abcanthur

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by abcanthur 2y ago
Does anybody have experience with these? I assume they behave like Corelle, with the million piece explosion when they do break? I just cracked my German PYREX beaker for coffee 10 days ago :(
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by abcanthur 2y ago
I've looked into optaplanner/timefold but never ended up using or experimenting with it. Can anyone compare the experience to OR tools?
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by abcanthur 2y ago
To help explain his reputation, he was extraordinarily influential and prolific (400+ completed buildings). His first 20 yrs of work was published as the Wasmuth Portfolio in Europe in 1910; basically all the great European architects who s
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by abcanthur 3y ago
I have a small raised bed dedicated to my first Three Sisters growing right now. Just planted beans a few days ago now that corn has had a head start. Rookie gardener, but hoping for at least some visual interest if not production. The bean
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by abcanthur 4y ago
for the World Cup and most other leagues, the platonic ideal of speed/freshness, information density, and legibility, is https://plaintextsports.com . It has a great World Cup presentation which can display by group or by d
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by abcanthur 4y ago
Pockets of extra sour!? Fascinating, what is her secret?
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by abcanthur 4y ago
noise transmission (and the reduction thereof) is affected by all aspects of building design. A wood building will not always be noisy. More expensive buildings tend to have multiple mitigations in place for sound transmission. These can be
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by abcanthur 4y ago
For a very similar but different up and down story arc that both makes one appreciate the value of one's own mental faculties, and stirs compassion for those with diminished abilities, I highly recommend the movie "Awakenings.&quo
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by abcanthur 4y ago
There (should) be a very small rectanglular sign right below the stop sign that says "4 way" meaning there are stops on all 4 corners. I've always thought these were way too small to notice and I wouldn't be surprised if
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by abcanthur 4y ago
true, but usually only for players currently on the court and who knows what direction you'll have to rubberneck to read it. This is one instance where I like mixing the small mobile screen w my real world view, it's an augmented
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by abcanthur 4y ago
Great site, I've been using it for months. It's a really different and richer experience at night when the games are in progress. There are added features for the big leagues, such as the NBA games feature a game flow graph of the
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by abcanthur 5y ago
Wow! Can you post some non-satellite pictures? Is willow the primary plant making all those shapes? Or have you done significant earth moving too?
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by abcanthur 5y ago
The building (AEC- architecture, engineering, construction) industries have the IFC format. https://technical.buildingsmart.org/standards/ifc/ This is meant to be an interop for various BIM (building information m
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by abcanthur 5y ago
I've always wanted to see an experiment to see if free kicks (or teed golf shots, or a teed football) performance went down if the athlete was not allowed to set or tee the ball themselves. Soccer players will always give the ball a ge
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by abcanthur 5y ago
Refers to a John Steinbeck quote, "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
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by abcanthur 5y ago
I have a small collection of bean-shaped rocks that I have found over time in my purchases of dry beans. Lesson, rinse and sort your beans! By sort I mean remove a 2-3 shrivelling beans per pound and a rock every 10 lbs.
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by abcanthur 5y ago
I have long yearned for the sliding keyboards of yore; better touch typing, adds some articulation and yes, size, to phones that are too small and smooth for many hands, all while preserving screen real estate from onscreen keyboards AND vi
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by abcanthur 5y ago
More anecdata, I know of a catfish processor a few miles inland from the Mississippi River (the bluffs of the Mississippi are one of their favorite habitats) in Wisconsin where they scatter fish carcasses in the fields during the winter. I
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by abcanthur 6y ago
This is awesome! I hate scrolling, I hate autoplay videos. I love scores. This is might as well be my homepage, single kilobytes.
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by abcanthur 6y ago
Is this virtual or real damage? As in, the trail route is imperfect and misleading about the actual trail, or the trail is revealed via the map and others come and physical use damages the trail. The second reminds me of land owners sneakil
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by abcanthur 6y ago
I would imagine so, great multiangle dataset w crowd sourced labels. Grim, but I do look forward to the meeting of all those videos and a "matterport" style reconstruction. I assume the Nytimes is paying some studio to do this rig
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by abcanthur 6y ago
Could a well-funded Yelp competitor with an orthogonal approach, at least in this portion of the business model, kickstart the lawsuit?
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Ask HN: Name of field of algorithm design focused on execution by human-agents?
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by abcanthur 7y ago
Fascinator hat!?!?
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by abcanthur 7y ago
I haven't lived in seismic areas much, but I was in central LA for both of these quakes. I was hoping for a simple Richter*distance (or d^.5, whatever may be appropriate) value to be reported. I realize that real effects are multivaria
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by abcanthur 8y ago
I've only Hanabbed it up a handful of times (got 25 w strict play, no mistakes w my brother over Christmas!), but I've been of the conviction that there is too much emphasis on these "conventions," which either require a
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by abcanthur 8y ago
This gettier concept is new to me, but what's certainly not new is trying to wrap my head around errors in the code. I'm a relatively new developer and I've many times asked more seasoned coworkers about what they do with all
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by abcanthur 8y ago
Re: bootcamps, there are several non-credit summer programs offered by major architecture programs (Harvard, Berkeley,..) that help prospective students expose themselves to architecture school and more importantly, help them develop a port
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by abcanthur 8y ago
The A column is the structure of the car between the windshield and the driver and passenger windows. The B Columns are subsequently the structure between the first and second row of seats (I think).
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by abcanthur 8y ago
I think he means making sure to actively bring your rear leg forward while pedaling, so that your downstroke doesn't have to push against the weight of your rear leg too.

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