mcswell

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by mcswell 5y ago
Thanks, I wondered that--when I first read it ("read" in the sense of sounding it out and looking for words I might know), 'duenos' reminded me of the Spanish for "owner". I was puzzled to find it translated &
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by mcswell 5y ago
"Share your presentation using Outlook and notice the cohesive interface which helps you stay in the flow." Do these people speak English? All seriousness aside, I can think of a few things that would IMNSHO improve Office: 1) Ma
813.
by mcswell 5y ago
I watched it, twice, for about ten seconds. I found it quite uncomfortable to watch.
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by mcswell 6y ago
I (I should say we) have used UML class diagrams to build object oriented systems. The class diagrams are something a reasonably sophisticated, but non-programmer, person can understand, so they can participate in the design phase. Of cou
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by mcswell 6y ago
Nuts. I mean knots.
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by mcswell 6y ago
Imagine someone designing a bridge. They predict that the weakest point is X, and that the bridge could therefore best be strengthened by strengthening X. But the reasoning is complex, so someone builds a model (or a simulation, or...) an
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by mcswell 6y ago
There are two verses in the Bible that are contradictory like that. "Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him" is one, the other is "Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will
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by mcswell 6y ago
I was the slowest runner in first grade--even the fat kid outran me in the 50 yard dash. Was I weird! Today? I'm 70, and I run. Yesterday I ran about 8 miles on trails. Because while I can't run fast, I can run far. Didn&#x27
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by mcswell 6y ago
"further increased evaporation > even more water vapor > increased precipitation > fewer clouds." No. You can't get fewer clouds from more water vapor, that's not how equilibria work.
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by mcswell 6y ago
I'll re-write it so it's 20% lighter on assertions.
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by mcswell 6y ago
I'm not understanding, perhaps you can enlighten me. The article says "The battery has an energy density of 24 Wh/kg, meaning approximately 20 percent capacity compared to comparable lithium-ion batteries currently available
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by mcswell 6y ago
I just got my first serving of icecream, thanks to the post here. And I'm a convert. One question: in most cases, I get an output like `ic| tmp.py:9 in nonesuch() at 03:23:52.479` What is the "at 03:23:52.479", and how do
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by mcswell 6y ago
And I am going to use it, because of the pain of typing {, which half the time my fingers miss (whereas I'm pretty good at typing 'i' and 'c').
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by mcswell 6y ago
Sure, but typing ic(someVariable) is a lot faster for me than typing print(f"{someVariable=}") in Python3.8 or >, and still faster than typing print(f"someVariable={someVariable}") in Python < 3.8 (which I
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by mcswell 6y ago
Yes, because next year s/he will realize the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
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by mcswell 6y ago
For your dreaming (dis)pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=402xHwQGVsE (Conehead goes to the dentist)
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by mcswell 6y ago
You can measure it quite easily, in fact in a high school lab. So yes, in a non-pedantic sense, "see".
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by mcswell 6y ago
"Only if you fail to take the obvious step of looking for the external influence--and finding it in the case of the radio receiver, but not in the case of the brain." The neutrino was hypothesized back in the 1930s solely on the
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by mcswell 6y ago
"Your brain waves are the not caused by thoughts, they ARE your thoughts." How can you know that? How do you know that your mind isn't somewhere else (in some sense of "where"), and transmitting signals to your br
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by mcswell 6y ago
No; all observers see the speed of light as the same.
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by mcswell 6y ago
"...the existence of some external force that can affect the brain and make decisions with some magical non-causal mechanism, which is to me a rather illogical concept." I can see why you wouldn't believe this, but why do you
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by mcswell 6y ago
Fort Detrick and all other US bio weapons ceased research in offensive bioweapons in 1969. One reason is that bioweapons can't be controlled, as evidenced by the failure thus far to control this virus. So no, it's not likely tha
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by mcswell 6y ago
This is wrong, even deceitful, for a couple reasons: 1) No country (officially, or afaik in reality) has a bio weapons lab, and certainly not "all over the world". Nobody (well, nobody official) ever said the Wuhan virus lab was
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by mcswell 6y ago
Got it, thanks! works well (and as others have mentioned, it's fast)
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by mcswell 6y ago
I've added this to my bookmarks, thanks! I haven't looked at the code, but I'm guessing it indexes all the Unicode names of characters, and allows lookup by any substrings of those names, right? Maybe using a suffix array.
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by mcswell 6y ago
No, a straight line on the Mercator projection does not in general correspond to a geodesic on a sphere. In particular, the only straight lines on Mercator maps that correspond to geodesics are the lines of longitude, and the equator. The
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by mcswell 6y ago
"deeply experienced radar operators": what does that mean? They're not looking at raw radar signals, like some WWII operator with an O-scope. They're looking at a computer-generated signal. And lots can go wrong betwe
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by mcswell 6y ago
I think it was Richard Feynman who said the easiest person in the world to fool is yourself. I have no doubt this pilot is a good officer and pilot, but that doesn't mean he saw what he thinks he saw.
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by mcswell 6y ago
This is not the first time I've felt compelled to quote from Through the Looking Glass: -------- [the White king said:] ‘Just look along the road, and tell me if you can see either of them.’ ‘I see nobody on the road,’ said Alice. ‘I o
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by mcswell 6y ago
Agencies outside the "Government"? Which government? If it's on a need-to-know, how do you know? Stuff and nonsense.

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