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by maxnoe 4y ago
The removal of implicit conversion between bytes and strings via ascii did not introduce bugs, it showed were you already had bugs that you maybe did not yet notice.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
The simulation code we use is a 88kLOC Fortran77 file which is in continuous development since the eighties. And that's just the main file, it uses several libraries for lower level operations.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
On La Palma, there is a pair of ravens living up in the mountain near the observatory. They are incredibly smart and very tame. They will happily land on your shoulder while you try to eat your lunch and pick away into your lunch box. They
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by maxnoe 4y ago
What do you mean with: "5.4 is the Version that ships with Ubuntu"? 5.4 was the default compiler on Ubuntu 16.04, which is end of life. Ubuntu 18.04: 7.4 Ubuntu 20.04: 9.3 Ubuntu 22.04: 11.2
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by maxnoe 4y ago
My father in law was a used Carsten salesman until he fetired two years ago. Most used cars are bought using loans. I.e. the bank provides a loan specifically for bying that car, directly via the dealership.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
The name comes from BL Lacertae (the prototypical object) and Quasar (A kind of Active Galactic Nucleus, that name is for quasi stellar, which it really isn't...)
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by maxnoe 4y ago
B2 and B21 are capable of carrying nuclear bombs, doesn't mean that's the only thing they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-2_Spirit#Op...
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Or Doppelback, a break type
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Just visit it in the wayback machine...
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by maxnoe 4y ago
The link has a section on that: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsy...
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Minor nitpick: on my mobile view there is a linebreak between base and exponent, that's a bit irritating. 2 63
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Effective modern C++ is by Scott Meyers, not Herb Sutter.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
I only learned it when I got married and had to hand in a copy of my entry in the birth registry. Missed leet time by one minute though... In our working group (astrophysics) leet o clock is the traditional time for cake.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
There is: doas https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Doas
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Sony has opened up the mount specification to third party lens manufacturers, Canon didn't. As a result, there is a wide range of third party lenses evailable for Sony FE, none for Canon RF.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
conda-forge has already published 3.11 packages: conda create -c conda-forge -n py311 python=3.11
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by maxnoe 4y ago
It's already there: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/python https://github.com/conda-forge/python-feedstock/pull/577 Using mamba to create a new encoding called py311 with python 3.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Cmd.exe and powershell are shells, not terminal emulators. This is about the GUI running the shell, which used to be conhost. cmd.exe and powershell both run inside terminal (or conhost).
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by maxnoe 4y ago
LHC has a center of mass energy of 14 TeV, pretty close to the mentioned 18 TeV. That's however for protons, not photons. You really can only accelerate charged particles, as we use magnetic and electric fields for that. You need rough
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Not the reaction I got from my colleagues, they were all just like "WTF, how can this happen?"
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by maxnoe 4y ago
The guy presenting the topic called Erwin Schrödinger "Edwin", both in writing on his slides and verbally. I was bewildered to see a blunder of that magnitude in the official nobel presentation...
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by maxnoe 4y ago
The whole reason there ever was a vim 8 was neovim and the pressure it applied to implement async plugins and terminal. Without neovim, we'd still be on vim 7.xxxxx
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Not necessarily. Learning enough English to understand the UI is much lower level than being able to converse. It's also the difference between active and passive command of the language.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
This should cataoult you into an example jupyter notebook with a julia kernel: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/binder-examples/demo-julia/HEAD?f...
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by maxnoe 4y ago
That's not true, the most common envelope at least in Germany is DL for DIN Long [1], which requires folding A4 in thirds and there is a corresponding DIN norm on how to print fold marks to aid the folding in thirds [2] [1] https:&#x
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by maxnoe 4y ago
Much of that will be the crawling and indexing that has to be done independent of the number of users, right? So costs per user will go down with the number of users as this fixed cost is shared between more requests/users.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
No they don't sync just fine. A device cannot receive chat history from before it was added and signal regularly "forgets" linked devices, losing all messages on the device and starting from scratch after relinking.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
It requires a phone number, but it doesn't require sharing the phone number with other people. On signal you are only reachable via the phone number, Telegram has User names and allows to hide the number from the profile.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
While the statement is obviously true, relatively speaking 700 light years is pretty close when it comes to star systems. It's only ~20 times further away than the closest star.
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by maxnoe 4y ago
The Problem is that TeXLive still defaults to doing a full install. A full install means installing ~4000 packages, including their source files (tens of thousands of tex files) and built documentation (thousands of PDF files) and hundreds

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