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by utopcell 5y ago
This kind of products bothers me. At >$1400, they are clearly a money-grab on the back of the very innovative and vibrant diy keyboards community.
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by utopcell 5y ago
Problem #?
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by utopcell 5y ago
A friend got me hooked on PE by pointing me to #208 many years back. Lovely problem, recommended fun time. I wonder if folks here have favorite problems they've worked on as well.
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by utopcell 5y ago
Too close to the ground; that's what "killed" Sinclair's version of it.
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by utopcell 5y ago
Actually, the whole part was added by the actor, not just the last metaphor.
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by utopcell 5y ago
"All those Amazon RDS fees will be lost in time" ..like tears in rain?
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by utopcell 5y ago
It clearly understands enough to trigger displaying the calculator.
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by utopcell 5y ago
How will using them make them better if they don't store any of your searches/results ?
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by utopcell 5y ago
Very informative write-up.
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by utopcell 5y ago
First thought after finishing the article: "Hmm, so there's more of us out there".
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Greek Composer and Politician Mikis Theodorakis Has Died at the Age of 96(npr.org)
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by utopcell 5y ago
Apple's net profit was $57.41bn in 2020 [1] and that 15% is of course pure profit. 26% of Apple's profit comes from Google. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267728/apples-net-income...
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by utopcell 5y ago
> they all feed off each other due to the fundamental driver of "shareholder value." Kudos for not resorting to hand-wavey statements yourself.
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by utopcell 5y ago
Yep, that about sums it up nicely!
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by utopcell 5y ago
If anyone is wondering why QuickSort's video is longer than BubbleSort's, notice that "swaps" in QSort are done in linear time (i.e the dancers are walking to their swapped positions) instead of constant time.
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by utopcell 5y ago
Perhaps the most beautiful part of the mechanism is the modelling of the motion of the Moon, which Chris describes in minute detail [1]. [1] https://youtu.be/v19cu2hj2Ms
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by utopcell 5y ago
Cool project! You could also have used a 2 Axis Brushless Gimbal Stabilizer for most of the mechanics stuff, coupled with either your Garmin Lidar Lite module, or a 360 degrees Lidar module.
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by utopcell 5y ago
You can't help but be entertained by the amount of plagiarism that exists. A while back I found out that one of my papers [1] was being sold as a final year thesis via ..a video ad on YouTube [2]. [1] https://ieeexplore.ieee
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by utopcell 5y ago
Well, that is the point: it cannot be determined.
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by utopcell 5y ago
> They find that 67% of Greek soldiers from 480 BCE are likely non-local, while 36% of Greek soldiers from 408 BC were non-local. The paper makes a weird mental leap here, in that the relative percentages of dead soldiers corresponds to
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by utopcell 5y ago
Indeed, nero (νερό) is water in Greek, as is hydor (ύδωρ). Mavro Nero (μαύρο νερό) translates to black water.
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by utopcell 5y ago
What a tasteless analogy..
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by utopcell 5y ago
I disagree. Taxation of the form that the parent comment suggested, where the same property that has been legally taxed in the past is now taxed again without having participated in the economy, is both unethical and theft.
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by utopcell 5y ago
Full circle: How is that not stealing ?
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by utopcell 5y ago
That seems to imply that whatever is legal is also ethical. If a law is passed that states that if your name is Jeff Bezos then you should submit 100% of your property to the state then it might be legal but it's still stealing. It see
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by utopcell 5y ago
How is that not stealing ?
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by utopcell 5y ago
:-)
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by utopcell 5y ago
gnuplot is not gnu, gnu is not unix, unix is not multics. I wonder what multics was not like.
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by utopcell 5y ago
You pick the car with 1/3 probability and a goat with 2/3. If you picked the car and switch, you lost. If you picked a goat and switch, you win because the only other door left has the car. The problem is simple to reason through.
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by utopcell 5y ago
The startup model is all about exponential increase of the user base. For example, Amazon was running at little to zero profit until 2015 [1]. Google and Facebook added ads years after they became extremely popular. What you're saying

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