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by lanna 5y ago
Myanmar units of measurement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_units_of_measurement This gives a better global picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication#Chronology_and_sta...
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Don't Live with Broken Windows (2003)(artima.com)
2 points by lanna 5y ago|0 comments
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Java 17 Available Now(oracle.com)
3 points by lanna 5y ago|0 comments
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Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?(gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
271 points by lanna 5y ago|215 comments
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What if I were 1% charged? (2013)(gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
255 points by lanna 5y ago|136 comments
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by lanna 5y ago
> In 2007, RIM [...] held multiple meetings after the iPhone was launched and accused Apple of lying about the capabilities of the new device. The claims focused on how it was impossible that a device with such a larger touch display cou
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Who Would Kidnap a Space Telescope?(theatlantic.com)
62 points by lanna 5y ago|23 comments
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by lanna 5y ago
And 7 days older than Nevermind
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by lanna 5y ago
This picture shows the difference after the city of Dunedin, New Zealand, changed all its sodium lights to shielded LEDs: https://i.redd.it/hxxp2c3ksdh71.jpg
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by lanna 5y ago
> but the black hole would still have an extremely strong pull on it No, it would not. Newton's third law: if an object has zero net pull on the black hole, the black hole also has to have a zero net pull on the object. The shell th
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by lanna 5y ago
The net gravitational force is zero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem
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Dice-O-Matic(gamesbyemail.com)
4 points by lanna 5y ago|0 comments
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by lanna 5y ago
And even then, his calculation is off by a factor of 5 or 10
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by lanna 5y ago
It happens to me with the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon every time I hear about the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon
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by lanna 5y ago
It looks like transform(tree.left) returns an Option[Tree] already (otherwise the code would not type check) so the entire if-else in the original code seems redundant and could be replaced with: val transformedLeft = transform(tree.l
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by lanna 5y ago
My 6yo daughter has exceptional talent and interest for Math. She's already discovering some fundamental theorems for herself (number theory, algebra, geometry). Does anyone here know any resources to help her development?
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by lanna 5y ago
I think he meant "despite not having L3"
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by lanna 5y ago
> Brazil explicitly allowed England to sink Brazillian slaver ships Killing all slaves in the ship?
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by lanna 5y ago
Maybe they developed the photos in open air at night?
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by lanna 5y ago
John Holer died in 2018
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by lanna 5y ago
> which means it's much safer to run C code in WASM than directly Anything is safer than to run C code directly ;)
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by lanna 6y ago
It's right there, in front of them, all the time
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by lanna 6y ago
But what if one doesn't remember the `apropos` command?
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by lanna 6y ago
With all due respect, you are just trying really hard to be pedantic. Your convoluted, contorted, corner-case example does not invalidate anything that was said here. You even had to resort to the word "rounded" to make it work. W
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by lanna 6y ago
GP comment did not imply that half of elements are below average. It just said that _some_ have to be. By definition, we cannot have all elements be above average: at least one has to be below.
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by lanna 6y ago
Not everyone is traveling to the beach on vacation. There are numerous valid, serious reasons people need to travel.
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by lanna 6y ago
I created a similar REPL presentation tool for Scala: https://github.com/marconilanna/REPLesent
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by lanna 6y ago
The banana is not just a background image, it is a set itself.
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by lanna 6y ago
You have to raise the price by 43%: 1.43 * 0.7 = 1.00
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by lanna 6y ago
> When they did the hardware transitions, they had a compatibility layer (Rosetta) that was supported for 5 years after the transition. But with the 32 bit change, the announced that it would no longer be supported in 2017, and dropped s

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