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by pdwetz 11mo ago
For generating puzzles it's really useful since it lets you determine if a randomly generated puzzle has only one possible path to solving it (exact cover problem). And it's fast so adding it to a pipeline doesn't incur much
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by pdwetz 4y ago
Does that have blackouts for "local" teams? I'm 1-2 hours (traffic depending) from the Mets and MLB subscription in the past was useless for live games due to blackout restrictions.
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by pdwetz 4y ago
There is a whole world of employers who need tech folks who aren't google and friends.
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by pdwetz 7y ago
That's just been the case for 2.1 and 3.1, future versions will jump a version each year (next is v5) with every other year being LTS. Of course, we'll see if it actually goes as planned. I don't think I've seen them cha
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by pdwetz 7y ago
All Altra shoes are zero-drop, so heel and forefoot are at the same level. It doesn't mean there's no padding.
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by pdwetz 7y ago
Visual Studio itself also does that (I forget when it was introduced; a few versions back I think?). I haven't used Resharper in a long time, so I'm not sure how it compares now, though.
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by pdwetz 7y ago
Is making your own an option in the UK? I have a few friends in the US that love it, but I think you need easy service for the canisters. More effort to be sure, but at least then you can use whatever syrup you like.
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by pdwetz 7y ago
Since this comes up every year, might as well point out this isn't an isolated case. Tweet thread covering various ones (as of last year): https://twitter.com/mikemayerMMO/status/1013295573779312640
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by pdwetz 7y ago
Remote work? I rarely have in-person client meetings anymore. And honestly at my old job it had offices around the country so even then there were people I'd worked on projects with for years and had never met in person.
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by pdwetz 8y ago
Backtracking as a strategy definitely seems... underwhelming. But it does have its uses. I wrote a few solvers, and they all served a different purpose. One was based on Norvig's python post on the subject; I used that to generate many
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by pdwetz 8y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Westchester, NY Area I can prototype new ideas, research technologies/trends, extend/maintain an existing system, or quickly build out a one-off microsite/console app. I can work solo or in teams wi
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by pdwetz 8y ago
How much of that is luck/genetics? As a Mets fan, David Wright is an easy counter example of someone who was known to work hard and then struggled with injuries.
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by pdwetz 8y ago
For my site I use a backtracker to find a large number of single solution puzzles (rather fast). Those are used as a test base for my "human" solver (pretty slow), which are used for scoring and difficulty levels. I find that it&#
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by pdwetz 8y ago
Not quite; from same link, "President Abraham Lincoln and the United States Congress introduced in 1861 the first personal income tax in the United States." It was declared unconstitutional in 1895 by the Supreme Court, prompting
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by pdwetz 8y ago
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by pdwetz 8y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Westchester, NY Area I can prototype new ideas, research technologies/trends, extend/maintain an existing system, or quickly build out a one-off microsite. I can work solo or in teams with equal ease. I&
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by pdwetz 8y ago
A bit comical/ironic to say they'd be targeted for obstructionism given that the other side of the aisle did just that for the last vacated seat.
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by pdwetz 8y ago
I still miss Front Page Sports Football from the 90s. While we owned a couple of different versions, the early one that had the most play time for us was completely unlicensed, so we made up names for all of the teams. It was a really nice
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by pdwetz 8y ago
Probably most similar to ultra races, some of which are on a short repetitive loop over x time period (24 hour is "common"). Audience is probably closer to dozens of friends/family compared to packed stands of fans/gambl
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by pdwetz 8y ago
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by pdwetz 9y ago
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by pdwetz 9y ago
For hundreds of years humans have read printed books to learn things, without talking to teachers. Seems like a weak argument.
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by pdwetz 9y ago
Also, I'm not sure I'd apply the label "genius" with someone who has copious amounts of "copy pasta" in his solely crafted code base.
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by pdwetz 9y ago
If you want to interact with the database, in my experience Dapper and real actual SQL statements beat it hands down (both readability and performance). I love utilizing LINQ aside from that (e.g. creating custom comparison methods/cla
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by pdwetz 9y ago
It's been a constantly moving target for the last two years. In theory, it should be getting more stable now with v2 of Core and hopefully all the docs and various tutorials/blogs/videos/etc will follow suit over the com
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by pdwetz 9y ago
I think the issue I had with the last "section" of Seveneves was it felt more like a prologue. The pacing was entirely different. I didn't hate it or anything, but going from the previous two parts to the last one was jolting
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by pdwetz 9y ago
I'm all for using a password manager. I also think it's not user-friendly for a single application to force one to use multiple email addresses. It's unnecessarily confusing and annoying.
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by pdwetz 9y ago
I think the point is that he's avoiding the product rather than change his process, and that he's hardly the only one.
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by pdwetz 9y ago
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by pdwetz 9y ago
I wonder if we can "mine" all of the old copper wires (telephones, etc)?

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