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by kmm 5y ago
Computer analyses are done on a distributed network called fishnet[0], not locally 0: https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet
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by kmm 5y ago
"They" is almost exclusively singular in those circumstances, regardless of its etymology. Similar to how "you" derives from the old English second person plural pronoun, but is in virtually all variants of modern Englis
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by kmm 5y ago
You get 5 points if you tap twice within 0.5 seconds, and 2 if the interval is within 1 second. The source code is very readable. this.score = this.score + (tapInterval < 500 ? 5 : tapInterval < 1000 ? 2 : 1);
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by kmm 5y ago
Can I ask what region you live in? Pronouncing <womb> as /wuːm/ is the dominant pronunciation in every English speaking country, so much so that I can't recall ever hearing it differently, and I'm surprised you&#x2
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by kmm 5y ago
It's very interesting people think so, and I've heard similar statements about the <c> in "scent". Yet linguistically, it really doesn't hold up. Words are built up from phonemes, which undergo some alteration
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by kmm 5y ago
"Het kan me niet bommen" maybe? "Bommen"[0] apparently being an otherwise completely unused verb meaning "to strike something giving a hollow sound". 0: https://etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/
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by kmm 5y ago
I have the thermostat in my apartment turned to about 19°, which is a bit lower than is usual here, to save money and the environment, and I'm still perfectly comfortable at that temperature. At some point, after I had rented it for a
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by kmm 5y ago
That just seems like a consequence of English having the convention that compound words are written with spaces between them. There is no meaningful difference (apart from the language) between the English "vaccination passport" a
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by kmm 5y ago
According to the Lichess opening explorer[0], across their ~419 million games, only 5.3% ended in a draw. If you change the database from Lichess to Masters however, with a total of 2 million games, about 43% end in a draw. Anecdotally, I&#
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by kmm 5y ago
The density of the Sun isn't uniform of course, but according to this[0] StackExchange answer, the density of matter in the Sun already reaches that of air at about 95% of its radius. https://astronomy.stackexchange.com&#x2F
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by kmm 5y ago
I've thought about it for an hour now, but I don't understand how the given algorithm works. I understand Step 1, growing and shrinking the cells such that the area of the cell on the window is proportional to the brightness of th
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by kmm 5y ago
Positive and negative zero cannot be distinguished by normal equality checks, meaning +0.0 == -0.0. Therefore, for consistency's sake +0.0 > -0.0 ought to be false, which would yield a return value of -0.0 for max(+0.0, -(+0.0))
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by kmm 5y ago
Dividing 1.0 by 0.0 gives ∞ in C# as well when I try it.
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by kmm 5y ago
Naively, max(a, b) would be implemented as return a >= b ? a : b; But if x is -0.0, you're back to the same problem that -0.0 >= +0.0 actually turns out to be true and not false, hence the return value will be -0.0. Look
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by kmm 5y ago
Which languages did you try? I found that dividing 1.0 by 0.0 gives Infinity in Java, C, Julia, JavaScript, Ruby, Clojure, Haskell and Rust. I get division errors in Python and Perl. Curiously, Go gives me a compiler error if I divide const
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by kmm 5y ago
In most English dialects, pizza is /ˈpitsə/, with unvoiced /t/ and /s/. Would you say it's not in yours? Things like this is why using example words to clarify pronunciation is often a bad idea, especially
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by kmm 5y ago
Fun fact, the reason strange quarks are named strange is because when we discovered the first hadrons containing those quarks, they were strangely long-lived. Long-lived here meaning 10^-10 seconds, instead of 10^-20 seconds. A whole tenth
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by kmm 5y ago
According to this https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1943/1/... they're all peer-reviewed. An average number of reviews per paper of 1 seem a bit curious though.
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by kmm 5y ago
Kaluza's name is mentioned, but not Klein's, and there's no mention of their theory whatsoever. Kaluza-Klein theory is the archetype of expressing electromagnetism purely through curvature, and I'd expect any paper doing
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by kmm 5y ago
I'm not an expert in GR, but the linked paper seems nonsensical[0]. It postulates a highly degenerate decomposition of the metric tensor, for which they postulate a contrived action which then seems to correspond to the Einstein-Hilber
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by kmm 5y ago
If you're excluding the most violent areas in the US in your comparison, shouldn't you do the same for Canada as well?
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by kmm 5y ago
But glass isn't crystalline, it's amorphous, there's not really any order there on the atomic level.
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by kmm 5y ago
According to The Economist[1] and this preprint[2], the US had about 600k excess deaths. What could cause such a massive discrepancy? 1: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-... 2: https:/&
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by kmm 5y ago
Obviously the intent was never to introduce security vulnerabilities, no matter how naive and badly thought-out their methodology was. The intent was to show it could be done. None of the proposed vulnerabilities ever got in the kernel, whe
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by kmm 5y ago
In his description of the test setup, he says that he powers the Game Boy with the DC jack input, so I assume he's measuring the power consumption of the entire machine, but I might be misunderstanding that. Either way I'd expect
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by kmm 5y ago
I'm genuinely surprised to see Tetris have the lowest power consumption, since unlike the other two games, it does not use the HALT instruction. The HALT instruction puts the CPU to sleep until an interrupt occurs, supposedly lowering
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by kmm 6y ago
> The conspiracy becomes so immense it's absurd the many thousands of people who would have to keep quiet. We don't know how many nukes Russia has, even though that's knowledge shared by thousands of people. There has only
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by kmm 6y ago
Before hashes existed, it wasn't unusual for scientists in the 17th and 18th century to drop an anagram instead, to establish priority on a discovery before one was ready to fully explain it. For example, in 1676 Hooke published an art
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by kmm 6y ago
Are Maxwell's equations useful? Electric wires are very unlike the situations you deal with in an electromagnetics class, and conversely there are phenomena no electrical engineer ever thinks about, like the fact that a voltage drop ov
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by kmm 6y ago
What percentage of cattle actually subsists on otherwise barren lands, and what percentage is fed soy and grains explicitly grown for them.

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