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AI companions: essentially "make your own friend" kits that can have whatever personality you want them to have. They can be there for you whenever you want them to be, and can take as much shit from you as you want them to. Want a sounding board to work on that brilliant stroke of inspira...

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As others have said, the main security methods don't take up a whole lot of bandwidth; there's a much bigger overhead from reliability measures than from security measures. There's not going to be an order-of-magnitude difference, in any case. On the other hand, it is worth considering how much time...

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http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=43183 Hello everymolpy! Looks like there's something about this Time of the yip that makes in-popping popular, because *pop*, here I am again! Unfortunately I've been thoroughly basemented for many mips now; ironically I just don't have the Time for Time....

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pseudoidiot wrote:↶
Master Up In Of This Science Bitch

(congrats!)

[TV Tropes warning] Indeed.

(Thanks!)

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Got my diploma today!

RSIR:

Spoiler:

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Yesterday I had a glorious savage of a bus driver. This girl boards the bus while talking on her phone, obviously barely aware of her surroundings. Bus driver: "Pardon?" Girl: "...Huh?" Bus driver: "Oh, I thought you greeted me. <beat> But you didn't." I couldn't see th...

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Regarding Bill: So that's two companions in a row that have died, are resurrected, and posthumously continue to have adventures with another woman. Not that that's a bad thing per se (it certainly beats an Adric-style downer ending), but it does look like Moffat is really running out...

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The Pyramid at the End of the World: A couple of really big problems with this one: ⋅ So you're incredibly hung over, and are about to vomit in your hazmat suit. But every other trial has been totally safe to humans, so you decide to take off your hood. Stupid, but believable. Then you...

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↶ Fishish - something one might expect to appear more frequently than it actually does, perhaps. Like, so much river and sea and water in Time, but did we ever see any fishmolpies? No. Fishish. All these ominous mentions of the people in the hills, but they're fishish...we never see them at all. A ...

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BlitzGirl wrote:↶
But by that point Comic Sans might be "in" again. Like bell-bottom jeans or fringed jackets.

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↶ Now I just need a way for them to learn about alligators and snapping turtles. https://i.imgur.com/RGcPKEU.gif ↶ I worry about Medical Care. I have good reason to worry. Ch*rp, yeah. The latest developments on that front in the US are pretty scary. :( ↶ It's even using the One True Font! Randall,...

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I fully agree that you should generally account for pointers being null, but in languages with an exception mechanism, I just don't think errors are legitimate reasons to return null pointers. Especially in the case of an any-pointer, I think it's a very reasonable requirement that, barring hardware...

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Got an offer for a PhD position! I had a low-key irrational fear that my dream of being an actual theoretical physicist would crash and burn after my MSc, but it looks like it's actually happening!

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↶ You can write your own `any` rather than rolling your own distinct type with similar purpose. [snip] off the top of my head, the above should be a simple any-shared-pointer wrapper. No exceptions involved. That's actually not entirely dissimilar to what I've done (albeit more elegant), although y...

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The Outside is making it really easy to get basemented, and I should really get going right now, but ch*rp it, I can afford to leave in a decinewpix or so. @ggh : yikes, lead is scary stuff! Were the plants in your plantcastle exposed in any way? Because it's probably a good idea not to eat produce ...

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↶ In other "ugly side of programming" news: I made a class that makes heavy use of std::shared_ptr<void> -types. Hang on.. are you screwing around with a custom deleter and (possibly) an enum for type tracking during dereferencing? What advantage does this have over, say, a base class wit...

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↶ Seen floating around Twitter: Compiling C to x86 using only printable ASCII . Learn how to program a computer when you aren't allowed to use MOV. Or backward jumps. ↶ Can program in only MOV too https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator https://i.imgur.com/TEKCA2f.gif In other "ugly side o...

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↶ The paper does not claim anything to have negative mass. That's the result of horrible journalism (and thread titles). Yep. This article is interesting in its own right, but wonky effective parameters aren't unusual in quantum systems. The Casimir effect can also be seen as a kind of negative mas...

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Cheers! I can't find an implementation of identity, but std::enable_if<true, FooType> works. (I could implement it myself in one line, but this feels slightly cleaner.)

