ksmiley

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by ksmiley 11y ago
The little man in the screenshot is from the "LOFI Fantasy 2D/3D" tileset[1], which has a CC BY-NC-ND license. After a quick look around, doesn't look like it's available on Oryx's site any more, however. [1]:
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by ksmiley 12y ago
Your reasoning reminds me of the danger of retinal damage when observing a solar eclipse - a human's natural inclination to not stare at the sun is sharply reduced because the viewable area is so much smaller than usual. Looking at a t
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by ksmiley 12y ago
Can you elaborate? What does Mark Karpeles have to do with xkcd?
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by ksmiley 12y ago
3,3,4 isn't a valid solution because then B would not reply "that's not enough information." There's exactly one triplet that adds up to eleven, so if B's phone number ended in 11, she would have immediately de
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by ksmiley 12y ago
Yes, Tetris DX's maximum speed is pretty permissive. Even at level 30, you still have enough time to orient your piece and place it anywhere on the playing field. This isn't the case for the maximum speed of other Tetris versions.
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by ksmiley 12y ago
Not too weird. That's just how high the score counter goes. You can keep playing after that, but the number stops going up. (source: I've gotten that score myself. (although I paused every hour or so when my arms fell asleep, so t
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by ksmiley 12y ago
Ok, but how do you determine which ideas are "correct"?
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by ksmiley 13y ago
What about the other direction? [4,2,2,0] while shifting left or up?
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by ksmiley 13y ago
Mars does have wind. In fact, dust storms have been known to last for weeks and encompass nearly the entire planet. However, I don't think the wind is a likely culprit. If the wind was strong enough to knock over a rock, it would also
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by ksmiley 13y ago
Some simple resolutions would be: a freak lightning strike disables the robot's button-pressing hardware. Or a cosmic ray flips a bit in its machine code, causing it to shut down. Or the robot's designer suffers a heart attack bef
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by ksmiley 13y ago
I know of one other mathematical fact that matches the Monty Hall problem in the loudness of its opponents: 0.999(...) exactly equals one. Despite a number of proofs existing, you can still find ten large pages of arguments on Wikipedia&#x2
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by ksmiley 13y ago
Perhaps Kellogg's limiting factor was not their salary budget, but maximum occupancy on their assembly lines. Switching from eight hours to six means you can hire a whole additional shift of workers, assuming the machines run 24 hours
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by ksmiley 13y ago
Playing the devil's advocate here: if contractors self-select themselves out of being hired because they're not sure they can get the job done, then all the better! The remaining applicant pool will be stronger on average.
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by ksmiley 13y ago
An additional upside for them is, it sets an example. If MegaCorp gains a reputation for being revenge-driven life ruiners, then future contractors will know the stakes are serious, and they'll be less likely to violate their contracts
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by ksmiley 13y ago
> Doesn't Stack-anything fill that niche already? If you ask, "how do I use [library X] to draw a rounded rectangle?" on Stack Overflow, they will put your question on hold until you show code that demonstrates that you t
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by ksmiley 13y ago
The way you phrased it makes it sound as though, if you are a Windows user that experienced fraudulent charges, then the _only_ possible explanation is malware. Your explanation is certainly possible, but it doesn't contradict the Linode ex
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by ksmiley 13y ago
It's possible you're getting downvoted because of the way you phrased your post. >> At the same time so upsetting that I am unable to completely read it all. At first I interpreted this as, "[it is] so upsetting [because] I am unabl
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by ksmiley 14y ago
A roughly spherical asteroid of radius r has volume 4/3 * pi * r^3 Using Ceres as a benchmark for typical asteroid density, an asteroid of radius r has mass [volume in meters^3] * 2077 kg/(m^3) On the asteroid's surface, acceleration due to
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by ksmiley 14y ago
Wikipedia says[1], IBM experienced a growth spurt towards the end of the war. If they had any sort of hiring quota to reach, it would make sense to relax eligibility rules. Additionally, the presidency of the company changed hands from Thom
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by ksmiley 14y ago
> When you argue that Sheldon is a “totally accurate portrayal of someone on the autistic spectrum,” then you have broadened the definition of autism to the point where you have rendered the word meaningless. How so? It's called the "au
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by ksmiley 14y ago
The title is a bit of a garden path sentence[1], since "build" can be a noun or a verb. I initially misread it as, "Before launching (your) build, software people use" and was confused by the apparently nonsensical second clause[2]. "Befor
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by ksmiley 14y ago
I'm a bit lost by this sentence: > We will hire several (as many as possible, in fact) throughout the next few weeks only to show you, dear reader, the confidence we have in developers, we initially invited to be a part of our TaskForce
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by ksmiley 14y ago
I've been on the wrong end of #4 a couple of times. My boss' opinion of what is "interesting and really challenging" rarely coincides with my own opinion. By this criteria, "make me a Facebook" or "solve the bin packing problem in linear ti
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by ksmiley 14y ago
Perhaps he thinks the cofounder wants to coast along in a cushy position for the rest of his life, burdening the company. He's saying "phew! I don't ever have to apply for another job! puts feet on desk " Not that I agree with it, but I un
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by ksmiley 14y ago
When you say, "coders have solved for this issue", what do you mean? Do you mean that the movie industry's coders have made DRM so un-intrusive that it's no longer an issue for consumers? Many would disagree with you there. Do you mean that
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by ksmiley 14y ago
I figured we were taking it as a given, since no one refuted it when it was implied in gte910h's post. I'll try to support the idea anyway. There was a study performed on young students, concerning their perception of STEM fields. Most resp
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by ksmiley 14y ago
If temporarily increasing the concentration of women panelists contributes towards permanently reducing discrimination, then it's a net gain for humanity, even if it's a net loss for panels in the short term.
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by ksmiley 14y ago
Reminds me of the Zune leap year bug that got some press four years ago [1]. A Zune running during 11:59 PM, Dec 31, 2008 would freeze when the clock ticked over to Jan 1. Even the response to the problem is similar. Microsoft says, wait un
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by ksmiley 14y ago
> Are you asking me to believe that's all there is just because that is all science has seen? No, I object to the use of past tense there. I believe that "all there is" that is observable could eventually be explained by science. Of cou
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by ksmiley 14y ago
Perhaps I'm missing your point. The rush you get from skydiving _is_ explainable by physics. The human fight-or-flight response induces the adrenal gland to release epinephrine, which causes a raised heart rate, excitement, etc. Even comple

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