HillOBeans

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by HillOBeans 10y ago
Since I am conveniently unable to respond to Mr. Woodchuck's comment below his, I'll make it here. You assume I am a creationist because.... I point out evidence that questions the validity of historical climate research - that ha
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by HillOBeans 10y ago
That's the problem with any method used to try and determine information about the distant past: you have to make assumptions about your information-gathering method that may turn out to be incorrect. In the case of ice core samples, m
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by HillOBeans 11y ago
For those who are interested, physicist John Hartnett has developed a model that does not require dark matter. His work builds on that of Moshe Carmeli, who published "Cosmological Special Relativity". Hartnett's book is &quo
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by HillOBeans 11y ago
I do some amateur blacksmithing, and I find the forge to make an excellent steak grill. I live in a wooded area, and use home-made charcoal to forge with instead of coal. With the blower running, the coals can become hot enough to melt stee
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by HillOBeans 11y ago
I can't help but wonder where this might leave someone such as myself, who is over 40, but relatively new to professional software development. I've programmed for years as a hobby, but was educated in a different field and have o
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by HillOBeans 12y ago
This. The immutable nature of Clojure is what, IMHO, makes it such a better choice than Java for me. I frequently see discussions/debates around type safety on HN, but in my experience, it has been the mutable nature of Java systems th
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by HillOBeans 12y ago
The changes you refer to are examples of the equivocation I was speaking of. One cannot simply point to "changes" in an organism, micro- or not, call that evolution, and then say it must be true. And just because there are similar
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by HillOBeans 12y ago
I've been trying to sit this one out, but I've got to be blunt with YOU: how can anyone with a "sufficient understanding of the philosophy of science" draw the conclusion that evolution works?! Simply put, the scientific
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by HillOBeans 12y ago
Yes. This. This is exactly the sort of thing I was thinking...
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by HillOBeans 12y ago
Does anyone else here ever wonder if some of these "new" dinosaurs are really just re-discoveries of known dinosaurs? The article even mentions that the skeletal remains are incomplete. What if a number of these sauropods are real
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by HillOBeans 12y ago
This. Much of what Paul recounts is what I experienced in school, particularly in Junior High. The problem is, by the time I got to High School, my grades had begun to suffer because of my anxiety over the bullying, and I never really recov
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by HillOBeans 12y ago
I have noticed several comments mentioning prior art as a defense against absurd patents. With the recent passage of the America Invents Act, the United States is now a "first to file" country, not a "first to invent". I
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by HillOBeans 12y ago
Reminds me of a "hack" I pulled years ago - I was developing desktop software that needed to retrieve information from a Palm OS application called Ultrasoft Brainforest Deluxe. This particular application was a general-purpose ou
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by HillOBeans 12y ago
Notice also that in major keys, there is only a half-step between the 3rd and the 4th tones, meaning the diminished 4th interval will sound as a major 3rd. The augmented 4th (or diminished 5th - a.k.a tritone) perfectly splits the octave in
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by HillOBeans 12y ago
I bought a MakerGear M2 in kit form back in August. Because of the complexities of owning and operating a home 3D printer, I actually recommend building from a kit. It will give you a level of familiarity with your hardware that will come i
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by HillOBeans 13y ago
So, in essence, they have worked out a way to be paid in stock shares instead of currency?
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by HillOBeans 13y ago
Got one of these good 'ole birds in the Museum next to Robins AFB in Georgia. They also have the start carts, and even have an engine pulled so you can see the six bypass ducts. They have recently mounted the plane on a stand so it loo
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by HillOBeans 13y ago
It seems to me the "sphere packing" infill would be subject to the sagging-overhang issues that arise on additive-extrusion devices. And of course, the infill is not a place where you would have your slicer add support material...
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by HillOBeans 13y ago
I think the OP has a point - and its much harder to see when you're a member of the majority. There IS a culture of drinking in the programming profession. And some comments I see here remind me of comments I have seen when when other
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by HillOBeans 13y ago
One lurker here - I, for one, am EXTREMELY interested in CoA, and Clojure in general. I have only worked on a couple of Android apps thus far, but it is already enough for me to want to look into Clojure for Android development. I don't kno
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by HillOBeans 14y ago
This is a problem I have wrestled with on several occasions and the solution I choose is the lein-localrepo plugin.
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by HillOBeans 14y ago
I am aware that there are already some programs that are capable of "learning", and you could certainly say that they are selecting the correct paths based on trial-and-error, and "remembering" in order to build faster and more accurate res
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by HillOBeans 14y ago
Mitch Kapor and Kurzweil have a $20,000 bet on whether or not any "machine intelligence" will have passed the Turing Test by 2029. Kurzweil, obviously, is on the "for" side. Kapor's taking the "against" side stems from his experience as a s
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by HillOBeans 14y ago
I know I'll probably get down-votes for this, but its probably good that there ARE people who would at least question Evolution and the Big Bang. There are significant problems with both theories, but most people just assume "its a fact" no
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by HillOBeans 14y ago
Sounds cool to me, since I have migrated to xfce as my DE of choice anyway...
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by HillOBeans 14y ago
Ummm... I thought Ubuntu was on Unity, not Gnome 3?
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by HillOBeans 14y ago
I am suspicious that this is an attempt to make Scala more Clojure-like...