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by yoha 11y ago
This was due to HN including a quote as part of the URL.
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by yoha 11y ago
vlc http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/uhls/6540154/streams/live...
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by yoha 11y ago
Those videos are really great and worth watching!
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by yoha 11y ago
The hack looks insanely contrived but this video has a very well paced, well explained, and well illustrated explanation.
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by yoha 11y ago
Nice detailed article. There is also some interesting information about making quadtree-based quad spheres ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrilateralized_spherical_cu... ) in this presentation about the making of Kerb
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by yoha 11y ago
Small nitpick: s/wastage/waste
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by yoha 11y ago
This checks out. Closest theoretical approaches: >>> "%e" % (Pluto.orbit.periapsis - Earth.orbit.apoapsis) '4.272109e+12' >>> "%e" % (Mars.orbit.periapsis - Earth.orbit.apoapsis)
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by yoha 11y ago
This needs an RSS or Atom feed.
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by yoha 11y ago
In this context, it refers to orbital plane. In this particular case, you can just substitute "orbit".
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by yoha 11y ago
Two short remarks: * it would be nice to have a static <noscript> version, or at least a message asking to enable Javascript, rather that seeing the templates * I was going to make a remark on the automatic updates, but I finally spot
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by yoha 11y ago
Social Justice Warrior
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by yoha 11y ago
Although it looks clunky, the visualization and edition of the included sprites and 3D models right in the code editor is impressive. It does not even look like Vim as a plugin for this!
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by yoha 11y ago
Reddit's thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/372634/the_n_v... The video is very well structured and goes from very basic explanations of the concept of complexity up to the differ
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by yoha 11y ago
On Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20150522211938/http://expdev.bye...
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by yoha 12y ago
> People don't trust their government, they don't trust corporations, and they don't trust scientist. And I increasingly believe they have perfectly good reasons for that. And I feel that most of this can be attributed to
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The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Bros: Part 3(forrestthewoods.com)
17 points by yoha 12y ago|1 comments
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by yoha 12y ago
You forgot a zero: >>> (55893+20785+13582+13230+11696+10938+6432+5682+4796+4191+3845+3734+3664+3655+3330+3206+3136+3126+3050+3002) / 1e7 0.0180973 That is, 1.8%. This is confirmed by http://maxmcd.com&#x2
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by yoha 12y ago
I feel like there is still a misunderstanding about why a part of researchers want to prepare fail-safes on AGI [1]. They are not arguing that AGIs will be a threat to human life, only that it could . One of the issues when projecting ou
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by yoha 12y ago
s/surrogat/surrogate → https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/surrogate
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by yoha 12y ago
He probably means to add the project file to the versioning system and commit regularly so that you can rollback to a previous version. It's way less flexible than Undo though.
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by yoha 12y ago
The underlying principle behind teaching (except for higher eduction) is not to make productive workers but knowledgeable and discerning citizens. The number of programmers we need is not relevant here: they may not need to know how to writ
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by yoha 12y ago
Also, NoScript users will need to allow zidilife.com to view the article at all (a domain-specific authorization will not enable the popup though).
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by yoha 12y ago
About the idea of containing an AI → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box_experiment
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by yoha 12y ago
This only addresses the ordering of parameters, not the fact that you need two different counters.
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by yoha 12y ago
Some of the links from http://www.stjarnhimlen.se/comp/ppcomp.html#22 are dead. If you want human-readable physical and orbital data for: * planets, go to http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?planet_phys_par and
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by yoha 12y ago
What happens "inside" a black hole is basically unknown to this day. The fact that you cannot observe something entering a black hole (i.e. crossing the event horizon) does not help visualizing the situation.
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by yoha 12y ago
I think you are confusing the parsec with the astronomical unit. The astronomical unit is defined as being exactly 149,597,870,700 meters, which is roughly the distance from the Sun to the Earth. The parsec is the distance at which an astro
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by yoha 12y ago
Incidentally, time.nist.gov is down. It hosts a list of leap seconds at ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list.
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by yoha 12y ago
Link to the simulator: http://www.simonswain.com/deepspace/make_empires
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by yoha 12y ago
I didn't not know we had specific names of apses outside the Sun's and Earth's ones. I found a list that some might found interesting: http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=13943#post1477...

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