Beldin

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by Beldin 4y ago
This started worth talking about notation. Notation of mathematics has changed significantly over time - Newton's Principae is not readable without accounting for changes. In the history of maths, that is a fairly recent work.
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by Beldin 4y ago
In my experience, most news nowadays has an agenda: selling itself. Newspapers and the main tv news have become far more clickbaity and far less informative. These used to be fairly decent sources of news; nowadays, you'll learn what s
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by Beldin 4y ago
Zelda four swords adventures managed that on the cube already. Not quite suddenly, I'd say. Awesome game if you had 3 friends and the necessary hardware.
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by Beldin 4y ago
I'm sorry, I must be missing some subtelty here. If renting is indeed cheaper than owning, landlords would be subsidising renters. That can't be correct...
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by Beldin 4y ago
Fair enough - though my car "only" has a 60L tank, so I'd expect much better for modern cars (driven in optimal conditions).
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by Beldin 4y ago
> You have to eventually decide to trust one or the other, in real-time. More or less. You can take that decision on other grounds - e.g. "what would be safest to do if one of them is wrong and i don't know which one?" T
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by Beldin 4y ago
Hmms. 2k km isn't bad, but i don't consider this amazing either: my 12-year old big and heavy car can do 1300 km on a full tank. Sure, that's in ideal conditions, but so is this. And there is plenty of simple improvements tha
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by Beldin 4y ago
Frankly, it isn't weird to pay to access a scarce resource. Now we're paying with our personal details... paying with other means might turn out better for society.
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by Beldin 4y ago
> if you own you have to factor in maintenance, property taxes, and insurance. Around here, if you rent, your landlord factors those things into the rental price. Admittedly not necessarily the insurance; that typically is just a requ
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by Beldin 4y ago
> millions of tiny startups. Sounds a bit like what Google does internally for promotions. Except their execution is failing so badly it is starting to affect the company. And also that I have no faith in this concept any more.
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by Beldin 4y ago
Then I'll happily contribute my second improvement of french: suivite. (For the curious, the first one is "toujourd'hui". And yes, this is tongue-in-cheek -- until these catch on and I'm celebrated by the Academy Fr
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by Beldin 4y ago
"Unless you are really very good at writing, it often looks like you're trying to show off. This distracts the reader from what you're writing about." Yeah, we're going to have to agree to disagree here.
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by Beldin 4y ago
That's what i used to think, but GP alluded to weak interaction between DM particles. I thinkt interaction consumes energy. If so, DM particles would be able to shed some momentum... but then they (eventually) could clump into black h
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by Beldin 4y ago
I was wondering about black holes created from dark matter only. I mean: if there's 5x as much stuff that has mass (and, thus, can form black holes), there should be 5x as many black holes - at least, that's what I'd expect
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by Beldin 4y ago
If that is true, where are the dark matter black holes? And why hasn't the majority of DM collapsed into black holes?
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by Beldin 4y ago
I've got two problems with this. First: if theory and observation don't match up, that can be due to lacking theory or lacking observations. Both should be investigated. Second: all candidates for dark matter i know posit an enor
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by Beldin 4y ago
Born & raised in the EU, have had a phone for 25ish years. Have never encountered SMS spam. Most I've had is 3 or 4 cases of SMS phishing attempts (which isn't spam).
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by Beldin 4y ago
Definitely not per country: I regularly use SMS from NL.
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by Beldin 4y ago
Given that women tend to be cited less than men [1], I don't think you need to worry just yet. [1] e.g. https://www.science.org/content/article/women-researchers-ci...
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by Beldin 4y ago
No, it's the most important aspect for any new Google product announcement. It's not up to commenters to behave better, it is up to Google. The comments cannot be considered garbage, since they ask the most pertinent question: why
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by Beldin 4y ago
It's not just your site: an HTTP site allows for injecting HTTP urls for images/css files on other sites, e.g. <link src="http://target.site/..."> If target.site's auth or session cookies
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by Beldin 4y ago
> I guess this is an artifact of how cutthroat academia is and how vital it is to have credit for being first. In fairness, academia has improved much in this regards since the days of Newton. That man was such an arse... even the Wiki
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by Beldin 4y ago
As a student, I did a tour of ASML. One of the coolest things was one of the tour guides bragging how they would inspect the prospective location for a new plant and deny sale if they didn't like it. Why? Because their machines are in
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by Beldin 4y ago
I'll chime in with: - Batmat TAS - Gargoyles - Howl's moving castle And if you'll allow "animation" to also cover animatronics and puppetry: - The Storyteller - Labyrinth
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by Beldin 4y ago
> To be clear, I hope that training AI on copyrighted images remains legal, because it would cripple the field of AI text and image generation if it wasn't! To be clear, there's no law banning training an AI. There are laws f
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by Beldin 4y ago
I don't remember that case at all. Possibly because I'm not American. Could you elaborate what would be a valid reason? From what you wrote, it sounds like someone started shooting after some kids said some things. I can see that
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by Beldin 4y ago
I would not expect this system to have any effect on shaking at ground floor level - it's meant to counteract sway, which at ground floor should be zero.
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by Beldin 4y ago
No, I put mine on a power block with an off switch. When not using that block (most of the time), it should draw 0.0W.
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by Beldin 4y ago
The thing makes over $20m a year, has only 3 junior folks for support / maintenance / development (with junior salaries presumably), and budget is tight? Run. The problem here is empathically not on the technical side.
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by Beldin 4y ago
> Her job was as a fashion journalist. The reason this doesn't excuse her for me, is that a journalist - of any type - is supposed to absorb events, place them in their context, and convey the result to a general public. So she ma

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