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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
How is this story obviously wrong if you've developed the Pythagorean theorem? The Pythagorean theorem has nothing to do with rationality. If you think the irrationality of sqrt(2) follows easily from the Pythagorean theorem, then by
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Yeah Polyglot requires not making any mistakes; mess up and you'll have to restart to get it. I can't seem to get Roaring Kitty either -- and I should note, you can check how much you've made in the stock market with the &qu
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Nonstandard flag emoji in Linux Mint 21.3 (with MATE)(sniffnoy.dreamwidth.org)
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resume.pdf Email: harry.j.altman
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Meanwhile, there are estimated to be possibly a quadrillion individuals of bristlemouth species in the genus Cyclothone... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclothone
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
It's not really a conceptual leap if you've ever had to work with "don't care" cases before...
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Given that the fixed table is a much simpler one (by letting out-of-bounds just return 2, rather than adding circuitry to make it return 0), I wonder why they didn't just do it that way in the first place?
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
I have no information that you don't, but it looks to be blogspam of it -- it always refers to Shank as a separate party, it doesn't claim to have had any involvement in what happened.
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Carnivorous Squirrels Documented in California(ucdavis.edu)
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Where's this interview from? Who's the interviewer?
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Hm, can this be done with other After Dark games, like Rodger Dodger?
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Additional note: I'd still bet that the commenter was conflating the two words, however.
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
The term you're looking for here is "mass noun" or "uncountable noun", and... well I was going to say "no, it can't", but searching does turn up some uses, so, uh, I guess people are saying that now a
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Well the thing to note here is that "grift" is a count noun. (Their definitions as verbs is not what's relevant here!) You can't say "grift is occurring here"; you can say " a grift is occuring here&q
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
No, it's not. "Grift" is a count noun. You can't say "grift is occurring here"; you can say " a grift is occuring here", or "grifts are occurring here", but not just "grift is occurri
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
I have to point out here, I think the word you're looking for is "graft".
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
I don't think this applies to the particular problems being discussed. Certainly it's irrational to discriminate (as you say in a related comment), but the examples discussed in the article are not cases of Scientific American si
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Actually, one addition here: I said that there are lots of possible group laws on an elliptic curve, but IINM, the ones described here are the only ones that are algebraic (and as for what exactly that means, I'll definitely skip g
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
"The" group operation is the standard one for elliptic curves, that the article discusses. "The" here means "the one we're talking about" and also "the ones that mathematicians mean if they're n
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Reading this, I had to wonder what was "opposite" about these "opposite birds". Apparently it's how the shoulder blade (scapula) connects to the coracoid bone (a bone not present in therian mammals). From Wikipedi
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
> - If you intersect an elliptic curve with a straight line, you end up with a polynomial in one variable, of degree 3 (in general). Since a polynomial of degree 3 has 3 solutions (in the appropriate context), this means that if you have
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Ubisoft sued for shutting down The Crew(polygon.com)
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Yeah, I don't think that was mentioned anywhere -- I assumed it was real-money. That should really be clarified!
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
You should make your criticism explicit; just making a joke like this isn't particularly helpful. To make explicit what I'm assuming is your point, this statement from the article can't be correct because A. POWER is by IBM,
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Not all of these are correct. For instance, the one for Fulton St Station shows the two J/Z platforms as being on the same level, when in fact they're on two different levels.
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
The "forgotten" part isn't Einstein's proposal, but the semiclassical suggestion of how to avoid it. Have you seen that part commonly retold? I haven't.
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
I think it's worth once again linking the "Stop Killing Games" campaign, for those that don't know about it! https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Yeah I mean the thing though is that it's just kind of the obvious way to do this instruction. So two different groups doing it the same way isn't really any evidence of copying.
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
Oh, I thought the title was saying that the instruction doesn't work properly! (The article actually just explains how it works.)
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by Sniffnoy 2y ago
It does not appear to be what's being described here? Could you perhaps expand on the equivalence between the two if it is?

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