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1. 631.▲
   by Y_Y 1y ago

   Small k for kilo-, big K for kelvin. I skimmed the links that TFA provided and couldn't find the source of that figure. With rare space plasmas near shocks it's typical to have non-thermal distributions where the temperature isn&#
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   by Y_Y 1y ago

   My first guess would be that your gold bar isn't 100% gold, because alloying with a little copper or silver will give you more durable and practical ingot. Ifyou look at a typical gold bar they'll usually have embossed their puri
3. 633.▲
   by Y_Y 1y ago

   Do your USB controllers ever need updates? Consumer PCs rarely end up having new firmware flashed to components, but applications and drivers are still frequently updated without much fuss.
4. 634.▲
   by Y_Y 1y ago

   Forward Euler is very terrible and can give you wildly wrong answers after just a few steps. If you think higher Runge-Kutta and fancy methods are too complex/expensive you do have cheap and stable options, like implicit euler or leapf
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   by Y_Y 1y ago

   > you don't call a bag of rice "rices" Well I didn't until now
6. 636.▲
   by Y_Y 1y ago

   Isn't it obvious that the solution is to decouple the software from the manufacturer? They have every incentive to not let old devices be used, even though it works just fine for old-school computers.
7. 637.▲
   by Y_Y 1y ago

   This looks like an product comparison from Amazon. I can't believe a human wrote this and thought it was a good explanation.
8. 638.▲
   by Y_Y 1y ago

   > A microphotograph by René Dagron, containing military communications, transported by carrier pigeon during the Siege of Paris, 1871 If only you'd read the fine article!
9. 639.▲
   by Y_Y 1y ago

   What about an agent that picks the best idea, steals it, runs the business for a while, goes bankrupt, and then emails you an executive summary of bitesize "learnings" from the exercise. You can't summarize your way to succes
10. 640.▲
    by Y_Y 1y ago

    Noun druthers pl (plural only) (US, informal, often humorous) Wishes, preferences.
11. 641.▲
    by Y_Y 1y ago

    It is certainly nothing like an eMac. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac
12. 642.▲
    by Y_Y 1y ago

    > why should US taxpayers subsidize a service for which non-US citizens could get a benefit from without paying any taxes? Because US citizens would benefit? Preventing outsiders from incidentally benefiting isn't a constitutional m
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    by Y_Y 1y ago

    I've stopped recommending this (except for in-person to friends) because it's so valuable, and I'm seriously worried about it getting stomped by YouTube.
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    by Y_Y 1y ago

    Well it's that or suicide
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    by Y_Y 1y ago

    I think keyword filters haven't managed to prevent widespread awareness of sex. News of sex has even reached Scunthorpe.
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    by Y_Y 1y ago

    You think you have it bad? I'm in Europe, on Android, had to walk uphill both ways to get here, running Firefox nightly from two weeks into the future, and eight foot deep in snow, barely staying warm by the light of the flamewars.
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    by Y_Y 1y ago

    Organists have been using foot-keyboards (somehow) for hundreds of years. I'm personally fond of this one though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog_Taurus See also this classic instrument, familiar from the late
18. 648.▲
    by Y_Y 1y ago

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/h... It's just the number of tokens it's willing to expend in the little internal dialogue before it has to spit out an answer.
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    by Y_Y 1y ago

    P ⊆ NP
20. 650.▲
    by Y_Y 1y ago

    Are you setting the "reasoning effort"? I find going from the default (medium) to high makes a big difference on coding tasks for openai reasoning models.
21. 651.▲
    by Y_Y 1y ago

    I remember when the internet was collaboratorative rather than competitive. I think then tech companies got so big that they ran out of scientists and engineers and had to hire fairground hucksters.
22. 652.▲
    by Y_Y 1y ago

    Don't make me think? Don't let me think!
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    by Y_Y 1y ago

    > Lactose is a disaccharide composed of galactose and glucose and has the molecular formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁. What could be different? Do you mean that relative amount of lactose? I believe it's that's not different in the raw materia
24. 654.▲
    by Y_Y 1y ago

    > it stands to reason that The upper-class "trust me bro"
25. 655.▲
    by Y_Y 1y ago

    Apologies. I am generally against CLAs, and I think it's shitty of GNU/FSF to use them, even if they promise to only do good and free things.
26. 656.▲
    by Y_Y 1y ago

    Big evil FSF, always trying to extract value and increase their stock price.
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    by Y_Y 1y ago

    Thanks for adding the background, much more helpful than my glib nonsense. I feel that Meditations on Moloch should be mandatory study for anyone who lives in a society.
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    by Y_Y 1y ago

    How is that supposed to make anyone click on an ad?
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    Ask HN: Replacing My Pinebook Pro – Recommendations?

    2 points by Y_Y 1y ago|1 comments
30. 660.▲
    by Y_Y 1y ago

    I think GDPPPP/capita is a better measure here, but the story is similar. From the IMF's 2025 numbers: USA $90k, China $29k, world average $26k. Lovely tabulation of the data here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2