immutable (by default) types, thread-local memory (ie. owned pointers), no null poi
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by torrance 13y ago
From what I can tell, this creates an SQLite instance each time it's executed, and creates it in memory unless told not to do so. So I'd guess it wouldn't scale well. Still really neat though!
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by torrance 13y ago
As a complete aside, what is the language used under the section "getMessageList"?

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