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by KMag 3y ago
> PageRank (temporarily as we've learned) managed to filter out the spam. It was more temporary (shorter time period) than you probably realize. I was a developer on the Google web indexing system. PageRank was only one of many sig
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by KMag 3y ago
My first thought was "Xitter! That's clever, but I'm not sure if it's as funny if you're not familiar with pinyin". If you're not familiar with pinyin, do you still read that X as making an "Sh"
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by KMag 3y ago
First time I took a vitamin B supplement, I had brief concern before remembering that I had just started taking vitamin B and searched [vitamin B bright urine]. Don't do this, but I read online about some chemist getting pranked by his
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by KMag 3y ago
> Or move away from the US and stop supporting bad US government behavior with our taxes... As long as you're a US citizen or green card holder, moving away from the US won't stop the US from taxing all of the money you make an
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by KMag 3y ago
I'm pretty sure what they mean by "stateless" is that the manual switch resets any state set wirelessly.
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by KMag 3y ago
And (no joke) the word Cobalt comes from the belief that Kobolds were defending Saxon silver mines with toxic minerals. We've known for a long time that Cobalt compounds are pretty toxic to miners.
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by KMag 3y ago
My brother was driving a rented 15-passenger van full of kids on a freeway when a tie rod broke loose. Even with the steering wheel turned fully the other way, he couldn't counter-act the errant wheel. The van veered into the median
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by KMag 3y ago
It took me a second to realize you were intentionally using a vacuous truth (any statement is true about all members of an empty set) rather than accidentally inverting "was" as "wasn't".
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by KMag 3y ago
Most people interested enough in politics to do political research are likely to also be politically active. However, it would be possible to do political academic research detached from one's personal politics. Similarly, most bibli
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by KMag 3y ago
Why wouldn't they work well as wells? They wouldn't be optimal ventilation shafts, but they'd be hidden, and apparently generally sufficient.
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by KMag 3y ago
Off the top of my head, numbers get stringified when used as keys in objects. === and !== are almost always what you want instead of == and !=. It's generally too eager to stringify values when the programmer is doing something a bit
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by KMag 3y ago
I would argue both Iraq wars and the war in Afghanistan were cases of losing the peace in equal measure to easily winning the war.
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by KMag 3y ago
Prior to mechanically pumped water, wells were within walking distance pretty much everywhere. I believe most/all of the ventilation shafts at least looked like wells, if not doubling as wells.
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by KMag 3y ago
See the movie "The Mouse That Roared". Having seen the results of Germany and Japan being bombed and rebuilt by the US, a small fictional country comes up with the brilliant development plan of intentionally starting and losing a
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by KMag 3y ago
It would have been interesting to get the take from my dad's cousin, who did early powdered metallurgy work research as an MIT undergrad in the 1940s, and later became a VP at US Steel. Unfortunately, he's no longer with us.
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by KMag 3y ago
Also nearby is the similar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymakli_Underground_City
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by KMag 3y ago
It's highly country- and work- dependent. I work in a highly regulated industry (finance), where employers are very sensitive about remoting in from other jurisdictions. Under my previous employer, I wasn't allowed to remote in f
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by KMag 3y ago
In contrast with Thailand, where a surprising number of their leading movie and TV actors (and actresses... have we fully retired that word yet?) are biracial. My extended family in Bangkok keep complimenting my three half-Thai kids on the
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by KMag 3y ago
> *(To be accurate, NO2 ⇌ N2O4 interconvert in dynamic equilibrium) ... and isn't N02 red while N204 is clear? So, to be pedantic, the red they're seeing is N02?
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by KMag 3y ago
The GP and GGGP were specifically talking about segfaults. The GP is reminding the GGP that the complaint is specifically about segfaults.
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by KMag 3y ago
Note that if your playlist is append-only, you can use format-preserving encryption and just store a seed, a counter, and the length of the list when you started, instead of storing the whole shuffled list.
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by KMag 3y ago
And a uniform random shuffle chooses any of the N! orderings with equal probability. One is looking at a single element as the output of the process, and another is looking at the entire list as the output of the process. Also, there are p
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by KMag 3y ago
0. Large companies much prefer to settle patent disputes with "Okay, you might have a case for patents A, B, C. We have a case for you infringing on our patents D and E. We like your patents F and G. What do you like from our portfo
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by KMag 3y ago
They're treating the traces of cancer that are very likely left behind after the melanoma removal, that are likely to result in recurrence.
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by KMag 3y ago
The Haber process only produces CO2 if you consider the steam reformation to generate the feed hydrogen to be part of the Haber process. Technically, the Haber process itself is carbon-neutral, it's just that the hydrogen feedstock is
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by KMag 3y ago
What if sections will be needed now, and it's easy enough to make a plan to eventually connect all of the parts as needed? Get the zoning work done to prevent anything over 2 stories tall being built over the planned route, and then b
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by KMag 3y ago
No, I'm not talking about magnetic core memory. Core rope memory also used little magnetic rings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory input wires were energized, and they were coupled (or not) to the o
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by KMag 3y ago
Yes, I'm aware. My mechanical engineering undergrad program had 2 semesters of thermal fluids engineering. I'm just saying "We tried air cooling, but switched to fluid cooling" is an odd statement, since air would have
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For the Apollo Guidance Computer, changing the program meant manually re-weaving wires through or around tiny magnet rings. A good part of the cost of the computer was the time spent painstakingly weaving the wires to store the program.
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by KMag 3y ago
That video link begins with "I believe there is a path to a soft or soft-ish landing", followed by a definition of a soft landing as unemployment not going up too much. It seems he's pretty clearly describing what he believes

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