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by jonsen 9y ago
Wikipedia: "The size of the byte has historically been hardware dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size – byte-sizes from 1[3] to 48 bits[4] are known to have been used in the past."
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by jonsen 9y ago
What is your point? Healthcare greatly increases quality of life.
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by jonsen 9y ago
Tobacco. Yesterday i spent $32 on tobacco. 50 grams of fine cut rolling tobacco. About 80 cigarettes I can make from that. I used to be an occasional smoker but years back my brain switched into craving mode. The system is then so wisely ar
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by jonsen 9y ago
I wouldn't say it is complex, that we have unsigned comparison for unsigned numbers, and signed comparison for signed numbers.
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by jonsen 9y ago
Falling pray to a headline.
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by jonsen 9y ago
"The past ..." — If there is only one.
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by jonsen 9y ago
>Does it account, for instance, for the fact that we know more about the past than the future? Reminded me of a side remark from another context: The past only exists in our memory, therefore in some sense we can't recall incorrectl
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by jonsen 9y ago
IEEE CODE OF CONDUCT [PDF]: http://www.ieee.org/about/ieee_code_of_conduct.pdf ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/acm-code-of-ethics-and-profess...
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by jonsen 9y ago
But, as he wrote, momentum would lead to even bigger problems.
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by jonsen 9y ago
Or simply from a european publisher. At least some english language books from the german publisher Springer has the spine "reversed".
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by jonsen 9y ago
If you memorize some of the "nice" log10 approximations like ... log10 2 ~= 0.3 log10 2.5 ~= 0.4 log10 3 ~= 0.5 log10 4 ~= 0.6 ... then 25000^(1/8) could be done mentally as log10 of 25000 is 4.4
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by jonsen 9y ago
When the first digit becomes 1 keep two digits. A small effort for much higher precision. (Something to do with Benford's Law? Maybe.)
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by jonsen 9y ago
Well for one Turing was certainly somewhat interested in physics. From his WikiP page: In 1928, aged 16, Turing encountered Albert Einstein's work; not only did he grasp it, but it is possible that he managed to deduce Einstein's
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by jonsen 10y ago
If that means that more people is spending more time in death row, I think he's right.
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by jonsen 10y ago
Once I lived in a rented room in an old ladys house. One day I was smoking a cigar and she came in and asked if I could visit her and smoke cigar sometimes. "Cigar smoke is so good for my asthma", she explained.
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by jonsen 10y ago
Not really: "Quicksilver (liquid metallic mercury) is poorly absorbed by ingestion and skin contact. Its vapor is the most hazardous form. Animal data indicate less than 0.01% of ingested mercury is absorbed through the intact gastroin
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by jonsen 10y ago
I don't think fumbling around in a trial and error manner is the best start. The basic data types and the set of values they can represent should come early.
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by jonsen 10y ago
> I have flown inverted a few times, and to do so take a tremendous amount of forward pressure on the control stick to even try and attempt to hold altitude while inverted, in order to counteract the wings natural (slight) positive AoA a
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by jonsen 10y ago
A Johnson counter is often used in similar circumstances. To count eight states 0000 -> 0001 -> 0011 -> 0111 -> 1111 -> 1110 -> 1100 -> 1000 -> 0000 it would have to be a four bit register ABCD where A = B, B
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by jonsen 10y ago
It's excellent. Contemporary online presenters take notice! This is how you can contribute to making America great again.
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by jonsen 10y ago
"Let me see if I got this recursive disk juggling right. You move the top-most disk to position C. Then recursion can move the rest to position B. And finally I move the disk at position C on top of the rest at position B." "
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by jonsen 10y ago
Marked share is the number sold, not the number in use.
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by jonsen 10y ago
The main part of the kind of body mass you can gain is water.
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by jonsen 10y ago
It is then obvious to ask: Do we all have an equally "large" consciousness when fully alert? Or are some of us more conscious than others?
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by jonsen 10y ago
1110 + 1111 = 1101 1101 - 1110 = 1111 1101 - 1111 = 1110 Overflow doesn't matter if you just want to swap.
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by jonsen 10y ago
15 + 15 gives 14 14 - 15 gives 15
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by jonsen 10y ago
By symmetry it must be true for XNOR also, and: (F == F) == T in fact is T
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by jonsen 10y ago
Then maybe one of the very first computer scientist's take on philosophy would interest you. A PDF of his Antiphilosophical Dictionary is available here: http://www.naur.com
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by jonsen 10y ago
I don't think that is what is meant by "be the first to" here. I'm no expert in english, but in my native language the analog expression could mean "if somebody would think of X, she surely would".
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by jonsen 10y ago
Oh I miss the times I were an executive blackboarder. Blackboards made of glass were the best. Glass roughened on the writing side, and painted dark green on the backside. The depth of the glass made your writings cast a shadow which gave y

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