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by ztravis 1y ago
The "personalized" basketball example isn't a good one - your hand pushing the ball down and the floor pushing it back up aren't an action/reaction pair. You could, for example, push the ball down over a bottomless
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by ztravis 2y ago
Around 12 years ago I helped design and set up a 48-drive, 9U, ~120TB NAS in the Chenbro RM91250 chassis (still going strong! but plenty of drive failures along the way...). This looks like it's probably the 24-drive/4U entry in t
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by ztravis 3y ago
From the list of words, I think F was the required (central) letter.
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by ztravis 5y ago
There is no "Google Docs" format, though - you have no idea how Google is representing your data, or if there even is any single "blob" that is your file (and even if there is one on the server side, AFAIK you can't
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by ztravis 6y ago
My guess is that the output PDF is still valid, but that an embedded (subset) font has had its `ToUnicode` map stripped, so that there's no link between the character codes used in the text elements and the "actual" character
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by ztravis 6y ago
Crappy bike infrastructure (e.g. sharrows, bike lanes that end and dump cyclists onto bad/dangerous roads) is a negative for everyone: cyclists, drivers, bike advocates,... better to save the money and build more limited but higher qua
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by ztravis 6y ago
I actually built this product out (for both Uber and Lyft) - SMS/MMS-based ride requests (MMS only for sending google maps PNGs to confirm pickup location). I was about to convert it from a personal project (I used it to get rides on b
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by ztravis 6y ago
I'm stunned by the fact they have a graph comparing two stock tickers by share price. Do they not realize that comparison is essentially meaningless (without market cap, etc)? If you look at YTD performance Copart is actually doing wor
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by ztravis 7y ago
It's actually not too bad. You can run a pool of soffice processes, but unless you really care about the startup time, I'd suggest running individual processes per job, which you can run headless from the command line. For the mos
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by ztravis 7y ago
I absolutely agree - Arabic is a beautiful language and a joy to learn, and it is particularly appealing for those who enjoy structure and regularity (e.g. CS and math folk!). Be forewarned, though - the significant differences between MSA
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by ztravis 7y ago
(insert bike credentials here) For me one of the largest (if not THE largest) factor* in bike safety is route choice, and the main factor in that for me is density and speed of car traffic. As comfortable as I feel "vehicular" cyc
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by ztravis 8y ago
I have the Nokia 3310 3G (relaunched version). It has many noticeable bugs/issues ranging from annoying to near deal-breakers, e.g.: * Terrible MMS/group chat support (and bugs, e.g. messages showing up in previews but not in the
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by ztravis 8y ago
This is an interesting project, although as others have mentioned the space of arabic words is (reasonably) bounded and an explicit parsing approach or something that uses known language data might prove to be more efficient and accurate. A
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by ztravis 9y ago
Yeah, definitely! I'm planning on writing a blog post about how it was built, and I'd be happy to release the code (although I'd like to clean it up some, and I'm not sure how much of it would be of general interest).
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by ztravis 9y ago
http://www.arabicreference.com I've always wanted a good Arabic root-based dictionary with vowelling, plurals, etc (basically Hans Wehr online). I also wanted the structured dataset for some linguistic "research"
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by ztravis 10y ago
Having browsed through a few different zip parsers in the course of writing my own, most handle a range of malformed/modified input, including prepended/appended garbage, filename encodings (CP437, Unicode "extra field"
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by ztravis 10y ago
I'm consistently surprised to hear people saying positive things about "Ready Player One" - to me it was one of the most hackneyed and silly books I've read in a long time. My review at the time of reading (originally f
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by ztravis 14y ago
More likely it is a reference to its eponym, the Banach-Tarski paradox.
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by ztravis 14y ago
I'm amazed at what is being claimed in the headline/description in this article versus what the paper actually has demonstrated (from the brief description in the article/reading the abstract online) - I actually wondered whether the origin
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by ztravis 14y ago
The question of whether something is ethical is very different from the question of whether it causes any harm.
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by ztravis 15y ago
Small stylistic comment: the busy background on quotes makes the text very difficult to read!
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by ztravis 15y ago
No, I think he's saying that MS put out a browser bundled with every windows computer sold, so that was what dominated. Now google can do something similar in leveraging its existing userbase (everyone with a google account) to drive adopt
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by ztravis 15y ago
> Not all the time. And if they do, there still are subtle variations in suffixes. There are many patterns and forms in the broken plurals themselves which you can pick up on and learn so that you often can correctly predict new ones wi
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by ztravis 16y ago
No, but the parent article did: "I felt what they were doing was a sexual assault."
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by ztravis 16y ago
A good approach is to do an 'active warmup' - some light cardio, maybe ~5 min of biking or jogging, followed by a series of exercises done over ~20meters or so, going out and back: pull your knee to your chest, quad pulls, lunges, high knee
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by ztravis 16y ago
As a fellow physicist, I agree with you on all counts (except I believe the TR blogger is actually a physicist as well, used to write on www.arxivblog.com). The arXiv is far from the best source of actual scientific developments, but it su
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by ztravis 16y ago
Berkeley.
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by ztravis 16y ago
I'm interested! Thanks!
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by ztravis 17y ago
Good article - interesting story - but correct "let's" to "lets" right in the opening blurb on zipzoomauto.com!
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by ztravis 17y ago
Perhaps the source might still be emitting photons?

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