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> What they meant when they said "planets" Who is "they", and how do you know what they meant? The relevant fact is that the claim "Exoplanets also aren't planets" is simply wrong -- exoplanets are by
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> Exoplanets also aren't planets. That is flatly wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet "An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System."
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And thank you ... I really appreciate that.
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So many people here have no idea how things work and are far more interested in virtue signaling over an error (and making spiteful downvotes) than in correcting it, so we get ignorant and intellectually dishonest rubbish like > I think
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But that's obviously not a reason to treat them as a bad thing. It's also not entirely true ... he was awarded those honors because of the quality of his science journalism. FWIW, I think @mapontosevenths is wrong to say that @goj
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It's hard to take seriously someone who dismisses the (factually correct) content of a popular science article just because of a typo that has no bearing on that content.
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It doesn't depend on a mutation.
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That tweet is not original text either, has no citations, and is not the source of the openculture article.
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They grow straight because they are shoots/suckers, and that's how tree biology works. And they are pruned every two years to prevent knots and side branches. The lumber is dense/strong because the shoots have a robustness ad
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It's fascinating how someone can say that they "could not rule out it being real until like 30% in" and then when I point out that they could , since it says so at the top, they just dismiss that and declare that they don&#x
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Just below the title are the tags "package-managers security satire ai"
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And immediately below the title are the tags "package-managers security satire ai"
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You could have "visited" the satire tag at the top of the article.
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It's not BS just because some intellectually dishonest drunk declares it to be.
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$143 according to a comment on the page.
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But that didn't happen. See comments above by svat, snickerbockers, and InsideOutSanta.
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No, that was not your point. I refuted your claim "the general opinion on nuclear swing so far from environmental and safety concerns" -- it hasn't swung. > The ability to make clean energy with nuclear is not a new idea,
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> Is it? Yes. [ non sequitur discussion of dams snipped]
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Downvoted? Seriously? It's an objective fact that the comment is dead, which refutes the claim that people thought it's completely fine. And the comment has nothing to do with some totally different claim that was downvoted, thus
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That's not what the ACS cited; this is: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10796827/
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Yeah, it's funny that some guy who baselessly claims that " 99% of bike fatalities involve car crashes" (when people say "99%", odds are that they are pulling it out of their nether regions) then says that a study
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In addition to affirmation of the consequent he's also employing attacking a strawman, petitio principii, faulty analogy, and goalpost shifting, at least. His followup example "Note that a tree implies it is made of wood. If you f
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https://www.facs.org/about-acs/statements/statement-on-bicyc... Helmets reduce the risk of head injury by 48%, traumatic brain injury by 53%, facial injury by 23%, and fatal injury by 34%.2 Pediatric non-helmeted
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Ridiculous whataboutism. What makes you think that anyone thought that it's completely fine? The comment is dead.
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From the article: "If our goal is to double our grid and build a low-carbon economy in less than 25 years, there is no credible plan to do that without nuclear energy and the clean, reliable baseload power it provides," Reduction
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I know the guy said "harkens", and I pointed out that it's wrong (but maybe he doesn't understand what it means, and thinks it's the same as "reminds me of"). Fixed size fields both precede and follow punc
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It doesn't have anything to do with punch cards, it's to pack as many elements as possible into the very small amounts of memory on PDP-11s. A 16 byte directory structure (which divides evenly into a disk sector) with a 2 byte ino
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Here it is in 2.9BSD: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.9BSD/usr/src/uc...
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login used it, but not for directory entries: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/lo... The code, but not the function, occurred in multiple places in the V6 kernel and userlan
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The code for strncpy was in the UNIX kernel since at least V6. It was eventually added to the C library under the name strncpy. Sometimes those entries were processed in userland, e.g., by fsck. The utility of strncpy is noted in the C89

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