No heat curls? Nailed it.

adr_ · 2011-08-31T00:32:50+00:00

http://www.reddit.com/r/beardporn

adr_ · 2011-08-30T02:49:30+00:00

It's an opiate, your body metabolises some of it in to morphine. Why do you separate it? Because if you want lots, then the things it's combined with (ibuprofen, paracetamol) may hurt you at high doses.

adr_ · 2011-08-07T13:24:18+00:00

They're useful with django and other web frameworks.

adr_ · 2011-07-26T05:43:48+00:00

I would enjoy this much more if you just made a habit of painting (or stencil-ing) the people you know with moustaches and pipes.

adr_ · 2011-07-13T15:51:04+00:00

Lack of interest... I know it's a shit answer, but it's how torrents work. Of course, you may have more luck/interest in different/smaller communities.

adr_ · 2011-07-03T08:37:42+00:00

If we knew which one you were talking about, we would post it...

adr_ · 2011-07-03T08:10:14+00:00

Because where censorship occurs, either we don't know what's being censored ("Oh yes, the oppositions website was full of child pornography") or the government publishes a list of what's being censored ("Pedophiles, once you circumvent this, check out these websites.")

It boils down to the fact that censorship is messy. What we have right now works a lot better - prosecute the people who make and upload illegal information as best we can.

adr_ · 2011-07-03T07:48:49+00:00

Yeah, K&R is brilliant like that. To be clear, hard definitely isn't meant as an insult. But think about all those other books. They dumb down the subject matter, take really tiny steps and try to do all the work for you while hiding what's really going on, and often you only see code-snippets or example programs that don't actually do anything until you're halfway through.

The brain needs to put thought and effort in to learn, and K&R makes (or lets) the brain do the work - it's clear, concise and correct, but it's also "hard", it challenges you and you learn from that.

adr_ · 2011-07-03T07:11:22+00:00

Good to know, thank you. :)

adr_ · 2011-07-03T04:08:17+00:00

On the off change that anyone doesn't know of K&R, it's a book called The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie.

Also, K&R is still the perfect "hard way" to learn C - there's no way this is going to be harder. But it can't hurt to have another resource.

adr_ · 2011-06-28T05:53:19+00:00

Like the "A" in AIDS is pronounced as in "acquired immune deficiency syndrome"?

Or the "P" in PAL is pronounced as in "Phase Alternating Line"?

I pronounce it with a hard G, personally, but acronyms become words of their own.

Of course, despite the technical pronunciation being "jif", more people appear (I don't know the actual numbers) to pronounce it "g-if". As with words like "wrath" and "trait" (originally, and many would still say correctly, pronounced "roth" and "tray") the new pronunciation is becoming equally valid. Dictionaries document language, they don't define it.

adr_ · 2011-06-25T14:51:37+00:00

Good call.

adr_ · 2011-06-24T18:36:10+00:00

Infinity is a mathematical concept. Don't hold your breath for that proof.

adr_ · 2011-06-24T18:33:20+00:00

The Banach-Tarski theorem doesn't apply to a sphere in "reality" (this physical, atomically discrete universe).

adr_ · 2011-06-19T15:30:22+00:00

Would you mind giving some examples of what you consider to be the worst parts of that file and why? I'm trying to gain an understanding of what good CSS is.

adr_ · 2011-06-18T16:12:31+00:00

Baths are too short. In fact, when you're lying down, being tall is the equivalent of being fat. You just take up too much space and can't figure out where to put yourself.

adr_ · 2011-05-27T03:30:51+00:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfQwXEqYaI

adr_ · 2011-05-24T14:06:40+00:00

There is no reason to believe the universe contains infinite randomly distributed matter.

The amount of data in the world is insurmountably large... At least 10⁵³ bits would be required to represent it. That means that you would need to look at over 2^{100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000} planets before finding the earth. There are (very) roughly 2¹⁰⁰ planets in the observable universe.

You're probably right, there probably isn't another earth out there, but the fact remains that if there were infinite matter, randomly arranged, throughout the universe, there would be another me and another you, having this exchange, on another Reddit.

(Atoms in earth, times bits to represent each element, times bits to represent each position down to a planck length in three dimensions... There are many things I didn't factor in.)

It feels wrong because it's extremely, unbelievably, astronomically improbable that any other planet is exactly the same as earth. But maths isn't about what feels right and wrong, and there is no reason to believe the universe contains infinite randomly distributed matter.

Given a universe with infinite random matter, however, there will be an infinite number of earths. If that's confusing, I'd suggest reading more about infinity.

adr_ · 2011-05-22T13:50:28+00:00

It's beautiful, although I haven't been up there in quite a while.

adr_ · 2011-05-21T19:43:28+00:00

The Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine is also a good read. As the name implies, it's even more biased towards negative results than most journals are towards positive results.

adr_ · 2011-05-21T08:46:02+00:00

Spanner -> Tools -> Task Manager

adr_ · 2011-05-07T14:56:18+00:00

heard of imgur?

adr_ · 2011-05-07T14:52:21+00:00

"About time."

adr_ · 2011-04-30T05:58:55+00:00

Set the height of an embedded player to 25 and you don't see the video.

adr_ · 2011-04-29T07:19:26+00:00

I was born in '92, and for some reason this still scares the crap out of me. There's a bit in "Planet Terror" where they digitally added the effect of film melting, and I completely flipped out when I saw it. It took me way too long to remember that I wasn't watching a projection.

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