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by mbrubeck 4y ago
The nice thing about ꙮ having ten eyes is that you can now combine ten of them with U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER [1] to make a centiclops grapheme, as long as your font has a glyph for that particular ligature. (Readers without centiclops-comp
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
It can be critical when targeting microcontrollers with RAM and storage measured in kilobytes rather than gigabytes.
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
It means that Signal doesn't need you to create or upload a list of your contacts; it uses the existing contact list from your phone. This also lets you use Signal to replace the default text messaging app on Android, automatically up
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
Which "different syntax" are you talking about? I don't see any changes in this release that add new syntax to the language.
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
> The edit history on wikipedia shows an article was created and then deleted in 2014, not "just a few months before Donna Strickland won the Nobel". Gioia is referring to this page, which was created in March 2018 and rejected
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
I'm a longtime Mozilla contributor, so I’m probably biased toward Firefox, but there are still a few Chrome features that I wish Firefox had, like: - Easier to create and use multiple profiles (somewhat mitigated by Mozilla's mult
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
> Bill's mom was higher-up executive in IBM This is also not true at all! Mary Gates never worked for IBM. However, she knew IBM's chairman John Opel.
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
A byte is 8 bits long (2^3), so there are 256 distinct values you can store in a byte (2^(2^3) = 2^8 = 256). A kilobyte is 8192 bits long (2^13), so there are 2^8192 distinct values you can store in a kilobyte.
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
The last one came out just two years before this article, though the original trilogy ended nine years before that.
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
> Second, I don't believe this air purifier, or really any recommended air purifier is going to use 45 watts for any extended period of time. The article says it is comparing to the Wirecutter's current "small space"
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
See also this thread posted by the creator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31785199
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
To elaborate, it's around 65% homicide, 30% suicide, and 5% accidental or undetermined.
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
Tether does offer redemption, but the minimum amount you can redeem is 100,000 USDT, and there is a fee that ranges from 0.1% to 1% depending on the size of the redemption: https://tether.to/en/fees So if a well-capita
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
Even an investor who just waited for 5% or 10% dips would have underperformed an investor who bought on a fixed schedule each month, historically: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6196749#p61...
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
> neither provider is asking to sync your private key. Yes, they are. According to the white paper linked in the press release: Just like password managers do with passwords, the underlying OS platform will “sync” the cryptographic keys
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/
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by mbrubeck 4y ago
It's possible in Rust too, but only for a subset of element types: those that support shared mutation (also known as "internal mutation"). For example, a type containing an `AtomicU32` or a `Mutex<T>` or a `Cell<T&g
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by mbrubeck 5y ago
> Not to mention that part of the compiler still being written in C++ and not Rust doesn't bode well. The Ada compilers I'm familiar with are also written partly or entirely in C or C++.
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by mbrubeck 5y ago
For historical reasons the Economist is still commonly called a newspaper. https://www.economist.com/frequently-asked-questions
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by mbrubeck 5y ago
Have you actually tested this in any way? How many calories/year do you grow in each square meter of your own garden? In the real world, people doing this for a living find that they need literally 100 to 1000 times that much land to
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by mbrubeck 5y ago
> 8 square meters of land Pretty sure this is off by a few orders of magnitude.
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1.7M Hondas are being investigated for phantom braking(arstechnica.com)
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by mbrubeck 5y ago
Biofuels like wood can be roughly carbon-neutral, since growing them absorbs atmospheric CO2, and burning them releases that same amount of carbon back into the atmosphere. Though obviously this isn't the case if the wood comes from ba
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by mbrubeck 5y ago
Yes, if you start from a base of 25 years (which is the extreme low end of the range from your source), then we have 30 years of increase from reduced infant/child mortality and 25 years of increase from reduced adult mortality. Can yo
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by mbrubeck 5y ago
You're still not doing apples-to-apples comparisons. The source that you cited says 12th–19th-century life expectancy at birth was 25–40 years when infant/child mortality is included, and 55 years when it is excluded. There ha
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by mbrubeck 5y ago
You are not comparing these numbers correctly. Your second link shows years of additional life expectancy. For example, at age 80 it shows 8.43 years of life expectancy, meaning that the average 80-year-old lives to age 88.43. So the ave
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by mbrubeck 5y ago
No vaccine has ever been 100% effective, and waning immunity has always been a common phenomenon. Some flu vaccines are only about 50% effective. Polio, tetanus, hepatitis, and smallpox vaccines have all required booster doses due to wanin
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by mbrubeck 5y ago
It means that reserves are lower at the end of the year than at the start.
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And if you write the equivalent to the `find_if` version in Rust, then the standard linter Clippy will automatically suggest the "good" version: warning: called `is_some()` after searching an `Iterator` with `find` --&g
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by mbrubeck 5y ago
> 35%+ of the US population won't even get vaccinated to save their own lives. Only 26% of eligible Americans are unvaccinated, and that number is still shrinking every day. Yes, there is a depressing number of hardcore anti-vaxxer

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