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by ascar 4y ago
Why was that title editorialized as "around 83.4%"? 83.4% of 500 is exactly 417. The article is also exact about these numbers. No need to add "around". Edit: Why was the title editorialized to begin with? Edit2: looks l
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by ascar 4y ago
What are you even talking about? What is IR? What happens is a website is blocked and the site operator has no idea why. The defense of "we can't share any information as to why you got punished as it might help bad actors avoid p
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by ascar 4y ago
Is Cloudflare known as a data thieving company? I didn't have that association with them yet. They're not really in the data selling business, are they?
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by ascar 4y ago
As others have mentioned you gained privacy from your government that has easy access to whatever information your ISP has but not towards a VPN provider. But the information you leak towards your ISP or VPN isn't the only variable. Wi
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by ascar 4y ago
That should've been about 15 years ago. I don't remember the grade, but based on the subject probably 8th or 9th? I thought it was in the textbook but possibly our teacher just added it himself.
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by ascar 4y ago
I already learnt in school to calculate trigonometry using radians or turns depending on the situation. It was part of the general math curriculum in Bavaria. As far as I am aware both are mathematically sound and there is no reason to reli
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by ascar 4y ago
As a German (Frankonian to be precise which even for Germany has an especially rich culture of bread) I find what Americans call "bread" quite gross. Most tastes are acquired and the low quality and culinary culture in regards to
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by ascar 4y ago
> To put it this way: would you accept [350,000] dollars from me if it would take you 100 hours of your life to receive? Fixed the amount for you. Yes, absolutely. I would spend 100 hours to receive the 350,000. That's 3500 per hour
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by ascar 4y ago
I'm surprised this isn't mentioned here more clearly: Some high end cases like the be quiet silent base I'm using have the option to mount the graphics card vertically, basically parallel to the mainboard, in a separate ancho
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by ascar 4y ago
Not really a C++ expert, but two things I saw in the documentation and that came in useful were the "contains" method of maps and the std::span class for passing around contiguous sequences of objects without worrying about creati
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by ascar 4y ago
Actually the majority of the countries use the comma. Though dot wins by population as China and India use it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
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by ascar 4y ago
Transistor progress has been especially astonishing, but if you just look at the progress in basically all areas of living in the last 200, 1000, 5000 years there is absolutely no reason we won't see incredible further improvements in
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by ascar 4y ago
It's 77% (why round up to artificially boost your narrative?) and this source is intentionally misleading as "This includes grazing land for animals" (I couldn't find an exact source but probably around 30mil km2 of the
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by ascar 4y ago
> The years go forward but you want to read it backwards to understand it's meaning. I don't really get what you mean with that. Prices dropped rappidly within 60 years. Bar graphs are maybe not the best pick here, but I defini
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by ascar 4y ago
No it mentions "the actual bomb would fit in the size of a U-haul trailer".
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by ascar 4y ago
My Ryanair Tickets were also converted to credits, but I was able to ask for money when they expired.
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by ascar 4y ago
Afaik they prefilm these and show them on a screen to the audience at the right moment of the episode and then capture that reaction.
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by ascar 4y ago
If you've ever experienced a group of tv/movie enthusiasts watching something you would believe that laughs happening at awkward times are not just possible, but I would rather see them as a supporting argument for real laughter t
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by ascar 4y ago
Well, TBBT is especially known for recording and using the audience laughter. That's why I explicitly mentioned it and it creates some interesting moments the producers didn't even intend to be funny. You can find multiple sources
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by ascar 4y ago
Side note: the article mentions canned laughter in TBBT rather early. TBBT actually doesn't use canned laughter but uses laughter from the live audience for its laugh track. I pity that I didn't have the chance to visit the studio
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by ascar 4y ago
Minor bug report: for whatever reason entering a space on my Android keyboard enters the next suggestion on your editor. That's a feature I explicitly disabled, but is active on your website. On top of that if that enters an unrenderab
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by ascar 4y ago
Belongs to this topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32408393
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by ascar 4y ago
What's NR, what's a necronomicon and what's klaatu, barads and nikto. I googled all these things and I can't still make any sense of your comment except that it's intentionally confusing with some popular fiction re
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by ascar 4y ago
> If past experience of doing the actual job is bad indicator and these test are not a good proxy, then according to your logic, experience is worthless and we should all optimize for these tests. How do you assess and verify past experi
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by ascar 4y ago
Your logic doesn't add up. Sure, these tests are not an ideal proxy for job performance and indeed they shifted more and more from general intelligence assessment to algorithm coding assessment. Solving the algorithm is only part of t
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by ascar 4y ago
I vaguely remember having read about multiple hashes for bloom filters in the past, but I have trouble extracting the actual approach from the linked paper. Could you give a summary? The paper is quite mathematical and seems to lack a clear
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by ascar 4y ago
A few days of storage is a lot though isn't it?
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by ascar 4y ago
That's a non-answer to my comment. Limited funding and a available money is the same thing. The point is the funding isn't so limited that we couldn't do both as we run in other bottlenecks.
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by ascar 4y ago
> So for both renewables and nuclear you need some sort of storage or peakers. One thing I don't understand here is the problem with overproduction. If we actually have excess electricity (as in not needed as electricity later) can&
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by ascar 4y ago
> Building 3x renewables in widely distributed places radically reduces volatility. Is that actually true? Serious question. That sounds like a claim that seems so obvious, but won't hold up to the degree you might think in reality.

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