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by anonymous_sorry 1y ago
Doesn't mean they're photosynthesising with all frequencies of light though. Probably just pigment.
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by anonymous_sorry 1y ago
Chlorophyll reflects green light, meaning it doesn't use these frequencies. Who knows, maybe that's why the retinal photosynthesis evolved first though.
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by anonymous_sorry 1y ago
No that's just a pigment. They still contain chlorophyll. Often you'll find leaves in full sun are redder, because they need less chlorophyll to operate at full efficiency. Leaves more in shade may be darker, as they require more
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by anonymous_sorry 1y ago
I find the embankment metaphor confusing, but to play along: I don't have the option of engineering a margin of safety because I only have one brick. Is it worth me lugging it to the riverside? Maybe, it depends on the risk and the dis
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by anonymous_sorry 1y ago
I meant when you're already on the vehicle mid-journey, and you just have to sit at a random stop for a while so you don't catch up to the one in front. I get why, it just feels like your time is being wasted. Of course, the trade
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by anonymous_sorry 1y ago
It isn't half annoying when you're on the London Underground or a bus, and there's an announcement that you will be waiting for a few minutes at a particular stop to "even out gaps in the service". It seems so perve
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by anonymous_sorry 1y ago
When I enter the polling booth, I never expect to effect the result, whether my coalition has a chance of winning or not. That is, I do not expect a candidate in any constituency I am voting in to win by exactly one vote (or tie and thereby
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by anonymous_sorry 1y ago
> If adults were rational they'd use their communication skills to form broad coalitions Yes. And in detail, with this model of a rational electorate, skilled influencers put the effort in to devise a policy platform and convince ot
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by anonymous_sorry 1y ago
If adults thought completely rationally they wouldn't vote at all, since the chance of their single vote making any difference is insignificant. Or even if they did, the amount of effort they'd put in researching, considering and
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by anonymous_sorry 1y ago
> But, I think there is a conversation around this to ask how many of the people using a Steam Deck actually go into desktop mode or care that it is Linux If Linux adoption is to increase significantly (and I guess I'm of the opinio
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by anonymous_sorry 1y ago
Pretty sure I had this corrected on more than one occasion when I was at school. Also licence/license. I remember one day figuring out the parallel with advice/advise as a way to remember which was which. So C for the noun and S f
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by anonymous_sorry 1y ago
It's not sloppiness, it's economy. You can convert between log bases by multiplying by a constant factor. But any real-world program will also have a constant factor associated with it, depending on the specific work it is doing a
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by anonymous_sorry 1y ago
That's not a stupid question. But I suggest reading the linked article which pretty much covers this.
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by anonymous_sorry 2y ago
I tend to relieve myself into a watering can in the privacy of the shed.
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by anonymous_sorry 2y ago
I assumed that private or corporate control over something that becomes a default communications network is undesirable, because that was a basis for the discussion I was replying to. I also believe it. I don't want to have to subject
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by anonymous_sorry 2y ago
This is quite common in cellular differentiation. Say a tissue needs a few cells of a certain type, roughly evenly spaced throughout. One strategy to achieve this is for all cells in the region to have a tendancy towards developing those ch
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by anonymous_sorry 2y ago
You're in danger of making the perfect the enemy of the good. Email is far from perfect, but good enough and its federated nature means it's reasonable for institutions to use it as a default mode of communication and authenticati
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by anonymous_sorry 2y ago
Is the title here quite right? It sounds more like mitochondria can specialise their biochemistry depending on the needs of the cell.
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by anonymous_sorry 2y ago
ublock origin is still available in the Firefox add-on store. The developer has pulled the 'lite' version, which is developed mainly for Chrome because Google killed some APIs the full version was using.
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by anonymous_sorry 2y ago
If you can go for a live demo of Bletchley Park's fully recreated Bombe, that's pretty special. Edit: Oh wow, apparently the Bombe was moved to the National Museum of Computing some years ago. TNMOC wins!
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by anonymous_sorry 2y ago
More very rich people looking for somewhere to park their money and earn returns means more competition when you want to buy a home. I agree it doesn't necessarily mean rents rises. You might actually expect higher price to earnings ra
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by anonymous_sorry 2y ago
Wealth distribution is important, because very rich people disproportionately buy up limited-supply assets in order to earn passive income on them. In densely populated places, that includes assets like homes, which pushes up housing cost
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by anonymous_sorry 2y ago
I don't think the point is to nitpick how realistic the representation is or how fair the question is. The point is children react to the question differently from the way adults do. And that's true despite (or perhaps because of)
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by anonymous_sorry 2y ago
As a kid I instinctively associated different days of the week with colours. This is a form of synaesthesia. As an adult I never think this way, and even when I try can only even remember one of the colour associations (Friday was orange).
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
As a software developer, I think I should be almost exclusively working in the top right (important, not urgent). If there is something I need to do urgently then I view this as someone (maybe me) screwing up. It's also not obvious to
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
This has kind of crystallised for me why I find the whole generative AI and "prompt engineering" thing unexciting and tiresome. Obviously the technology is pretty incredible, but this is the exact opposite of what I love about sof
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
My company's security training tells me to carefully verify any URLs in received emails, but then they have some security software that rewrites all the URLs in incoming emails - presumably as a way of screening them themselves. This m
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
Found it here. https://i.blackhat.com/us-18/Wed-August-8/us-18-Shostack-Thr... He used the term "scamicry": legit communications that mimic scams. For example when a company calls you directly and asks f
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
In a Blackhat talk several years ago Adam Shostak had a clever term for companies interacting with you in ways that were indistinguishable from scammers. But I can't remember what the memorable term was.
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
> scripts are supposed to be small simple programs that run in sequence and terminate. I shouldn't need to deal with concurrency primitives at all in that particular situation. I suppose bash pipes are a concurrency primitive, but I

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