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by gfaregan 2y ago
IF Comp 2024 has started! Everyone is encouraged to play and rate the amazing games!
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IF Comp 2024(ifcomp.org)
1 points by gfaregan 2y ago|2 comments
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by gfaregan 4y ago
I think your social standing has a lot more to do with money than behavior. If you're rich and live in a van you're interesting, otherwise you're just homeless. If your gig is a successful business you're independent, if
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by gfaregan 4y ago
Why would sealing a balloon framed house be dangerous? I know that you need blocking to help stop a fire from spreading between floors.
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by gfaregan 4y ago
> Today tech companies “are becoming much more reluctant to patent their discoveries, because they don’t want the public to know exactly what they’re doing. I want to know what they're doing...
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by gfaregan 4y ago
Do you have any references or diagrams for the system?
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by gfaregan 4y ago
I had a Sansa clip of some type and it lasted about as long as the cheap $5 mp3 player I bought next. These days I find it more convenient to use my phone. You can play mp3s just fine on a phone.
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by gfaregan 4y ago
Zeno also knew that arrows arrive at their target in finite time. That's why it is a paradox.
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by gfaregan 4y ago
If something is useful, it will be used and developed. I certainly can't see where all this is going, but I doubt the resistance will be more than a speed bump.
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by gfaregan 4y ago
Things have a price when the buyer and seller agree on a price. If only the seller thinks it's worth more than 50k, it's not really worth more than 50k.
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by gfaregan 4y ago
I'm not sure if it's much of a productivity gain, but the way I have it set up it is really easy to navigate quickly and precisely through buffers, folds, characters, etc. And it always works once I've installed my config fil
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by gfaregan 4y ago
I think that generative AI will keep getting significantly better. All the folks who keep saying it's not that good (which it isn't now I suppose) will start to sound like the folks who claimed that a computer could never become t
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by gfaregan 4y ago
Ten levels of C++ templates and typedefs are a pretty good way of proving how smart you are and making the code completely opaque.
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by gfaregan 4y ago
Or if the shareholders had any say in it, they could pay a dividend and let the market decide.
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by gfaregan 4y ago
Classical and continuum mechanics are hundreds of years old. A surprising amount of the numerics is pretty old too.
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by gfaregan 4y ago
Here are a couple interactive fiction games with complex magic systems: - Suveh Nux by David Fisher - The Wand by Arthur DiBianca
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by gfaregan 4y ago
I can see a couple of obstacles: Complex simulation based mechanics are much harder to implement than more basic fighting mechanics. Puzzles require more work and hand crafting than creating new monsters to kill. The whole project is probab
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by gfaregan 4y ago
You don't see too many recumbent bikes around despite their being awesome. Do you have any thoughts on recumbent bikes vs trikes?
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by gfaregan 4y ago
I keep an old hand brace in my toolbox and it's amazing. It doesn't need a cord or a battery and you can get a lot of torque out of it.
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by gfaregan 4y ago
To add to this, I would really suggest that you get some perspective before you create a long list of tasks/books. Stillwell is not a popular science book but covers modern branches of mathematics. You could easily take a course in col
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by gfaregan 4y ago
I liked that book. It uses differentials to give simple explanations of various derivatives, which seems to be frowned upon these days. You can download the book for free if I'm not mistaken. I once recommended it to a calculus class I
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by gfaregan 4y ago
Mathematics is very broad. You might try something like "Mathematics and its history" by John Stillwell to get some perspective on the subject.
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by gfaregan 4y ago
From my experience with graduate school I would add two points: 1. It helps to have a clear goal. Most of the people I knew viewed a PhD as a job qualification like an undergrad degree or a professional degree and they now work in tech. Oth
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by gfaregan 4y ago
My only rule for variable names is to never use abbreviations.
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General Relativity in a Nutshell by Alan MacDonald [pdf](faculty.luther.edu)
1 points by gfaregan 4y ago|0 comments
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by gfaregan 4y ago
How about learning 4D chess at 40?
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by gfaregan 4y ago
I guess what I'm trying to say is that art and science aren't really comparable like this. If science us a synonym for precision, you need skill to do things precisely and logically. As for modern art, I wouldn't mind having
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by gfaregan 4y ago
They say skill without creativity is craftsmanship and creativity without skill is modern art. I wonder what creativity without skill would be in science...
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Russia pummelled by pro-Ukrainian hackers following invasion(ft.com)
2 points by gfaregan 4y ago|0 comments
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Stop neglecting Earth science education(theatlantic.com)
1 points by gfaregan 4y ago|0 comments

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