SagelyGuru

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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
When you read between the lines of these "productivity" academic career policies and measures, you realise that they are aimed squarely at fame rather than quality of science. I guess the argument goes something like this: when yo
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
For optimal results, place the reflector at distance d = c / 2f behind the antenna (half wavelength). Where c is the speed of light and f is the frequency of your wifi. For example, for 5 Ghertz signal, that will be 30mm.
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
A garden hose filled with salt water is superior technology. It does not dry out and has a good size diameter. Better bandwidth performance than a thin wire.
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
My grandfather was a real Czechoslovak resistance leader, like the fictional Victor, which adds extra poignancy to "Casablanca" for me. Unfortunately the reality was such that the Germans were unlikely to release such people. My g
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
>Well, you can certainly ignore all that and just use the language. Nothing forces you to do these things, they're just forcing themselves to do these things. I am old and non-native English speaker and I love Rust. Thus I would hav
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
I did not say that I do not care about people. I said I do not care about what type of people have written the language. Do you see the difference? When I use Rust, I don't even know what was the colour and sexual orientation of every
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
Well, at least "identity politics" are two proper English words, not just some weird abbreviation like "cis".
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
I am really not interested in your current US obsession with identity politics. I care for a well designed, well performing language, which Rust appears to be. I could not care less about what is the colour of people writing it, their sexua
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
I don't mean to be pedantic but I do get confused by people writing about tenants and building in one sentence, when they probably meant tenets? "...we can leverage another one of it’s key tenants, which is that the building,...&q
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
My dog never had any trouble from the Facebook representatives. But then, he did use his real name....
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
That story makes no sense. If those farmers of Palanpur can not agree to plant all together at the right time, how come they manage it several weeks later, or ever?
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
What has Williams meant by "a better place"? Clearly, in this context, a better place than the world where not everybody could speak freely and exchange ideas. Is that really wrong? I still believe that freedom of speech is import
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
Ah, thanks for that information! I was one of those who thought that w3schools were w3 and that was my mistaken reason as to your question "why?". That skullduggery aside, their css seems comparable to the rest discussed here.
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
Has anybody here any experience with/opinions on/ W3.CSS ? https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/default.asp . It seems like the obvious first choice to me and has pretty much everything I might ever need. How does
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by SagelyGuru 9y ago
Aj kud ríd it kvajt ízili. Hel, Aj ívn nou lotz of pípl hír hú spík end rajt lajk tat ál dze tajm end sink itz inglyš. But mejbí tatz cóz Aj em Slavík :) Ser10us14 th0u6h, 18 n0t t51s 0b4u8cat10n be44er a6a1ns4 c0mpu4er8? PS. Kudos for the
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
There is nothing particularly remarkable about Czech/Slavonic word "robota" (serfdom) being mentioned in English as a technical term for the system in force in Austria (and the Czech lands), nine years before it was abolished
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
Reminds me of Datsun. The story goes that they invited a highly paid PR consultant to visit. On arrival he was told that there is a board meeting that evening and he is expected to attend and come up with the best name for their cars. Appar
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
Uranium/Plutonium reactors are a dead technology. Toshiba lost vast sums of money when Westinghouse Electric went bankrupt recently, mostly for not being able to compete with more economical sources of energy. That is not to rule out b
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
I used to teach Prolog in the GOFAI days of early 80's. It certainly was fun and probably the quickest way how to start solving interesting search based problems without having to write pages and pages of code. It was very good for mot
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
The link given to Rust rationals is broken. It should be: http://rust-num.github.io/num/num_rational/
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
"All paper currencies eventually find the level of their value, which is zero." Voltaire
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
It is hard not to be cynical about this, coming from an organisation that called the cops on Aaron Swartz and let the attorneys hound him to his death. It looks like a belated PR exercise to ease their conscience or public image. If they at
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
Anyway, thank you for the predictable downvotes. At least I know how Galileo felt when downvoted for his non-standard explanation. "And still it turns!" I am afraid that I remain similarly unconvinced by appeals to the authority o
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
There is another possible explanation instead of dark matter and that is electric charge and currents (plasma flows). Electric force is many orders of magnitude stronger than gravity. So, if the objects in the universe are charged, the repe
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
Applauding with the audience may have been meant as a sign of humility or marxist fatalism. However, by Occam's razor, it comes across as what it looks like: the speaker applauding himself.
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
Particles is the wrong word to use when trying to explain radiation heat of fire. Particles usually mean subatomic particles. Particles in general sense are too vague. Molecules would be better.
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
To name yourself after a poet that inspired you must be the ultimate compliment that one poet can pay to another.
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
Though, hypothetically speaking, if they did deliberately place ProtonMail on their blacklist trying to kill a competing business, then keeping quiet about it for as long as possible would make sense to them.
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
DuckDuckGo?
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by SagelyGuru 10y ago
I have every sympathy with ProtonMail. Google's behaviour in this certainly looks highly suspect. However, in general, I am not a fan of regulation. I wonder if this problem could not be better fixed by an open source search engine &qu

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