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by Someone 3mo ago
> but much like Boolean algebra or the Fourier Transform, it was pretty much a curiosity until computers came along. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_algebra#History : “Later, Gauss further described the method
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by Someone 3mo ago
> I have a better solution: address the root cause of unsafe semantics by not using raw indexed for-loops, unless one absolutely needs an index, in which case one should generate it with std::views::enumerate. That’s why Swift completely
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by Someone 3mo ago
Halfway to ten.
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by Someone 3mo ago
> I feel like they might be taking the wrong lesson from this. The Reaper costs $30-50 million precisely because its mission profile is to deliver 3,500 pounds of payload over 1,000 nautical mile radius. Partly, but I think there also is
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by Someone 3mo ago
Historically, that was phrased as “an army marches on its stomach” I think that’s an apt comparison because it was hard to keep an army fed ( https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-... )
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by Someone 3mo ago
> Anyway, the US and Israel can keep degrading Iran’s military and “government” by dropping bombs (or better, drones) on them every week for a decade and it won’t really be a big deal for the former. Can they? https://www.csis
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by Someone 3mo ago
https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/over-181-000-drones-ug-vs-ew-syst... https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/updated-e-points-system-military-... https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/the-m
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Ocean floor witnessed splitting apart for the first time – releasing lava(nature.com)
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by Someone 3mo ago
> Unbound can do authoritative dns I don’t know whether they’re right, but https://www.openbsdhandbook.com/bind/ and https://www.openbsdhandbook.com/unbound/ disagree with that, saying you need
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by Someone 3mo ago
> When people make comparisons to clunky Model T cars in the 20’s and Win95, they aren’t far off. I think they are. Model T’s were clunky because they were minimalistic; Windows 95 was clunky because it tried to do impossible things. Thi
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by Someone 3mo ago
> the app is clearly pretending to be my app OK. > when it isn’t Isn’t that what Apple must check and may be doing by “All they seem to have done so far is forward my complaint to the author of the scam listing” (depending on how they
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by Someone 3mo ago
You don’t explicitly say why you think Apple should take action. You don’t say you own that trademark, or that doing that is against the license of your open source app. Which of these is it? > I reached out to Apple via their trademark
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by Someone 3mo ago
I would think so, in the same way instrument maker or painting maintenance can be careers: not for many, but a decent career for a few aficionados. It’s not likely to employ millions of people, but there will be demand from people with seri
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by Someone 3mo ago
> When G-shocks, Garmins, and Apple Watches are a few hundred dollars and well-known luxury watch brands start at a few thousand, The price of the most expensive Garmin a quick internet search gave me is $3,100; the most expensive G-SHOC
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by Someone 3mo ago
> For comparsion, in the US as of 2023, nearly 48 million inhabitants (14.3% of total) are foreign-born ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat ...). Or the Netherlands, 4.4 million of its ~18 m
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by Someone 3mo ago
I guess we’ll see a Windows tool that sets your identifier to this suspect’s “g:6755467234350028” very soon (weird ID, by the way. 16-digits makes sense, but I would have expected it to be hexadecimal) Also, can anybody tell how “Microsoft
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by Someone 3mo ago
Mathematically, I think they both may be tetrahedons. The Tetrapod models it by 4 lines connecting each of its vertices to its center, the Dolosse by two opposite edges connected by a line through the middle. I’m saying “may be” because it
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by Someone 3mo ago
> Before ARM the m68k was possibly the most deployed processor architecture in history My money would be on something smaller such as the 8051 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MCS-51 ) Also, between m68k and ARM
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by Someone 3mo ago
The question (“what set of conditions actually cause a person to get a hip replacement surgery apart from an accident?”) wasn’t about her case. The article clearly indicates she had an accident (“Twenty years before, she had a hip replaceme
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by Someone 3mo ago
> Similarly, the ratio between the proton mass and the electron mass is approximately 1836 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton-to-electron_mass_ratio says it is 1836.152673426(32) So, it differs about 0.153
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by Someone 3mo ago
> Did she pack all the food with her? Likely. This wasn’t a race, but typical races require you to pack more food than you’ll likely need, and forbid you from ditching it even if it’s extremely unlikely you’ll need it (say you’re going
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by Someone 3mo ago
There always will be time between the first click and the time the button gets disabled and even more time before the visual representation of the button gets updated to reflect that. Keeping that time so short that it is impossible for a h
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by Someone 3mo ago
> even the best compilers don’t use a third of the opcodes our modern CPUs boast of That’s not necessarily an indication of the weakness of compilers. It also could be an indication that hardware designers could leave out instructions. X
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by Someone 3mo ago
Colloquially, it is. See for example BBC’s recent headline “The Viking word hidden in the Declaration of American Independence” ( https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260625-the-ancient-word... )
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by Someone 3mo ago
> but toasters are the real metal to the petal test. Or is that a new tongue in cheek idiom? AFAIK, it’s peDal, not peTal, and the other way around: pedal to the metal. The literal meaning is to push your accelerator pedal down to the fl
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by Someone 3mo ago
I guess this is a variation of a pork cycle, but, I expect, with only one cycle because people taking down solar capacity remains less attractive than keeping running it at lower revenues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by Someone 3mo ago
> My problem with AOP has always been that it makes the simple case trivial and the hard case much harder. Not always. DTrace, for example, is a tool to use AOP with programs and/or the OS kernel that makes the normal cases trivial
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by Someone 3mo ago
FTA: “Before deleting systemd, need to be sure that OpenRC will be installed, to so the command will be sudo apt purge --allow-remove-essential systemd && sudo apt install openrc sysvinit-core ” I don’t see that installing
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by Someone 3mo ago
Not the OP, but the historical answer was POSIX ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX , https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/2.56856 ). That didn’t work perfectly, but it did work to some extent.
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by Someone 3mo ago
> are millionaires easily accessible to people who aren't millionaires? No, but the OP said: > I would probably use the money I have now to buy whatever nice flashy thing I have to seem rich A good con artist can get far that way

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