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by FreeFull 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/975/ I can't resist linking to the relevant xkcd. It's definitely nice to see this actually done in real life
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by FreeFull 7y ago
Probably LGPLing or MITing it, so closed-source apps can still use the library too.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
It could also be the case that advertising changes which particular product people choose (say, which brand of beer), but doesn't affect the demand for beer overall.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
Nice coincidence that the project is called ColorKitty too.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
The thing about mad cow disease is that it's a prion disease, which operate very differently from viral and bacterial diseases. Prion diseases can just appear out of nowhere, and can be spread by consumption or contact with affected ti
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by FreeFull 7y ago
On a side note, the actual saying is "rite of passage". "rite" as in ritual.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
Interestingly, 7.853981629 is close to pi*2.5
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by FreeFull 7y ago
Part of the problem here would be that none of the claims sent to MumboJumbo have been through the DMCA. They all use Youtube's internal system instead, which was built to appease the big music publishers.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
It seems that when uMatrix blocks some of the resources the website expects, it pegs one of my CPU cores and uses a gradually increasing amount of RAM.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
Perhaps audio-free videos should be allowed in <img> tags
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by FreeFull 7y ago
It doesn't seem like that particular game is included, unless it's under some other name.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
On Linux, the other solitaire program worth looking at is KPatience. It only has 12 types of solitaire, but has a pretty nice interface. It's probably worth it installing both PysolFC and KPatience.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
This is why aluminium drinks cans have a lining of plastic on the inside. So even with aluminium containers, you don't get away from plastic.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
Nowadays, the manga publisher Shuiesha (known for the Weekly Shōnen Jump) has an official website where can view the last few chapters of each of their manga, translated into English.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
You should look at https://pysolfc.sourceforge.io/ . It is open source, and besides the classic Klondike solitaire, also has over 1000 other solitaire games. And it definitely will be a lot more energy efficient, too.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
I'm reading it more as "If the only tool everyone has is hammers, everything will be done with nails"
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by FreeFull 7y ago
I imagine sleeping is part of it though, when you're asleep your heart beats even slower than when awake.
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by FreeFull 8y ago
Echoic memory is also very useful when someone says something, but you haven't understood them right away. There is also iconic memory, which stores the things you see and lasts less than a second.
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by FreeFull 8y ago
The interesting thing about rubber is that it loosens up when it's cold, and shrinks when heated
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by FreeFull 8y ago
The thing about dark matter is that because it doesn't seem to interact in any way other than gravitationally, there is no way for it to lose energy and clump together. So, collections of dark matter tend to stay rather diffuse. The wa
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by FreeFull 8y ago
The interesting thing about sickle cell anaemia is that you get it if both copies of the gene are abnormal, you get the disease, but if just one of them is abnormal you don't get the disease but still get the resistance to malaria.
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by FreeFull 8y ago
If orbital mechanics were this unstable, we wouldn't ever manage to have any sattellites up in orbit around the Earth (or have the Earth orbit the Sun, and the Sun orbit the centre of the galaxy..). The important part of your orbit is
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by FreeFull 8y ago
How quickly would a protective coating on the glass wear out? Or the green/brown colouring that gets added to beer bottle glass.
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by FreeFull 8y ago
I am not a Go user so I can't speak about Go specifically, but I feel like including the name of the language in the library name is in general an anti-pattern, since generally when you look for a library to do something in language A,
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by FreeFull 8y ago
That's because the website was changed after that comment was made, to fix this issue.
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by FreeFull 8y ago
I feel like Rust has shown that mutability is ok, as long as you don't have both mutability and aliasing. Having a mutable object accessible from many places at the same time definitely is a recipe for bugs.
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by FreeFull 8y ago
The alternative tends to be to propagate the error upwards using the `?` operator, up to some point where it makes sense to handle errors
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by FreeFull 8y ago
Python will actually give you an error for `print foo` as soon as it parses the file. But there definitely are other scenarios where you'll only get the error in the middle of execution (such as passing the wrong type of thing as an ar
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by FreeFull 8y ago
I think the vast majority of people isn't even aware that programming is a thing. Back when computers used to present people with a BASIC prompt, people had a better chance of finding out about it and getting into it.
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by FreeFull 8y ago
And webkit itself was based on khtml, too

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