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by acqq 6y ago
> this "excuse letter" looks exactly like what a victim of a sham trial would write As far as I see the letter behind the link was written by the "judge" in this "trial": "Geoff Garrett, Dean" -- i
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by acqq 6y ago
Imagine you have one source file with 100 of functions which you want to compile. Traditionally it could be compiled only using one core, processing function after function. Assuming we are processing already preprocessed information, there
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by acqq 6y ago
The way I remember, the major media in the US claimed WMDs existed until the war progressed and nothing was found. Then, what you remember regarding Kelly you probably have read only later, that is, only after the start of the war, 19 March
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by acqq 6y ago
The link in your post leads to the exactly same video: hSp8IyaKCs0 only over youtu.be instead of youtube.com. Which surely confused me: I expected something new. What was the goal of giving that link then?
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by acqq 6y ago
Yes, it just stops replication "within the glass" (that's the meaning of "in vitro") with the cell culture, not in living human patients, and even "within the glass" only when using the "the Vero E6 c
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by acqq 6y ago
George Carlin’s contribution to that history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSp8IyaKCs0
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by acqq 6y ago
> we might see 4/5 of the control's rate of ICU admissions if the "one prognostic bad risk factor" determined outcome entirely But we still don't know if the persons with multiple bad risk factors were those wh
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by acqq 6y ago
> to criticize it for not being perfectly accurate is to misunderstand what it is. I gave example where the news were completely and utterly false compared to what the real truth was -- that's not just "not perfectly accurate&
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by acqq 6y ago
> I think it's useful to just see the news for what it is: a timely first rough draft of history. Only, it's not what "the news" are. One can reconstruct the history using "the news" as source material, but
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by acqq 6y ago
The group receiving Calcifediol had more "no bad risk" patients: "At least one prognostic bad risk factor(@) Group receiving Calcifediol: 48% Group without Calcifediol: 61.54%" "@) Patients with at least one of the
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by acqq 6y ago
> Iranians have been sentenced to death for protesting, for drinking, for adultery. And also... https://m.dw.com/en/iran-defends-execution-of-gay-people/a-4... “Homosexuality violates Islamic Law in Iran and ca
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by acqq 6y ago
While Ecuador was a good choice then, it changed since: see the fate of Julian Assange. The last update on how he is treated: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252487666/US-decision-to...
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by acqq 6y ago
Can you write what is that hadcoded relay in croc? Who maintains it, how does it handle the increase in demand or outages etc?
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by acqq 6y ago
> if other countries have the same levels of conspiracy theory belief as the United States? From what I am aware of, at least in western Europe a lot of new fake stories indeed have their origin directly from the internet and English sp
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by acqq 6y ago
> Also if you build it with APE your distributables will run on all platforms Did anybody show that that format is actually usable for distribution of something that's not expected to be very, very small? I've got an impression
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by acqq 6y ago
> from the wrong part of the world Can that be argued? It's not that the "contact" and influence didn't exist, it's just that these specific people wouldn't use that language at that moment of time. The Roma
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by acqq 6y ago
There was a time where a program that produced output like here, much worse than TeX of course, but very fast on the PC computers of that time, and easy to learn, was very popular for scientific writing with formulas: https://nom
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by acqq 6y ago
Yes, you‘re right, thanks.
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by acqq 6y ago
> Yes, this is quite well known. Sure, thanks for that Terence Tao links! I just wanted to confirm the efficiency of C notation to "see" what happens with the bits at the lowest level in this case, at least to those used to C.
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by acqq 6y ago
Ever watched some film about ancient Rome from around middle of 20th century? I am of course aware that the Romans didn't use shampoos and hairspray 2000 years ago, but that's the level of "incorrectness" that I'm u
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by acqq 6y ago
Yes in pseudo C-like binary-oriented notation the step is: if ( lowest bit of x is 0 ) x >>= 1 else x += ( x << 1 ) + 1 And it's immediately obvious that the else branch always produces an even number.
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by acqq 6y ago
> Do you also consider "monsters" anachronistic? No, but I'll enjoy reading your argument why you are asking that.
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by acqq 6y ago
> is a fairly modern notion I believe it is ancient, the way I remember the texts, the false etymologies of words and names are present even in the Bible. People always loved the stories about how why something is named something, even
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by acqq 6y ago
What is jarring to me are always the anachronisms. E.g. while I can imagine that some form of short "bro" could have existed earlier, when I read the line using "sushi" I can't help but remembering that "sushi&
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by acqq 6y ago
> possibly in multiple pieces that would be assembled and periodically serviced by crew flights would make it all much easier, cheaper and more performant. Again, wrong belief, again like I mentioned before, in the style "ha ha we c
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by acqq 6y ago
The one I'm unlucky to hit is the "icon resizing" that happens when a moving action on the thumbpad is performed in combination with the pressed ctrl key, which sometimes is not actually pressed but the OS believes it is (som
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by acqq 6y ago
I believe Torvalds still needs to build the Linux kernel regularly, even if he doesn't technically "write" the code, and this CPU allows him to do it in 24 seconds, according to this test: https://techgage.com&#x2F
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by acqq 6y ago
> Is that true? Absolutely. > What are they missing? Everything. Whatever one can do on Earth which requires big optics and maintenance is many millions times more expensive to do in the orbit. And the many million times higher expens
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by acqq 6y ago
> has to help fund space based telescopes. The telescopes from space can't do what the Earth based can, so the premise is false.
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by acqq 6y ago
Correct. Torvalds built his PC himself and his words are quoted in the ZdNet's article to which the video author refers to as he builds a "copy" for his youtube channel. The worth of the video is seeing how huge the CPU (1) a

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