Voyager I: When Engineers Were Engineers who could code an Operating System for a Freakin' Spaceship in 68 Freakin' Kilobytes! 35 years later and still accepting commands.

joelman0 · 2012-05-27T04:27:45.047033+00:00

I agree, the only difference today though is, it is so much easier to do research, thanks to google and web.

louiebaur · 2012-05-27T02:55:00.419453+00:00

It makes sense, here in Florida for example due to humidity a vacant home develops mold. And it's actually a big problem for a large number of foreclosed homes.

MonsieurLeBeef · 2012-05-27T01:43:04.146763+00:00

I like how everyone in this thread is a steak connoisseur. Allow me to challenge everything you know about steak. Did you know for instance that Argentinian beef is considered the best in the world?

Argentines eat more beef per capita than anyone else. They know their beef. Buenos Aires is known to have some of the best steak houses in the world, their chefs have decades if not generations of experience with beef. Did you know that in Argentina well done is the norm?

http://www.anuvawines.com/tasting-argentina/how-to-order-beef-asado-or-steak-in-buenos-aires-argentina/

The best steak I ever had was an argentinian well done steak. And if you order medium rare, they will look at you weird.

The problem is in the "western" world you are dealing with a different school of tought. I agree that well done sucks here. But the reasons for that are:

the chefs come from a different school of thought. They simply don't know how to prepare a well done steak.
the beef is inferior. It takes a super tender piece of meat (grass fed cows) to pull of a great well done steak.

If you truly want to test a steak restaurant, you order a well done steak, as it's the most challenging thing to do right. And most restaurants will deliver a dry rubbery piece of meat. What the food critic did was right. Ordered a challenging meal, and Ramsay failed to deliver.

Someone else who was also shocked with how good argentinian "well done" stake is:

http://www.vamospanish.com/blog/2011/02/18/how-would-you-like-your-argentine-steak/

edit: sometimes I think people are brian washed into pushing the "undercooked" steak to cover for bad quality of beef we consume in the west. We feed our cows crap which has caused a lot of issues including the Mad Cow desease. And this has resulted in the end product and how it's prepared.

TL;DR: Everything we know about steak is wrong, because we don't take quality of our beef seriously.

Kettle85 · 2012-05-27T01:25:27.081037+00:00

Are the stickers your sponsors?

MonsieurLeBeef · 2012-05-26T22:41:40.248248+00:00

You're not the only one. I get grief over this all the time from my friends and co-workers (I go to business diners often and steak houses are where we end up most of the time).

I personally hate when my stake is chewy in the middle. But most chefs don't know how to prepare a well done steak properly without burning the fuck out of it. So just in case I order a medium well.

I've tried medium rare on many occasions and I just don't enjoy it. I am sure at least 30 redditors will tell me how my taste is wrong even though it's a personal preference thing.

MonsieurLeBeef · 2012-05-26T22:38:22.332430+00:00

When you're a reviewer or a critic of any kind, your job is to recommend a product or a place to someone else. Don't you think trying to see if the cook knows how to prepare a well done steak properly is a good test?

MonsieurLeBeef · 2012-05-26T22:36:13.150970+00:00

if you order something an odd way

Well done is not odd. Lots of people order their stake well done.

MonsieurLeBeef · 2012-05-26T22:34:33.208375+00:00

You're such a snob with that comment. If it wasn't a thing of personal preference, the well done option would not exist.

MonsieurLeBeef · 2012-05-26T22:32:41.211023+00:00

Proper thing would have been to butterfly that steak. As you can't "well done" cook a steak that thick without burning the shit out of it.

halst · 2012-05-26T22:25:06.881246+00:00

Point taken. Instead of using __doc__ it should have probably been a string variable.

halst · 2012-05-26T21:52:12.630225+00:00

I really don't see what's so bad about it. It's not just using any docstring it's only using the public docstring. As far as risks are concerned its no different than using a config file.

we_are_sex_bobomb · 2012-05-26T15:05:47.024726+00:00

Why don't you just get something like this?

http://www.amazon.com/Factory-Refurbished-WNCE2001-Universal-Internet/dp/B007CO5DZ4/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1338044708&sr=1-1

It will make your PS3 wifi capable for $24.

JayStayPaid · 2012-05-26T06:39:27.096553-07:00

The thing is I am not hating on other mainstream, commercial, pop musicians. I don't care for most of them but I get that other people may like it.

I am only hating on Nicki Minaj... I listen to all kinds of garbage music, I am actually pretty open to all levels of shittiness in music, and sometimes I enjoy it, but her contribution to music doesn't have a single redeeming value. Which is fine I can usually tolerate that too, but in case of Nicki Minaj she had to use that mocking style of rap which really goes on my fucking nerves to the point that I want to punch the radio every time I hear it.

Budweiser is a beer that gives me a headache but I can understand that other people may like it so I got no beef with it. Drinking better beer is cheaper in my case.

JayStayPaid · 1 day

Nicki Minaj

Thank you for calling her out. The level of cleverness that goes into her rhymes is on par with the level of cleverness that went into Rebecca Black's Friday.

Every time I hear Nicki Minaj I turn off the radio.

hadleygrass · 1 day

Thank you for sharing your memories with us, it is very touching and it has made me cry. I am so sorry for your loss.

y2quest · 1 day

How does this douche bag judge sleep at night?

kandosiiJetii · 1 day

He was timing his comeback.

myslipperynipple · 1 day

Would smang

red321red321 · 2 days

I hope Dzeko leaves.. he spent way too much time on the bench under Mancini, and even despite that he scored 2nd most goals.

noiserr · 2 days

Thank you!

DrJulianBashir · 3 days

That said, the penalties are ridiculous given the nature of the crime, but stating that copyright infringement is a victimless crime is just wrong.

If all those who downloaded a pirated copy of something were not going to buy the product in lieu of downloading, the victim has no damages, other than being upset about it because people watched content for free, which is the same as above mentioned heresy law.
Some liked the download and decided to buy the official copy to support the artist, which they wouldn't have otherwise done if it weren't for the download. I think balances out all those who downloaded instead of buying.

The operator of the file-sharing site is being persecuted for a victimless crime. He is your only victim in this case. Not the Universal Music Group (UMG) who have clearly not suffered in the slightest.

DrJulianBashir · 3 days

If he hacked into someone's bank account in the US would you still be upset that his computer was transferred to the US and he be tried there?

He didn't hack anyone's bank account in the US. He's charged with copyright infringement, a victimless crime.

For instance in Saudi Arabia saying a non-muslim prayer could end you up in jail. If I hosted a website with non-muslim prayers, should my computers be sent to Saudi Arabia?

kracekumar · 4 days

Before writing the above code, I hadn’t realized how expensive random number generation could be. Simply taking the time to look for a faster function saved over 90% of the time spent.

I haven't looked at Numpy's source code but it's entirely possible that he went from using random to using urandom.

The difference is:

random: blocks when the entropy pool is empty but it generates better random numbers
urandom: doesn't block, however you will get more pseudo random numbers (less real randomness).

edit: it looks like numpy's implementation of random may indeed use urandom (I looked at the source as well).. python's os library offers urandom as well and it performs much closer to numpy's implementation:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7044044/an-efficient-way-of-making-a-large-random-bytearray?answertab=active#tab-top

ps. If numpy folks are using urandom as their default random provider, I am a little disappointed.

Placentaur · 4 days

Give it a second, it's going to space!

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