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by CoreDumpling 2y ago
This week in 1945, an off-by-one error disrupts the surrender ceremony ending World War II: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/how-a-canadians-m...
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by CoreDumpling 6y ago
Interesting to see where the zeros show up on the distance matrix (aside from the diagonal). The similarity between manti and shumai ( siomay in the article) was quite a surprise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man
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by CoreDumpling 7y ago
And then there is "zwei vierzig" or €2,40
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by CoreDumpling 8y ago
Norway and Singapore tax the crap out of cars and are still doing fine.
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by CoreDumpling 8y ago
Taiwan had a similar problem just a few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y1C_Problem
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by CoreDumpling 9y ago
Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore would very much like to disagree with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio Even the London tube does pretty well by this measure.
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by CoreDumpling 11y ago
Japan, India, HK, UK, Australia, USA, Canada, Singapore Tiny city-states are not known for being particularly recognizable unless you've been there.
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by CoreDumpling 12y ago
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-...
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by CoreDumpling 13y ago
Can't we turn the tables on them if we know what's going on? 1) Take out life insurance policy. 2) Pay with credit card at McDonald's and the bar. 3) Get a bunch of speeding tickets. 4) Sell policy to a data mining firm that
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by CoreDumpling 13y ago
A lot of MUDs still use telnet. Even with MCCP (which has to be negotiated over telnet anyway), it's not uncommon for legacy clients to connect over raw telnet.
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by CoreDumpling 13y ago
True story: I moved from southern California to Holland in no small part because of how amenable the country is to cycling. People like to think that cycling is popular here naturally because the country is flat and densely populated. Howe
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by CoreDumpling 13y ago
Probably needs some adjustment or moderator intervention in the near term. I just tried a moment ago; you can still submit a pages.github.com URL and HN will mark the domain as github.com, but it will redirect to github.io when you follow
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by CoreDumpling 13y ago
A friend of mine who is now a VC told me about dogs which were put into a box where anything they did caused the floor to shock them. Eventually they just lay on the floor quivering. This sounds horrible and cruel (and it is) and sadly I'v
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by CoreDumpling 14y ago
Maybe not for multi-family condos, but the Dutch seem to have a great time with their shipping containers. This student housing complex is quite popular: http://www.tempohousing.com/projects/keetwonen.html Granted, affordable housing is
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by CoreDumpling 14y ago
In Chinese the fraction 355/113 has been known as the 密率 ("detailed ratio") and 22/7 as the 约率 ("approximate ratio"). It is documented in the Book of Sui, volume 16: 宋末，南徐州從事史祖沖之，更開密法，以圓徑一億為一丈，圓周盈數三丈一尺四寸一分五厘九毫二秒七忽，朒數三丈一尺四寸一分五厘九毫二秒六忽，正數在盈朒二
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by CoreDumpling 14y ago
... and which is now building the goggle interface device (Project Glass) that Hiro Protagonist used to great effect. Perhaps the Metaverse will be upon us soon. Will Google take over Second Life?
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by CoreDumpling 14y ago
<shameless plug> I wrote a utility a while ago to manipulate human/AI control of civs in Civ III (conquests expansion pack), as a bit of a reverse engineering exercise: https://github.com/CoreDumpling/c3me </shameless plug&#62
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by CoreDumpling 14y ago
I welcome this move, despite the possibility of some fallout from the change. It'll be painful, but even as someone who once made a living writing ActionScript, I have to say that Flash is sufficiently annoying and insecure that it really
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by CoreDumpling 15y ago
Story of my life, Ed. I am your poster boy who lives "cheap" and not "frugal" by choice. I clip coupons and browse slickdeals before committing to a purchase. I never buy anything at MSRP. I monitor airfare prices for weeks before booki
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by CoreDumpling 15y ago
Programmers beware! You need to be especially careful with converting geodetic lat/lon/alt coordinates to and from other systems, particularly with the Earth-centered, Earth-fixed system (basically a Cartesian x,y,z coordinate grid). Do i
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by CoreDumpling 15y ago
It's understandable that several places don't have data (NaN), but I found it curious that Burma/Myanmar is missing from the map [1], much like the "Poland Sea" in a Microsoft Date/Time screen from yesteryear [2]. Did you create this map da
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by CoreDumpling 15y ago
<nitpick> 可口 (kě kǒu) does actually mean "delicious" -- you are thinking of 口渴 (kǒu kě) which means thirsty </nitpick> Admittedly, it is still a superior branding to Pepsi (百事可乐) which literally translates to "hundred events
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by CoreDumpling 15y ago
I was actually surprised that A Deepness in the Sky didn't make it to the list when A Fire Upon the Deep did. Deepness had a lot of themes that satisfy hacker tastes (not just in terms of the technology but also the socio-political r
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by CoreDumpling 15y ago
I'd guess that $995 was within the $1000 corporate credit limit, and $1495 was not. Joel's article on pricing ought to be required reading, even if he offers no hard and fast answers: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberD
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Possible Futures for Software(www-rohan.sdsu.edu)
1 points by CoreDumpling 15y ago|0 comments
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How the atom bomb helped give birth to the Internet(arstechnica.com)
1 points by CoreDumpling 16y ago|0 comments
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
The interpreter we wrote in that actually wasn't written for Emacs, it was written for TECO. It was our text editor, and was an extremely ugly programming language, as ugly as could possibly be. For proof, see the source code here: http:
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On the fact that the Atlantic Ocean has two sides(cs.utexas.edu)
24 points by CoreDumpling 16y ago|5 comments
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
It was a cruel twist of fate to claim the life of a visionary such as Huxley on the same day as JFK and C.S. Lewis. Much like Sergei Prokofiev, who had the misfortune of passing on the same day as Stalin, this event flew completely under t
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by CoreDumpling 16y ago
Compare & contrast, Playboy Interview with Bill Gates (1994): http://www.playboy.com/articles/bill-gates-playboy-interview... Of particular interest are the somewhat different take on the established giants like IBM, as well as this n

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