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by cygx 4y ago
Note that there are different variants of the Julian Date: For example, the Julian Date(Universal Time 1) drifts against Julian Date(Terrestrial Time), with the former being based on Earth's rotation, the latter being an idealized time
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by cygx 4y ago
However, it also allows you to re-sync a device just by putting in the current datetime - at the cost that it'll drift at a rate of up to two seconds per year (though the current average is more like 0.5s given 27 leap seconds in 50 ye
93.
by cygx 4y ago
Hmmm, am I wrong in understanding that, by pretending leap seconds don't exist, the unix time actually represents how many seconds passed rather than what time time is now? It's the other way around: Unix time pretends every day
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by cygx 4y ago
At that time, a total of 1,666,666,693 seconds will have passed since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT as Unix time pretends leap seconds don't exist...
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by cygx 4y ago
It's true that due to the large mass of Jupiter, the barycenter of the solar system lies outside the surface of the sun. However, the barycenter of any sun/planet 2-body system besides Jupiter lies within the sun's surface, s
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by cygx 4y ago
In my opinion, that would make things even worse: The sentencing clearly states that the earth revolving around the sun "is a proposition absurd and false in philosophy, and formerly heretical", and by that time, Copernicus's
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by cygx 4y ago
Ohh I miss the good old days of forums in general. I find all this new software, where conversions are "threaded" stupidly hard to read. A 'classical' web forum is threaded, contrasting with an unthreaded (bulletin)
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by cygx 4y ago
I doubt the involvement of any well-known climate activist groups: They tend to claim responsibility for their actions, as the point is to generate publicity and political pressure.
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by cygx 4y ago
One of Elon's most visible projects (Hyperloop) is literally public transit. Elon does not actively work on the Hyperloop, and critics have argued it may even be a red herring that he put out there deliberately to distract from more
100.
by cygx 4y ago
Elon: The richest and most successful business person in the history of humanity Rockefeller probably still has him bet, never mind historical figures such as Mansa Munsa or Augustus Caesar (though in rather different contexts). Personall
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by cygx 4y ago
Historically, goroutines worked like in libdill, only passing control to the scheduler on certain calls. So did the Go runtime suddenly become a VM at version 1.14, when preemption was added? And why the distinction between OS threads and g
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by cygx 4y ago
You're assuming fascist ideology needs to be internally consistent. If you look at historical examples, it rarely is.
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by cygx 4y ago
Would you consider the C runtime a virtual machine once you link against libdill or use OpenMP? If not, why not? If so, well, then we just disagree on the term 'virtual machine'. My litmus test would be the presence of some sort o
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by cygx 4y ago
It's not an implementation detail, the interface is mandatory and public (Java bytecode).
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by cygx 4y ago
Most relevant in context of our discussion: The JVM is a (virtual) stack machine with its own instruction set and semantics specified in the Java Virtual Machine Specification . As far as I'm aware, something equivalent does not exis
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by cygx 4y ago
Not every runtime environment is a virtual machine...
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by cygx 4y ago
You need to apply the chain rules, ie sin'(ax) = a cos(ax)
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by cygx 4y ago
In my opinion, it puts too much emphasis on the variables compared to the operators and numbers and makes the expression as a whole harder to parse at a glance as I have to actually read the names.
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by cygx 4y ago
Did you ever need to do involved mathematical manipulations using pen and paper? How would you judge the readability of the following expressions: zero_point equals negative prefactor divided_by two plus_or_minus square_root_of( square_
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by cygx 4y ago
Same backend, but different frontend, so to speak. Hence, it used to be possible to have nix and guix share a store and local state directory. Not sure if that's still possible today, though...
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by cygx 4y ago
I feel you. "Thankfully", my memory of how these things were supposed to happen is foggy at best, so I'll be able to enjoy the series on its own merits...
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by cygx 4y ago
Haven't seen Rings of Power yet, but I'm probably going to be fine with it - Tolkien fan-fiction still scratches the itch. I found what they did to the Hobbit far more upsetting, and had a friend who absolutely hated the original
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by cygx 4y ago
However, note that Galadriel is supposed to be over six feet tall, and her Teleri name is Nerwen - man-maiden - because she used to tussle with the boys back in the day. She's "a match for both the loremasters and the athletes of
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by cygx 4y ago
Not a lawyer, but I'm assuming anyone who's mentioned in the Hobbit, the trilogy and the annexes (ie the stuff Amazon bought the rights to) even in passing can make an appearance. However, if these people do things exclusively des
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by cygx 4y ago
They do not have the rights to the Silmarillion, so being too accurate could get them sued. Given these constraints, I probably won't be too upset by any liberties they take once I get around to watching the show - never mind that by n
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by cygx 4y ago
Note that C23 will include a variant of incbin spelled #embed : Semantically, the preprocessor will insert a list of integers which you can use to initialize an array.
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by cygx 4y ago
Not to mention the fact that selecting icons from your taskbar isn't even the most efficient way of switching windows, which would be win+number or alt+tab. Not sure that's true in the setup under discussion: win+# requires figu
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by cygx 4y ago
I think you can get about 8 non-collapsed windows. My taskbar fits 28 windows before scrolling happens. It gets a bit unwieldy after the first 12, and eventually, titles will no longer be displayed. do you really need more than that? Ye
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by cygx 4y ago
Sure. But the selling point of Rust is that the compiler will check ownership and lifetimes for you. That goes away if you use integer handles, in which case I might as well use another language.
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by cygx 4y ago
The claim was that, quote: According to the law in most places, there are no such places that tolerate an "open nazi" because being a nazi is a crime.

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