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it's definitely shinier than the OP, but I personally think encoding a sieve of Eratosthenes in a CSS selector is cooler than encoding truth tables in a CSS selector

is it, though?

https://github.com/SLaks/Silon#implementation-details

"Silon is implemented using LESS to generate CSS selectors for every combination of inputs that will turn each gate on. In effect, I created a LESS-based DSL that expresses (almost-)arbitrary boolean expressions."

as I understand it, the argument is that "bad" construction will make the neighborhood less desirable and cause the value of their property to drop

it's decent. not world-class, but getting better. the light rail was recently extended and future plans for expansion seem to be met with approval, although they're at least a decade off. the buses are crowded during peak hours which at least means they're being used. in my opinion, a lot of the region's problems with transportation stem from the sudden spike in people living here and the challenging nature of the geography. for example, a bus from Queen Anne to Captiol Hill is not exactly practical because there's a big lake in the way, so anybody wanting to bus between the two has to change buses somewhere downtown or walk some leg of the trip.

quantum teleportation is not instant, since the information about the particle's quantum state is still sent over a classical channel

you can't "communicate", but it would be useful for qubits in one quantum computer to be sent to another quantum computer without physically moving the qubit. that was what I meant by wide-area quantum information networks

eh, Google Labs is still very obviously Google though. the idea would be, for each new product, to create an entirely new brand with no obvious connection to Google, that Google could later bring on full time if they decide they're ready to commit

for example, "Google Allo" could have just been released as "Allo", separate website and everything, and if Google feels it's working out and is the future of their messaging platform, eventually officially bring it in to the Google ecosystem. sort of like a buyout

right, "quantum teleportation" is a woefully misleading name, however this is still an impressive advancement and quantum teleportation will play a key role in wide-area quantum information networks

this reminds me of the "GIMPressionist" plugin in the GIMP, which can be coerced into producing pictures like this

this is super cool! I'm especially impressed he built his own lens too. it would have been really easy to justify using an existing lens

yeah, that was a very pleasant surprise

~. (and the other ~ commands) are handled locally, not by the remote sshd. I use it when my network cuts out or something and my ssh session is unrecoverably stuck

this reminds me of something I made once that was basically exactly this, but included a button you could click that would run, more or less

    window.location = "data:text/html," + document.documentElement.outerHTML

functioning as a kind of lame save button

what about: "Showing up" to your emotions

did we read the same article?

people who drive probably aren't going to eat less because they're walking less. also, walking (to me) isn't just about saving money, it's about good habits and contributing less to traffic and pollution

edit: people travel farther distances in cars than on foot, usually. nobody would replace a 20 mile commute by car with 20 miles of walking.

the post is how he's returning a favor, which he explains in the post, in the "returning the favor" section

this is a really good question, and the more I think about it, the less I'm able to come up with an answer

assuming each in-application sound generator is pull-based (like the OS sound APIs typically are) surely each one could write to a single accumulator buffer which is then sent to the OS as-is, eliminating the need for any special mixing

I'd like to know more about the requirements that led to this extra in-application mixing latency

edit: obviously the presence of push-based sound generation in the application would add another layer of mixing and latency, requiring previously prepared buffers to be mixed into a signal for the OS milliseconds after the source buffers were initially filled. however, this would be a self-imposed limitation that I still don't see a reason for

yeah, somehow I feel this is less than optimal

it's my understanding the API they used was undocumented, so while it's WeWork's fault for not doing a better job securing an API that seems sensitive to them, it's also disrespectful to do something that you're pretty clearly not wanted to be doing

I guess now I'm 4 degrees away, since I can just send you a message if I need help delivering something to Obama!

not sure I follow

"the integers don't exist, because the percent of real numbers that are integers is effectively 0" is what the parent post is implying, which "works", in the sense that using this proof methodology "works"

Tom Scott has a great video about the history of emoji. Basically, some companies in far east countries were encoding these icons in various proprietary codes for their messaging systems. The ecosystem became widespread and consistent enough that the unicode consortium saw it fit to include these emoji in the standard.

The snowman, on the other hand, is a weather symbol for snow, I assume. It appears alongside other symbols for meteorological phenomena, so I imagine was added around the same time and with similar reasoning: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/miscellaneous_...

agreed. and I agree with many people out here in Seattle, that I'd really rather not see the city become "the next Silicon Valley". I'd much prefer Seattle become the best it can be, by itself, without needing to draw on Silicon Valley (or anywhere else, for that matter) for guidance and inspiration. that's the way I'm sure a lot of people here and in other cities feel about their own towns.

Stallman's big on puns so that wouldn't surprise me. He calls Uber "Goober"

sounds interesting, I'll have to give it a shot!

+1 for racer, I use it with atom and it makes writing rust so much nicer. can't comment on the comparison with YCM, though

The rules changed and last I heard it was something along the lines of only hot caffeinated drinks were forbidden, so no coffee tea etc, and things like Coke and Pepsi are fine.

I feel Sunday is the start of the week because that's what I've been seeing on calendars my whole life. I do bundle Mon-Fri and Sat-Sun into "weekdays" and "weekend" in my head, but when I visualize a week in my head, it always starts on Sunday.

This makes me wonder what English words are unique to English, kind of like "breakfast" (in the context of a Burmese tribe) mentioned at the top of the article. There's gotta be a few, right?