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by claudius 12y ago
There are numerous graphs plotting both the relative sizes of abstracts with positive and negative results against the total (not every abstract contains the wording they checked), e.g. Fig. 3, and graphs of their relative ratios (e.g. Fig.
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by claudius 12y ago
That is certainly true, thanks!
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by claudius 12y ago
What you say is true if mastery of the foreign language is required or the aim of the exercise. However, if you just want to order breakfast abroad without looking like an uncultured insensitive dick, translating sentences formed in your na
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by claudius 12y ago
The reasons given there aren’t really any good: 1. For “--” to work, all maintainers would have to faithfully use “--” in practically every command invocation. That just doesn’t happen in real life, even after decades of peo
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by claudius 12y ago
Could you add a “standard” mailto: link? I’m not using any of the popular webmail providers, but this looks really nice otherwise :)
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by claudius 12y ago
It depends. For in-house software, I can fully understand that wasting a few developer hours less may well be enough to justify buying beefier CPUs for the couple of users who need them. On the other hand, if thousands of people need better
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by claudius 12y ago
> Every person who takes Uber ride votes for Uber and against other taxis. Or maybe every person who takes an Uber ride has been fraudulently deceived into assuming that their ride was insured, approved by the appropriate authorities and
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by claudius 12y ago
The regulations regarding commercial passenger transport are relatively strict requiring appropriate driver’s licenses, vehicles etc. This is the main reason for the “ban” (it’s really more of a reminder ‘hey, what you’re doing is illegal‘)
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by claudius 12y ago
Don’t live in a geographically huge, mostly unpopulated rural area but instead in sufficiently large villages/small towns, each with their own local police. Especially don’t live in a geographically huge, mostly unpopulated rural are
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by claudius 12y ago
Fix your police, then.
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by claudius 12y ago
This indeed looks very cool, thank you and your sibling comment very much!
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by claudius 12y ago
According to the article, this is the actually “good” variant: Normally, the dust is getting caught in the nose and does not reach the lungs. However, these fibres break down during a fire at temperatures of 650°C and become much smaller. T
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by claudius 12y ago
Can you suggest some applications (Debian) or introductions to use when contributing? I remember having had a look at Merkaator a few years ago and finding it rather unhelpful (or at least neither “very pleasant” nor “actually quite easy”).
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by claudius 12y ago
As somebody else pointed out recently in another thread, being able to steal session cookies can even help you attack the server directly, as authenticated users usually have more/different write access to databases and the like, makin
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by claudius 12y ago
“To him, the humanities are expendable window-dressing, and the consciousness and emotions of his fellow human beings are byproducts of natural selection that frequently hobble his pursuit and dissemination of cold, hard facts.“
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by claudius 12y ago
> One thing you do not see fragmenting are command-line tools, because people tend to agree on their function(1). Hm. top and htop do mostly the same thing. So do more, less and most, as examples of multiple tools for the same job. awk b
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by claudius 12y ago
On the other hand, Joe Plumber can just as easily die young and leave a destitute family. Does that mean that we have to make a law that all clients of plumbers have to make annual payments to their plumbers and their descendants for up to
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by claudius 12y ago
I don’t. That’s why I wrote: > But this would require that when X' and ¬X annihilate each other, the extra momentum of X' is also annihilated. Intuitively, I’d expect it to be sent out as a photon – with momentum p_ν. I.e. anni
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by claudius 12y ago
I don’t.
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by claudius 12y ago
I’m not quite convinced. If I understand you correctly, what you’re saying is the following: Suppose we send out one photon ν of momentum p_ν. We hence gain momentum -p_ν. This photon then randomly hits a particle X of a particle-antipartic
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by claudius 12y ago
There was no crime (at least no criminal prosecution of one form or another) and no punishment. There was a violation of the contract the OP agreed upon and the other party decided to make use of their right and terminate that contract. Tha
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by claudius 12y ago
Wasn’t it stuck at version 9 (or 10?) anyways, when all the other systems got 11 already?
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by claudius 12y ago
I like there to be a difference between a variable “p” and a variable “P” (the former, for example, might be a vector, whereas the latter could conceivably be a projector onto this vector). Especially when doing numerical work, I found it t
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by claudius 12y ago
> Thanks for the comment. There's this weird notion in Calculus education that we need to start from first principles. Limits were invented a century after Newton died, yet they're taught first. "Oh, students won't un
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by claudius 12y ago
# rm -rf /tmp/bla # rm -rf / tmp/bla
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by claudius 12y ago
Linux (SuSE enterprise something, possibly with a custom kernel, I’m just a user, not admin) runs just fine on 5.2TB machine, though I can easily imagine you’d have problems if you tried it with, say, DOS :) The system obviously behaves a b
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by claudius 12y ago
Bash is not just Bash but also sed, awk and all the other goodies. You can grow Bash scripts from the command line. You don’t have to worry about things, everything is a string is a number is a stream. One could go so far as to argue that s
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by claudius 12y ago
I can understand this for “old” architectures (i386), but if a new architecture is added, there are no binaries with which one could be (in)compatible?
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by claudius 12y ago
Slighty off-topic: Over 100 points and zero comments? Is this article so good that there is literally nothing to add, does the comments section at lwn.net serve as an appropriate outlet or is there some other obvious reason I’m missing? Bac
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by claudius 12y ago
I recall some treaties in the early 90s guaranteeing Ukraine’s territorial integrity in return for it returning Soviet nuclear weapons to Russia. Maybe the French still want to share theirs with us, now that these treaties are obviously no

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