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dangoljames··on Math Titans Clash Over Epic Proof of the ABC Conjecture
Great read, thanks!
dangoljames··on Empty bottles quickly with a whirlpool trick (2012) [video]
I discovered this bottling gallons of homebrew beer and cider.
dangoljames··on Exploring the Worst Case Complexity of Quicksort (2015)
This was just as ridiculously nerdy as it was when friends of mine from school and I did it in 1981 -- in basic on the trs80 though :D
dangoljames··on US invaded by savage tick that sucks animals dry, spawns without mating
Just fucking great :)
dangoljames··on I'm good at coding. What else do I need to start a successful business?
Nobody goes into business for fun. Enjoy what you do, but remember that turning a profit is the goal. Have strong principles, and never sacrifice them: but remember that your primary mission in business is to turn a profit.
dangoljames··on The new CKEditor 5 release is out with Electron support, autosave and more
Brilliant!

CKEditor is an highly under-rated drop-in solution for web sites and applications that is lodash of embedded text editing.

If your application requires a decent text tool and you aren't using CKEditor you're doin' it wrong...

dangoljames··on We’ve started to uncover the true purpose of dreams
Paywall at New Scientist? Weak Tea...
dangoljames··on A new telescope shows the center of the Milky Way in dazzling, fiery detail
This is an amazing telescope and the work they are doing with it is equally amazing, but that article blows goats, from the point where they suggest the telescope provides radio wavelengths by which the imaging is performed, to the point where they conflate distance to remote objects with simple resolution of the frustrum, at the conclusion of the article.

DISCLAIMER: I am an amateur armchair astronomer/astrophysicist and I know better than that drivel.

dangoljames··on WordTsar – A Wordstar clone
Hrm, really cool but what is the licensing?
dangoljames··on Introducing react-site-nav
Meh.
dangoljames··on Show HN: PageFish search algorithm
This is a very vertical search algorithm; it is useful only for indexing and searching cities as shown.
dangoljames··on The Spiral Language
Forth reborn?
dangoljames··on Ask HN: Anyone using Mastodon on daily basis
yep. I got into it a week or so after ditching FB.

The mastodon.social instance is in ten or twelve different languages, is noisy, organic, and actually has a pretty good vibe about it.

dangoljames··on Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader
o.O
dangoljames··on Uncanny Vulvas – The evolutionary psychology of sexbots
Yeah, No.

Dildos have been around for a very, very long time.

dangoljames··on Tiny Crystal Language Programs
What problem does this solve?
dangoljames··on Chrome continues to dominate the browser world, while Edge gets left behind
ditched chrome for waterfox (https://www.waterfoxproject.org/en-US/)
dangoljames··on Linux Distros for Desktop in 2018
In a word: Arch
dangoljames··on Everything's Not O.K
My hero of the day.

Full disclaimer: Not only am I not a fan of NHL Hockey, I'm just generally not a team sports fan at all.

dangoljames··on The Python Way (1991)
Hopefully the guy has given up on the constant <wink>ing, heh.
dangoljames··on Which of the 635000 NPM modules do I choose?
FIRST QUESTIONS 1. DOES IT DO WHAT I NEED TO DO, AS ELEGANTLY AS I DO IT? 2. IS IT WELL DOCUMENTED? 3. IS IT SIMPLE ENOUGH THAT I CAN PERFORM A SECURITY AUDIT ON IT?

SECOND QUESTIONS 1. IS IT SUPPORTED, AND IF NOT IS IT SIMPLE ENOUGH FOR ME TO SUPPORT? 2. IS IT PRESENTED AS PRODUCTION/GA CODE?

You won't need to bother about answering the second set affirmatively if you can't do so with the first. To make a good clean decision, the answers to all the forgoing should be in the affirmative.

If you ignore the attractive module names and apply this simple hueristic faithfully, you'll find that the pool of potential production modules is not only reduced dramatically but that in some application areas the selection will actually become quite sparse.

You might say that my hueristic is incomplete, and you might be right, so feel free to add a few conditions of your own.

Note that while we're all different and have different requirements, you should still direct your efforts toward keeping the hueristic as simple and concise as possible.

dangoljames··on NASA's 'Impossible' Space Engine Tested
It is at least science, in that sense that they've repeated the experiment faithfully and obtained results at least as useful as the original Eagleworks experiment.

Unsurprisingly and anticlimactically, they obtained the same results.

This simply underscores the need for high power testing.

Additionally, they need to also test in orbit/microgravity.

Just my 0.02$US :)

Disclaimer: I am only an armchair rocket scientist :)

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