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GLP1 drugs were developed to manage blood sugar levels in diabetics. Weight loss was a side effect. One of the issues that came up when they started getting popular for weight loss was shortages causing issues for diabetics that had been re
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Hebrew is still written sequentially in Unicode. The right-to-left aspect there is simply about how the characters get displayed. On mixed documents, there is U+200E and U+200F to change the text direction mid stream. From the perspective o
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Or motivated reasoning for the court to reach the outcome it wanted.
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Lisence requirements vary by state. Here in Maryland, you need 30 classroom hours and 60 hours behind the wheel before before getting a provisional license.
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Your can replace the real numbers with the rational numbers and maintain all of the vector structure. If you wanted something more quantized, you can pick some length unit, d, and replace the real numbers with {... -2d, -d, 0, d, 2d,... }.
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https://thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/#proofs It's not a particularly interesting proof, but the author does prove that real valued functions are vectors. The bulk of the article is less about proofs, and more
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It is not required for vector spaces to have a basis. As it turns out, the claim that every vector space has a basis is equivalent to the axiom of choice, which seems well beyond the scope of the article. However, the particular vector spac
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The first paragraph and table of context both mention applications.
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Vectors are an abstract notion. If you have two sets and two operations that satisfy the definition of a vector space, then you have a vector space; and we refer to elements of the vector set as "vectors" within that vector space.
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Even the root filesystem can be FUSE if you want it to. The only thing that needs to be in the kernel is the initial root filesystem driver. Nowadays that is pretty much always just compressed CPIO (initrd). At that point user space can do
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There's a similar term "phantom type", for when you have some sort of type variable that is never used as the type of an actual variable. I've mostly seen in done in Haskell, but have used it in it Scala as well to simul
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A decent part of my job is open source. Our reason for doing it is simple: we would rather have people who are not us do the work instead of us. On some of our projects this has been a great success. We have some strong outside contributors
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How relevant is this to solder? Typically soldering is done after machining, so machining dust should be a non issue. As far as I am aware, the act of soldering does not produce any sort of lead vapor or particulate either.
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Read messages in realtime.
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Discord locked down the ability of bots to read message contents back in 2022. For bots used in over 100 servers, doing so now requires explicit approval from Discord (in addition to the standard approval the server owner would need to giv
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The problem is that once this side effect is in the main version for a while, it becomes a feature whether you admit it or not. Since that is going to happen anyway, you might as well make it official. The alternative approach is to do what
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> Rabbi Eliezer then said to them: If the halakha is in accordance with my opinion, Heaven will prove it. A Divine Voice emerged from Heaven and said: Why are you differing with Rabbi Eliezer, as the halakha is in accordance with his opi
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Yes. There are several explanations for this, but the most popular ones are: 1) Making fires is prohibited work. Activating an electric switch causes a spark, which is kind of like a fire. 2) We have a tradition of considering using electri
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And in Jews consider birds to be "meat" because people in the 15th century kept getting confused. The Mosaic law is that the prohibition against mixing milk and meat applies to land animals; not water or sky animals (which each ha
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This has been litigated well over a thousand years ago. To put it in modern legal terms, the legitimacy of an Eruv is a super precedent. It is discussed in depth in the Talmud, which is the clearest source of Jewish law. Even in modern law,
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I don't see why they wouldn't be. Basically all cities allow 3rd parties to run wires as long as they do all of the paperwork and rent the needed right of ways. Normally this is used for things like comm lines; but some inert wire
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God didn't make a mistake when writing the Torah. That "one weird trick" as you call it is as fundamental a part of his will as every else. Also most Jewish laws don't come from God. Instead, they come from the confluenc
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The input was a highly structured pdf specification of a family of protocols and formats. Essentially, a real language with very stupid parsing requirements and the occasional typo. The PDF itself was clearly intended for human consumption,
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My work has involved a project that is almost entirely generated code for over a decade. Not AI generated, the actual work of the project is in creating the code generator. One of the things we learned very quickly was that having generated
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Based on how the number of open files dropped down to 15 or lower after the error, I doubt the issue was caused by an actual leak. I have had issues with not quite FD leaks, where we would open the same file a bunch of times for some tasks.
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He didn't say it was Bitcoin style, just that it used "(Bitcoin style) encryption". I was going to point out that Bitcoin does not use encryption; but technically I think it's signature algorithm (ecdsa) can be thought o
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It probably depends on location, but around here, giving stuff away is easy. There are several for profit thrift stores in the area, some of which will let you just drop stuff off for them. There are also several non-profits that will accep
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Liability could fall to a third person. For instance, the compliance officer could have a specific obligation to assure that A+B does not happen.
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Assuming the alien life is intelligent and motivated to speak to us [0], then we have a significant advantage over our attempts at understanding existing animal languages. There is ample precedent for that on Earth. In our own history, when
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Notably, Trump has already officially declared that the US is facing an invasion back in March. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/invo...

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