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by xvedejas 12y ago
Well, when it comes to firearms, incapacitation doesn't work quite like the movies show. You can't just hit someone in the arm/leg every time (aiming is harder than that), and even if you do it will fairly likely kill them an
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by xvedejas 12y ago
I mean, you sound like a pretty typical hacker kid... which is to say, not a typical kid that people care about when discussing things like market share or teen trends.
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There are a few good thriving subcultures out there, from what I can tell. My main interactions have been with burners (as in burning man) and makers. But some of my friends are also deep into anime, video games, hacking, SCA, and the subcu
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by xvedejas 12y ago
Caltech gets over 5000 applicants each year* for nominally 235 openings. Where are your numbers coming from? * http://collegeadmissions100.com/caltech-admission-stats/
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by xvedejas 12y ago
I moved from the suburbs of OKC to California three years ago. I personally am extremely happy with this change, but I won't go into details here. What I do wonder: OKC has lots of issues with sprawl. How will this influx change things
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by xvedejas 12y ago
This is probably a stretch, posting this on HN, but I'm looking for a Chemical Engineering or Bioengineering internship for next summer. It can have a coding component, but I'd like the primary job to be engineering. Location:
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I'm not sure that I could be enticed to work outside of California, and the reason is because of the many friends I've made at university. Almost the majority of them stay in California and it would take far more than extra compen
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by xvedejas 12y ago
I've been using Colemak for about 6 years now. The difference for me wasn't just speed, but rather that I learned to type "wrong" on Qwerty. I could never get myself to touch type, I always had to look at the keyboard. I
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by xvedejas 12y ago
A potentially interesting easter egg: you might notice that in the picture of the calibration target, there is a small blur in the 0 of the "1.0". Inside this 0 are the greek letters "γδβγ".
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I wonder how the center of economic activity would compare to other measures. For instance: - Center of all landmass - Center of all arable land - Center of population - Center of population weighted by income Especially if viewed over time
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Boiled milk is also known as pasteurized milk. It's no longer raw milk if you've boiled it.
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A phenomenon very similar to "induced demand" was observed in 1865, when increased efficiency in coal consumption lead to increased demand for coal. It's called Jevon's paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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If the studio had pre-emptively given copies of all its scripts in production to some third party authority, it could avoid the negotiations issue. I'd imagine it doesn't come up enough to warrant this, though.
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by xvedejas 12y ago
Well, presumably since laser light is coherent, you only need to worry about the Earth's atmosphere. In this case, it seems that a 2.5 watt laser would be sufficient, assuming you can point it at Earth precisely and ignoring Mars'
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by xvedejas 12y ago
Cool, but seems a bit hackish to me. Wouldn't the "proper" way to pitch shift involve taking a Fourier transform of the sound and simply shifting all the frequencies by some factor? Wouldn't this result in better quality
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by xvedejas 13y ago
I think he means the tendencies which overtake us if we don't think deliberately about them, like procrastination. Procrastination is my worst instinct, and at times the biggest obstacle between myself and my goals.
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It's not a gameplay mechanic, sure, but it's a mechanic used when coding games, which seems to be the point of the website anyway.
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A suggestion, assuming the author reads HN: One very basic game mechanic that is so far missing is strategies for collision detection. I would be quite interested to see interactive examples (and code examples) that do a good job of coverin
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by xvedejas 13y ago
I'm a student (and researcher) at Caltech — and very excited to hear about this. I hope Caltech continues to push for open access. I know that many undergraduates would like to have course lectures posted freely online like MIT's
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by xvedejas 13y ago
We don't actually know that. And part of the reason is "dinosaurs" is such a broad term, encompassing so many species of many millions of years. I would think it's mostly likely that some dinosaurs were cold-blooded and
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by xvedejas 13y ago
Maybe you could take what the person would normally eat — hamburgers, pasta, beans, whatever — and blend them until they create a soylent-like consistency. I can't imagine it would taste that much like soylent, but then again, how woul
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by xvedejas 13y ago
Well, there's another issue with software patents that causes me to dislike them. At least from the point of view of the free software world, there are often fears that coding some bit of free software will run into a patent that some
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by xvedejas 13y ago
The whole bounded gap on prime numbers was particularly interesting to me, since we kind of got to see math happen in real time: http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Bounded_... It's neat to be able
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And the pretzel to illustrate "flexible"
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At my university (Caltech), professors are not allowed to give proctored exams. Most quizzes, midterms, and finals are take-home. I'm curious why you think such strict oversight is needed when it's possible for things to work with
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I am an undergrad at a university where the common sentiment is similar; professors care much more about research than teaching. However, it works out since it seems most undergrads at this school are more interested in doing research than
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I'm from the U.S., and to my knowledge "Garage Sale" is the common term. Maybe in places where garages are not very common it is called a "Yard Sale"?