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C++11 question: I want to hash something that can be either an enum or an integral type, so I figured I could do something like this: enum Foo { FOO = 10, BAR = 20 }; typedef Foo FooType; //typedef int FooType; typedef std::conditional<std::is_enum<FooType>::value, std::underlying_type<FooType>::typ...

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oh...That is sweet, too. One of these days there may be Little Links. Then, you will be so very Brave. Heh, the odds of there being any Little Links any Time soon are about as good as the odds of said Little Links forming spontaneously out of the vacuum (I wonder what the loop order would be for ca...

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@lmjb : ooooh awesomeful! Please post pictures if you can! @addams : aww, that's such a sweet story. Though I'm glad wolpies are not humans: unlike most humans, most wolpies keep their childlike innocence forever. (It's a shame they get old so fast, though. :( ) @GnomeAnne : yikes, being allergic t...

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Conformal field theory coding fleeting thought: I ch*rping hate poorly documented APIs without minimal code samples. Even third-party code samples for the API in question (cairo-gl) are rare, and it looks like it's going to be quite a puzzle to cobble together something that works and is actually p...

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ObsessoMom wrote:↶
Wait for it.

Always!

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Molpy Timiversary!

Yay, @BlitzGirl, you're back! Welcome forward! How have you been?

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Hrmm, I'd expected this year's DEMON Sparta hemifortnight announcement by now. I hope it's still happening!

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↶ quick blind post: [...] I opened my eyes to see Clear Skies! How delightfully ironic! :wink: *eyeronic. :wink: Thanks for all the love, everymolpy! My mum's out of the hospital and she's doing OK. (The hospital had a lot of unmolpishness that she had to cope with for the very basic care she got, ...

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↶ umm...I'm interested in The Bodily Fluid Story. My University Education is in Medical Stuff. It might belong in a Spoiler. Not everyone likes that Stuff. I Do. Well, alright then. Right now I feel like telling a story, mostly because I feel too m*stardy to do much else. My mum was scheduled for c...

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balthasar_s wrote:↶
But then the redundant light and the regular light couldn't have the same ground. And that would be a big change because the bike frame is the ground.
Also, it's already good like it is now.

Yes, that makes sense.

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I did me a seaish ketchup over the last few dips! https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6060/5910289387_9d635ecd02_b.jpg The Outside has kept me distracted for a few mips. At some point I stopped keeping keught up because I was busy, and never restarted when I was no longer busy. The result is a frontstump ...

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That's true. In fact, I recently discovered cffi, which makes accessing C functions incredibly easy. Still, it would be nice to have something that can interface with Numpy without too much glue code.

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↶ Have you tried GraviPy ("Tensor Calculus Package for General Relativity")? That's what google came up with. Don't know the performance, although it is based on SciPy. If speed is really that critical, I would look into a library for a compiled language, like C++. Python is just not that...

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Yep, and I know about Sage. AFAIK it doesn't really do anything you can't do with Numpy and SciPy, though. There's also the issue of speed: I need this to be as efficient as possible, and anything I've done in Sage has thus far been slower than the equivalent in pure Numpy.

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(I'm not even sure where to ask this, so I figured the Coding Fleeting Thoughts thread would be a good place to start.) I'm working on a numeric research project using Python (with Numpy, SciPy, etc.), and I have the misfortune of being faced with a tensor equation of the form T a bc x b x c +M a b ...

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↶ Or; Are you a typical 'nerd'? Wandering the land looking for an opportunity to use your new sophisticated tool? Pretty much this. I tend to collect expensive but really treeish stuff I only use rarely. When I need those things, I'm really glad I have them. I do use my stopwatch fairly often, but ...

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↶ oooowww......That's a pretty watch. Merry Giftness to You! I think one of the three small circles is a stop watch, What do the other two do? Or; Not do? If they don't. Thanks! The top and bottom circles together are a stopwatch, along with the long, thin black hand: the top circle measures elapse...

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Ch*rp, another four newpages have passed in what appears to be no Time at all for me. I have got to start resuming keeping keught up. Really great to see we have something to Wait for again! For decree: food. Lots and lots of food. And sleep; lots and lots of that too. I also got myself a quasi- REL...

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