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by calfuris 2y ago
I disagree with this on multiple levels. For one, the word "berry" has multiple definitions, and I don't see why the botanical definition should be the only one that counts. If anything, the culinary one should have primacy
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by calfuris 2y ago
Percentages are incommensurable with most things, including other percentages in the general case. They are percentages _of something_ and in general the only way you can do addition, subtraction, or comparison is to identify the referent
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by calfuris 2y ago
New scientific models tend to look very much like the older models in some relevant limit, even when they are fundamentally very different. Einstein's relativity looks a whole lot like Newton's relativity at low speeds. Large coll
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by calfuris 2y ago
Having the same probability of deletion doesn't mean that they will necessarily share the same fate.
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by calfuris 2y ago
Black ink isn't perfectly black. Adding other colors of ink makes it darker. If you don't really care about how dark the result is, the term you're probably looking for in settings is "rich black."
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by calfuris 2y ago
I'm not an astrophysicist, but I was part of a D&D group with one a few years ago and the topic came up (outside the game). In practice the speeds fall into two fairly tight clusters (asteroids and comets), but you don't even
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by calfuris 2y ago
I remember doing something similar with a website in high school. Some people made reasonable investments and did well. Some people made insane bets that panned out and did better. The winner correctly guessed that the site wouldn't
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by calfuris 2y ago
That's the rate for a population that almost entirely follows appropriate precautions. I suspect that the rate among people who _don't_ follow those precautions is rather higher.
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by calfuris 2y ago
Some of them are, some of them aren't. There are obviously laser based ones that are easily recognizable as they produce a pattern of lines instead of a relatively evenly lit field. It's surprisingly difficult to find a picture o
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by calfuris 2y ago
Metering traffic turns clumped up platoons into evenly spaced vehicles, which is exactly what you don't want to see as a driver trying to turn onto a major road. Broadly spaced platoons are much better because the space between plat
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by calfuris 2y ago
Only if you have an operation that actually does something in precisely 0 time.
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by calfuris 2y ago
All of the electricity turns to heat in any case. The problem is the nature of incandescence. Incandescent filaments are black-body radiators. The spectrum of black body radiation changes with temperature[1], so filaments that run hotter
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by calfuris 2y ago
I've seen it forced on non-public-facing systems where the company already has everyone's phone number, so that can't be the only reason.
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by calfuris 2y ago
Homo economicus is motivated by maximizing their own benefit, not by spite. Trying to stop others from satisfying their own wants may be a useful strategy in many cases, but I don't see how it would be useful here.
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by calfuris 2y ago
Negative thermodynamic temperatures are "hotter" in the sense that energy will spontaneously flow from a system with negative temperature to a system with positive temperature if those systems are in contact. It's easier to
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by calfuris 2y ago
You're talking about duplicate discussions, but if HN trims query parameters then how can it tell if a submission to a site that relies on query parameters is a duplicate? Every URL on such sites would become identical, making differe
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by calfuris 2y ago
It seems like you're arguing on the wrong side of the is-ought divide. It doesn't matter how URLs should be structured, HN has to decide how to deal with how they are in fact structured by whatever site is being linked. HN e
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by calfuris 2y ago
Desalination doesn't seem particularly practical for high elevation cities that are far from a coast.
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by calfuris 2y ago
That's fine, but the citation shouldn't be in the form of a Discord link, or at least not exclusively in that form. Make a copy of the relevant messages, host them elsewhere, and include that copy in the citation. Discord has be
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by calfuris 2y ago
Brits went with 999 because it was easy to convert payphones from allowing 0s to be dialed for free (allowing users to call the operator) to allowing 0s and 9s to be dialed for free. In the UK, the system was that X pulses would be sent to
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by calfuris 2y ago
In general, I agree, but there are some things that should be allowed to go wider when the space is present. In particular, horizontal scrolling is evil. Sometimes it is a necessary evil, but forcing it because the wide content doesn&#x27
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by calfuris 2y ago
The sound has 37% less power, but human perception of sound intensity is roughly logarithmic. Looking at the difference in dB will give you a better estimate of the perceived change than the difference in actual sound power.
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by calfuris 2y ago
I have no objections to proxies, but I do dislike printed cards. Proxies should be indistinguishable from real MTG cards when face down or in your deck, and printouts generally aren't. The right way to make proxies if you can't
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by calfuris 2y ago
People are going to keep living their lives approximately according to local solar time, which means that the meaning of X time in practical terms ("is this a good time to call?") is going to be different from place to place, so p
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by calfuris 2y ago
I'm not going to weigh in on the J&J issue, but that's a bad comparison. Asbestos can't do any harm if it doesn't get inside your body. Powdered asbestos (as would be found in talcum powder) can very easily do that
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by calfuris 2y ago
I believe that the intended rule is that the difference between terms is equal to the first digit of the earlier term.
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by calfuris 2y ago
It seems to be on the upswing, at least for some manufacturers. I went from a 2017 CRV to a new one recently and they replaced the touch-based steering wheel volume adjuster with a physical wheel and moved the only thing that I ever wanted
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by calfuris 3y ago
Laundry machines are not always positioned where they will be easily heard.
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by calfuris 3y ago
Electric stoves get dedicated high-power circuits, these things plug into a regular wall socket. They just don't have the same power.
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by calfuris 3y ago
The trick is having a large buffer, so that typically the engine can operate at the point with the best specific fuel consumption or shut down entirely. Getting energy from the engine to the wheels is less efficient than a mechanical trans

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