thalur

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by thalur 13y ago
It looks like the entire comment is the quote - the only closing " I can see is at the very end.
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by thalur 14y ago
I don't know if it is the same thing that you are alluding to, but LIDAR can be used to measure distant wind speeds. I don't know if the output would be suitable for shooting, but it has been used in sailing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by thalur 14y ago
To me, the obvious follow-up would be social anxiety because it is intrinsically hard to talk to other people about, yet discussing it with a computer doesn't pose any difficulty. (I'm currently reading a 'use CBT to cure social anxiety' b
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by thalur 14y ago
The thing that jumps out at me is your first question: the majority of the actions I get from e-mail come in the text of the email and are external to the mail client (implement this feature, fix this bug) rather than part of it (reply with
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by thalur 14y ago
It seems to me that you have introduced an unnecessary third party to the problem (the agent) that holds the same power and position as the current problem party in the copyright arena (the publisher/label). The interesting development in
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by thalur 14y ago
Alternatively, how much of the stats were the same machines failing repeatedly until they found stable settings? [Anecdote] If my brief experience is anything to go by, overclocking involves lots of crashes until you get it right. Once it
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by thalur 14y ago
I'm curious, does anyone know if this study counted all the computers that didn't have any of these failures at all during the time period? Or is it just those that reported a failure?
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by thalur 14y ago
I would have guessed the opposite - I would expect the least significant bits to have a random distribution (if the image is a photo from a camera, that is) so if the least significant bits of the image have a non random distribution that m
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by thalur 14y ago
You would have to weight that against possibly increased use of artificial lighting, but it might work.
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by thalur 14y ago
Finding drops for the AH isn't as powerful a reward loop (at least pre-inferno) because whether you get a reward or not is at the whim of other players, and because your reward (or failure) is delayed by up to 48 hours. This may be differe
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by thalur 14y ago
With any luck Ocado will step up for this one, it seems an ideal fit with their current business model.
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by thalur 14y ago
Can your friend prove the Haskell and ML compilers he is using are 100% bug free as well? And the hardware it is running on? (both the compiler and the execution environment if they differ)
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by thalur 14y ago
"The rebuttal of course is usually the same. Used games fuel new game sales; this is GameStop's response and some buy into it. Of course, in reality it's pure conjecture without any evidence." ...just like most of this article then. I doub
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by thalur 14y ago
The last paragraph really bothered me, but I'm not entirely sure why; it felt authoritarian, thought police etc. That aside, the idea of a gender neutral pronoun sounds good to me. I'd also like a specifically plural "you", for example whe
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by thalur 14y ago
She describes her planning method in a post linked from the submission [0] and it has quite a lot in common with the Snowflake method. [0] http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/how-i-plot-nov...
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by thalur 15y ago
At the furthest point in its orbit, the command module was probably about the diameter of the moon (plus a bit) away from the guys on the surface, so ~2000 miles.
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by thalur 15y ago
Or use a random picture from a set which the user has set up with different "passwords".
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by thalur 15y ago
Like one of these? http://www.campingsurvival.com/kahaemdewama.html
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by thalur 15y ago
"Programmers are interchangeable" seems to come up quite a lot, but I don't think we have a monopoly on it: celebrities (where it is the individual's brand that sells) are the only example that aren't interchangeable that comes to mind. One
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by thalur 15y ago
If you are using C++, you can make the units (dimensionality) compile-time checked using templates. See: http://learningcppisfun.blogspot.com/2007/01/units-and-dimen... (that isn't where I came across it, but the code looks basically the
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by thalur 15y ago
I don't think it works correctly though... it uses "Author" as the first link whereas the first link in the text of the article is "webcomic" ("Author" is in the summary pannel on the side) https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Xk
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by thalur 15y ago
I can only speak for myself, but the arguments you list aren't things I would really consider at the time of purchase: I've never yet wanted to buy a book anonymously using cash, though I won't rule out wanting to do so in the future; the
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by thalur 15y ago
There are a lot people who do open source stuff and make a big thing out of it ("I think a github link is more important than a CV" etc.) to the point where those of us who don't, the silent (majority?), may feel we are somehow lesser progr
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by thalur 15y ago
I was thinking of reviews along the lines of "I'm sure this will be great. 5*" I'm not sure if I've seen any like that on Amazon though, now that I think about it.
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by thalur 15y ago
I have no probelem with people leaving 1* reviews without reading the book, just like I have no problem with Amazon removing those reviews (and only those reviews). Yes they are annoying, but they are also one of the few visible ways to
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by thalur 15y ago
"When you buy a car, do you insist that it has manual windows and no power steering?" But when you are learning how a car works and trying to build one, you would start off with one with manual windows and no power steering.
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by thalur 16y ago
The outcome in Japan may have no impact on the statistics, but it will have a massive impact on the opinons and beliefs of the human decision makers. Waiting for it to resolve will allow calmer heads to prevail.
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by thalur 16y ago
I may be wrong, but I thought the choice between DRM or not for books was up to the publisher and not Amazon?
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by thalur 16y ago
I'm not sure your example works because one would not normally expect a person to be turned into a cake, so the "give you a cake" reading is going to seem much more plausible. If the button said "Make myran a genius", what would you expect
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by thalur 16y ago
Some GPS units can measure speed by doppler shift. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the receivers in smartphones can't.

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