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They also don’t have to act on callables, see @dataclass for instance.

I understand and agree with your sentiment, but just don't buy the uni-tasker type lego. They make plenty of sets where most if not all of the parts are general and can be used for undirected play.

I’m up voting because I want to hear this side of the argument. I guess your point is that most people’s experience isn’t that bad, and they owe their parents.

Sure, so it can just be a matter of balancing how they treat you and your family vs basic decency and the benefit of merely maintaining contact and having them around as grandparents for your kids. Everyone’s experience and tolerance is different.

I don’t think we necessarily owe our parents. They made the conscious decision to have us and raise us, that ought to be a reward in it self.

I certainly will the best I can for my kids, but I don’t want them to think they owe me anything. This is especially true if I am (unknowingly or unconsciously) treating them or their family very badly.

It’s relatively expensive, depends on your income level. Chicken beef and goat are common. Folks in the country have better access than in the cities.

Threadrippers are not really 'workstation' CPUs, they are HEDT CPUs. More Apples-to-Apples would be to compare to EPYC CPUs.

Same here. Dataclasses and type annotations are fantastic, not to mention f-strings.

tried this outside of QGIS? pip install rasterio, etc.

We heavily use GDAL/rasterio/numpy at work with no real problems.

this gives some information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suo_aUTUpps

Google's 3D models are based on aerial imagery, which is higher resolution, and suffers from much less atmospheric interference.

Ha, Dr. Blecher's webpage on HN! That's great.

I did my PhD in math, in large part because I enjoyed his class on advanced linear algebra so much, and later on real and functional analysis.

really cool. It looks pretty close to the ideas behind seismic imaging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_seismology

> Some thirty or so years ago, Bessel functions were included in the syllabus, but in our day they are out of the question. > Teaching a subject of which no honest examples can be given is, in my opinion, demoralizing.

I don't get this. Differential equations theory is about proving existence and uniqueness of solutions. If you have to use numerical techniques to actually compute the solution, then that's perfectly fine. After all, even if the solution is explicit, like sin(x), or especially a special function, then we still need to use numerical techniques to actually evaluate that explicit solution.

> You're taking juicy green or red beans that visually resemble cranberries, and turning them hard and black to the point that they nearly resemble charcoal.

The beans are treated and dried before roasting. Before roasting, they resemble dry legumes more than anything else.

I generally agree with your sentiment. I think there's an important distinction to add. By and large, people don't fully expect their mobile devices to be general purpose computing machines in the same way that their PCs are. What I expect from my phone, primarily, is convenience and usability.

Of course, at least on android devices, it's not at all uncommon to install custom variants of the OS (CyanogenMod, etc.), so it does happen.

> But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

If you have machines over to which you can turn your thinking, why would you still need to enslave other humans?

Plus you can listen to or watch the video while doing otherwise mindless stuff like household chores.

I find it really depressing that the only business model that seems to work online is ads. Paying for things by ads is so convoluted and distorting.

There should really be a open micro-payments systems. I absolutely don't mind paying $0.10 to read an article, I'm already investing much more, in a dollars/minute sense by reading the article anyway. I guess the trick is to do this in a very automatic and anonymous way.

Notice how there is no way to pay google for using gmail, maps, etc., even if you wanted to (maybe if you sign up as a business?). I'd much rather just pay Google $100 per year, than introduce all the problems associated with monetizing my data.

I find it odd that there's no universal system for blocking calls from specific numbers. I'm guessing you could implement a spam filter, so Harassment/telemarketing wouldn't be a problem.

>The current educational and political system is organized toward exclusively presenting the view that gender is a cultural construct and there are no differences between men and women other than plumbing.

I think it's the right political conclusion, even if the reasoning is questionable. Just because you could conduct research to root out differences in populations of females and males, it doesn't mean that you should. What's the point? It seems to be that these arguments are used to justify gender disparity in occupations, achievement, etc.

I like Dan Dennet's response to this question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beKC_7rlTuw&feature=youtu.be...

Strictly speaking, math it self isn't intended to reflect reality. It's just logical system together with some initial axioms. But it does happen to model reality very well, given the right interpretations.

Does anyone know why they don't use more modern directional representation systems, like curvelets, or shearlets?

My understanding is that they provide optimally sparse representation of this type of data - data that's smooth except on these wavefront sets, and that wavelets perform comparatively poorly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearlet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvelet

Do you honestly believe that the people advocating alternative plans (low carb, etc) don't understand this argument? Why just keep on repeating it?

Wouldn't this violate the dmca? If it's not something people can get with minimal effort, then millions of people are not going to use it.

The ad-blocking plugins are so successful because their so easy to get. If something's illegal to distribute, then it's sufficiently inconvenient to obtain (tormenting, etc.) that most people won't bother.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/f1/beware_trivial_inconveniences/

got a link?

Well on an electric car you can precisely control the torque output, so put a strain/torque gage on the drive train and include those in a feedback loop.

That would be a fun project. If you can digitize the graph reliably, you can then take the discrete Fourier transform of the data, apply some denoising/thresholding to extract the main components. This would tell you if you're looking at sin(x), cos(x), cos^2(x), etc. If you have a training set, you could maybe start picking out more complex functions like abs(x), 1/x, etc.

What gas could possible emanate from a flash drive that wouldn't emanate from any other electronic device?

>Not to mention the Ockham's razor angle: if US interests wanted to nab Assange on trumped up charges one would assume they have the ingenuity to come up with something a bit less flimsy.

Why? It's rape. All rationality goes out the window if someone's accused of rape. It makes a lot of sense.

I'm not sure you've addressed eridius'a comments. I understand what you're saying about peering, but I think his/her point is that ISP customers pay ISPs not to care about peering.

I think that's generally the point that neutrality activists make, that in large par the internet works because users have equal access to any network, regardless of the asymmetry inherent to that access, and that users are willing to pay for the cost of that asymmetry.

If Comcast needs more money to properly connect it's users to Netflix, then that's fine, charge me more money. I'll gladly pay directly for real infrastructure upgrades. But forcing that revenue to go through Netflix first, you're fundamentally changing a key feature of the Internet.

The fact that these issues go away if there is no asymmetry (peering) doesn't seem so relevant.

That doesn't sound so bad. I wonder if the process could be made to work with salt water.