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Real-World Relativity: The GPS Navigation System [2009](astronomy.ohio-state.edu)
2 points by ff0066mote 14y ago|0 comments
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by ff0066mote 14y ago
I read the whole article, but stopped taking it seriously at: "a vicious collection of roadblocks" I think it's fine for people to desire quieter neighborhoods in this era of high population density. I don't think that the people in all of
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by ff0066mote 14y ago
I was simply demonstrating, as everyone else in this thread is, that the tool doesn't match one's intution of what is bullshit.
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by ff0066mote 14y ago
"I am a beautiful flower. I sway in the breeze of my meadow, drinking in the sunshine. I love the little bees who come to visit me." --- Your text: 130 characters, 28 words Bullshit Index :0.05 Your text shows no or marginal indications of
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by ff0066mote 14y ago
"Sorry officer, my speedometer was blurry."
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by ff0066mote 14y ago
Ever been to Japan? The burgers and fries at McDonalds there are not lukewarm or squished like you get here in America, rather they're hot, toasted, and all puffed up. They're also more expensive.
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by ff0066mote 14y ago
> "So, though now I have started working again in cognition (but in isolation), I can’t avoid seeing the problem coming." Quoted from just above the heading: "What can be done?" It appears that he continues to work on the simulation of
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by ff0066mote 14y ago
Here's a pile more to blow your mind with: http://www.dabeaz.com/coroutines/ [2009]
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by ff0066mote 14y ago
I would have liked to have seen mention of this while loop instead of the index-based one. while my_list: v = my_list.pop(0) print v Although it doesn't fit the theme of the others because it consumes the list, it i
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by ff0066mote 14y ago
That was refreshing. It reminds me of letter invaders. I wonder whether there would be any significant difference in first-game performance between qwerty/dvorak/azerty/etc touch typers.
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
I've been using Python2 now for 4 years but have been dragging my feet upgrading to Python3. Finally, I started learning it just a month ago and now I don't know what ever stopped me before. In fact, the most annoying thing I've found about
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
Well, no worries. I was on a school computer with an outdated version of Chrome.
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
Just a note to the author: I'm getting a lot of [Math Processing Errors] when I view your article: http://imgur.com/PSeMX I haven't looked at the source to see what was going on, so it might be that I'm blocking flash or something. Otherw
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
Me too. .bashrc: alias cookies="/usr/bin/chromium --user-data-dir=$HOME/.chromium/cookies" alias nocookies="/usr/bin/chromium --user-data-dir=$HOME/.chromium/nocookies --incognito" alias chromium='echo "cookies or nocookies?"'
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
Please note that I didn't say the future of recycling is the reduction of consumption, but rather that it would be more largely affected by a reduction in consumption (than by 3d printing). Oh, and sorry for briefly turning into Al Gore
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
ZBrush is fairly intuitive. You paint the mesh into empty space. http://www.pixologic.com/home.php
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
> Your future soda bottle will become a toy will become part of your shoes will become... Our current and past soda bottles have become the great pacific garbage patch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch I thin
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
They also neglected to mention http://www.thingiverse.com/
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
> RepRap was the first of the low-cost 3D printers, and the RepRap Project started the open-source 3D printer revolution. (from http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap ) I believe this is one, but you'll have to build it yourself after sourcing
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
It's not a big thing, but it was enough for me to stay with Arch: Slackware's package management tools doesn't do dependencies. In Arch you can easily remove a package and everything that is no longer required. pacman -Rsn package-to-remove
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
I've been using Arch on my HP Mini since May 2010. I haven't had any serious stability issues. Once in awhile I have to resolve differences between old and new system configuration files. Arch is easy to set up with the installer. You get a
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
Perhaps the "neckbeards" and "outcasts" you refer to prefer to fix the motorcycle when it breaks, instead of paying somebody else to it? http://google.com/search?q=zen+and+the+art+of+motorcycle+mai...
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
My bots are neither spectacular, nor especially smart, but I had fun and wanted to share. My code is linked to from that blog post, but for the impatient here it is: https://github.com/plredmond/ants.py
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[Show HN] My entries in the 2011 Google AI Challenge(f06mote.com)
1 points by ff0066mote 15y ago|1 comments
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
My take: Please don't lobby. Shed light.
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
Instead of making a platform which would further solidify the role of lobbyists in American politics, why don't we make a platform which puts a spotlight on the shady dealings of Washington? A tool which aggregated all legislation moving th
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[Tell HN] Progress on defeating SOPA/PIPA
5 points by ff0066mote 15y ago|1 comments
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
From the wikipedia blackout page: > They [the bills] put the onus on website owners to police user-contributed > material and call for the blocking of entire sites, even if the links are > not to infringing material. Sma
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
For posterity: http://imgur.com/sU5CO
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
I agree that the attitude which some torrent users have (feeling good when they actually pay for things) is annoying. However, nobody can deny that computers and the internet have irreversibly changed the game. It is simply no longer defau

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