xaedes

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by xaedes 9y ago
Because the one is making things exceptional computational expensive by design. The other not.
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by xaedes 9y ago
"A grad student or an assistant professor isn't going to put his/her career on the line for ideals." It is not like the choice is for free..
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by xaedes 9y ago
"that makes it harder to change code". Hm,... that could actually be a feature! Adding inertia. Not that I would use that, but it makes me think..^^
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by xaedes 9y ago
No I think grand parent comment means that some developers sometimes add spaces instead of tabs, even if it is by mistake. That will mix everything up. "Could" happen the other way too, but I think: If you use spaces you typicall
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by xaedes 9y ago
Because the code of Windows is the asset ;)
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by xaedes 9y ago
As I read the title my first thought was "Huh? htaccess?"
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by xaedes 9y ago
I also have topic-related or project-specific pages where I track their todos. Eventually the current double-page will be full and I also have to migrate there. In my daily list I then just have a todo like "do the next thing for proje
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by xaedes 9y ago
The first todo system that worked for me was bullet journal. It is essentially just a notebook where you write down every todo. I partition it in days and put new things there. Not actionable notes, todos and events get different symbols in
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by xaedes 9y ago
B[a]P: Benzo[a]pyrene NNK: 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone NNN: N-Nitrosonicotine
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by xaedes 9y ago
Here it is documented a bit: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssensors.7b00118 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acssensors.7b00118/sup...
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by xaedes 9y ago
Ah! A review of his book "Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies" contains this: "West’s work has been game-changing for biologists
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by xaedes 9y ago
Doesn't that provide an way to probe the gaia hypothesis? What happens if you plug the size of the earth in that scaling formula? Or the size of our solar system, or the galaxy, or even the universe? Maybe the principle can be applied
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by xaedes 9y ago
Oh; thank you for the great link! You can even "Select another database"; they have a lot. Nice resource.
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Study supports the idea we live in the largest known cosmic void(eurekalert.org)
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by xaedes 9y ago
You mean including code snippets of not compiling code in the automated(!) tests and compiling them from there? Hm, That makes sense. Anybody know a good framework for this? I can imagine that supporting different compilers output isn&#x27
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by xaedes 9y ago
Actually "trust people who know better" could be an interesting description of the moral of hubris. To have something to work with here a description of hubris from wikipedia: "In its ancient Greek context, it typically descr
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by xaedes 9y ago
"Make sure that what you assume won't compile actually doesn't compile." How do I do that properly? How do I test for undefined behaviour? I mean when I have code where I know that (ab-)using it in a certain way will tri
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by xaedes 9y ago
Equating myth and science will focus discussion on that statement. But the important part comes after that first statement: Myth and religion are the giants that todays science is standing on. "If I have seen further than others, it is
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by xaedes 9y ago
Neither does it mean that it has no value anymore. Taking your example "8-bit processors": it still has value. Even if it is only for learning purposes.
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by xaedes 9y ago
And belief is not necessarily orthogonal to knowledge. You can belief in something and it can still be knowledge.
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by xaedes 9y ago
I read a passage (Revelation 8) that could very well describe a nature catastrophe instead of godly will. Also other stuff like Job 26:10 ("He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
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by xaedes 9y ago
Oh yes. Siddhartha was really a good read!
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by xaedes 9y ago
"The Hero with a Thousand Faces" from Joseph Campbell. It opened my mind to understand metaphors and analogies in literature. It allowed me to peek under the surface of text. Seriously, every written piece I read after that was d
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by xaedes 9y ago
Hm curious. The first time I saw the original duck/rabbit picture years ago I could not decide which it was and it was sometimes rabbit, then duck. As described in the article. When I see the picture now I can just think "well it
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by xaedes 9y ago
That is interesting. I see an advantage this adaption offers when trapped with only salty sea water. Excessive salt intake may occur naturally when in the ocean for whatever reason. When this reduces thirst and offers an (internal) altern
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by xaedes 9y ago
I would be so happy for an ARM build.
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45000 years ago in Ethiopia humans built a paint workshop; used it for millennia(arstechnica.com)
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by xaedes 9y ago
Glacial melting can have quite fast effects. For example when a glacial lake is building do to melting and the ice dam holding back all the water breaks. The content of the whole glacial lake can be swooped to the oceans in one flush. It do
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by xaedes 9y ago
I have a seperate git gui open in the background all the time. It shows me all the changes I made since last commit. So coding without commiting a long time will result in lots of changes piled up there. When that gets to much to overview o
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by xaedes 10y ago
Probably they are just the equivalent of "bad words".

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