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by jbay808 5y ago
Isn't Poisson's equation basically describing a minimal surface for small z? I'm not saying the badminton racket follows exactly a (discrete) 2D Poisson equation. But it's certainly related enough to be more than a sur
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by jbay808 5y ago
A friend of mine broke a badminton racket during a match, and I was struck by how the sharply bent and twisted metal rim was transformed into a smooth, continuously double-curved surface by the racket weave. I looked closely at the balance
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by jbay808 5y ago
You mean the coastal mountains, right? Beyond the Rockies is Alberta. Generally the grass goes yellow here in the summer, even right on the coastline in Vancouver Island and up the sunshine coast.
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by jbay808 5y ago
If you had to bet, or put money like you were investing in the stock market, what would you put as your best-guess odds on these records being broken again in less than 70 years (ie, a shorter time than it took to break them)? What about 50
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by jbay808 5y ago
The #1 contributing factor in this case is the western pine beetle, which exploded in range when winters stopped being cold enough to kill them off, and left stands of dead forests in its wake. Climate change is a direct culprit.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Do you still have access to the data? Can you do me a favour? Can you plot (actual time / estimate) and see if the result is a lognormal distribution with a median very close to 1? In my experience, it always is.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Our HR was like this too! They were amazing. They sent a spreadsheet with each applicant in it, greyed out the ones who didn't follow instructions, and bolded the ones that they thought I should read first based on how close their appl
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by jbay808 5y ago
Decreasing the price of programming work doesn't necessarily mean decreasing the wages of programmers, any more than decreasing the price of food implies decreasing the wages of farmers. But on the other hand, it also can mean that.
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by jbay808 5y ago
This is a total misunderstanding of survivorship bias. It would be like encountering a 1,000 year old man and attributing his age to merely survivor bias rather than investigating whether it has something to do with the magical beans he ate
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by jbay808 5y ago
There's already a defense for truth, so I imagine the religious belief defense is there to avoid the Crown getting stuck in an argument about whether or not a given religion is "true", and the courts having to rule that it is
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by jbay808 5y ago
3M also makes black sticky notes (intended for use with gel pens). Cut a piece off the sticky area and it blends in perfectly with ThinkPad matte black bezels. I also recommend putting another small piece on the backside (to make a "ba
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by jbay808 5y ago
Yes, I can confirm that lumber prices in Canada went sky-high.
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by jbay808 5y ago
That's the scenario that I'd call abnormal! What a nightmare!
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by jbay808 5y ago
So would your house sell at a premium relative to a buying the land and having a new house built? If so, it's definitely appreciated, but that sounds like a very uncommon scenario!
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by jbay808 5y ago
By "improvements" do you mean sewer hookups and so on? Japan is no different in that those add value, and they don't redo them when rebuilding the house (barring some problem). Also, depreciation of the house includes things
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by jbay808 5y ago
With few exceptions, houses are a depreciating asset just about everywhere; it's only land that appreciates. Japan is no different except that the depreciation rate of the house may be somewhat faster, and appreciation of the land sign
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by jbay808 5y ago
I'm sure, because I took it out of the box and did the first time setup. WiFi is standard WPA2. Printer is a Canon Pixma TR4527. Here's the process, for those interested. And I did work hard to see if there's any other way. 1
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by jbay808 5y ago
So I noticed this week that my Canon printer was able to connect to my "secure" Wi-Fi during its initial setup without at any point prompting for a password. How worried should I be? Did it steal the keys from my computer?
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by jbay808 5y ago
I'd probably try to experiment with weird ideas like unsweetened beverages, carbonated coffee, carbonated tea, carbonated oat milk, and bitter flavours like orange peel.
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by jbay808 5y ago
> he described oxen as the colour of the sky So, probably a mottled light grey?
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by jbay808 5y ago
As I understand it, the cone cells in your retina responsible for "red" have a second peak on the violet-side of blue. This means that a violet wavelength will get efficiently absorbed by both the "blue" and "red&qu
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by jbay808 5y ago
Could it have been a spot from a green laser pointer traversing the clouds, or something like that?
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by jbay808 5y ago
> Can anyone point me towards better methods of measuring diversity? It depends on what you want to achieve, but for companies, the goal is probably diversity of belief, opinion, culture, and experience. That way you can have a good spre
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by jbay808 5y ago
> it always struck me that they likely received the same privileges that most white males do in technical degree programs. They also completed those degrees while going through a very intense personal and medical struggle that likely add
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by jbay808 5y ago
> Sorry to break it to you, but chromosomes are prescriptive. ... Except when they aren't. Even biology doesn't paint such a simple picture. Chromosomes are important, but not as important as hormones -- and how the body respon
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by jbay808 5y ago
It's typically after you end up in the public eye for some other reason that someone becomes motivated to hunt for material from your past. Today you're a random internet commentator; tomorrow you're in a fight with your kid&
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by jbay808 5y ago
Could you get a nice gravity boost away from the sun by just following it for as long as possible?
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by jbay808 5y ago
Thank you for taking a stand.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Exactly. The real reason for high SWE demand is that the world is absolutely littered with computers, and their value appreciates each time they're taught to do something new.
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by jbay808 5y ago
In Canada it's more like the former -- you aren't allowed to even call yourself an engineer unless you have a P. Eng.

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