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Bitcoin has a stale chain of length 2(forkmonitor.info)
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Every time I consider this I'm reminded of an incident where 3 Israeli Arabs blew themselves up instead of their target, probably due to daylight savings time. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/clocks-c
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It's $99 per year for regular membership, or $198 per year to get access to all the journal archives etc. There are special rates for students and for those living in developing countries. I honestly joined because of the O'Reilly
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Membership to the Association for Computing Machinery (acm.org) is affordable and comes with a high quality monthly printed magazine. - https://dl.acm.org/magazine/cacm It also bundles in O'Reilly Learning members
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I've never used the Google Play store - is it actually much better?
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I've been running the dev preview since early August, and it's been pretty good so far! Really pleased they're working on this.
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As a Jew, I always just considered them space goblins...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm describes the way the check digit is calculated.
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Personally, the biggest win was to learn how to leave tasks unfinished. This pays off in two ways - firstly I finish work when I planned to instead of "just five more minutes", which inevitably spins off into a series of open ende
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And a coma scale! Which is a better town association than the Bristol stool scale.
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That's a common practice in the British military. Normally abbreviated to BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front.) Start with the actions the reader needs to take (be at point x at time y wearing z) and then go in to specifics and reasoning.
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When I was in the navy I accumulated quite a few of them. One on my gas mask bag, one on my life vest belt, one on my diving bag etc. etc. A bunkmate thought it would be hilarious to set alarms on all of them to go off every 15 minutes whil
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From the article: > If we imagine for a moment that you work in an office in Palo Alto, you could now choose to live in Hayward (5 min flight, $25), downtown San Francisco (10 min flight, $50), or even San Rafael (15 min flight, $70). &g
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Absolute beginniners to go or to programming in general? If it's the former, I'd recommend https://tour.golang.org and The Go Programming Language. If it's the latter... I can't personally recommend any begin
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As others have said, go try it out with an experienced pilot/instructor! It's very accessible. You might be more comfortable in a motor glider - they have enough thrust to conduct their own takeoff and get you out of trouble but a
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This knowledge is used by glider pilots to identify thermals - let the birds do the hard work and then go copy them!
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FWIW, Zoom runs reasonably well on Linux - as long as your webcam is supported.
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One of the keys to the success of the NATO phonetic alphabet is the disambiguation across various accents. Let's say you're talking with someone who doesn't have a distinct V or W in their native tongue. Victor pronounced Wi
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See also PAN-PAN, from the French 'panne' meaning breakdown. The story I was told behind the origin of these was that they evolved from British <-> French air traffic and was a reasonably logical thing that everybody agreed
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I really enjoy books on neuroscience that change the way I think about perception. Phantoms in the Brain by V S Ramachandran - a book about how the brain organises itself in bizarre edge cases. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Q
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I don't think it was ever the case that everybody on board was taught astronav. It's very much a thing that's taught to the people who need to be able to calculate where the ship is. That's about 4 or 5 people on a typic
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Absolutely. As a concrete example, the US Navy stopped teaching celestial navigation and have only recently begun to teach it again. They now have a skill gap of mid-seniority navigators who have no astro-nav experience and will struggle un
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_feeder might be interesting too - essentially using a cable to act as the actual antenna.
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It kind of depends what you mean by build. From scratch - I have no idea. For Google Chrome? It's just an API call away - https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/basic/detecting-lang...
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Google translate already has an auto-detect language feature. I suspect it would be reasonably simple to add a "Translate this" button somewhere in Chrome (perhaps it's already there, I don't have Chrome installed on thi
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Apple has rolled back a little on the battery/weight tradeoff on the "pro" linuep recently. The latest 16" MacBook Pro has a 100Wh battery (which hits the limit for being allowed in an aircraft cabin).
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To clarify, it means at least 3 DCs per AWS documentation. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio...
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At least in the UK there is some guidance and judgement around discounted prices being related to a price that was actually used in the past. https://www.asa.org.uk/advice-online/promotional-savings-cla... I'm not
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak There are some fun entries there for hex values used as magic numbers. Apple have some great ones used in their crash report exception types - 0x2bad45ec (too bad for sec) and 0xc
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Accidental Tech Podcast Episode 371 is essentially two and a half hours of Chris Lattner: https://atp.fm/episodes/371 It's a bit of an outlier, most ATP episodes are Apple focussed news with adjecent tech interest

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