jonsen

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1. 721.▲
   by jonsen 10y ago

   A slice has two sides. 2*r = d.
2. 722.▲
   by jonsen 10y ago

   Inlined formatting commands could be recognised and skipped, just like the //-comments.
3. 723.▲
   by jonsen 10y ago

   For an 8x8 board, n=4, we get (1,2) (2,4) (3,6) (4,8) (8,7) (7,5) (6,3) (5,1) where for example (2,4) and (5,1) are queens on the same diagonal.
4. 724.▲
   by jonsen 10y ago

   (Payload.)
5. 725.▲
   by jonsen 10y ago

   Read this one. You might end up wiser.
6. 726.▲
   by jonsen 10y ago

   Our expiry date is not har coded. It is a nondeterministic finite state machine.
7. 727.▲
   by jonsen 10y ago

   Carbon sequestering. Less CO2 in the atmosphere. Let's hope they don't start exercising.
8. 728.▲
   by jonsen 11y ago

   ... the root cause of the failure resulted from inaccurate NASTRAN calculations in the design of the structure. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipner_A
9. 729.▲
   by jonsen 11y ago

   Mostly just hacking. There are areas where quality and accountability matters. Space and aviation for example. I'd say Windows and what came of that taught the common user horde to accept junk, so now it is hard to sell quality at a
10. 730.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    Software engineering would probably be more of, well, more of engineering, and less of hacking, like all the other —thriving— fields of engineering, implying higher quality and more accountability.
11. 731.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." - B. F. Skinner
12. 732.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    You are right, not really informative. Maybe Ram Air Turbine is a bad name. A turbine driven by the airflow from "ramming" through the air?!
13. 733.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    "ram pressure" is a link to its own explaining wiki-page.
14. 734.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    Fro Wikisources: RUNES, RUNIC LANGUAGE AND INSCRIPTIONS. The art of writing with an alphabet appears to have been introduced into Germanic Europe in the Iron Age. ... The Iron Age is supposed to have existed from circa 200 to circa 650,
15. 735.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    That was way back. Mid 80ies. Bought it in a campus book store.
16. 736.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    For years I had this as a poster on my wall. Very humbling when you occasionally get the idea that some non trivial biological cause and effect must be straight forward.
17. 737.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    How would you predict local effects? A change in climate is a change in overall dynamics. Precise local effects is not at all predictable, I think.
18. 738.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    Must be a highclass phenomenon.
19. 739.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    "holding back failing kids" Worth pondering this phrasing, I think.
20. 740.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    Last paragraph refers to it.
21. 741.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    In pratice, yes. It takes extraordinary skills to combine the two in teaching. A skill the average teacher simply does not have.
22. 742.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    See Forth, Factor a.o. which are "harvard" languages.
23. 743.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    or a new user confusing 'reply' with 'add comment'.
24. 744.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    Because legislation is mostly reactive.
25. 745.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    You are describing state of the art, not addressing the speed of progres.
26. 746.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    Footage of a tiger eating the last.
27. 747.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    Journalists are not loosing their jobs due to automation. Well, the robots don't buy newspapers.
28. 748.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    Tradition. In early times you were only able to signal one bit at a time on one wire. At that time there were also no consensus on the size of a byte in bits.
29. 749.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    Maybe he thinks it should be 'kiloWatts'. CamelCase impairment?
30. 750.▲
    by jonsen 11y ago

    I don't get why this is choice answers? In 4 and 5 you could just try out the answers one by one.