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by Y_Y 1y ago
Feynman was complaining about this error appearing in textbooks back in the sixties[0]. The trouble (of course) is that Celsius properly is not a proper unit, but a "scale", or a "unit of difference" (equal to kelvin), o
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by Y_Y 1y ago
> Historically, the Underground infrastructure offered a respite from warm weather, indicated in Austin Cooper’s ‘It is cooler below’ poster, issued in 1924 by the Underground group to promote a more comfortable experience of travel duri
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by Y_Y 1y ago
You must not have seen the abject misuses of JSON I've seen then
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Making jokes isn't an endorsement! It's often a coping mechanism.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Plain text menus would have been fine
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Fixing all of those at once might be a bit too much to ask, but I have some quick suggestions. I'd say for a more robust JSON you could try Dhall. If you just want to exchange lumps of data between programs I'd use Protobuf. If yo
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by Y_Y 1y ago
I think it's consistent to be annoyed that they went and bought something and shoved it into everyone's browser, but also that they're taking away a service that people have come to depend on.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
So if I can identify a chat, that I have direct access to, in the dataset, I can get the hashed user ID of my contacts, and the search for any other messages from them?
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by Y_Y 1y ago
I thought this was something like a FUSE driver that would on-the-fly generate any file you tried to read, with some consistency. Like if you open stories/zombie-party.txt it will have some generative network make it, and cache it. If
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by Y_Y 1y ago
I like the cut of your jib. May I propose: Ovaltine Window: You view all politics with distaste because you are drinking a sorry substitute for a cup of tea. Overtime Window: Rather than continue working extra hours you decide to self-defen
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by Y_Y 1y ago
"Have I been pwned... at birth, by accidents of geography and economics" Sorry that's happened to you. The only remedy I can think of is get a non-commercial proxy in some "recommended" country like through a friend
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Yes. Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man, but I think website redesigns are just a marketing thing (and fun for web developers) and rarely benefit the user. Nasa ADS has a fantastic (if super old-looking) site for many years that was clean
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by Y_Y 1y ago
I'm guessing you're referring to the Overton Window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window but now you've got me wondering if that's just a clever turn of phrase and there's some poetic
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Fair point. The context of that quote was that he was asked by a journalist for a quick explanation over the phone when the physics Nobel for 1965 was announced. He did go on to write a very readable little book (from a lecture series) on t
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by Y_Y 1y ago
I feel like this (and I know it's big tech tradition) had the same economic effect as dumping. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dumping.asp
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by Y_Y 1y ago
> your casual reader is unlikely to develop any sort of understanding [from this] "Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize." - Richard Feynman
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by Y_Y 1y ago
> they are FORCED to transfer that loss onto other costumers How does that figure? I won't even insist you account for second order effects of having the solar panel, just that the consumer is only paying for their net draw of energ
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by Y_Y 1y ago
There are more floating turds than perfect pearls.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
What on earth needs hundreds of megabytes to describe its grammar? Even the hundreds of kilobytes used in the official grammars seems bulky to me. https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-java/releases
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Sure, but only if you choose a steel with a low tensile strength. There are common steels with between 200 and 2000 MPa tensile strength, whereas I understand this wood material has about 500 MPa. This is (imho) impressive, and much better
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Not only do we need to ask which steel, we also need to ask which strength. Off the top I my head, if were thinking about contructing buildings, then I'd want to know: Compressive strength Tensile strength Shear strength Flex
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Reminds me of this great story about a programmer-turned-businessman who tried to learn a game from examples and ended up with an almost-correct brute force solution: https://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-bg.htm
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by Y_Y 1y ago
How else are you going to lower costs?
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a license/contract/blood oath that projects could start with that guaranteed that the owner couldn't commercialise a project late in the game? Afaik what Organic Maps (and plenty of notab
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by Y_Y 1y ago
There's a teapot orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars too.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
> You can’t have a pay-later business without an amount of non-payment, which has to be compensated by higher prices (which other customers shoulder). The business can just make less money than they would if everyone paid (which is, as y
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by Y_Y 1y ago
(Originally posted 2225 years ago: https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Comoediae_(Plautus)_-_Boeotia )
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by Y_Y 1y ago
For the record, Apple is playing the same game. Chrome's renderer (Blink) is indeed a fork of Safari's renderer (WebKit) but that in turn was forked from Konqueror's renderer (KHTML).
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Sounds like we need more information than safe/not safe to make a sensible decision! This is something that bugs me about medical ethics, that it's more important not to cause any harm than it is to prevent any.
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by Y_Y 1y ago
Is there something specific in that corporate saga you're referring to? I'm not inclined to trust corporate do-gooding either, but it would be nice to have some detail.

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