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by vlasev 9y ago
I believe it was not due to this but due to mass savings. The square grid layout uses more material and in a less symmetric way too.
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by vlasev 9y ago
> Part of this is gravity (needing to move up the gravity well) but more important are speed (you need to go really fast to stay in orbit) Technically speaking, the speed requirement is due to gravity as well.
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by vlasev 9y ago
I'm not sure if it exists, but it would be a good idea to implement something like a temporary "ex block" for a whole device - everything posted by a specific person would be filtered out for you ON ALL platforms. You wouldn&
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by vlasev 9y ago
It takes a great deal of self-awareness to recognize how different your relationship/marriage/household/raising is from the norm and how this may affect your children. What messes kids up sometimes is just that their home is
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by vlasev 9y ago
Balance the alarm clock on the edge of a tin pot, so that when it goes off, it will just fall inside and make a bunch more noise.
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by vlasev 9y ago
No kidding... while success: ### while success == True
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by vlasev 9y ago
What speeds you up forwards can probably be used to slow you down if pointed backwards
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by vlasev 9y ago
No other UI infuriates me more than the McDonalds ordering UI at their locations. Everything is all over the place and the animations make it 100x slower.
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by vlasev 9y ago
That's a rather cynical view of what is essentially him doing dimensional analysis to find out if it's worth putting effort and money into these ventures, and then hiring a bunch of really good engineers to go towards it.
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by vlasev 9y ago
Yea. It's quite different when you are doing something you love vs something you were told to do.
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by vlasev 9y ago
I propose opening a new repo for each time zone.
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by vlasev 9y ago
All you need to do is make a copy of your image, blur that copy enough to get rid of the stars, and then subtract it from the other image. It's going to affect larger structures like the milky way, though.
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by vlasev 9y ago
It IS a big risk career-wise, but from reading things people in-the-know say, it seems that if you have a knowledgeable person administering the PEDs, it's a relatively low-risk endeavor health-wise.
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by vlasev 9y ago
I've definitely seen people drive manual AND talk on their phones by holding them between their head and shoulder.
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by vlasev 9y ago
Here are a few facts about Mars 1. You can make steel 2. You can make rocket fuel 3. You don't need a high delta-v to get into space When you combine these facts together, it appears that you can make effective steel rockets. On the Mo
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by vlasev 9y ago
Plug and chug with Wolfram Alpha is very similar to plug and chug Stack Exchange answers in your code base.
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by vlasev 9y ago
For more such properties, check out this paper [1], section 1.5. [1]: https://www.cs.elte.hu/blobs/diplomamunkak/mat/2009/hubai_ta...
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by vlasev 9y ago
> "Every one of these graphs has a unique chromatic polynomial" This is incorrect. Two different graphs may have the same chromatic polynomial. For example, all trees of N vertices have the same chromatic polynomial: x(x-1)^(N-
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by vlasev 9y ago
Or perhaps the wave functions "gains a dimension" in that it spreads evenly (or weighed) in all of space, thus making it that a photon is "almost everywhere" until detection.
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by vlasev 9y ago
Nah. The author did the equivalent of saying they would tell us how the iPhone works, but got as far as just opening the box it comes in and powering it on.
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by vlasev 9y ago
Quite a few of our conversations with my ex (who is an artist) revolved around the contrast between mathematics and the arts. We realized quite early on that mathematics is actually quite artistic and could have easily been considered one o
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by vlasev 9y ago
Hmm. If food is not waiting for you when you wake up, then you should sleep some more! Not surprisingly, I don't have proof of what I said, but I've read in articles and studies that breakfast (and meals in general) tend to anchor
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by vlasev 9y ago
A related hack if you don't want to put your phone behind your laptop - put the phone screen-side down. This way the changing states of the screen (when you get a notification) won't distract you.
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by vlasev 9y ago
I'm not sure if you skip breakfast, but if you do, you are missing a strong signal to your circadian rhythm. What happens is you end up sleeping later and waking up later as the rhythm shifts towards your first meal of the day.
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by vlasev 9y ago
Here's another look. If you have variables X_1, ..., X_n that are independent and random from normal distributions, if you want someone to be within 1 standard deviation from the mean in EACH dimension, then you are looking at a probab
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by vlasev 9y ago
Serious question - how viable would it be to implement some sort of data decay? I don't know how it would be implemented, on what schedule, and to what extent.
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by vlasev 9y ago
It is never mentioned how things came to be in that episode. I'm sure there was a lot of government in it, as is in all the episodes of the series.
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by vlasev 9y ago
If you look at the bottom of the first page, you'll see it's a play on this: “What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.” T. R. Marshall (US Vice-President), New York Tribune, January 4, 1920
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by vlasev 9y ago
> Variable scope This goes against the very nature of what mathematical variables are like! The whole point is that the symbols are suggestive. This kind of thing allows the reader to quickly get up to speed with what the symbols are all
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by vlasev 9y ago
Here [1] is not 1, but 3 different levels of complexity. Not 90 seconds though :) [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9452701/ukkonens-suffix-...

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