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by hanche 3y ago
The worst example I can remember was in the movie The day after tomorrow, where cold air from the statosphere dropped down to ground level and instantly freeze dried people. Now, granted the stratosphere is cold. But it’s also at very low p
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by hanche 3y ago
I have my own tale to tell here. A couple years ago, someone got hold of my credit card info and used it to order some expensive clothing from an online store in Italy. If I recall correctly, it was about 1800 euros. It was actually the ban
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by hanche 3y ago
If you’re doing hard physical labour all day on a hot day, maybe you need about that much? It does match advice I have seen for desert hiking.
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by hanche 3y ago
Aren’t you off by three orders of magnitude? 2GHz translates to 0.5ns per cycle. Or perhaps you meant to write ms.
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by hanche 3y ago
That’s how I convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit, if I have to do it in my head: Add 40, multiply by 9/5 or 5/9 depending on what direction, subtract 40. Easily remembered!
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by hanche 3y ago
I know you’re joking, but all the same I might point out that she’s Swedish, not Norwegian.
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by hanche 3y ago
Bluetooth is used to discover peers and to initiate communication. Thus handoff works even on a wifi network that blocks broadcasts. It even works when no wifi network is present, by setting up an ad hoc network for the connection. (Disclai
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by hanche 3y ago
> The same works for binary and the two's complement, where it is even easier, because calculating the two's complement is equal to inverting all digits and adding 1. It’s the same in base 10, if by inverting a digit x you mean
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by hanche 3y ago
I don’t suppose he has an uncle named Bob?
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by hanche 3y ago
Even that does not always work. Some dialogs stubbornly refuse to respond to the tab key. In fairness, though, I think those are mostly dialogs with “dangerous” options in them: It slows down the automatic response somewhat.
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by hanche 3y ago
GP said rated, not necessarily for operation. It could just mean that the battery will survive such low temperatures unharmed. I have a summer cabin with a solar panel and a couple 12 V lead acid batteries. It would be great to be able to i
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by hanche 4y ago
Haha, took me a while to catch the reference. It’s been a long time. Isaac Asimov, right? Edit: Oh, Arthur C. Clarke. Thanks, gopkarthik.
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by hanche 4y ago
Oy. That surprised me. I am quite familiar with the notion of common keyboard shortcut that I can't get on my Norwegian keyboard. Command-(left/right) square bracket is very common, but at least that is usually associated with a m
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by hanche 4y ago
They still do: Shift-Command-period toggles hidden files visibility.
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by hanche 4y ago
If you had read anything by Susan Blackmore (I have, but admittedly long ago), I think you’d find that she’s not at all into magical thinking.
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by hanche 4y ago
There is also the MicroVAX. We got one (a MicroVAX II) at my place of work shortly before I left in 1986. It ran Ultrix, a BSD derivative. As I recall it, the box would not have been too big for personal use, though the price tag probably w
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by hanche 4y ago
And the surveyors’ foot is 500000/499999 times that. Not sure how that came to be.
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by hanche 4y ago
Or ten feet per three meters, since longer distances are rarely measured in inches anyhow.. The proverbial ten foot pole is 3048 mm long.
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by hanche 4y ago
And knots. Speed limits at sea in Norway (in harbours and other places with much traffic and little room for maneuvering) are always in knots. But we measure water depth in meters, not fathoms.
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by hanche 4y ago
> short tailed distributions can have no mean That’s a surprise to me. Now I’m curious: With what definition of “short tailed” can that be true?
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by hanche 4y ago
And it took only two hours! See postscript on the linked post.
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App Store Rejection of the Week: Ice Cubes, a Splendid New Mastodon Client(daringfireball.net)
15 points by hanche 4y ago|5 comments
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by hanche 4y ago
It’s really hard to tell, but to me it looks like the one behind that one managed to stop in time. But only with the tiniest margin. Action further back was much more dramatic, that’s for sure.
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by hanche 4y ago
I use \mathop{}\!{\mathrm d}} myself. That is a bit convoluted, but it takes care of the spacing in just about every context.. Of course, I put that in a macro definition so I don’t have to sprinkle it all over my document.
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by hanche 4y ago
I knew that, was just playing the joke back. I guess it misfired. Or maybe not.
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by hanche 4y ago
> First time hearing about Muphry's Law It was probably a mipsrint.
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by hanche 4y ago
I think (though I can’t find a reference) that Knuth hoped that some of the algorithms developed for TeX, such as the hyphenation and line breaking algorithms, would catch on and be used by other, non-TeX typesetting software. If that has e
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by hanche 4y ago
Hmm, that’s funny. I entered the title as [SQLite] 2022 Recap, but the HN software ate the bracketed part. (I included it in order to make it more specific, in brackets because it is not part of the original title.)
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2022 Recap(sqlite.org)
2 points by hanche 4y ago|1 comments
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by hanche 4y ago
Part of the fun comes from seeing it every year. You know all the jokes and look forward to them, but can’t remember their exact order. So you sit on needles every time he approaches the tiger head, wondering. Will he jump it this time, or

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