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by KMag 3y ago
Do you mean polygon, or did I miss something relating to a polynomial solution?
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by KMag 3y ago
Very interesting, though a bit odd to contrast air cooling with fluid cooling, given it takes pretty extreme conditions for air to not be a fluid.
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by KMag 3y ago
How did I miss the reserve requirement in the US going to zero in 2020? I was living overseas at the time, and I know I had more pressing things to consider, but still... > In addition, banks in modern times have never had to wait for d
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by KMag 3y ago
> ... and they look at the recession as a necessary goal to tame inflation. Necessary goal, or necessary evil? I'd really like to see a citation for the Fed explicitly targeting a recession. I used to work with a former senior Fed
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by KMag 3y ago
Instead of blocking/non-blocking, blocking with a timeout is probably a better primitive. A simple convenience would be to provide FOREVER (or maybe ONE_MILLENNIUM) and ZERO_TIME constants for the maximum (or absurdly large) and zero
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by KMag 3y ago
I hope you're being hyperbolic about the Fed's intentions. Bankruptcies and recession are often unwanted side-effects of attempts to tame inflation, not intentional effects.
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by KMag 3y ago
> Actually the money was just sat in a bank account, which AFAIK doesn't cause net carbon emissions. That depends on your definitions. I'm not sure about U.K. reserve ratios, but in the U.S., about 90% of your bank deposit goe
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by KMag 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the GP was looking for "genotype", but "avian agenda" wins Phrase of the Day award. I hereby present you with the lovingly artisanally hand-typed period at the end of this sentence.
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by KMag 3y ago
> This doesn't really count as freely joining, since half of them were forced to join by a bloody war. In the South, do they generally consider themselves as forced to re-join the Union, rather than having been forcefully prevented
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by KMag 3y ago
Isn't Ada/Spark in avionics the main use case for Ada these days? So, huge share of a tiny market?
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by KMag 3y ago
The next thing I'd like to see are deposit-only bank account numbers tied to your regular bank account number, so that you can give someone the information necessary for them to send you money via ACH without them having all the inform
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by KMag 3y ago
Right, I meant biometrics for identification, as in this TSA use case. Biometrics for authentication/authorization are terrible, at least as currently implemented.
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by KMag 3y ago
If you're referring to mRNA vaccines, one of us needs to brush up on basic cellular biology. If you're referring to Adenovirus vector COVID-19 vaccines, I believe episomal replication makes their DNA short-lived in the host. Also
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by KMag 3y ago
I know facial recognition algorithms and human facial recognition work wildly differently. However, the two faces are similar enough that several months of training, with some ability to choose perspective, isn't sufficient for my old
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by KMag 3y ago
and also a problem for my identical twins. I just realized we thought we were being a bit cute by giving them names that meant the same thing, but in different languages. Now, I realize that if they translate their names into written Chine
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by KMag 3y ago
I found out last week that one of my colleagues caught hand-foot-mouth disease from his toddler, and it scarred his fingerprints, causing problems with US Immigration And Boarder Patrol's stored biometrics for him. Yes, this particula
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by KMag 3y ago
> LuaJIT managed with less with a focused language and a really capable lead. It's pretty well established that "Mike Pall" is the pen name for an AI sent from the future for unknown reasons. It disappeared from our light
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by KMag 3y ago
> And they're also lazy so go for people who have already done the legwork (journos). I don't think they should be able to strip-mine journalists for information, but "laziness" that makes things get done faster is us
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by KMag 3y ago
> it's the epoxy resin it's been filled with that's tougher, right? Your comment seems to suggest that the cellulose left after removing the lignin from the wood isn't playing any role. The wood really is playing an
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by KMag 3y ago
We covered Jacobians, Gaussian curvature, local extrema, saddle points, etc. in the linear algebra course. We did integrals in cylindrical and spherical coordinates in the integral and differential calculus course. So, I guess the standard
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by KMag 3y ago
I don't recall if multivariable was pushed in at the end of my differential and integral calculus course or at the beginning of my differential equations course. It's possible it was also somehow tucked into my linear algebra cou
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by KMag 3y ago
Right, the chain rule is foundational. If you don't understand the chain rule, then related rates and lots of your real-world engineering applications of calculus would seem to require memorizing a crazy number of specific solution te
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by KMag 3y ago
What are the standard 3 semesters? 1. Differential and Integral Calculus 2. Differential Equations 3. Complex Variables
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by KMag 3y ago
Sorry, what's calc 3? I wasn't aware there was a standard linear progression of calculus courses. Is "calc 3" complex variables? Diff Eq?
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by KMag 3y ago
Even if that were the case, the US could lose a world war without one foreign troop setting foot in the homeland.
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by KMag 3y ago
Sure. My point is just that "whole cloth" fabrication "right from the beginning" is far too simple an explanation. Anyone fabricating from whole cloth would have made the facts much less inconvenient. Anyone knowing t
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by KMag 3y ago
> Prepare yourself: the entire canon was equally made up from whole cloth, right from the beginning. The fainting hypothesis seems much more likely than an intentional fraud. Given the original leaders initially successfully scattered to
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by KMag 3y ago
Thanks for the correction. TIL.
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by KMag 3y ago
Mail delivery trucks have the steering wheel on the right side so that the driver doesn't have to get out in order to reach the mailbox. When using normal cars, they're modifying the routes slightly.
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by KMag 3y ago
I was a Core Strat for Goldman's Algorithmic Trading Platform (ATP) at the time of the Knight collapse. ATP had an "upstream compliance layer" and a "downstream compliance layer" even prior to this incident. > I

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