julesnp

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by julesnp 5y ago
Folks were hospitalized with aphasia, where they couldn't figure out how to write normally any more. That's quite an extreme reaction. Do you have any links about this? I'm unable to find anything through Google.
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by julesnp 6y ago
Isn't the harm to the players' reputations coming from their own quality of play in publicly viewed matches? In my opinion a third party would only be liable for harming their reputation if the statistics being published were untr
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by julesnp 6y ago
Also MATLAB: ~= Delphi: <> And if you go a bit beyond top 20, there's Haskell: /=
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by julesnp 6y ago
Wouldn't any heat energy gains be negated by the energy needed to ship the heavy iron from the Sahara to the Netherlands?
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by julesnp 6y ago
While it could resolve ambiguities when discussing two objects that happen to have different grammatical genders, it seems it would introduce more anaphoric ambiguities when discussing a person and object with the same gender. For example:
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by julesnp 6y ago
I find their "Junk files" feature in the new Files app very useful for clearing up space: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
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by julesnp 6y ago
I have two questions for this: What is the basis for your belief that smaller groups of people will intrinsically care more about the environment than larger groups? In an anarchic society, what mechanism would be limiting these cooperative
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by julesnp 6y ago
I would say it's the fact that despite humanity's initial state being anarchy, all over the world human society has developed along basically these same patterns.
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by julesnp 6y ago
It's worth money as long as the company that runs the search engine is willing to pay for it. In a scenario where Google no longer sees the value in that arrangement, what value would Microsoft be seeing in it?
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Climate experts call for 'dangerous' Michael Moore film to be taken down(theguardian.com)
38 points by julesnp 6y ago|94 comments
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by julesnp 7y ago
Caesar and Augustus didn't insert those months, they were renamed from Quintilis and Sextilis in their honour. The reason for the discrepancy in names is due to the fact that March used to be the first month of the year. It was changed
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by julesnp 7y ago
For some reason, I've always preferred OCaml's style of generics notation: (T, (int, long) U, int W) S I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority with that opinion though.
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by julesnp 8y ago
I've never heard of tail recursion being used as a performance optimization. Generally it's required to prevent a recursive function from blowing the stack. Iteration is usually more performant than recursion, but doesn't mix
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by julesnp 8y ago
You're not purchasing anything on Kickstarter though, you're making a donation.