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by algas 2y ago
The same thing happened to me. Escalating levels of non-response from my system, starting with the browser slowing down and culminating in Process Control stopping. I think it may have to do with uBlock Origin, which is default in Brave: on
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by algas 2y ago
Genuinely curious -- is there a reason not to exploit someone who voluntarily enters into that relationship? I always assumed 'exploitation' meant forcing people to do things they didn't want to do.
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by algas 3y ago
Yup, here's the problem [0]: def calculate_backlinks( pages: Dict[str, Page], attachments: Dict[str, Attachment] ) -> None: for page in pages.values(): for link in page.links: linked_page =
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by algas 3y ago
I think that the UX could work really well for mobile with one significant tweak. A typical design pattern on mobile is that if information is obscured for some reason, you click on it to expand it. Consider a drop-down text box on a blog:
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by algas 3y ago
It also pulls in about a hundred separate Haskell libraries along with it. Not really complaining, but it's funny that pandoc accounts for about half the programs on my laptop.
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by algas 3y ago
Let's run the numbers! The speed of sound in an ideal (calorically perfect) gas is given by a = sqrt( gamma * R * T ) where gamma is the ratio of specific heats (thermodynamic property of a gas, which may vary with temperature),
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by algas 3y ago
The classic is How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie -- highly recommended. If you're young and looking for something more helpful in romance, watch Before Sunrise.
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by algas 3y ago
Interesting article! Given that subtraction isn't closed on the natural numbers, I wonder if it would be possible to implement subtraction as operations on a new type (Integer, Z): Z = N x N (Cartesian product or sum type)
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by algas 3y ago
That first result re: tires is simply wrong. Wider tires don't have a larger contact patch; the size of the contact patch is determined by the weight of the car and the air pressure in the tires: A = W / P So the reason w
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by algas 3y ago
You can link to posts. I imagine this feature is mainly to have images to use in blog posts that do not become standalone pages on their own.
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by algas 3y ago
Yes, along with seemingly every other building in that corner. Caused me some confusion at first.
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by algas 3y ago
I played four games; in each scenario I chose to "lie down and accept death". The only one I didn't survive was when I forgot how to breathe. Seems like the AI has a bit of a savior complex :)
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by algas 3y ago
I agree, and would extend your point even further. Drafting people into the army against their will is a grave harm, for obvious reasons. But the existence of a "volunteer" army that nevertheless gets paid for their participation
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by algas 3y ago
I agree, it seems the same to me. They have the allure of "we do it different" along with the promise of "we do it well". Unrelated, but a "costumer" makes costumes. I think you were looking for "customer&
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by algas 3y ago
Yeah, the lights in the back of your car can warn of exactly four things: - The car is going to turn left (one blinking yellow light) - The car is going to turn right (one blinking yellow light) - The car is stopping (three solid red lights
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by algas 3y ago
I was hoping someone would mention the variational properties of splines, so I'm glad to see you bring up their energy minimization. In Strang's Intro to Applied Mathematics, he briefly mentions (at the end of the section on spli
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by algas 3y ago
You may have overcorrected a bit; 300 Kelvin is written 300K, not 300 °K. (The system is a mess.)
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by algas 3y ago
Better than "event" would be "state", as in theoretically measurable arrangement of things.
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by algas 3y ago
The "paradox" is really a contradiction of the axiom of unrestricted comprehension: To every condition there corresponds a set of things meeting the condition. Unrestricted comprehension allows you to build sets out of w
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by algas 3y ago
Noise pollution and collisions are a much, much larger problem with cars, since they're constrained to two dimensions while drones can use three. Plus, cars tend to kill people when they collide with each other (or with pedestrians), a
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by algas 3y ago
Wa! is my absolute favorite chili oil. I put it in and on everything. A simple bowl of rice, with some Wa! (and perhaps an egg), becomes an entire meal.
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by algas 3y ago
Great series! I liked your addition of inter-process communication, and the last one was a treat.
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by algas 3y ago
MechE here. The way strain gauges work is with a long conductive trace that loops back on itself like a snake, or a radiator. This creates a conductive line that passes back and forth many times along the direction you want to measure strai
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by algas 3y ago
I waited in the airport for 6 hours before learning that my flight was cancelled, and had to rebook... I was flying to New York to see my family, so I didn't really have any alternate transportation options!
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by algas 3y ago
(in (is "prefix notation" (and "alive" "kicking")) "all lisps")
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by algas 3y ago
Yeah. Cookies qua cookies are at best something obvious and measurable, but don't necessarily correlate with the company doing anything nefarious with your information. What's worse, it has always been the client's choice t
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by algas 3y ago
New York's last mayor DeBlasio was an avid cyclist and expanded bike lanes across the city. Made it actually a rather nice place to bike (imo).
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by algas 3y ago
> They aren't designed to be possible to sweep, so they're frequently too dirty to ride in This seems like exactly the problem that would be solved by a bike-pulled sweeper. Could you elaborate on why that wouldn't work?
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by algas 3y ago
I love this resource. So many useful knots. Particularly I like the lanyard / friendship knot [1] and the midshipman's hitch (adjustable slip hitch) [2], the latter of which is probably about 90% of the knots that I tie. Honorable
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by algas 3y ago
Google still kills for useful applications. I use marginalia when I have either A) something deeply obscure I want to research or B) when I just want to read some entertaining long-form text posts about something in a category that interest

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