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by akovaski 4y ago
Following one of the dealer links, looks like it is about $60,000 for a new one. https://www.bobcatofyork.com/default.asp?page=xInventoryDeta...
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by akovaski 4y ago
"Primary and Secondary compounds" => 403. "medicinal" => 200. "Monoculture leads to vulnerability" => 404. "Leaf for Life" => 404. And the "medicinal" link to science direct retu
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by akovaski 5y ago
The variable escaping behavior has existed for a while https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32463052/bash-tabbing-fo... https://askubuntu.com/questions/70750/how-to-get-bash-to-sto... ht
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by akovaski 5y ago
Ha, I wouldn't have thought to criticize the spacing, but I did see one person complain as I explored old Nim discussions. Nim being strict on tabs is something I see as a good feature for the same reason the style flexibility made me
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by akovaski 5y ago
I started looking at Nim a few months ago, but I didn't like the feature where it ignores underscores and capitalization. It seems to me that this would make grepping harder on larger projects. I suppose a linter or style-guidelines-an
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by akovaski 6y ago
> Where a surveillance state combined with ML analysis leads to something akin to pre-crime arrests While I haven't seen Minority Report or Eagle Eye, this aptly describes the anime TV series Psycho-Pass (2012). If I remember correc
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by akovaski 6y ago
To insert a bit of sanity: from a reply by the author, she indicates that she wasn't trying to introduce a novel concept with estimating an area using right trapezoids. I don't have access to the journal, so I can't read her
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by akovaski 6y ago
Those would most likely be inductors or transformers. It is mentioned in the article how the simplistic Figures 2 & 3 magnetic amps would act as a transformer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroidal_inductors_and_tr
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by akovaski 7y ago
The +1 makes the range inclusive rather than exclusive. This matches the summary, which is inclusive of floor(500/k). Ceil wouldn't correctly handle the case where the number of rooms equals a perfect square. That is, [k**2 fo
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by akovaski 7y ago
also a playing card, or a small metallic object with tetrahedrally oriented spikes used in the game Jacks https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jack#English
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by akovaski 7y ago
What about it? It's the first entry under "Hoax statements in articles".
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by akovaski 7y ago
I got this error when trying to archive a private group, see the README for how to archive private groups.
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by akovaski 7y ago
Jmg2's other posts are similarly incoherent. I think it must be some comment generation algorithm. It definitely has some contextual details correct.
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by akovaski 7y ago
"found that approximately 97% of them support the consensus position" versus the more correct "found that among abstracts expressing a position, approximately 97% of them support the consensus position" Doesn't stri
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by akovaski 7y ago
The problem is that that the player's move is actually being fed to the training data before the computer makes its prediction. Take a look at the variable 'y' after making your move and you'll see that it includes the p
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by akovaski 7y ago
Google patents always shows the current date for that line. It actually expired back in 2014. https://patents.google.com/patent/US991876A/en
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by akovaski 7y ago
It was a bit of a pickle to find, but https://devguide.python.org/ has EOL dates under "Status of Python branches"
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by akovaski 7y ago
The buyer can use their credit card, but the seller must use PayPal. https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/360007902213-How...
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by akovaski 7y ago
I quite like the switching between the fuel level displays (6:02). https://youtu.be/-YQmkjpP6q8?t=362
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by akovaski 7y ago
"Masters of Doom"
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by akovaski 8y ago
I think there's a noticeable fundamental difference, in that humans have a natural walking pace. It's physically uncomfortable to slow your pace too much. They do both have the mental discomfort of being forced by a stranger to wa
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by akovaski 8y ago
I'm not an expert, but I presume "magnetic monopole antenna" refers to a monopole antenna[1] with some affiliation with magnetics. I presume the word "magentic" came from this description in the article: The key pa
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by akovaski 8y ago
I do this. It works, but there are some shortcomings. You have to install the Spotify App on your PC. Adding new songs has been incredibly flaky for me (not recognizing that I've put new songs in the folder, Windows 10). The artists an
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by akovaski 8y ago
> Is authoritarian and authoritative exclusively [...] jargon alone? I'd say so, doing an internet search for "authoritarian vs authoritative" yields almost exclusively parenting articles. In general, I think authoritarian
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by akovaski 8y ago
The solutions for mazes of size 50-200 look quite like a river on a map; which is pleasant to me.
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by akovaski 8y ago
Yep, you gotta work to work the work you want to work if you want to work the work you want to work.
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by akovaski 8y ago
"Counting the losers" is part of R&D. Many companies invest in R&D, having failures is normal. According to Investopia[0], pharma companies float around the top of R&D spending. They indicate the semiconductor industry
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by akovaski 8y ago
Asbestos brake pads are NOT illegal in the US, according to the EPA[0]. I have not been able to find any evidence that asbestos brake particulate is safe[1]. There are numerous places online saying that most brake pads no longer use asbesto
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by akovaski 8y ago
For those still wondering: the word "pause" appears in the pop-up information window when you toggle off one of the activities and appears next to "paused" activities.
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by akovaski 8y ago
Yes. "Creators can earn money from advertisements served on their videos, from YouTube Premium subscribers watching their content, and in some cases, through viewer-purchased goods like Super Chat, Merch, and channel memberships."

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