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by antimagic 11y ago
Well I know historically it was because there were potentially performance issues with using explicit sizes - int was basically the guarantee that you would be working in the CPU's native size, and hence at it's most efficient, no
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by antimagic 11y ago
I always find it fascinating at just how much of our fundamental physics ends up being constraints on information movement. The laws of thermodynamics are about entropy, general relativity puts constraints on the movement of information (fo
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by antimagic 11y ago
I feel that every time this issue gets discussed, it needs to have some background information provided, because quite frankly, taxi drivers in France suck. From my own personal experience, I have had the following incidents: 1) a taxi driv
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by antimagic 11y ago
Fusion accidents are much less likely - they need to be constantly supplied with new fuel for the reaction to continue. If they get hit by an earthquake / terrorist attack / other emergency, the natural tendency of the system is
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by antimagic 11y ago
My brother does - or at least, I assume you're talking about the different apps that come installed on TVs these days. For example my brother uses it to watch Netflix, BBC iPlayer and another VoD service that I don't remember the
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by antimagic 11y ago
OK, I'll take a stab: The Fourier transform is basically taking a signal, and correlating it against sinusoids of increasing frequency and unity amplitude. Each point along the x axis of the new signal is the result of the correlation
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by antimagic 11y ago
Noooooo. Mobile bandwidth is far more constrained that mobile CPU power. Furthermore, radios are the most power hungry components after the screen, another reason to try to avoid them. Data connections are not truly ubiquitous either, so
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by antimagic 11y ago
Please feel free to provide us with a link to this "pledge". As far as I'm aware, Apple has never done any such thing.
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by antimagic 11y ago
And this is why CDG regularly wins my "worst airport in the world" award. Well, this and many other reasons like really really poor signage, the long distance from the city with transport options being limited to crowded trains o
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by antimagic 11y ago
"The Chinese where[sic] given an incentive to abort girls" Only if you actually buy into the bullshit that girls are worth less than boys...
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by antimagic 11y ago
Yes, because all "mac heads" are responsible for the choices made by Apple </s>
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by antimagic 11y ago
Hah! I used the first Harry Potter novel as an audiobook to help improve my ability to understand spoken French. There are phrases that I use even today, nearly 15 years later, that I learned from listening to that novel over and over and
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by antimagic 11y ago
I recently went camping in an area where there was no data reception. My iPhone 6+ still had 17% battery left after 5 days of using it like a normal phone (voice and SMS). Smartphones have short battery life because we do so much more with
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by antimagic 11y ago
Not so, only one of the two solutions is unstable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_geodesics#Circul... Also, this applies only to circular orbits, and does not indicate that a powered ship could not maintai
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by antimagic 11y ago
It depends on what you mean by "inside" a black hole. If this means "inside the event horizon", well, if the black hole is big enough, you can put yourself in orbit around it relatively easily, you'll just never be
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by antimagic 11y ago
"Is it OK to say the emperor has no clothes?" Not really. That particular expression (and others like it such as "the elephant in the room" is more to get across the idea that there is an obvious truth staring people in
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by antimagic 11y ago
OK, I'll bite - why is a Nespresso not an espresso? The water is under pressure, and it produces a crema - as far as I'm aware these are the two critical criteria for deciding if a coffee is an espresso or not...
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by antimagic 11y ago
Just because economists suck doesn't mean that you should listen to someone that admittedly knows nothing about economics sprout economic theories :)
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by antimagic 11y ago
OK, so here goes: (all comments refer to the modal human being - yes, there are other ways of living your life, but this is how it works for most people) 1) We all have a fixed number of hours per day. 2) If we don't have enough money
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by antimagic 11y ago
Mars is not as cold as you seem to think. From Wikipedia: Differing in situ values have been reported for the average temperature on Mars,[20] with a common value being −55 °C (218 K; −67 °F).[21] Surface temperatures may reach a hig
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by antimagic 11y ago
I personally just worked through a concrete example. So Alice flips her coin and gets heads. I then just assume that she is going to guess the opposite of what she flipped, so she guesses tails. For Alice to lose, Bob would have to have f
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by antimagic 11y ago
I had no idea that sonar could give images that sharp. I wonder at what distance the images are taken from. I mean, you could certainly make a sonar with a huge virtual aperture, so maybe you could do this from near the surface?
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by antimagic 11y ago
" Since the WSJ didn't do this for its English language pages, my best guess is that they weren't trying to hide content from search engines, but rather trying to work around some old browser bug that incorrectly rendered (or
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by antimagic 11y ago
The issue that I, and apparently many other people, have is that this is just an unnecessary potential confusion. Why not use another symbol for directives, instead of overloading comments? Why create the potential for confusion - not ever
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by antimagic 11y ago
Personally, I feel like this whole question is just one of many instances of information in the article that I find highly dubious. This is Osama bin Laden. The US had been hunting him for years. There was no way that the president wasn
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by antimagic 11y ago
I did this for a project a while back with reasonable results. The algorithm was this: Test each tile for distance to water (you don't have to get this absolutely perfect, just check in about 8 different directions from the centre of
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by antimagic 11y ago
I do understand. My country (Australia) has US spy bases in it too ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap ), which they have also used to spy on Australians. In Australia's case (and I would be willing to be
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by antimagic 11y ago
In English, the idiom "Don't care what they think" means "don't care what they feel ". Though I understand how that might lead to miscomprehension from non-native speakers ;)
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by antimagic 11y ago
So get upset with the BND then. That would at least have a chance of your anger actually achieving something, instead of waving your fist at the NSA from across the ocean, because frankly, they don't really care what German citizens t
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by antimagic 11y ago
fiveeyes is hardly a secret. It's existence isn't even classified. For example, I've sat in presentations with nationals from many countries, and the non-fiveeyes members would occassionally be asked to leave the room at the

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