IsTom

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451.
by IsTom 2y ago
> Roundworld isn’t even modeled in the Middle Earth cosmology Middle-earth is a fantasy history of England and we're in sixth age (or something like that) of it. It becomes round with the third age.
452.
by IsTom 2y ago
Europe just isn't a particularly seismically active and then only it's mostly southern Europe.
453.
by IsTom 2y ago
Just don't build the plant next to Vesuvius. The biggest recorded earthquake in Europe was 7.1 magnitude, compared to 7.4 that caused tsunami that hit fukushima.
454.
by IsTom 2y ago
Belarusian protests were doing well until putin brought his own riot police to help.
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by IsTom 2y ago
Which is the exact kind of play Putin likes to perform.
456.
by IsTom 2y ago
One difference is that this is mult that comes before cards-in-hand get scored, so steel cards (or 1.5X for kings in hand joker) have something to work off.
457.
by IsTom 2y ago
It's verbose and could be simplified, but also looks like something you write once and never look at again. If it works it makes no sense to spend any more time on it.
458.
by IsTom 2y ago
> 25 minutes Personally I've had ~1 hour runs often. Am I just a slow player or am I missing something? For context I've been playing for less than two weeks and haven't yet beat ante 11 (7M feels like a big step in diffic
459.
by IsTom 2y ago
Personal experience would tell me "both" - less complex thoughts with less intensity and with worse SNR.
460.
by IsTom 2y ago
> assumes that there are no degrees in consciousness And I don't get why, it seems to me quite self evident that you yourself can experience reduced-consciousness states, be it being half-asleep or quite drunk.
461.
by IsTom 2y ago
> In your car you have an expectation of privacy. Less than some people assume. I've seen people eat boogers while waiting for a green light.
462.
by IsTom 2y ago
I've always found it odd that people are fixating on showing P != NP when they can't even show that P != PSPACE.
463.
by IsTom 2y ago
Copy-on-write means that it performs copy only when you make the first change (and only copies part that changes, rest is used from the original file), until then copying is free.
464.
by IsTom 2y ago
It makes sense to prevent her from talking to people who might try to pull another similar stunt.
465.
by IsTom 2y ago
And then you change temperatre/elevation/move it next to a router and it falls apart, because after all there is going to be something correlated.
466.
by IsTom 2y ago
Because the kind of people who'll own all the profits aren't going to share.
467.
by IsTom 2y ago
That's been the case with libraries and frameworks since forever and all it does is rise demand for devs because of Jevons paradox.
468.
by IsTom 2y ago
In the current system if a giant company just steals something, will you be able to last through years of legal proceedings while they're the ones reaping the profits?
469.
by IsTom 2y ago
The common sentiment is that it's because of deepening cooperation because of ECSC, which was one of its explicit purposes. Not US military bases.
470.
by IsTom 2y ago
> What retaliation do you suggest, given that Russia tested isolated internet operations, and clearly demonstrated the state is robust against being cut off? Their access to the world through the Baltic sea is not a given.
471.
by IsTom 2y ago
> OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. This is what makes Erlang (gen_servers) my favourite OOP language! And that's only partially jokin
472.
by IsTom 2y ago
> You call the first and one of the most successful democracies in the world That's the level of delusion in your own greatness that led to Trump. USA was the first (representative!) democracy with written constitution at best. An
473.
by IsTom 2y ago
I got 9kW is for 2e17g and it's 35kW for 1e17g. I guess I didn't think about how quickly it grows.
474.
by IsTom 2y ago
Hawking radiation depends on mass of the BH, the smaller the hole the hotter it is.
475.
by IsTom 2y ago
Gravitationally maybe, but you'd certainly notice the 9 kW of hawking radiation.
476.
by IsTom 2y ago
> this applies to the executive branch So he gets to tell police what the law is and who to arrest within the "law" that he proclaimed.
477.
by IsTom 2y ago
I think that there's just a lot of voodoo floating around regarding audio.
478.
by IsTom 2y ago
That "bigger" is certainly more than two meters.
479.
by IsTom 2y ago
5 ms is 1.7 meters at speed of sound. If that was the issue then any acoustic live band would fall apart. Jitter is a much bigger problem.
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by IsTom 2y ago
And to drive that point home, we get induction stoves that run on three-phase 400V.

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