cozzyd

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   by cozzyd 12y ago

   I hope the events in Ferguson lead to a movement for the vast deployment of police body cameras. Fortunately, some big cities are already considering their use[1]. Evidence, albeit not abundant, suggests that they are quite effective in re
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   by cozzyd 12y ago

   ROOT does this with its own preprocessor and custom comment decorators. like: class mydata { /* simple type */ int n; /* the following array is of length n */ double *
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   by cozzyd 12y ago

   Subjecting oneself to OS X is even worse =p
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   by cozzyd 12y ago

   Terrible, but there isn't really anything better...
5. 3455.▲
   by cozzyd 12y ago

   Ticket prices are based on demand, not cost of providing.
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   by cozzyd 12y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_isomer
7. 3457.▲
   by cozzyd 12y ago

   Because \Xi'_b and \Xi*_b don't mean anything to most people. Even "excited baryon states" is pushing it.
8. 3458.▲
   by cozzyd 12y ago

   It's more akin to 'discovering' new nuclear isomers that are predicted but have never been observed.
9. 3459.▲
   by cozzyd 12y ago

   Well, there is clearly a hierarchy of importance of particles, although I don't know a very clear cut criterion (other than being "interesting"). Protons and neutrons are clearly important, but excited states thereof (e.g. N
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    by cozzyd 12y ago

    In case people are wondering about the impact of this, it's not very interesting (to non particle physcists) unless something unexpected about these particles is found later, as these particles were predicted by the Standard Model. The
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    by cozzyd 12y ago

    Probably accidentally, due to a poorly abstracted dependency chain.
12. 3462.▲
    by cozzyd 12y ago

    I don't think this is a real issue? (64-bit firefox supported 32-bit flash, at least on Linux).
13. 3463.▲
    by cozzyd 12y ago

    This is true for almost any application (very few things NEED 64 bits).
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    by cozzyd 12y ago

    I don't have any first hand experience, but I suspect someone who had actually been a slave would find your "slavery" extremely offensive.
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    by cozzyd 12y ago

    I wonder why it took so much longer on OS X than Linux?