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by hanche 2y ago
Oh, but these are idealized monkeys that act like perfect random generators. Almost, but not quite, unlike spherical cows.
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by hanche 2y ago
The point of federation is that you don't need to get everyone to switch. If (when?) the original bluesky is enshittified, you just pick up and leave for a different server. You get to keep your handle, at least if you have gone to the
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by hanche 2y ago
They have put a lot of effort into protocol design to make it a federated service. If it works out as intended, other servers can be established, and users can migrate to a different server if they wish. https://blueskyweb.zendes
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by hanche 2y ago
Huh, my ISP blocks that address, apparently because they think it is harmful. Presumably a false positive.
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by hanche 2y ago
No, but for me it often fails when outside in bright sunlight, especially if the sun is low in the sky, as it often is in my latitude. Perhaps it might work better if I try training it on my squinting face.
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by hanche 2y ago
> The reason there is pi is probably because a pendulum is defined by its length and follows a circular motion that has the length as its radius. It’s not quite that easy: For small excursions x the equation of motion boils down to x’’+(
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by hanche 2y ago
Sqlite still supports it: .mode ascii
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by hanche 2y ago
Ha, clearly mt means millitonne. It’s a complicated way to write kilogram. I use it that way sometimes, but only jokingly. I also enjoy confusing people by using Mm for a thousand kilometers. It’s correct, but unexpected
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by hanche 2y ago
And Greek: Final sigma (σ) is written ς.
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by hanche 2y ago
That is a fairly modern invention, though. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F
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by hanche 2y ago
Not to mention the number of times you see geographical locations specified to nanometer precision.
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by hanche 2y ago
Of course not. I must have misunderstood what you meant, sorry.
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by hanche 2y ago
> I probably would never listen to more than a few GBs of high fidelity music in my life time. FWIW, I currently have about 100 GB of music on my phone. And that is in a fairly high quality AAC format. Converted to lossless, it might be
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by hanche 2y ago
In Norwegian, “kan” may mean either “can” or “may” depending on context. That’s a source of confusion sometimes. Not sure about Danish, but I don’t think it can mean “must”.
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by hanche 2y ago
Ah, that depends what the meaning of “is” is, does it not? On a more serious note, if you are of a certain philosophical bent you may believe that the natural numbers have an existence independent of and outside of the minds of humans. If s
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by hanche 2y ago
The story of Grothendieck is really fascinating. He was a superstar in algebraic geometry, only to suddenly reject the endeavor of mathematics and going off to grow vegetables in the Pyrenees. He also demanded that all notes from his lectur
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by hanche 2y ago
I am not sure I understand what you mean by “literally” here. For sure, if you use Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory as the foundation of mathematics, as is commonly done, every mathematical object is a set. The first definition of 1 encountered
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by hanche 2y ago
Agreed, but: The words “are allowed to be” are doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Who allows these beliefs to be mainstream? Does anybody have the power to not allow it? The thing, is, we cannot get rid of those beliefs by force – and argua
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by hanche 2y ago
Okay, so that raises the next question: What about “A-OK”? Apparently much used by astronauts in the early space flight era. Does it have older roots? It seems to have fallen completely out of fashion.
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by hanche 2y ago
pretty sure I’ve seen it spelled awright. Unless that has a different meaning: Aww—right.
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by hanche 2y ago
Not quite true, as others have pointed out. However, the installation instructions say this: > While there have been reports that pyspread can be used on OS X, OS X is currently unsupported (can you help?). I think that would make many n
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by hanche 2y ago
The dialog missed some important text: If this is not YOU calling US, it’s a scam. Hang up immediately. Or words to that effect. I was called by my bank once. They wanted to know if I had spent two thousand euros in a fashion store in Rome.
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by hanche 3y ago
Ah, so it was there until some time in the fall of 2004, then.
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by hanche 3y ago
Back around 1996, MIT had this haiku as their 404 page: I ate your Web page. Forgive me. It was juicy And tart on my tongue.
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by hanche 3y ago
Well, here’s a story to give you an idea. In November 2018, a frigate collided with an oil tanker on the Norwegian coast. It was only a glancing collision, involving the starboard side of the frigate and the bow of the tanker. The frigate w
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by hanche 3y ago
> but two engine jets can fly on one engine for a while Not just for a while. They must be able to do so indefinitely, until you run out of fuel. Of course, you are going to want to get it back on the ground long before that happens.
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by hanche 3y ago
Try docking a sailboat on a river. Then slow isn’t an option, since the current will sweep you away in a heartbeat. The key here is planning ahead, including a plan for what to do when you don’t get it right. And you won’t, on the first cou
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by hanche 3y ago
I am not an expert, but clearly pilot boats must be built to take a lot of punishment. And they don’t have the mass to damage the big ship beyond the paint layer.
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by hanche 3y ago
He seems to have done that talk several times. I watched the 2022 one. Time well spent!
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by hanche 3y ago
Ah, good point. But typography is supposed to support the semantics, so at least I was not totally wrong.

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