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by fhars 7y ago
Like C++ gives you the current value of C and then increments it for some future use.
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by fhars 7y ago
They may have failed you for a useless use of cat http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html#uucaletter
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by fhars 7y ago
Quasiparticles need a substrate to live in, they usually are localised collective excitations of the particles that make up a solid that behave like a particle. The positronium is a bound state of two real particles.
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by fhars 7y ago
that logo seems to be a reference to https://www.xkcd.com/149/
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I design my own prosthetic limbs(theguardian.com)
7 points by fhars 7y ago|0 comments
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by fhars 7y ago
4cm accuracy is almost enough for precision agriculture. You usually want a year-over-year positioning accuracy of better than 2.5cm for your combine harvesters to mange issues of soil compactification. This is about the same order of magni
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by fhars 7y ago
That's why you use the mean tide which averages over all the possible positions of the sun and the moon, not the momentary tide which, like many computer problems, depends on the time of the day and the phase of the moon.
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by fhars 7y ago
No, neap tide is the tide where the difference between low and high tide level is smallest.
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by fhars 7y ago
Here is another nice anecdote about sea level not being sea level: https://www.science20.com/news_articles/what_happens_bridge_... (The article doesn't actually mention what happend, according to german wikipedia,
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by fhars 7y ago
„Good“ triggers were deliberately engineered to be unpredictable to make defusing harder and so you cannot assume the the area is safe just because the bombing has stopped.
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by fhars 7y ago
Numerical zero has nothing to do with the issue discussed here. What you are proposing is to add another “number” to types like int and float that results in the program crashing whenever you try to add it to another number.
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by fhars 7y ago
No, obviously not. Every domain having a Nil element is exactly the problem null references have introduced (at least for the call by reference parts of the affected languages).
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by fhars 7y ago
Adding enough medical data to the image to make it useful for scientific research would most likely also add enough data to deanonymize the image.
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by fhars 7y ago
There is the complicating factor that in health, safety can be more important than security: to keep a patient alive in an acute emergency, it is imperative that the doctor can see their data right now, while that fact that third parties ca
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by fhars 7y ago
As another illustration: that is enough paracetamol to reliably kill a quarter of the human population on earth.
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by fhars 7y ago
No, you remember wrong, 5:4 was extremely uncommon, 1280x1024 is the only 5:4 resolution I have ever seen in the wild, compared to 320x240, 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768. (Does anyone else fondly remember the short moment in time when all l
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by fhars 7y ago
> Updated studies indicated the reactor was vulnerable to tsunami, but were ignored. Repeatedly. And this is why nuclear power is fundamentally unsafe: the operators have conclusively proven that they just cannot be trusted. Repeatedly
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Rare Faint Minimum of Betelgeuse(aavso.org)
2 points by fhars 7y ago|1 comments
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by fhars 7y ago
Big rockets. Or something like that.
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by fhars 7y ago
But doesn‘t that say more about modern leftpaddable frontend frameworks than about the author?
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by fhars 7y ago
Yes, the canonical example is the good old „I give permission for IBM to use JSLint for evil“: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866
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by fhars 7y ago
Then where is the publication that uses GPT-2 for a long-term NLP task, like, for example, reconstructing the rules of the great vowel shift from a corpus of all pre 20th century English? Synchronously parsing the meaning a single text has
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by fhars 7y ago
Spantax used to do that in Hamburg, scroll down to „Incidents“ on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Finkenwerder_Airport The interesting thing is that „the end of the runway“ is actually a major river. And a Vuel
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by fhars 7y ago
And that is just one fire. The total area burnt in New South Wales alone was almost nine times larger than Rhode Island by 9 December. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-18/bushfires-burn-area-b...
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by fhars 7y ago
It may be related to the german legal concept of „Mitstörerhaftung“ which basically means that anyone who is contributing to a rights violation (like selling counterfeit goods) is liable for this. This can be a bit absurd (a shipping compan
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by fhars 7y ago
„Long distance“ here includes anything longer than a 1000th of the classical radius of the hydrogen atom, which is to a very high accuracy described by an inverse square law.
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by fhars 7y ago
Both, one is a single data point at a single location, the other is global trend. The medieval warm period wasn‘t warmer than the average on average either, it was just a local fluctuation.
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by fhars 7y ago
Speaking about the punctuality of German trains, there will be a talk at 36C3 from someone who collected all the actual departure and arrival times of all long distance trains in Germany for this year: https://fahrplan.events.ccc
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by fhars 7y ago
Normal type inference deduces the type from the code, Idris can infer the implementation from the type if the type is specific enough. In a way, this is Church in action: the type is a theorem, and the compiler is a proof assistant that hel
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by fhars 7y ago
Yeah, I always read these popups as “we value your privacy, therefore we take it away from you and sell it to the highest bidder” and hit the back button.

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