Genuinely curious -- is there a reason not to exploit someone who voluntarily enters into that relationship? I always assumed 'exploitation' meant forcing people to do things they didn't want to do.
Yup, here's the problem [0]: def calculate_backlinks( pages: Dict[str, Page], attachments: Dict[str, Attachment] ) -> None: for page in pages.values(): for link in page.links: linked_page = find(pages, attachments,…
I think that the UX could work really well for mobile with one significant tweak. A typical design pattern on mobile is that if information is obscured for some reason, you click on it to expand it. Consider a drop-down…
It also pulls in about a hundred separate Haskell libraries along with it. Not really complaining, but it's funny that pandoc accounts for about half the programs on my laptop.
Let's run the numbers! The speed of sound in an ideal (calorically perfect) gas is given by a = sqrt( gamma * R * T ) where gamma is the ratio of specific heats (thermodynamic property of a gas, which may vary with…
The classic is How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie -- highly recommended. If you're young and looking for something more helpful in romance, watch Before Sunrise.
That first result re: tires is simply wrong. Wider tires don't have a larger contact patch; the size of the contact patch is determined by the weight of the car and the air pressure in the tires: A = W / P So the reason…
I played four games; in each scenario I chose to "lie down and accept death". The only one I didn't survive was when I forgot how to breathe. Seems like the AI has a bit of a savior complex :)
I agree, and would extend your point even further. Drafting people into the army against their will is a grave harm, for obvious reasons. But the existence of a "volunteer" army that nevertheless gets paid for their…
I agree, it seems the same to me. They have the allure of "we do it different" along with the promise of "we do it well". Unrelated, but a "costumer" makes costumes. I think you were looking for "customer".
Yeah, the lights in the back of your car can warn of exactly four things: - The car is going to turn left (one blinking yellow light) - The car is going to turn right (one blinking yellow light) - The car is stopping…
I was hoping someone would mention the variational properties of splines, so I'm glad to see you bring up their energy minimization. In Strang's Intro to Applied Mathematics, he briefly mentions (at the end of the…
You may have overcorrected a bit; 300 Kelvin is written 300K, not 300 °K. (The system is a mess.)
Better than "event" would be "state", as in theoretically measurable arrangement of things.
The "paradox" is really a contradiction of the axiom of unrestricted comprehension: To every condition there corresponds a set of things meeting the condition. Unrestricted comprehension allows you to build sets out of…
Noise pollution and collisions are a much, much larger problem with cars, since they're constrained to two dimensions while drones can use three. Plus, cars tend to kill people when they collide with each other (or with…
Wa! is my absolute favorite chili oil. I put it in and on everything. A simple bowl of rice, with some Wa! (and perhaps an egg), becomes an entire meal.
Great series! I liked your addition of inter-process communication, and the last one was a treat.
MechE here. The way strain gauges work is with a long conductive trace that loops back on itself like a snake, or a radiator. This creates a conductive line that passes back and forth many times along the direction you…
(in (is "prefix notation" (and "alive" "kicking")) "all lisps")
Yeah. Cookies qua cookies are at best something obvious and measurable, but don't necessarily correlate with the company doing anything nefarious with your information. What's worse, it has always been the client's…
New York's last mayor DeBlasio was an avid cyclist and expanded bike lanes across the city. Made it actually a rather nice place to bike (imo).
> They aren't designed to be possible to sweep, so they're frequently too dirty to ride in This seems like exactly the problem that would be solved by a bike-pulled sweeper. Could you elaborate on why that wouldn't work?
Strangely, if you use an alt keyboard layout, dropping most of the vowels actually makes it a little less comfortable to type. Coleman and (particularly) Dvorak both put a lot of effort into making common words either…
"Gimballed" might be a better term for it. The airship would work by thrust vector control: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust_vectoring
Genuinely curious -- is there a reason not to exploit someone who voluntarily enters into that relationship? I always assumed 'exploitation' meant forcing people to do things they didn't want to do.
Yup, here's the problem [0]: def calculate_backlinks( pages: Dict[str, Page], attachments: Dict[str, Attachment] ) -> None: for page in pages.values(): for link in page.links: linked_page = find(pages, attachments,…
I think that the UX could work really well for mobile with one significant tweak. A typical design pattern on mobile is that if information is obscured for some reason, you click on it to expand it. Consider a drop-down…
It also pulls in about a hundred separate Haskell libraries along with it. Not really complaining, but it's funny that pandoc accounts for about half the programs on my laptop.
Let's run the numbers! The speed of sound in an ideal (calorically perfect) gas is given by a = sqrt( gamma * R * T ) where gamma is the ratio of specific heats (thermodynamic property of a gas, which may vary with…
The classic is How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie -- highly recommended. If you're young and looking for something more helpful in romance, watch Before Sunrise.
That first result re: tires is simply wrong. Wider tires don't have a larger contact patch; the size of the contact patch is determined by the weight of the car and the air pressure in the tires: A = W / P So the reason…
I played four games; in each scenario I chose to "lie down and accept death". The only one I didn't survive was when I forgot how to breathe. Seems like the AI has a bit of a savior complex :)
I agree, and would extend your point even further. Drafting people into the army against their will is a grave harm, for obvious reasons. But the existence of a "volunteer" army that nevertheless gets paid for their…
I agree, it seems the same to me. They have the allure of "we do it different" along with the promise of "we do it well". Unrelated, but a "costumer" makes costumes. I think you were looking for "customer".
Yeah, the lights in the back of your car can warn of exactly four things: - The car is going to turn left (one blinking yellow light) - The car is going to turn right (one blinking yellow light) - The car is stopping…
I was hoping someone would mention the variational properties of splines, so I'm glad to see you bring up their energy minimization. In Strang's Intro to Applied Mathematics, he briefly mentions (at the end of the…
You may have overcorrected a bit; 300 Kelvin is written 300K, not 300 °K. (The system is a mess.)
Better than "event" would be "state", as in theoretically measurable arrangement of things.
The "paradox" is really a contradiction of the axiom of unrestricted comprehension: To every condition there corresponds a set of things meeting the condition. Unrestricted comprehension allows you to build sets out of…
Noise pollution and collisions are a much, much larger problem with cars, since they're constrained to two dimensions while drones can use three. Plus, cars tend to kill people when they collide with each other (or with…
Wa! is my absolute favorite chili oil. I put it in and on everything. A simple bowl of rice, with some Wa! (and perhaps an egg), becomes an entire meal.
Great series! I liked your addition of inter-process communication, and the last one was a treat.
MechE here. The way strain gauges work is with a long conductive trace that loops back on itself like a snake, or a radiator. This creates a conductive line that passes back and forth many times along the direction you…
(in (is "prefix notation" (and "alive" "kicking")) "all lisps")
Yeah. Cookies qua cookies are at best something obvious and measurable, but don't necessarily correlate with the company doing anything nefarious with your information. What's worse, it has always been the client's…
New York's last mayor DeBlasio was an avid cyclist and expanded bike lanes across the city. Made it actually a rather nice place to bike (imo).
> They aren't designed to be possible to sweep, so they're frequently too dirty to ride in This seems like exactly the problem that would be solved by a bike-pulled sweeper. Could you elaborate on why that wouldn't work?
Strangely, if you use an alt keyboard layout, dropping most of the vowels actually makes it a little less comfortable to type. Coleman and (particularly) Dvorak both put a lot of effort into making common words either…
"Gimballed" might be a better term for it. The airship would work by thrust vector control: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust_vectoring