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2y ago
I don't know either but perhaps "state of the art."
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2y ago
An 11" SCT is a commitment to use. Do you have it on a permanent mount?
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> Strong/weak is a meaningless dichotomy Strong/weak is not a dichotomy. It's a spectrum. That's why folks argue over where a language lands in the spectrum. OTOH, static (compile-time) vs dynamic (run-time) is a dich
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2y ago
I think the objection is to the conflation of strong/weak with dynamic/static and it being unclear exactly what typed/untyped means, since it can refer to either. Python has always been strongly typed at runtime (dynamic), vs
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2y ago
It's a pun on the English definition of "iota": an infinitesimal amount https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iota
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2y ago
Ricky Jay (RIP) is also extraordinary and has a handful of videos on YouTube. His stuff is mostly with cards and his humor is more aimed at adults. One of my favorites is his appearance on Arsenio Hall (I wish this was better quality): htt
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2y ago
Penn only agreed to the "Red Ball" trick after Teller hit on the idea to tell the audience how it works at the start. https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/2008/nov/20/man-ball-hoop-be... https:
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2y ago
Here it is on an iPhone 13 mini running the latest iOS with AdGuard content blocker and Stop The Madness Pro extensions enabled: https://imgur.com/a/aBBvVum I can't load the page at all without the extensions. On
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I've driven NC from the mountains to the sea and haven't seen good reflective markings anywhere. Certainly all the road markings in and around Wake county are awful. Even at their best the markings don't compare to say Florid
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The reflectivity of the road markings in North Carolina—where plows are rarely used—is terrible, to the point that they are almost invisible on a rainy night, even on freshly painted roads. It's the worst of anywhere I've lived or
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2y ago
Similarly, holding a chef's knife you wrap your thumb and index around the blade, with the remaining three fingers around the handle: https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/how-to-hold-a-knife...
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2y ago
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shad
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There's a typo in the code in "the substitution model" section: ("+", ("fib", ("-", "n", 2)), ("fib", ("-", "n", 1))), The two calls to `fib` are su
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> I watched on an AppleTV and the stream was rock solid. For me it was buffering and low resolution, on the current AppleTV model, hardwired, with a 1Gbps connection from AT&T. Some streaming devices may have handled whatever issues
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> They now had to figure out how to shift their infrastructure to a whole new set of assumptions around live events It wasn't their first live event. A previous live event had similar issues.
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Big discussion last night while it was occurring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42153953
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Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/travel/skiplagged-flights...
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Cognitive load is what matters
(zakirullin.md)
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U.S. Wealth Inequality: Gaps Remain Despite Widespread Wealth Gains
(stlouisfed.org)
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> And the Dems only pay lip service to economic equality. This is simply not true. It's not Democrats who keep making income taxes less progressive. It's not Democrats who refuse to pass a refundable child tax credit. It's
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I sometimes pay for things and then pirate them anyway because I can adjust the subtitle position on the pirated version. Or I can rely on being able to play them offline. Or a dozen other reasons where the pirated version offers a better U
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Link to PDF version of the "A Practical Guide to (Correctly) Troubleshooting with Traceroute" presentation (referenced from the post) that doesn't require registering with scribd to download: https://archive.nanog.
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Voting from Space
(nasa.gov)
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> It's not like python and typescript where you declare your input data to be one thing, and then receive something else In Python that's likely to lead to a runtime TypeError, not so much in TS since at runtime it's JS an
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"Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself."
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Swapped at birth: two women discovered they weren't who they thought they were
(bbc.com)
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Down with Meritocracy (2001)
(theguardian.com)
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> She moved to the big city and was getting into the entertainment industry She must have been joking. She grew up in LA. She originally trained as a dancer in NYC but went into acting because she saw dancing as a dead end.
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Bummer. I recently watched One from the Heart for the first time. (I really enjoyed it. Not sure why it was so poorly received at the time.) One thing I noticed looking at the cast was that the three male stars had died but the three wome
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Discontinued: https://www.projectorcentral.com/JVC-DLA-VS8000G.htm I'm not sure if they ever shipped it to any retail customers. I'm a JVC projector owner so I kinda follow JVC projector news. The higher end JVC P
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