Tyrannosaur

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by Tyrannosaur 6mo ago
No, you are correct. Dr Geoff Lindsey on youtube: short version: https://youtube.com/shorts/GF1gIaxnULc?si=d4jFC-rLOC5dww-8 long version: https://youtu.be/GNpbv7hJf6c?si=xNz1UjeLY0Ch9eDv&t=366
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by Tyrannosaur 7mo ago
No it doesn't. The absolute difference[1] of 1.8°C is the same as 1.8K; they have the same scale. The subtraction of values cancels out the offset. A relative difference[2], usually given in percent change, has problems with a unit tha
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by Tyrannosaur 7mo ago
Why can't they?
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by Tyrannosaur 10mo ago
Hot water recirculation is a thing I have heard of done in the United States. I don't know how common it is, but a simple Home Depot search brought up a bunch of results for options. https://www.plumbingsupply.com/recir
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by Tyrannosaur 10mo ago
basically: "life, uh, finds a way"
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by Tyrannosaur 10mo ago
You can install it on Roku?
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by Tyrannosaur 11mo ago
Start with the simple. Don't be a bystander. "Next time I see somebody berating a retail worker, I will defend them" Although it usually needs to start more introspectively: "Next time I am about to lose my temper, I wil
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by Tyrannosaur 11mo ago
On the other hand, every effort each of us makes to eliminate bullying from this world is another effort toward making this world a better place. The trick is to have those thoughts, plans, and actions actually lead to results rather than j
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by Tyrannosaur 11mo ago
For what it's worth, my reaction to the word "bloodline" used in this way is exactly what it would have been to the word "dynasty". "Bloodline", as in, the line of inheritance for an extremely wealthy and
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by Tyrannosaur 11mo ago
> "Collapse" is maybe hyperbole in this case, if it's building on our own history to extrapolate forward. In the story, "at some point" generally involved technologies we are currently incapable of; the greater t
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by Tyrannosaur 11mo ago
I was initially a little confused at your comment. I had thought the decision was against Oracle being able to sue for use of the Java API. Reading a little closer, the decision was that even assuming the API copyright claim was valid, Goog
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by Tyrannosaur 11mo ago
It reminds me of Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought trilogy, especially the observation the traders make in the second book that all planet-bound civilizations are doomed to collapse at some point. They are usually able to restore techn
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by Tyrannosaur 2y ago
I don't know where you are in Europe, but from my experience basketball is popular in France and courts are everywhere.
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by Tyrannosaur 2y ago
Do you remember how accurately you were able to measure the gravitational constant?
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by Tyrannosaur 2y ago
asymptotically close as you add 9s, but 9 repeating means you DO add an infinity of 9s, so it equals 1. The reasoning that persuaded me initially was 1/3 is .333 repeating, 2/3 is .666 repeating, and 3/3 is .999 repeating.
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by Tyrannosaur 2y ago
> That hasn't been "sensible corporate practice" since American civil rights were instated. About that... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-equal-employment-opportun...
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by Tyrannosaur 2y ago
Your tone comes across as sarcastic, yet I cannot believe you haven't met at least several people who have used computers for 34+ years who didn't know you can change some basic setting.
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by Tyrannosaur 2y ago
Slight correction- Maine and Nebraska do not have proportional systems; they both use the Congressional District Method. Each congressional district votes plurality for an elector, and the 2 remaining electors go to the statewide plurality.
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by Tyrannosaur 2y ago
Pretty sure I can get close to mapping that to solving the halting problem
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by Tyrannosaur 2y ago
The key word is "decimated", as in, "decreased by 10%"
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by Tyrannosaur 2y ago
Keepass2Android has been working great for me for almost a decade now https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android
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by Tyrannosaur 2y ago
> What we need is a mechanism where servers can be tipped directly bypassing management. You should know, such a mechanism was invented thousands of years ago...
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by Tyrannosaur 2y ago
Meh, I was a smart-alec kid there with my friend. The salesperson had to go get a sim card "for the LTE to work" and I said "oh right, because LTE is GSM and requires a sim". The salesman insisted Sprint didn't use
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by Tyrannosaur 2y ago
I once got tossed out of a sprint store for pissing off a salesperson with this factoid.
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by Tyrannosaur 2y ago
I took it not so much that the increased thought leads to more useful phrases, but that people are more likely to exert this effort toward things they think are useful, rather than lies. You are going to remember "righty-tighty, lefty-
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by Tyrannosaur 3y ago
Yeah that does sound like the symptoms of the problem I discovered. If you ever witness it again, the trick is watching /proc/meminfo for the Dirty and Writeback numbers. And it's the vm.dirty* settings to change to fix it as
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by Tyrannosaur 3y ago
It's possible you were seeing another problem, but this issue is more likely to appear with a faster network connection, because the network transfer happens faster than the disk writes. You can confirm by watching /proc/me
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by Tyrannosaur 3y ago
> Shouldn't it timeout only when the server is no longer ACK-ing packets? That's exactly what happens. The server ACKs data until it fills its write buffer, and then stalls unresponsive until the entire buffer is flushed to dis
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by Tyrannosaur 3y ago
I am failing to persuade my brother of this. If someone desperately wants to live in a single-family home an hour away from the city center, they should want the city to be nice and dense and lots of cheap housing with great transit, becaus
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by Tyrannosaur 3y ago
Negative pressure is not a thing, except you just described it. If you take the difference between the pressures above the wing and below the wing, you get a negative number. A thing not existing absolutely can still exist relatively.

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