electronslave

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by electronslave 17y ago
Wasn't this the entire plot to Pi?
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by electronslave 17y ago
Given that John Carmack is a massive Republican jerk, part of me wants to say "socialism (and Jet A subsidization) rules!" The rest of me wants to steal the rocket and fire myself into lower earth orbit.
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by electronslave 17y ago
Wasn't this done a decade ago with ReaperBot?
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by electronslave 17y ago
Should I be blushing at the pictures?
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by electronslave 17y ago
When I saw that horrible hand-drying contraption, my first thought was "am I required to put my hands above shoulder-level to get them dry?" My second was "will it amputate my hands at the wrist?" Tornado sorta makes me feel better about d
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by electronslave 17y ago
A lot of people ignore common sense for platitudes. Sensationalist pro-greenwash caterwauling is just another trend among many that persists across generations, since before our modern era of lulz-inducing post-pamphleteers (Wells, Cheste
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by electronslave 17y ago
You didn't read it. I'm arguing for a more complex model, rather than an idealistic one. "Less total weight carried, across the system as a whole, would result in less fuel consumption." While this is correct from very simple standpoint, w
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by electronslave 17y ago
I refer you to my previous post on this topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801001
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by electronslave 17y ago
As I said the last time this came up, if a seat isn't filled on an outbound flight, it just makes more room for cargo.
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by electronslave 17y ago
"Taken too seriously" whiffs of "I'm too good to eat my own dogfood." And yes, literal does mean written. And your writing was a statement backed by arguments, fulfilling necessary and sufficient conditions to be considered a thesis. Ped
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by electronslave 17y ago
Given that you're probably not long out of high school, I'll cut you some slack. You look like you could use some. The major problem with your argument is that you're telling someone that they can't learn from someone else. Then you go of
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by electronslave 17y ago
I lived in Australia. Boy, that cell phone service sucked. Virgin cost too much and had no coverage. Also, Telstra is an evil megacorporation kept alive with government incentives. Also, Vodaphone seems to ignore rural Australia's existe
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by electronslave 17y ago
Now that this conversation is closed up, I'll date myself further. I do not mean Visual Basic (nor Victoria Bitter.)
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by electronslave 17y ago
From my vantage point I might have dated myself above by mentioning Tcl and Pascal, but I've been programming for a few decades. Without ruining the cosmic punchline: all things go away surprisingly fast.
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by electronslave 17y ago
As a former academic gone mercenary, I love that programmers of all skill levels can get into organization, language and specification through Python. It's a wonderful gateway to learning, and in this case, it seems to have done exactly wh
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by electronslave 17y ago
This caught my eye for two reasons: 1) Kickstarter got a mention on a wire service and 2) the hilarious internet-anthropomorphizing trend I noticed in older Russians ("can you ask the internet x for me?") is now a mass-media tendency.
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by electronslave 17y ago
Platitudes: Everything You Already Know (But Don't Care About) Is Reprinted and Schilled Annoyingly on Your News Source.
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by electronslave 17y ago
51) My Lawn All of these kids on it are trampling the grass.
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by electronslave 17y ago
Awesome. This totally precipitated the requisite defensive responses from the younger crowd. Put this in your pipe and smoke it: press release interpretations (especially of gender studies) are playground arguments, in this case over whethe
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by electronslave 17y ago
This is completely silly. I'm going to give some silly answers. I'll assume that these are male stereotypes, but only because I don't know enough female engineers to extrapolate humorous traits. #1 has no social life, grits his teeth cons
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by electronslave 17y ago
Er, I'm not quite sure you read the article, which basically propped up a kinda-lame joke intended to poke fun at VCs, then missed the point of the joke entirely while explaining its punchline. I say marketing because the Ice Cream Glove is
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by electronslave 17y ago
This is amazing. Actually, this kind of thing makes me wish I'd stayed in academia, if only because there are so few good courses out there, even less taught in an approachable manner.
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by electronslave 17y ago
Less a how-to, more an I-done.
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by electronslave 17y ago
Seconded. That's probably one of the best places to find bit twiddling resouces ever. I remember I had one of those Coriolis kernel printout books back in the 90s, and I used to crib from that, some hashing function and the page allocator
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by electronslave 17y ago
"I believe that what I do is interesting, important, and valuable." "[M]y job description becomes distilled to 'I make websites.'" I'm fairly sure an accountant who goes bouldering in British Columbia will introduce him/herself as an outdo
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by electronslave 17y ago
"So how can you tell the difference between an Ice Cream Glove and a Snuggie?" Personally? Marketing.
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by electronslave 17y ago
Crazy Uncle electronslave. Also, the guy who invented that thing. You know, that replaced razors? (I remember this as being my favorite sci-fi trope, next to "name all the presidents from 1965 onwards.") Like this dude: http://en.wikiped
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by electronslave 17y ago
This is true. Some clouds have silver linings by talented writers.
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by electronslave 17y ago
That particular listing is $45k in this month's Controller. The nearest Микоян parts are sold out of a location in Prescott, AZ. There's a type club in Reno for L-29/L-39s, and it's possible to get parts through a chain there, but MiGs we
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by electronslave 17y ago
No. They increase payload capacity. That Southwest airlines jet where half the people weren't onboard? That just got converted into (200 seats * 200lbs lardass Americans) = 40,000 lbs. of roses, prawns and couriered legal documents. The f

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