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by floxy 2y ago
Assuming "A" and "B" are collections of somesort, "plus" is concatenation/union, and "max" finds the maximum in the collection? If your collections were double-ended queues, concatenation would
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by floxy 2y ago
And hopefully some day we'll build a solar-gravitation lens to look at the surface of one of these exoplanets: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08421 ...with a very interesting video that someone made on that paper: Som
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by floxy 2y ago
>1.5mm km Just curious as to why people in general don't write that as 1.5 Tm. https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/metric-si-prefixes
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by floxy 2y ago
Here's a starting spot, maybe especially the paper in footnote 4. https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-driving-risks-research-safe...
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by floxy 2y ago
>Any thoughts on why someone with ADHD has a higher chance of being murdered? Higher risk tolerance and illegal substance abuse, which then result in getting mixed up with drug dealers (and the like) where most people "nope" ou
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by floxy 2y ago
People with ADHD are involved in more car crashes: https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/research-shows-st... They are also at higher risk for any type of unintentional injury: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.
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by floxy 2y ago
America Set EV Sales Record in 2024 https://www.kbb.com/car-news/america-set-ev-sales-record-in-...
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by floxy 2y ago
I'm not an expert in this area at all. But I was under the impression that for some of these schools, that is the case. My understanding is that some (many?/most?) Muslims believe that the Quran was a direct revelation from Alla
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by floxy 2y ago
The Ioniq 5 has a low reliability according to Consumer Reports. Lower than their gas models. I suppose it is all the ICCU and 12V battery failures. Same story with the KIA EV6. I guess those ended up with better reliability than Rivian
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by floxy 2y ago
>owners already go in once a year to a mechanic for a state vehicle inspection ...for some states in some areas of the state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit...
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by floxy 2y ago
>madrassas in Pakistan that just teach the kids to read the Quran I thought they were just teaching the sounds of the Quran. Like the Pakistani kids don't know any Arabic, and they don't learn to read or understand Arabic. Th
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by floxy 2y ago
>How many hundred that are I don't know, but they made "fun" news stories during those times. Seems like every human story then. The few-and-far-between exceptions get magnified by 100-1000 times their actual significance
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by floxy 2y ago
Is that because: A.) There is significant overlap between Brexiteers and those with enough extra wealth to afford vacation / second homes in Spain. Is there any way to quantify this? I would have thought that those with a nationalist
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by floxy 2y ago
That's great news. How are we doing with imports from other autocratic regimes? The world has hit peak-Internal Combustion Engine sales in 2017. How close are we to peak oil demand? https://archive.is/p2hl1
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by floxy 2y ago
>No cosmologist uses "matter" when they mean "protons" for example. Don't astronomers call elements like neon metals? Maybe cosmologists don't? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity
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by floxy 2y ago
>Hot dark matter would be a black body emitter - we would see it. Hot dark matter would be stuff like neutrinos and axions which don't interact electromagnetically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Warm
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by floxy 2y ago
...and $10,000 in incentives on a 2025 Kia EV6, which stack with the $7,500 federal tax rebate as well: https://www.carsdirect.com/deals-articles/2024-kia-ev6-rebat...
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by floxy 2y ago
If only 5 percent of US buyers want an EV, why are the other 4% buying them? https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=63904
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by floxy 2y ago
>Unlikely to get cheaper Is that referring to absolute price? Or inflation adjusted prices? I'm still cautiously optimistic that we'll reach EV price parity with ICE in 2026. https://www.kbb.com/car-news/s
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by floxy 2y ago
Ioniq 5 base model now cheaper than RAV4? https://www.carsdirect.com/deals-articles/2025-hyundai-ioniq...
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by floxy 2y ago
>there's basically zero incentive for the folks on earth to send astronauts away at near-light speed, as they'd never realize the benefits of the mission. s/earth/Milky Way/
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by floxy 2y ago
>The twin paradox holds in a Pacman universe where there is no change in direction. That is awesome, I've always wondered about special relativity in a flat torus world. Do you have a recommendation for reading more about this?
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by floxy 2y ago
I was under the (probably mistaken) assumption that high enough energy photons could spontaneously turn into an electron and positron. But it is sounding like you need at least two photons to do that. And maybe those photons can't be
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by floxy 2y ago
I'm assuming that ben_w is referring to the blue shift in the CMB that you will see in front of you. And pair production is the process of turning sufficiently high energy light into matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by floxy 2y ago
Is there a Zipcar, but for pickups? I've never used Zipcar, but with all of the bitching about pickups on HN and various other places, what is the quickest and easiest way to rent a pickup truck for an hour or two? Is there an app fo
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by floxy 2y ago
In this age of big data, are there any stats on snow tire purchases that show what percentage of people purchase them for 2WD vehicles vs. 4WD/AWD vehicles? Also, I'd guess that most people consider AWD vehicles a form of insuranc
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by floxy 2y ago
Thanks
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by floxy 2y ago
I've already got a pretty good cowboy costume setup. Does this mean I should buy a pickup? >The most potent, the Ford, has a twin-turbocharged V6 that makes 450 hp. Pfft. The Chevy Silverado EV makes 760 hp. https://www
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by floxy 2y ago
Seems like good fodder for a tongue twister. Try saying it 10 times fast: - Must the Cyber Truck (Musk) bear the Cyber Trust Mark?
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by floxy 2y ago
Looking forward to the Ionic 9 EREV next year: https://insideevs.com/news/731616/hyundai-investor-day-ioniq...

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