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by dbatten 5mo ago
I play mostly with the aforementioned wife and kids! We were shocked by how early our kids could pick up board games, including many of the ones mentioned in this article. Our 2 oldest kids were playing Ticket to Ride and Carcassone well en
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by dbatten 6mo ago
> it feels like Mac's UI is optimized around the assumption most users won't expand windows to fill the whole screen, but rather leave them half-sized somewhere in the middle IMO, this has been their assumption for years, and i
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by dbatten 10mo ago
At least based on some of the things he's written in some of the anthologies, it seems like a lot of that disillusionment was not just because of age, but rather because of his battles with the publishers and what not that were pushing
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by dbatten 1y ago
> Gurobi solved the new model to optimality (i.e., the bound became equal to the value of the best solution found). Ah, I was not aware that that's what this language indicated. Thanks for helping me understand more! I've used
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by dbatten 1y ago
Unless I missed something, though, the highest bound the author reported for the relaxation was 271 2/3 moves, which is obviously significantly higher than 218...
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by dbatten 1y ago
Genuinely interested in being educated here: If Gurobi's integer programming solver didn't find a solution better than 218, is that a guarantee that there exists no solution better than 218? Is it equivalent to a mathematical proo
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by dbatten 1y ago
Any chance she's going to write anything about this when she's done? I'd love to read somebody's account of this experience. Very cool idea.
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by dbatten 1y ago
If you find this interesting, definitely consider checking out contraction hierarchies. One of the early algorithms used by mapping software to enable calculating fastest routes between any pair of places. It's exact, and it's ord
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by dbatten 3y ago
To make matters worse, the title and featured image make it very clear that they have confused "macaroons" and "macarons." Macaroon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon Macaron: https:/&#x2
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by dbatten 4y ago
Used to use some of this data for analyzing cellular service coverage. The info on cellular data (e.g., LTE) availability is provided by the cell providers and is usually... very optimistic. I'd assume the terrestrial fiber/cable&
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by dbatten 4y ago
Google still does this! They seem to use some sort of generative neural net to produce fake names, descriptions, and even reviews for the trap locations. You can report the location to Google as "bad data" and they'll delete
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by dbatten 4y ago
It's worth pointing out that the conventional bombing raid of Tokyo on March 9, 1945 was deadlier than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, depending on whose counts you use...
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by dbatten 4y ago
The objection I've usually heard is less about farm land being used for pasture instead of growing crops, and more about the amount of crops that have to be grown to feed the cattle... Growing corn to feed cows to feed humans is massiv
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by dbatten 4y ago
Lemur Pro owner here. I personally have super-mixed feelings about the machine. Pros: Battery life is excellent. Used it for 12 hours while walking around a factory doing an IT system install, never had to charge it. Slim form factor is nic
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by dbatten 5y ago
I'm not even convinced that there will be a "marginal increase in mining required for battery production," nor that there will be an associated increase in localized environmental damage. Lithium mines produce localized envir
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by dbatten 5y ago
Noteworthy comment: > It is unfortunate that in the public mind, hydrogen as a lifting gas is associated with the Hindenburg disaster. Actually, hydrogen filled airships were extremely difficult to set alight. Just ask the Brits in WWI.
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by dbatten 5y ago
"Remain there" indeed. As anyone who has ever switched from an iPhone to an Android device will tell you, iMessage makes the process extremely painful, and in totally unexpected ways. You get your new Android phone set up, and sud
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by dbatten 5y ago
This doesn't seem to explain how it would happen after plugging in a new keyboard, or trying to use the on-screen keyboard, though...
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by dbatten 5y ago
True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite b
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by dbatten 5y ago
For those who (like me) didn't get the "toothpaste company" reference - it seems to be a reference to Intel trying to squeeze every last bit of performance out of an old architecture (as one would squeeze every bit of toothpa
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by dbatten 5y ago
Also worth mentioning that U-haul trailers are very handy for this. There's at least 3 U-haul dealers that I can think of within a 5-minute drive of me. The one I prefer is probably 2 minutes away, I can rent a trailer for a day for li
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by dbatten 5y ago
My company style guide explicitly specifies this. https://github.com/republicwireless-open/sql-style-guide I think Mozilla's does as well.
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by dbatten 5y ago
Even for planning for personal travel, it's worth noting the massive difference in the amount of tourism between America's top 5 or 10 National Parks, and the countless other National Parks, Forests, Wilderness Areas, etc. Yes, Ye
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by dbatten 5y ago
Yeah, likely part of it. I think there's also been a rise in non-denominational and "seeker-sensitive" churches that just don't have any concept of membership at all...
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by dbatten 5y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. There's a big difference between church attendance and church membership... Unfortunately, the original linked article glosses over the difference, while the original Gallup study digs into it. According t
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by dbatten 5y ago
Fair point. My wife does have "nude heels," which are (more or less) the color of a white person's naked skin. Still, I guess I didn't think that the word "nude" in "nude heels" was supposed to actual
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by dbatten 5y ago
Native English speaker here. Never heard nude used that way. Always just as a synonym for naked. The existence of this now removed definition was a surprise to me.
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by dbatten 5y ago
Anecdotes from the US: 1) When I moved a couple of years ago, I discovered that the deed to our house had a typo. It defined the property we owned by referencing a map, which was on file with the County Register of Deeds. Except, when the d
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by dbatten 6y ago
I can't speak for the other commenter, but personally, yes, I have changed my working hours to be as early as I feel is reasonable. I generally work from 7:00 AM until 4:00 PM. I feel that shifting any more than that would start to cau
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by dbatten 6y ago
Surely "all people are equal" does not mean "we should never do sociological research on people" or "any sociological research that finds statistical differences in how different groups of people behave is necessari

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