xelxebar

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by xelxebar 10y ago
Well, for the most part, the color space we're accessing is the exact same, so you can always use whatever space you please. The biggest problem with things like RGB is that color selection ends up turning into a horrible mess of seemi
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by xelxebar 10y ago
I sympathize with this a lot. At least for scientific articles, it usually helps if you're willing to spend enough time to familiarize yourself with the technical jargon. As a somewhat dated example, "Higgs particle evidence"
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Kind of amazed at the number of people railing against this study and only providing personal anecdotes in return. Putting aside the dangers of that kind of thinking, it seems clear that a lot of people have become reasonably quite frustrat
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by xelxebar 10y ago
I want to do this so bad, but the two things that keep me running X are my browser and mpv. Oh, and viewing PDFs.
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by xelxebar 10y ago
That seems pretty intuitive to me: Grab the first N bytes vs. grab everything starting from the Nth byte.
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Definitely this. I have found many times that I'm an offender of these "bad practices", and usually that's because a certain pattern I learned way back in the beginnings of my Linux days still hangs around. Embarrassingl
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Hmmm... I vote for writing English in direct AST syntax to avoid these ambiguities.
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Ultra-finitist logic is a perfectly rigorous field of study in its own right. I think OP is making a point that this logic and us related branches are quite understudied. It's encouraging to note that with things like Homotopty Type Th
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by xelxebar 10y ago
You're absolutely right, but I think the article was mostly griping about Haskell list syntax and how it can lure less experienced programmers into using lists where they're inappropriate.
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by xelxebar 10y ago
While you're on point about flat wings, in wind tunnel tests on profiled wings, you do in fact see a velocity difference between top flowing and bottom flowing streams. It's not enough of a difference, however, to cause coincident
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Special relativity gives you dilation from velocity. General relativity gives you dilation from acceleration.
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Hey now, hey now. There are all sorts of questions that we don't even know how to postulate rigorously, the question of consciousness being but one example. Others smarter than I have commented on the symbiosis between science and phil
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Well, the article spends most of its time complaining about the ontology of modern physics, calling it "unclear" among other names. That kind of rhetoric stands more as a testament to the author's lack of mathematical maturit
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by xelxebar 10y ago
By the same token, nobody was ever forced to use Microsoft at their peak either.
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In all fairness, a stunningly clever insight can make things seem so obvious that you forget how hard it was to have that original insight. This kind of brevity is extremely helpful when thinking about a problem. You "just" have t
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Exactly. I'm kind of surprised to see the comments arguing that all potentially blocking syscalls should have a timeout field or something. That kind of thing just begs to be factored out into a more general framework.
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Now I'm imagining the horror of CLI tools that spit out ads to stderr every few invocations: $ git clone git.kernel.org/linux.git ***** TRY SUBVERSION ENTERPRISE FOR $49.99/MO ****
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I think the crystal part is more about the symmetry breaking than the non-zero energy part.
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That's just an argument for time not being fundamental. Special relativity gives us a perfectly workable view of time as a symmetry relation on this eternal now you speak of. Thermodynamics, specifically the second law and especially i
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I just skimmed, pulling on whatever related math I know and it looks to be relevant if your into database query optimisers and such. It turns out that join constraints that may be costly to compute can sometimes be simplified to something e
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Yeah. Shell semantics can be pretty unintuitive sometimes. I often find it helpful to translate these ideas to standard programming language terms. * Commands are like functions * Commands in /bin etc. are like library functions *
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Is there a reason compilers don't just use modular inverses and let overflow take care of things? 19 * 678,152,731 = 1 (mod 2^32) 19 * 9,708,812,670,373,448,219 = 1 (mod 2^64) As long as we already know the size of an int Euclid's
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by xelxebar 10y ago
A little spelunking may help: $ lsof -d 0,1,2 -a -p $$ That will show you what files correspond to what file descriptors for your current shell process. You can then experiment with redirects. To see how a pipe works we can do som
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by xelxebar 10y ago
This comment is a pretty good demonstration of the Fundamental Attribution Error. Remember that time you wrote a badly buggy site or piece of software? Remember how you probably did your best to not write bugs? Would someone calling you inc
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Kind of off topic, but mind sharing how you molded such an amateur nuclear physics brain?
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Tangentially related, but I'm curious why non-Firefox and non-Chromium browsers don't get more love. Started trying out alternative browsers a while ago--vimb, dwb, and luakit--and enjoyed their snappiness and customizability. Rec