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by adrianmonk 2y ago
I think that is what happened. From the SEC press release: > As part of the settlement, Terraform agreed to pay $3,586,875,883 in disgorgement, $466,952,423 in prejudgment interest, and a $420,000,000 civil penalty. I had to look up di
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I'm not a Forth programmer, but I used to be a Sun sysadmin. From what I recall, the Forth code on a SPARCstation is interpreted and pretty slow. These docs support that: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/8
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> so, doctrine is best, because everyone is used to being told what to do? I think they mean doctrine as in military doctrine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_doctrine ), which is a somewhat different idea t
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Because the news story covered two crashes, and it's describing the one that was fatal.
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I wouldn't want to participate during emergencies, though. If a hurricane or a winter storm is coming, I want my car at 100% in case I need to evacuate, drive around to get food, etc. On top of that, who knows when I'll be able to
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Agreed. There's a lack of justification, and moreover I would expect the opposite. With all the recent layoffs, right now many companies might be OK with some attrition. It's one of the least ugly ways to reduce payroll costs. It&
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Or, raster and vector images are philosophically the same thing . The only difference is that vector has more operations than raster. Raster just has "draw unit square at integer coordinates".
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> it spins You're thinking of a vacuum cord that automatically winds onto a spring-loaded reel, commonly seen on canister vacuums. They're talking about an upright vacuum where you manually wrap the cord around two hooks. One
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I assume they must have meant it doesn't have any TCP/IP networking software installed. As I recall, Macs had AppleTalk hardware from the very beginning and AppleTalk software was a built-in part of Mac OS. I don't know if
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I don't think they know for sure what it is about being outdoors that helps prevent myopia. But it's thought that it might be the bright light. To me, passively taking in bright light wouldn't qualify as an exercise.
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Similar story here. I had quit my job to return to college full time, but I worked for a few months that year. Turns out that qualified me for the Earned Income Tax Credit. This credit is supposed to encourage poor people to work instead of
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> "blindly-drying" Right. It's not an optimization problem! Remember in school when you learned to turn a truth table into a Karnaugh map and then use it to find the smallest equivalent logic expression? Well, your code
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They've used quarters as a reference point for forever, and coins are also flat, so I guess it's not a problem.
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In the old days, some software would actually check the terminal's baud rate (which you can see with 'stty') and behave differently on slow links. For example, vi would restrict itself to fewer lines of the screen so that dra
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It does if the hole in the record is not exactly in the center.
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It doesn't dehumidify, which is important. In hot and humid weather, dehumidifying improves comfort. It also prevents mold. So that's a real disadvantage compared to a normal AC, which does dehumidify. However, you could combine t
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Bundling could also be a strategy to get people to try LLM products. You want X, you have to buy a package with both X and Y to get X. Many people will think, "I'm paying for Y, might as well try getting something out of it."
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> It consists of a heat pump embedded into a bathroom ceiling that blows out warm, dehumidified air onto clothes hung below. Heating the room to up to 35C (95F) to 40C, this room-sized clothes dryer can make short work of a load of wash
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by adrianmonk 2y ago
You're right that there are qualifiers. Multiple murders is one of them, but there are others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Texas#Ca... In this case, it's presumably because the (suppos
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FYI, in Chrome on Linux, there's a glitchy crackling noise. Maybe a buffer under run or something. It happens a lot more often if you strum lots of strings quickly. It also happens in Firefox but a lot less.
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That is exactly the kind of situation where regulations are needed. Sometimes the market can take care of things, and regulation isn't needed. But these workers don't have lots of leverage. If conditions are bad, they can't t
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It said "never incur request or bandwidth charges". I assume this means you don't pay to compute the response or for the bandwidth to deliver it. Seems you could compute the response, store it somewhere (memcached or some
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> not available at the supermarket It's not? Here in the US, hardware stores sell Mosquito Dunks[1] or Mosquito Bits[2], which seems to have the same stuff in it. --- [1] https://summitchemical.com/products/mo
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That would be fraud by the radio station, wouldn't it? You can't run a contest that is impossible to win.
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Legal without the trailing slash in vi!
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If so, then "there’s enough space for a car to go between them" is a funny way to say it.
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> the non-thinking, car-driving traffic engineers solution to “if we put two bollards on the sides of the trail, there’s enough space for a car to go between them, so we’ll save some money while we make things SAFER.” That doesn't
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You do, but at least repair costs should be low because typically you won't put very many miles on that engine. Suppose 90% of your miles are electric. After you've put 250K miles (400K km) on the car, you've only got 25K mil
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The definition is broader than that. Think of a vaccine as something which teaches your immune system to fight some particular thing. The most common application is as a preventative measure to protect you from an infectious disease. But it
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It's at the #10 position on my front page right now.

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