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by 08-15 6y ago
> Because the `start` and `end` symbols are unrelated objects That's irrelevant. What matters is whether they point to (or just past the end of) the same object, which they do.
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by 08-15 7y ago
See, that's exactly the problem. They tack on "nuclear" and "critical" to empty phrases so they sound scary to people who know nothing about nuclear fission. Thanks for confirming.
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by 08-15 7y ago
Yeah, and that phrase has no meaning. Especially "critical explosion" is nonsense, because "critical" in the context of a nuclear chain reaction means "steady state". What happened, as commonly understood, is
154.
by 08-15 7y ago
Funny how someone who is not a radiologist can blurt out nonsense and nobody questions it. If you follow the link to the main article: "...radiation shielding, which was one of the main concerns for the engineers. Liquid sodium, beryl
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by 08-15 7y ago
Can you explain what that's supposed to mean? An intentional nuclear explosion is air exploding because it's heated by a nuclear reaction. Chernobyl was water exploding because it was heated by a nuclear reaction. It's the
156.
by 08-15 7y ago
The way I read this, TIM FREAKIN' PATERSON, the man who wrote the most hated "operating system" in history, put an algorithm with a nasty performance bug into the standard library of VB, and conveniently forgot to document th
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by 08-15 7y ago
Whether it has an effect is not an issue. The issue is that it is referentially transparent. Sure, we could have a discussion about whether partiality is an effect. Someone, somewhere is having that discussion. If the Haskell committee h
158.
by 08-15 7y ago
I don't think it does. 'Strict' doesn't add an implicit ! to nested patterns (so (s,l) becomes !(s,l), not (!s,!l)), and 'StrictData' doesn't change anything about the tuple, which comes from a different
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by 08-15 7y ago
It's a partial function that always returns _|_. Haskell is not a total language (and whether a total language can be practical is yet to be seen).
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by 08-15 7y ago
Foldl' doesn't leak, but it sure looks like it does, if you think the folded function is strict in the accumulator argument, but isn't. For example, this attempt at computing the average of a list uncurry (/) . fol
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by 08-15 7y ago
> want to fold an operator with short-circuiting behavior left-associatedly over a list And then you'd find out that it doesn't work the way you hoped it would. foldl always traverses the whole list, because there is no way fo
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by 08-15 7y ago
> We all know what it looks like when a fastbreeder goes boom. In April 1986, Argonne National Lab tried to make their fast breeder "EBR-II" go boom twice by shutting off all cooling during full power operation. Nothing happ
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by 08-15 7y ago
TL;DR: Cats are very effective at hunting mice. Why do these articles insist on talking about "small mammals"? Cats don't kill fluffy bunnies; they kill mice, rats, voles. They basically exterminate vermin around human set
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by 08-15 7y ago
"“don’t you mean translator?“ Let me explain. In computer science jargon a translator IS a compiler. It’s exactly the same thing. Those are synonyms." Every time someone says "transpiler", god kills a kitten. Please, th
165.
by 08-15 7y ago
Formic acid, being more oxidized, has lower energy density than methanol. In what way is it better than methanol?
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by 08-15 7y ago
'Dynamic typing' is to 'typing' as 'emotional intelligence' is to 'intelligence'.
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by 08-15 7y ago
What exactly is the UNIX philosophy? As far as I can see, it's roughly "Data structures are hard, so let's pretend everything is ACSII text. Now we can use a really difficult systems programming language (C) to build functio
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by 08-15 7y ago
E. T. Jaynes gave some very good answers (symmetry groups and maximum entropy principle). You should read "Probability Theory: The Logic Of Science". In it, you will learn that the supposed "hole" has been closed prett
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by 08-15 7y ago
Maximum likelihood is equivalent to Bayesian maximum a-posteriori (MAP) given a uniform prior and the right choice of parameters. However, decision theory tells us, that MAP estimation is rarely, if ever, a good point estimator. The mean
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by 08-15 7y ago
He isn't talking to the people who already use encrypted email. He's talking to those who haven't made up their mind, yet, and since his goal is not to help anyone, but to increase adoption of his favorite solution, portrayi
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by 08-15 7y ago
The police.
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by 08-15 7y ago
> You seem to not be very well informed and unwilling to learn. Cute. I live in Germany. Nothing you write will change the fact that I pay 30 Euro-cents per kWh. Nor will it change the fact that people in France pay much less and peopl
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by 08-15 7y ago
Ahem. The topic of equality of outcome is flamebait to begin with. (Why? Because of tiny details like "encouraging" hidden it between the neutral reporting.) The question is real, though: are trans women counted as women? If
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by 08-15 7y ago
I'm confused. The headline talks about women holding more than 50% of jobs. But the tagline underneath says females make up the largest share of the labor market! That ain't make no sense! In the current year, not all wome
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by 08-15 7y ago
I totally forgot about coal subsidies! Those must be the reason why German electricity was cheaper 20 years ago, when we still mined hard coal in the Ruhr area.
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by 08-15 7y ago
Germany has the most expensive electricity in the world (excluding Diesel powered islands). Electricity in neighboring France is a third or so of the price. Is that because France gets so much more sunlight?
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by 08-15 7y ago
If a majority of humans would agree on a date format, I might agree with you. But they don't.
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by 08-15 7y ago
[PSA] There is one standard date format. It is called ISO 8601 and looks like 2020-01-04. Use it. It's very good. If you write 4.1.2020 or 1/4/2020, you're wrong. Those are both bad, as are many others.
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by 08-15 7y ago
Why do you expect me to prove a negative? These "scientists" (really just tinkerers) need to argue for their implicit claim first. But they don't. They take the (correct, but hardly useful) statement "methylation gener
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by 08-15 7y ago
Even if this result is real (I smell bad statistics), it's completely useless. All cells in our bodies have the same genome. But a hepatozyte and a neuron are very different cells, aren't they? The difference is that cells speci

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