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by maxnoe 3y ago
Since this comes from a physics context, it's most likely talking about the white rabbit implementation of ptp, which is open source and open hardware: https://white-rabbit.web.cern.ch/
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by maxnoe 3y ago
Iceland still mostly uses "<name of father>{son,dottir}" last names. Nothing about humor, just a father calling his son similar to himself. Seems his full name is Þorvaldur Þórðarson.
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by maxnoe 3y ago
> The GAU-8 Avenger fires up to sixty one-pound bullets a second. It produces almost five tons of recoil force, which is crazy considering that it’s mounted in a type of plane (the A-10 “Warthog”) whose two engines produce only four tons
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by maxnoe 3y ago
Don't quote capacity. It is the correct tern, physically. Capacity is the amount of electrical charge something can store, Ah is unit of that. Not the natural unit though, that would be Coulomb (C). Why use Charge and not energy? Becau
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by maxnoe 3y ago
Can it say "He pocketeteted it"?
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by maxnoe 3y ago
Give "Salt Fat Acid Heat" a try (the book, not the netflix show)
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by maxnoe 3y ago
Statements like these without discussing the language standard most of the Software you have uses is kind of pointless. I guess most of the legacy code for which they do this risk assessment is Fortran 77. Not any more modern. And getting i
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by maxnoe 3y ago
The standard model *is a Quantum field theory". Making a Standard Model vs. QFT thua statement doesn't make sense. The problem is the lack of an analytical solution and the different systematic errors that come from different nume
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by maxnoe 3y ago
Side note: distutils is deprecated and will be removed in 3.12. In this case, setuptools is a drop in replacement.
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by maxnoe 3y ago
The wiki article has this line: > Group at the University of Sheffield estimated that the explosion was one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions ever recorded Presumably, they forgot the "ever recorded" part.
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by maxnoe 3y ago
IIRC, optparse was going to be be removed in 3.5(?) but outcry was large . It has a depreciation warning in the docs since 3.2. It was in the "please just use argparse instead" state for a long time, this "just" adds an
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by maxnoe 3y ago
And then you cook the pudding for buttercream with half the amount of milk compared to the pudding instructions and tada, it really is a pastry cream using convenience pudding pulver.
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by maxnoe 3y ago
1 scaled point is 5.36 nm, nano, not micro https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1+inch+%2F+72+%2F+2%5E1...
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by maxnoe 3y ago
Just to point out: this doesn't work since at the point where it defines the new print function, the new len which now prints is used
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by maxnoe 3y ago
Missed opportunity to introduce the term Keming
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by maxnoe 3y ago
No, the German clearly states the 210k works as the number of those being in the public domain.
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by maxnoe 3y ago
It's the avoirdupois ounce (exactly 28.349523125 g) for everything but precious metals, where the Troy ounce is used (exactly 31.1034768 g).
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Also pythia: https://www.pythia.org/ A high energy physics simulation library
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by maxnoe 4y ago
It also happens in the japanese calendar, since the year changes when a new emperor ascends the throne and that might not happen on a first of a month
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Open access publications in RAS Journals are licensed CC By, CC By NC or CC By NC ND depending on author choice and the specific journal. But as far as I can tell it's always a CC license.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Gluons are what holds protons together
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by maxnoe 4y ago
This is about removing support from applications creating PDF files (InDesign, Acrobat, ...). From the article: > Keep in mind that older PDFs created with Type 1 fonts are safe—as long as their font data was embedded in the PDF when i
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Please don't recommended right layout anymore. There is a new, much better layouting engine since a few release you can get with `layout="constrained"`
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by maxnoe 4y ago
He gave it also in English: https://youtu.be/c0O6UXrOZJo
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Can you describe your setup? I tried setting up nomad but couldn't figure out service discovery, external ingress / letsencrypt in the time I allotted myself...
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by maxnoe 4y ago
> Maybe they should dedicate some s/w effort to making it actually fetch mail into folders BEFORE you click on them Click right on folder, options, enable "always sync this folder when getting mails for this account'
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by maxnoe 4y ago
> Presumably, the people who care about web would only install firefox on their iOS devices, while the people who don't care would just keep safari. Until they get large banners of "Please install the Chrome App to visit this w
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by maxnoe 4y ago
* That's why there's UT1 and TAI for different purposes. UTC is a (strange) compromise between both: ticking SI seconds like TAI but being kept within 1 second of UT1.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Use the power of combinatorics! 26 keys offer 18252 2 letter + three letter combinations. Using special chars even more. Compose key is memetic and easy to use on all operating systems.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Python absolutely already has deprecation warnings, that would be nothing new

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