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by eesmith 1y ago
I just realized that in school you likely also learned that 1.0 and 1.000 are two different numbers for physical measurements as the latter implies a higher measurement precision.
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by eesmith 1y ago
You likely also learned in school that some calculators do left-right evaluation while other, more expensive ones, do PEMDAS. And a few do postfix instead. You might also have learned that most calculators didn't handle 1/3 as a f
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by eesmith 1y ago
"In fact" is a big strong, no? "0.1" is what the language specification says it is, and I disagree with the view that it's ignored by most languages when it's often clearly and explicitly stated. That most peop
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by eesmith 1y ago
Since we are talking about SourceHut, I'll simply say I agree with the views its founder wrote in "Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster" at https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/26/Cryptocurrency-is-a
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by eesmith 1y ago
Where you see a problem, I see a market niche. I pay for Sourcehut hosting. I like that I'm on a system which rejects cryptocurrency projects.
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by eesmith 1y ago
Raku represents 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3 internally as rational numbers. https://docs.raku.org/type/Rat . 1/10 + 1/5 == 3/10 Note that "On overflow of the denominator during an arithmetic operation a Num (f
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by eesmith 1y ago
Python original purpose was as a scripting language for Amoeba. Yes, it was strongly influenced by ABC, an introduction programming language which van Rossum helped implement, but that was a different language. https://docs.pytho
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The Soviet Union Politburo also had a lot of engineers. "43 percent of Politburo members attained higher education credentials during their life, while in a close second place, 32 percent of members earned an education in technical eng
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Foreign visitors to the US have had to be fingerprinted for years, so you could guess it's part of the normalization of surveillance around the world.
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Exactly. Before Brexit people wanted it because they thought, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit : 'Opinion polls found that Leave voters believed leaving the EU was "more likely to bring about a bet
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by eesmith 1y ago
> and if an ID app alleviates some concerns about immigration then I'm fine with it It won't. The US border is now locked down far tighter than it ever was when I was a kid, and the cries for locking it down even more and viole
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by eesmith 1y ago
What of people like me who are able to use a smartphone but are unwilling to? It's not just the elderly and homeless as mentioned on the page, but also those with religious objections, members of the digital disconnection movement, tho
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Do I understand right that if I use a cafe's free wifi, and the cafe's suspiciously cheap service provider routes the connection through Iran so it appears as if my connection is coming from that country, then GitLab and perhaps o
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by eesmith 1y ago
Did the FCC intervene in any sort of regulatory sense? No, that would be the "hard way", which didn't happen. Did FCC chair Carr use the threat of regulatory power to intervene in internal business at ABC? Getting ABC to obey
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by eesmith 1y ago
Today I learned there are multiple BTU definitions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_thermal_unit lists Thermochemical, 59 °F, 60 °F, 39 °F, and International Steam Table. Though as the difference is at most 0.5%,
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by eesmith 1y ago
The title is 'Oracle Unveils $5 Billion Investment in UK Cloud Infrastructure' and the text has nothing about making Oxford a new Silicon Valley. Doing so would be an assertion that all previous attempts to make "a new Silico
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by eesmith 1y ago
Geerling links to last month's essay on a Frameboard cluster, at https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-clustered-four-fram... . In it he writes 'An M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 512 gigs of RAM will set yo
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by eesmith 1y ago
Implied by the Devil Dog mentioned later in the essay: > And I will say this for the good folks in Hershey, Pa. It’s still the same damned good chocolate, what’s left of it. A replacement of whole by broken almonds 1s the only compromise
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by eesmith 1y ago
The substance is to reduce the number of Black men in the military. "A common reason for medical waivers is pseudofolliculitis barbae, or razor bumps, a condition caused by curly hairs growing back into the skin. It disproportionately
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by eesmith 1y ago
I fully agree that weighing is better, but if you apply your standards to weighing you'll end up concluding there's also no such thing as "weight measurement." - The so-called "weight" will differ depending on
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by eesmith 1y ago
In 1981, the Betty Crocker Supreme Fudge Brownie Mix included a 5.5 oz can of Hershey's syrup. In 1949 you could get a 5 oz can when you purchase 2 quarts of ice cream. https://archive.org/details/mansfield-news-jo
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by eesmith 1y ago
Stephen Jay Gould's "Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars", in "Hen's teeth and horse's toes" at https://archive.org/details/hensteethhorsest00step/page/314/... shows
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by eesmith 1y ago
Dijkstra, 1982, "Why numbering should start at zero" - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831...
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by eesmith 1y ago
"Hyperdiffusionism is a pseudoarchaeological hypothesis that postulates that certain historical technologies or ideas were developed by a single people or civilization and then spread to other cultures. Thus, all great civilizations th
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by eesmith 1y ago
Portugal to French Guiana means following the North Atlantic Gyre - The Canary Current then the North Equatorial Current. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Gyre Looking at the current maps, I think most of t
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by eesmith 1y ago
"School choice" is structured around the belief that the parent knows best, and that there are several good alternative choices. This is not the case for education. For one, the last century of school consolidation is because larg
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I agree there are many options. I have a 2nd hand iPod, now replaced with a Tangara, which has USB C instead of the now flaky iPod connector with a chain of adapters. A friend told me that in competitive climbing people are required to be i
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by eesmith 1y ago
That's because I was primarily responding to your statement "I can see an unpopular recommendation for child clothing at around that time". I don't believe there is a strong basis for that statement. > None of your qu
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My simple reading from Google Scholar concludes it was not an unpopular recommendation for child clothing in the early 1900s. "Pink and blue: the color of gender" 2008, Paolo Frassanito & Benedetta Pettorini, https:/&#x2
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by eesmith 1y ago
Absolutely nothing prevents anyone from working in a place. I don't see anyone in this thread saying otherwise. ghaff's comment - the one you replied to - included "there's been something of a crackdown on out-of-state w

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