eeereerews

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by eeereerews 9y ago
This is called ubasute ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute ) and is a common theme in Japanese folklore.
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by eeereerews 9y ago
A `str` is just an unsized blob of UTF-8 data. It's `&str` that is the (fat) pointer.
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by eeereerews 9y ago
What a title.
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by eeereerews 9y ago
Must we have someone point this out whenever someone says "boiling a frog"? The use of the phrase does not constitute an factual assertion about whether you can, in fact, boil a frog.
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by eeereerews 9y ago
Maybe they're getting paid per unit of user suffering.
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by eeereerews 9y ago
You can do it without a table by factoring x (x^2-1) (x^2+1) = x (x-1) (x+1) (x^2 - 4 + 5) = x (x-1) (x+1) ((x-2)(x+2) + 5) Now one of the five consecutive numbers (x-2), (x-1), x, (x+1), (x+2) must be divisible by 5, so the whole is as wel
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by eeereerews 9y ago
There was no such study. Galileo showed this was false with the following famous thought experiment : Suppose it were true. Join a heavy rock and a light rock by a cord and drop them from a tower. If the light rock falls slower, eventually
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by eeereerews 9y ago
I am consistently unable to guess which obituaries will show up on HN.
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by eeereerews 9y ago
20 hour battery life? One thing TIs still have going for them is that their battery life is measured in months.
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by eeereerews 9y ago
O(1) means the number of operations is bounded. f = O(g) measures growth in the sense that f/g = O(1), ie. g grows quickly enough to cancel out any tendency of f to go to infinity.