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by aidenn0 4mo ago
That's how it worked 30 years ago at least. There have been upgrades to the signaling system since then, but detecting a circuit being closed is so simple and reliable that it would be odd to do away with it.
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
They are equally legal in the US (Schedule II). Label will usually say something like "Methamphetamine, generic for Desoxyn." It is, however, much harder to find a doctor that will give you a prescription as compared to other st
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
I can neither confirm nor deny any first-hand experience with connecting the two sides of the tracks with jumper cables in order to trigger the signal.
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
Fun fact: There is a law in California that has been interpreted to mean that all clubbing weapons are illegal. So if you by a length of pipe and keep it around (e.g. under your bed) explicitly for self-defense purposes, you have committed
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
I wrote a wordle solver that was fairly straightforward; it just brute-forced all of the possible outputs, minimizing the maximum number of remaining possibilities. The very first step was too slow to be interactive (IIRC it took about a mi
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
As someone who has never looked at a jazz score, can you share an example of how jazz sheet music would benefit from different fonts?
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
I'll ask him. This was about 20 years ago.
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
You can study for most IQ tests as well.
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
Many years ago I was walking around a college job fair when a recruiter was yelling at a college student. His crime: "wasting everybody's time" by presenting a Resume with a 3.4 GPA when the company clearly listed a 3.5 GPA
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
Starting in 2016 College Board said that they were aligning the test with Common Core, so this might not be true any more.
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
I had a friend with an MS show up for first-day of work for a job that asked for SAT scores on the application. HR said "we never got documentation for your SAT scores, can you provide that?" He was on the phone with his mother,
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
People like to say that "languages aren't fast or slow, that's a property of the implementation." This is true, but the implementation is constrained by the specification. Python is not just dynamic, but in many cases o
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
1. For the most common things people will write, we have a plethora of asymptotically optimal choices that have been discovered. 2. Consider any algorithm of roughly linear complexity (this probably applies to N lg N as well): the only way
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
If they had even temporarily impounded the car it probably would cost the driver more than the ticket, since exotic cars are likely to get damaged when towed. Note that driving laws are entirely at the state level in the US, and this was Ca
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
That's considerably more than someone near me who was doing 245km/h in a 90 zone (Well 55mph which is 89km/h). I still don't know why that person didn't lose their license (other than the obvious fact that they wer
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
Maybe. For a few years I certainly didn't, despite donating more than 10% of my income to charities, since the standard deduction was increased and the SALT cap was very low.
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
Completely OT, but something occurred to me recently, and I haven't seen it happen yet this season so I don't know the rule: - Bases empty - There are two strikes - The catcher fails to catch the ball, but umpire calls it a ball.
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
Yes, it definitely gave me TG-16 (PC Engine) feels.
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
Can anybody recommend sub $10k hardware that can run the models mentioned in TFA at something faster than a snails-pace?
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
If someone says they will bring me steak, but it tastes like ice cream, I can still be annoyed, even if I like ice cream.
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
How will the people working on exactly what they want to eat?
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
Kodi has a decent Jellyfin client. I only switched away from it because streaming services would break periodically. I ran it with LibreELEC on a random ARM SBC at first, then switched to using a NUC with a standard linux distro. The Pul
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
For those who want a reference: https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-weekly_1898-09-03_42... Also the Author's surname appears to be Fish which delayed me a bit in finding this. See also e.g. https:/&#x
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
Earliest I could find was this, which appears to me to be clearly fiction, and certainly doesn't use the framing device of an asylum inmate: https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-weekly_1898-09-03_42...
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
Maybe lots of (most?) people are crackpots about something , but they lack the time and/or resolve to do something about it.
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
Bionic Commando is that game for me. My best time is just under 16 minutes, but I'm generally the worst at video games of any of my friends; it's one of the few platformers I've beaten at all on the NES.
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
1. There exists some X that you wish existed, but does not 2. The world has changed in such a way that X now exists 3. You took even a tiny action towards #2 Even if the main goal was #2, Is it really hard to see how there might not be some
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
I first encountered the following concept in one of Oxide's publications; good chance it didn't originate there though: There is an implicit social contract with writing that the writer has put more effort into writing than the re
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
One of the mod files I have contains the postal address for the composer for those who would like to request tracks for their own demos.
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by aidenn0 4mo ago
There are some phenomenal sounding DDD masters from the late 80s. I believe it requires all 3 of these, which were present then: 1. Digital recording equipment had significantly improved 2. Audio engineers learned how to use the equipment

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