powrtoch

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by powrtoch 4y ago
Is 13 sq ft a typo or am I missing something?
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by powrtoch 4y ago
Why does each language's Loved + Dreaded = 100%? Most languages I've worked with I neither love nor dread. Clicked through to the SO survey results and even skimmed the methodology section, but I couldn't find what question
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by powrtoch 5y ago
1. Highlight the clip and "strip silence" to split it into a bunch of separate clips the leave out the silent bits 2. Highlight those clips and "shift left within selection" (I might not have that command name exactly ri
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by powrtoch 5y ago
Whoa. For years I've been seeing YouTube videos that seem to just teleport choppily around what I assumed were silences. I always assumed there was a standard tool that everyone used to do this. I can do the equivalent thing to a podca
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by powrtoch 6y ago
I wrote and played for a pop-rock band called Doctor Squid back in college. Still pretty proud of it. https://open.spotify.com/album/3A0HzsaCTe1JI3noFR2GZi?si=roy...
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by powrtoch 7y ago
"HiQ only takes information from public LinkedIn profiles. By definition, any member of the public has the right to access this information. Most importantly, the appeals court also upheld a lower court ruling that prohibits LinkedIn f
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by powrtoch 7y ago
Re CYOA/RPG combo, I believe you're referring to the Fighting Fantasy series: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Fantasy There's a fun confusing fact about that series, which is that Steve Jackson
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by powrtoch 7y ago
Using this on subjective questions (e.g. “Is Cymbeline one of Shakespeare’s best plays?”) would help you find... what? Underrated things?
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by powrtoch 7y ago
30% of the population holding extreme views isn't the same as any particular view being held by 30% and considered "extreme". They don't go into exactly what this figure means, but at the least we can imagine 15% of Amer
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by powrtoch 9y ago
An article about a "growing body of evidence" that fails to link to a single study. Great. "Smartphone use takes about the same cognitive toll as losing a full night's sleep" Would love to see this study, since it s
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by powrtoch 9y ago
I'm surprised that this works. I always assumed Siri etc. would do some bare-minimum pre-processing of the audio input, if only to reduce noise, of which the simplest kind would be cutting frequencies that cannot be produced or registe
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by powrtoch 10y ago
Yeah. The impression I get from this article (which is pitifully short on specifics) is that they're going to exploit some of the seemingly-nonlocal properties of QM, like quantum teleportation. So, a normal refrigerator decreases entr
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by powrtoch 11y ago
You're studying the tautologic that you're studying Sickeningly, you're studying illogic You're a circular logician because you're studying circular logic. You're studying circular logic because you're a c
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by powrtoch 11y ago
The front page is pretty worrying. The situation seems almost identical to when Reddit axed r/jailbait: one of their more embarrassing communities started to get too much attention, its users were increasingly behaving in a way that wa
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by powrtoch 11y ago
Weirdly, the author even acknowledges this: > It's pedantic, sure. Isn't 1.16180 close enough? Yes, it probably would be... For some reason he didn't see fit to delete that section of the article after realizing it was poi
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by powrtoch 11y ago
"No, you're not crazy" seems to fit the sentiment most closely.
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by powrtoch 12y ago
Roughly, a sound that happens during some measure of music, or an arbitrary point during that duration. Imagine folding a strip of paper exactly in half. Now you have a crease at the middle of it. If you fold it again, you have a couple mor
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by powrtoch 12y ago
#4 shouldn't be possible according to the No-Communication Theorem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
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by powrtoch 12y ago
There are niche-case advantages. Some artists (Tool comes to mind) refuse to sell on iTunes etc for the reason mentioned in the article: they only want to sell albums. Currently their only option (that I'm aware of) is to not sell digi
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by powrtoch 13y ago
Can anyone explain the bit about 1x1.gif being the only way, to this day, to vertically center elements? AFAIK there's still no way to vertically center a dynamic height element without javascript, so if invisible gifs can do it I&#x27
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by powrtoch 13y ago
I don't think this problem is solvable in any elegant form, but it is solvable. You'll just end up with massively conjunctive questions that you can't even hold in your head at once, like "27: Are you a non-practicing Ca
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by powrtoch 13y ago
This is really cool. I'd love to see it calculate not just likelihoods but actual probabilities. Right now I can see that liking Artist A makes me 10x more likely to like Artist B. But Artist B might still be really terrible, so it mig
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by powrtoch 13y ago
I think that this is a poor analogy. Saying that a problem suffers an "exponential slowdown" is making a statement about how the performance suffers relative to the size of the problem. As the amount of data to be processed increa
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by powrtoch 13y ago
I feel the same. but it's worth remembering that from the store/salesperson's point of view, it's all a numbers game. No single tactic will work on everybody, but as long as it improves sales in the aggregate it's usually a good move. Which
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by powrtoch 13y ago
This article seems to rest on the totally false premise that there's no difference between setting headers and setting body text. Arial is terrific for body text, because at small font sizes the modifications separating it from Helvetica ar
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by powrtoch 13y ago
Re: #2, My understanding of the experiment is that they simply had people assume poses, and then measured their hormone levels. If they really did tell them up front whether the pose was intended to make them feel powerful, that would certa
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by powrtoch 14y ago
"Nothing lives longer than temporary code." Love this quote. I assumed it was an existing quote/idiom, but it looks to be original.
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by powrtoch 14y ago
I don't understand all the moralizing going on in this thread. VC is about funding the companies that could make a lot of money. When did we start expecting them to be the morality police? Sure, if YC wants to build up a reputation for fu
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by powrtoch 14y ago
Talented artist here :-) I think there's definitely a market for helping artists get discovered, especially as more and more of them tend to operate online from their bedrooms instead of going on tour. So kudos for trying to help them along
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by powrtoch 14y ago
That makes sense. I was confused because I was also getting the error when I typed the line into the interpreter by hand. The issue being that I forgot to assign it to a variable (facepalm). Thanks for the explanation.

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