stygianguest

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by stygianguest 6y ago
One possibility is that your global git config files are on a network drive. I had that problem on a corporporate laptop.
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by stygianguest 9y ago
Did you accidentally reverse the arrow? Or is there a smart joke sailing over my head?
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by stygianguest 12y ago
Having used Elm a little, the aim certainly is completely opposite to that. Moreover, Elm is mostly pure even in its handling of the reactive paradigm. That alone should make it more composable than most other languages. Should, because as
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by stygianguest 12y ago
It's an inhouse shader language that is compiled to different targets, one of which is llvm another is glsl. In our case you are probably right, but it would have been nice to see a simple example. Of course there's many implement
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by stygianguest 12y ago
Nice but damn, I'm about to implement closures in llvm, but there's only a TODO at that point ;)
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by stygianguest 12y ago
France also has democratically elected woker councils. It's no guarantee for succes. France on the other hand has had a minimum wage for a long time and a 35 hour work week. To me it isn't so clear who is doing a better job. But c
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by stygianguest 12y ago
Original author here. Thanks for the spacial data structures link, I'll look into it. The correlations are done in the frequency domain. And, although I didn't look into it, I suspect they have pretty good algorithms to compute th
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by stygianguest 12y ago
Original author here. They do this already, the pseudo function 'correlate' operates in the frequency domain. It doesn't negate the fact that you still correlate the signals of different stations pairwise.
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by stygianguest 12y ago
It was especially funny when Andre Geim won the Nobel prize and the Brits, Dutch and Russians all claimed him. Science and those who practice it know no borders. Scientific funding, however, does. This is one reason why it is crucial that t
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by stygianguest 12y ago
The French do the same. I see nothing wrong with it.
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by stygianguest 13y ago
It may seem hard to believe, but countries like Germany did operate by the assumption that the Americans at least have good intentions. Everybody knows that the US can and will push their agenda when they think it is important, but often no
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by stygianguest 13y ago
You're right that formal methods do not guarantee absence of 'errors' in the sense of unforseen unwanted behavior. But formal methods, which typically are based on computer-checked proofs, can help you to eliminate certain po
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by stygianguest 13y ago
Any 'values' that apply only to a certain nationality aren't worth much anyway.
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by stygianguest 13y ago
Only proofs in 'constructive' logic. There's a lot of proofs that aren't executable. Most importantly proofs by contradiction. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic_logic In practical ter
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by stygianguest 13y ago
Synchronous data-flow programming is a functional style language made for programming embedded systems. It follows the paradigm of clocked circuits, where variables are wires. Check for example Lustre/Scade: http://www.ester
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by stygianguest 13y ago
This is not hypocrisy and has nothing to do with the cold war. Quite to the contrary: we hold Russians to a higher standard than Saudi Arabia. Like we hold the USA to a higher standard than either country in regards to privacy.
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by stygianguest 13y ago
It might be useful in the mediterranean. There's plenty of traffic between Italy and Greece and places further away such as Cyprus.
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by stygianguest 13y ago
The more immediate problem is 16 year olds going at such speeds. Driving fast on the German highway requires a good driver and a good car. I am not a good driver and have a tiny car, so I go slow (130-160 km/h).
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by stygianguest 13y ago
The ability to remember music is more like chessmasters being able to remember configurations of the chess board who can remember any chess board configuration but suddenly become like any of us when trying to memorize an impossible configu
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by stygianguest 13y ago
A counterpoint: "Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: 'Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.' Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told, and acquired a conscience which has
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by stygianguest 13y ago
The more important difference is safety in numbers e.g. drivers will look over their shoulder before turning right, because usually there is a bike. Drivers are conditioned to take into account bikes and their erratic driving.
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by stygianguest 13y ago
It is big for that reason in the US. The rest of the world is shocked by the, now undeniable, extend of the spying. Everybody will think thrice before storing their data in the US. Especially since Obama has made it more than clear that the
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by stygianguest 13y ago
With wheel no more than a few inches wide, it won't be driving in the snow anyway.
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by stygianguest 13y ago
First they find support for the hypothesis that the place of women in society can change very quickly because their function in society changes. Then they find support for the opposing hypothesis that such changes in society have long lasti
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by stygianguest 13y ago
Also interesting is their assertion that society first changes very quickly after the introduction of the plow, but then has very long lasting effects. Why did the first change quickly but the second have long lasting effects?
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by stygianguest 13y ago
Of course that only applies to the salary over one million. As people earning that much usually have plenty of options to get their money through different channels, this is purely political posturing. They didn't even significantly increas
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by stygianguest 13y ago
Good point! Though this one post does seem quite well reasoned its message is an easy one (big pharma is evil) and suspect to confirmation bias. If only my browser gave me something to tag the site with your comment, so that next time it co
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by stygianguest 13y ago
While I'm not against them, prizes are not enough to sustainbly drive research as they only reward the winners. It is the reality of research (as opposed to engineering) that outcomes are uncertain. Meanwhile researchers have to eat and typ
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by stygianguest 13y ago
Somehow this would be the first election where an army of botnets voting seems appropriate.
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by stygianguest 14y ago
Racism is not about hate. That is only the most extreme form and hardly the most damaging kind (in our society; there's always genocide). Racism is the differentiation (discrimination) of people by race: assuming a black guy will not be in

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