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by wcarss 8y ago
Thanks for not understanding the problem and making a trite snipe at the rural people of Canada. People who live in these places do absolutely use these buses, and some people do need them, but (while I'm not sure about service cost) t
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by wcarss 8y ago
I've never done any applied statistics that I know of, so I'm not sure! For a 2D map the loose layout of the algorithm is this: construct a 2D array of blank tiles. Choose a tile at random from the set of most-constrained tiles (t
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by wcarss 8y ago
I wrote a js wave function collapse implementation earlier this year and really enjoyed the process and its results. Constraint support is a feature I'm still looking forward to adding in the future, so it's pretty neat to see how
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by wcarss 8y ago
piggybacking your comment (and fine work!) to point to my own re-hosting of this transcript that makes minor formatting improvements to the original, primarily for scanning width: https://wcarss.ca/reading/you_and_your_
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by wcarss 8y ago
I slightly wish the exponentiation function from the original article weren't the more complex "faster" version -- it's not really relevant to the article, and it makes playing through the calls in your head just a littl
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by wcarss 8y ago
There's a difference in the objective here that may reward us for avoiding a monoculture. One way to do all crypto means one way to defeat it.
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by wcarss 8y ago
In North America the refrigerator and clothes washer/dryer are usually the landlord's, but sometimes people own their own clothes stuff -- I think self-ownership is becoming less common with time, but only have anecdata to back it
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by wcarss 8y ago
I was hoping for more comparison to other types of knowledge work here, and I think there's something deeper than what the author is describing, but this post still makes a good point that likely applies in many cases. I'd restate
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by wcarss 9y ago
not intended to be a hostile ask here, but do you know any specific bugs to check out? As a past (very minor) contributor to chromium+webkit I'm curious if there's anything one can do to help, but I haven't kept up with their
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by wcarss 9y ago
I don't feel "agile" is the same as being smart about scope cuts, or about shaving yaks that aren't in the way, so I'm left feeling that your comment was ...a bit of a shitty place to drag the discourse. :) In other
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by wcarss 9y ago
A related skill is being strategic about what really needs to be done right now. If you hit a roadblock, some people will just stop. Some will ask around and stop if there are no easy answers. Some will persevere until they hit their head s
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by wcarss 9y ago
Would you pay for a service like this if it existed and worked well? If so, please email me! I'd love to discuss the concept and may have the the time and inclination to build it if a great answer doesn't already exist.
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by wcarss 9y ago
Thanks Nokinside! This is a great and easy to follow takedown of the concept on several dimensions (which I've chosen to summarize inline): First, that making the internal device apparatus more complex is counter to the production of e
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by wcarss 9y ago
You might also want to ask them to change the way red mercury is referred to near the end, as its existence is generally believed to be a hoax[1]. Charles Stross actually wrote a fun short story that uses references it[2]. 1 - https:/
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by wcarss 9y ago
That's one of the ways these could run, yes. But hopefully not the way this one is -- there are direct exchange and indirect heating methods that have been researched. Check out Project Pluto on Wikipedia [1], and the Direct Air Cycle
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by wcarss 9y ago
I'm glad that this story notes the elevated isotope detection levels last year and the possibility that the US detection plane sent up around that time may have been doing some classified investigation of evidence of an engine of this
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by wcarss 9y ago
Where did you even find it? The compensation page has a section heading for it but I couldn't find an actual calculator anywhere, just a big formula.
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by wcarss 9y ago
This is an absurdly long marketing-string-along style read. At its core, it is delivering a summary of "7 habits of highly effective people", by Stephen Covey, and packaging it as two mental shifts. The "two shifts" are
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by wcarss 9y ago
I'm really not grokking your math. You said 1 car/minute/line, which on an 8 hour, 5 day shift would yield 2400 cars per week, and then 4800 from two shifts. Then you said 5000/day, and I think you meant week, which line
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by wcarss 9y ago
off-topic a bit: does anyone have suggestions for paths for the layperson toward being able to reason and intuit about this stuff at one level beyond pop physics claptrap? I have heard "the theoretical minimum" suggested in the pa
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by wcarss 9y ago
I feel that the perception is in fact material to the reality, because if people do go to university not to become academics, and do leave it not as academics, and do feel it has met its purpose in those cases, then clearly it is not presen
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by wcarss 9y ago
Typically a student must maintain good academic standing and apply specifically to a co-op program to attend, and then an administrative department within the school will run a class on interviewing skills and resumé-building, before helpin
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by wcarss 9y ago
On the flip side of this, many of the most capable and intelligent people I have worked with had no degree (or a non-CS one, e.g. fine art is particularly common), and when I try to think of times my algorithms, OS, networking, maths, or ev
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by wcarss 9y ago
For you, university was a means to the end of learning academic thinking. For me, it was a means to the end of attaining a decent job. There are certainly arguments to be made that university is by definition, in original intent, and in the
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by wcarss 9y ago
How did all three of these people end up being interviewed for this, and why would so little of what they actually say and think make it in here? The story about the artist and the scientist, the wise visionary and the foolish tinkerer, is
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by wcarss 9y ago
Your point seems true in a universal context, but false in many limited or special contexts, like this one. Making all prosecutors more likely to bring charges in cases they think they will lose sounds like a bad idea. The easy scary exampl
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by wcarss 9y ago
For anyone looking for just the money diagram, ctrl+f "SOMEONE GETS IT RIGHT" in the link above. I first saw a version of that diagram just a couple of months ago at 34c3 in this _excellent_ talk on synchrotrons and free electron
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by wcarss 9y ago
Check out "Debt: The First 5000 Years", which puts forth decent reasoning that the "barter -> currency -> lending" path is not accurate but rather a bad post-hoc analysis of what we think might have happened that i
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by wcarss 9y ago
Tokamak fusion reactors need big magnets. Superconductor advances already have made big impacts on the feasibility of practical fusion in the near term, and true room temperature operation would only help.
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by wcarss 9y ago
That makes me wonder if there are actually any cycles in paper citations. I can imagine this scenario: A paper X has been updated to reference a response or later work Y, which itself referenced X from the start in such a way as to make t

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