plus9z

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by plus9z 12y ago
"28. Find a teacher of general relativity online. I tried." Really? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbmf0bB38h0&list=PLPPSIjDe9T...
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by plus9z 12y ago
"For safety, Swift requires the variables to be initialized before being passed with &. This is because it cannot know whether the method being called tries to read from a pointer before writing to it." I've not written a
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by plus9z 12y ago
Yeah, you can move points around to get the setup that seems nicest to you, which is why it isn't perfect for proofs yet.
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by plus9z 12y ago
Adding appropriate commas doesn't help, afaict.
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by plus9z 12y ago
See, my problem with this idea is the inaccuracy of Google Translate's translations. For Romance languages, the results are questionable enough (I'm also learning French at the moment, and anything more than simple sentences can b
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by plus9z 12y ago
I'm very confused about the purpose of this. If it's just taking advantage of the Translate API so you don't have to use the browser app, I can see the convenience of being able to, say, write a local script without having to
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by plus9z 13y ago
Fun. But typos are BRUTAL. "For future reference, 3 + 1 = 4. It should not take 2.69s to solve that next time."
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by plus9z 13y ago
But how do you teach anything without examples? Pedagogically, this stuff is invaluable.
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by plus9z 13y ago
The mechanical efficiency of the the mass killings, for one, is fairly unique. Also, the stories of the Holocaust are more widely heard because many of the people that were alive when it happened are still alive today. Genocide is genocide,
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by plus9z 13y ago
In regard to the first tip, I use `git add -i` even more often, because it gives you an interactive prompt that asks you which files you want to add to a commit (i.e. you don't have to type out the whole filename(s) each time).
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by plus9z 13y ago
Does anyone else have trouble seeing the words with the font that they use?
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by plus9z 13y ago
Define stable. Do you mean it crashes? or that it drops out once in a while? Because I use Facebook over XMPP and I've never actually experienced any problems.
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by plus9z 13y ago
Basically, the point of the PDF is that fire deaths and response times are decreasing, even while the EMS call volume is increasing.
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by plus9z 13y ago
According to some comments above, GIMP does support PSD files, and I know for a fact that GIMP supports scripting, so you could just write a script to export the layers for you.
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by plus9z 13y ago
I believe that the author of the article is the same person speaking at the TED Talk -- or am I missing something?
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by plus9z 13y ago
Not all progress is gradual. Sometimes we need a complete overhaul. In this case, I don't see the need, but if there is something that much better than current notation, then I would hope that it does supplant this.
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by plus9z 13y ago
It has 201 digits (it's on the order of 10^200), so it would be about 9.167 googol googol. Yeah, that's incomprehensible. Not the biggest integer I can think of (see Graham's Number) but I'd say it's big enough.
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by plus9z 13y ago
Anyway, the point isn't that she's faster than a computer (I mean, my laptop can conjure up that answer with PARI/GP in under a millisecond). The point is a) she pushed the limits of human achievement and showed that such feats were, in fac
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by plus9z 13y ago
Sure, these are generally valid points, but Hummingbird doesn't really solve them. I'd love to see a solution to those problems, though. >12-pitch solutions exist, but they're just cumbersome. I'd disagree about the precision of note le
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by plus9z 13y ago
It's fixed now, apparently.
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by plus9z 13y ago
Really? Then how do we have progress? I mean, I prefer current notation, but who's to say that this is the best possible notation to express musical ideas? Although Hummingbird isn't going to supplant it for a lot of reasons, there may be a
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by plus9z 13y ago
Basically my defense of traditional notation is that although it makes easy music hard to read initially, it makes difficult music easy to read in the long run. If a notation has to compromise, I'd rather pay the price at the beginning than
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by plus9z 13y ago
Funny that I came across this right after a concert (Bottesini, Elgar, Hindemith, Monti, Saint-Saens, and Dvorak -- all 1st movements of one of their respective concertos, except for the Trauermusik -- if you're wondering). So to start off,