madcaptenor

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by madcaptenor 9mo ago
I've seen it happen before - in the big AT&T outage a couple years ago reports came in on downdetector of outages for other providers.
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by madcaptenor 9mo ago
I am very frustrated that I keep spinning and getting countries that are "a harder starting point" or "a much harder starting point" compared to the USA. Which I suppose is the point. (And it's more biased towards
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by madcaptenor 9mo ago
That's inconveniently long. Have you considered using your foot?
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by madcaptenor 9mo ago
Maybe you could start off with a long string and then mark off its midpoint, the midpoints of the halves, and so on. Then you wouldn't have to cut a new string every time you want to measure something.
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by madcaptenor 9mo ago
As an American I have done this with 8.5 x 11 "letter" paper. I wonder if there's some way one can take advantage of the special properties of A[n] paper.
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by madcaptenor 10mo ago
Big fan of this, but the creator's first name was Oliver.
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by madcaptenor 10mo ago
I studied analytic combinatorics in grad school. Had to be sure not to abbreviate it to "anal comb".
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by madcaptenor 10mo ago
One place you can watch this is Kanopy, if you're a member of a library that has access.
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by madcaptenor 10mo ago
Title should be "Cable channel subscribers grew for the first time in 8 years last quarter" - automatically mangled.
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by madcaptenor 10mo ago
I thought this too. But if there was a probe sent out to Ganymede wouldn't we have arrived at it? If Ganymede (the moon) is arriving at Earth we have a whole other set of problems.
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
I know the book - is it different from the book?
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
I missed hearing about the 2015 version and will seek it out now. Thanks for the pointer!
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
Wikipedia gives 2191 for "at least New Testament", which I assume means all the books of the New Testament, and 698 for the Old and New Testaments. So it's still #1, since #2 (Le Petit Prince) is at 610. It wouldn't sur
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyatqN63RZ4
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
Also IIRC there are some renderings where the firearm is aimed to the left and others aim it to the right. I'm having trouble sourcing this though - maybe this was true in the past or it was some other emoji that implies a direction.
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
Is this at least coming from the direction that the experts expect?
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
Yeah, you want some threshold for amount of rain that's higher than "measurable precipitation".
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
See the maps here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/this-simp... Most of the eastern US gets more inches of precipitation than Seattle. But there are few places (mostly in a band from easte
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
For example, $0.93 * 1.07432 = is $0.9991176 exactly, which rounds to $1.00. But if you buy a dozen such items then $0.93 * 12 * 1.07432 = $11.9894112 exactly, which rounds to $11.99.
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
"The target a school is given will be based on attendance levels achieved by others in similar circumstances, including deprivation, location and pupils’ needs. Targets will not be published and will not be accessible to the schools in
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
You'd appreciate "Every 5x5 Nonogram": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140918
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
In Parkesburg, Chester County, a bit west of Philadelphia. (Mentioning this because we hugged it to death.)
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
It is possible for arbitrary N; one construction is called the Edwards-Venn diagram. See https://happyruin.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/edwards-venn-diag...
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
IIRC the reason that the family got the name "Germanic" is basically that it was some Germans that came up with the idea. I'm having trouble sourcing this though.
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by madcaptenor 11mo ago
Pick points at random, then use a general-purpose optimization method (the optim function in R) to find local maxima. I don’t claim this is a good way to do it.
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by madcaptenor 1y ago
My favorite bit of this survey (scroll down to "Miscellaneous") is that one of the color names in the raw data set is "unsure-whether-boy-or-girl baby room color". My daughter's room is this color - we painted befo
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by madcaptenor 1y ago
For Euclidean distance it seems to be in the neighborhood of (59, 250, 60) which is a bright green, although of course Euclidean distance is not perceptual distance. The blue at (57, 42, 214) also is up there.
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by madcaptenor 1y ago
Here's the list of colors it works off of: https://github.com/meodai/color-names/blob/main/src/colornam... I'm trying to figure it out.
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by madcaptenor 1y ago
Generally 867-5309 in the local area code works for most rewards programs.
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by madcaptenor 1y ago
I think your formatting is off.

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