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by jadyoyster 5y ago
This page explain things well: https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/UEET/StudentSite/dynamicso... AFAIK the wing shape thing is about reducing drag (turbulence?)–not essential but hard to fly well without a
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by jadyoyster 5y ago
I'm not a physicist but wouldn't this reflective effect be tiny compared to the prevention of convective heat loss?
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by jadyoyster 6y ago
Just a side note; it is entirely false that FP cannot work for a distributed system. You could say the same for any program that's not simply a batch computation from input to output. Luckily things like functional reactive programming
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by jadyoyster 6y ago
The vote is private but the counting is public.
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by jadyoyster 6y ago
Lisbon also has a bridge that you can hear from miles away: one lane in each direction has a surface made of metal grating which makes a loud hum when cars drive over it. People who live nearby don't notice it (strange looks if you poi
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by jadyoyster 7y ago
By most archaic language they are probably referring to Lithuanian being considered closest to Proto-Indo-European in terms of language features: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_language
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by jadyoyster 7y ago
In my experience you hear the cars due to tire noise at velocities higher than that since electric cars still make quite a bit of noise driving at speed over asphalt.
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by jadyoyster 7y ago
I've never heard of an EU country where it would be legal to enter without ample warning time.
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by jadyoyster 7y ago
Don't ants in a colony all share the same genes and have the queen do all reproducing? (From the sperm of a single male possibly? I'm not super familiar.)
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by jadyoyster 10y ago
Paracetamol, aspirine and caffeine are definitely available over the counter in Europe!
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by jadyoyster 10y ago
You're thinking of what "liberal" means in most of Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism But the article talks about a different kind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by jadyoyster 10y ago
The Core is made to be combined with the watch, so you should be able to have pace on your wrist without having to carry your phone.
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by jadyoyster 10y ago
In many countries with chip & pin you can only pay online using your debit card with a security token generator and your PIN code.
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by jadyoyster 10y ago
A diamond frame is stiffer and lighter, but you can only mount it by swinging your leg over the saddle or over the handlebars. A step-through frame is heavier but easier to mount.
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by jadyoyster 11y ago
A "men's bicycle" is a bike with a diamond frame (as opposed to step-through for a woman's bicycle), but it's a silly name really. More to do with comfort vs. performance than gender.
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by jadyoyster 11y ago
I very rarely see native English speakers use "he" as a gender neutral pronoun. It's usually plural they (when stating generalities) or singular they [0]. I find singular they much less ambiguous and sexist than "he&quot
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by jadyoyster 11y ago
Heat shielding is needed, as well as extra landing engines that work outside of vacuum, since the second stage engine would destroy itself under atmospheric pressure. It's easy to see how quickly you start to get dimishing returns, but
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by jadyoyster 11y ago
In case you ever want to try one again; dwm most definitely supports resizing windows independently and floating them. See http://dwm.suckless.org/dynamic_window_management .
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by jadyoyster 11y ago
Something which might be useful if you want to do this: you can use Firefox with multiple profiles, by starting it with the '-P <profile-name>' option.
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by jadyoyster 11y ago
I'm not very familiar with Go, but from what I understand Go is the antithesis of this feature in many ways. AFAIK the tools are all stand-alone command line applications which you have to run every time you want to check whether you&#
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by jadyoyster 12y ago
All single fathers were deceived into taking care of their children?
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by jadyoyster 12y ago
For what its worth, Emacs users usually use Geiser with Racket. Might be why Swank doesn't work all that well.
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by jadyoyster 12y ago
The private schools don't care about having good academics, just about making money. Good professors want to be associated with the trusted and traditional publicly funded universities.
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by jadyoyster 13y ago
They are probably going to scrap Google Talk. Even now you can't participate in group chats on Hangouts over XMPP which is hugely annoying.
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by jadyoyster 13y ago
I regularly type in multiple languages, and SwiftKey has been amazing at this on my Android phone. I can highly recommend it to anyone.
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by jadyoyster 13y ago
Plenty of computer science students at my (SICP-using) university had never programmed before attending, yet they're great at it. Your attitude is especially damaging to female students, who are even less likely to lack programming exp
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by jadyoyster 13y ago
Fasting for a day is not in any way dangerous. We've evolved to cope with situations much more extreme than that just fine.
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by jadyoyster 13y ago
You can however use macros to generate the fixed argument count versions; I don't know if Scala is able to do that.
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by jadyoyster 13y ago
Anyone know if the "Programming with hand tools" Conj talk will be available somewhere? Totally agree on Clojure's documentation problem (being used to Racket's amazing docs), but at the same time it's very easy to
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by jadyoyster 13y ago
I've been wondering - having never used a web framework except for some RoR - what people miss in the idiomatic Clojure way of doing web (composing libraries like Ring, Compojure, Enlive etc). Care to share?

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