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by dmurray 2y ago
You're right, my first post should say exclaves and the three examples I gave are all exclaves.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Could have been an Onion article. What next, every two years Microsoft announces a new keyboard where the only change is that some "useless" keys have been removed to make way for a bigger Copilot key?
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by dmurray 2y ago
You might want to colour the exclave the same colour as the rest of its country, even though no connection can exist between them on the plane.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Four colours also isn't enough for some real-world country maps. Countries with enclaves (like Alaska, Kaliningrad or Sint-Maarten, though only the last actually makes 4- colouring impossible) change the topology: you can think of what
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by dmurray 2y ago
And you can taste/smell lots of things far below 4ppm - example: farts - so appealing to "this looks like a very small number so you must be lying to yourself" is nonsense here.
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by dmurray 2y ago
I think you're right, and integer-factorization is often used in these examples as a process that is hard to do but easy to verify. There are plenty of other processes that could be substituted in, e.g. reversing SHA256 hashes, that wo
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by dmurray 2y ago
...in 1903.
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by dmurray 2y ago
The military doesn't rely heavily on skills developed by hobbyists. In the vast majority of cases, you learn to shoot a rifle or drive a tracked vehicle or weld a nuclear reactor at the military's expense, after enlisting, even th
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by dmurray 2y ago
Meat farming replaces artificial fertilizer, by providing a source of manure, so doesn't that relationship run the other way? But having 1/4 of the land under soy beans or other locally appropriate nitrogen-fixing plants doesn&#x2
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by dmurray 2y ago
Finland joined the EU too late and too rich, perhaps. In other countries the EU was the main source of funds for building motorways, but doesn't own them or maintain them.
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by dmurray 2y ago
If you knew all this, would you have avoided driving over the bridge? Would you have wanted the local government to close it indefinitely awaiting repairs? Let's say it would collapse with 100% certainty randomly in the next three year
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by dmurray 2y ago
Yes, I don't worry about hundred-dollar bills on the sidewalk either.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Let's see: The line can't just go a few metres across the border. Let's say it connects Dortmund, in the German industrial heartland on the French side of the country, with Chooz, the site of a nuclear plant near the German b
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by dmurray 2y ago
I see! Seems like neither formatter is completely rigid, and both respect some style decisions made by the programmer, so this level of automated reformatting isn't possible.
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by dmurray 2y ago
You could always have your editor reformat files in gofumpt's way before viewing code or diffs, and reformat with go fmt when committing. I've never seen anyone with a workflow like this (lots of people have the second part, of co
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by dmurray 2y ago
It won't save as much as you might expect, though, because the insurance provider also knows that the people opting out of the scheme would have (on average) cost the provider less to provide healthcare for.
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by dmurray 2y ago
My preference would be not to refactor it at all. It works, you can figure out what it does, and the tests pass. Forget about it. Whoever wrote it, wrote it to the best of their ability to implement the requirements and style that existed a
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by dmurray 2y ago
> The issue is caused by using the + operator with the channel Int and a String literal. Thanks to the standard library’s 17 overloads of + and 9 types adopting the ExpressibleByStringLiteral Protocol, the swift compiler can’t rule out t
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by dmurray 2y ago
> this might have worked were it not for the fact that one of the steel rods in the balloon rigging was 91 centimeters long. US Air Force engineers didn’t realize it at the time, but 91 centimeters happened to correspond to one of the fr
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by dmurray 2y ago
The alternatives are even less charitable to the Swift creators. Surely, early in the development someone noticed compile times were very slow for certain simple but realistic examples. (Alternatives: they didn't have users? They didn&
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by dmurray 2y ago
Doing this by tenure seems like a fairer way to distribute the liquidity. The founders still get preferential access to it, but because they really have taken more risk (bigger stake for a longer time period), not just because they have a b
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by dmurray 2y ago
It looks like it should be theoretically possible to have the sun set on the Empire not just with a total eclipse on Pitcairn, but alternatively with one over the British Indian Ocean Territory. The BIOT is perhaps best known in these circl
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by dmurray 2y ago
Rooftop solar can't be economically efficient without subsidies of some sort. How could it outcompete the economies of scale of putting an extra 10 panels in a utility-scale installation 50 miles away? SREC is one such subsidy - which
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by dmurray 2y ago
I've just had a great idea for an action/thriller movie. The bad guys kidnap some VIPs, say some US senators, and make some demands. They bring in America's top hostage negotiator to deal with the situation. He brokers a deal
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by dmurray 2y ago
What would have happened if the medic didn't notice and the patient died? Would you have got the blame for ignoring it, or management for creating a situation where you had no choice but to ignore some alarms because of false positives
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by dmurray 2y ago
The units seem wrong in any case. It's 3 months of compute per day , which is actually much more impressive. If we think about the business impact, we don't usually think of compute expenditure per-day, so you might reasonably sa
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by dmurray 2y ago
The only two plausible explanations to me are either that artists conventionally drew hands like this (for religious, artistic or other reasons) or that artists' subjects conventionally posed like this, for a similar variety of rea
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by dmurray 2y ago
It sounds like these are automated somehow, that the generator kicks in when it's not otherwise being powered - otherwise isn't it just as much work for the port to run around starting and stopping generators? But an automated sys
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by dmurray 2y ago
I would prefer a solution based on multiplication than division. If the number is less than 10, return one, otherwise is it less than 100, ... You should prefer the simplest tool that can do the job. Multiplication is simpler than division.
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by dmurray 2y ago
I'm going to "well, actually" here and tell you that plenty of casinos have weird chip denominations. Especially where limit poker might be played. I've seen $2, $2.50, $3, $10 and $20 chips as well as the normal denomin

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