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by morcus 10mo ago
The Moon doesn't have a magnetic field, though, so the second half of the article discussing difficulties due to radiation would still apply, right?
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by morcus 10mo ago
> Technically speaking, the top of the DNS tree, the DNS root, is a null label referenced by a trailing dot. It's analogous to the '/' at the beginning of POSIX file paths. "gatech.edu" really should be writ
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by morcus 10mo ago
It's that very bottom button you're referring to, right?
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by morcus 11mo ago
It is not your main point, I know - but for everyone I know who buys lottery tickets, they're more thought of as an entertainment purchase than a financial purchase.
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by morcus 11mo ago
Do they still allow you to get the tortilla on the side with the bowls?
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by morcus 11mo ago
Shouldn't you be carefully reading texts before you show it to children?
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by morcus 11mo ago
There's a difference between zipper merging on a lane closure (which is what the article described) and what the person you are responding to described. You are not supposed to block your lane of traffic because you didn't want to
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by morcus 11mo ago
> unlike lawsuits raised by book authors whose works are part of an enormous dataset used to train AI, the activity on Meta’s corporate IP addresses only amounted to about 22 downloads per year It's an entertaining headline, but it
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by morcus 11mo ago
What happens when the remaining 104 unassigned protocol numbers are exhausted?
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by morcus 11mo ago
> are treated as a grammatical error Perhaps by you, in one particular context (as a grader in an English class?). Your particular practice doesn't create universal truth by fiat. > I wouldn't have given either of you guys
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by morcus 11mo ago
They aren't. Grammar and orthography are taught together and conflated in English education, but that doesn't mean they're the same thing.
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by morcus 11mo ago
Punctuation conventions are not part of English grammar.
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by morcus 11mo ago
I just tried this, and I couldn't quite get it to work. ``` type PickType<B extends Boolean> = B extends true ? number ? string; function foo<T extends Boolean>(t: T): PickType<T> { return t ? 42 : "42; } ``` T
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by morcus 11mo ago
Most of the time, and to a lot of people, it doesn't matter. I have a fast mobile data plan and fast home Internet. But even I have encountered the following circumstances where I wish sites were smaller: - on an underground subway wit
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by morcus 11mo ago
I don't know the usage numbers so I might be way off, but with Smart TVs becoming a more common thing I can't remember the last time I tried to stream video on my computer. Am I in the minority here? Do we have stats on what the b
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by morcus 11mo ago
Maybe I'm doing it wrong (using a variety of models on GitHub Copilot) but in complex tasks I often find that they give me code that doesn't quite compile (often due to lifetime errors, sometimes other issues)
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by morcus 11mo ago
Sadly, the level of discourse finds lower lows to reach every day. (but also, is this relevant for HN?)
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by morcus 11mo ago
I don't think they're claiming surjectivity here. They're just saying the mapping is injective, so for a given output there should be a unique input to construct it.
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by morcus 1y ago
I looked at the code - it uses ternary expressions.
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by morcus 1y ago
But at least, fewer cars needlessly taking up valuable real estate for parking in high density areas.
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by morcus 1y ago
Most fields of math that use matrices don't number each element of the matrix separately, and if they do there will usually be two subscripts (one for the row number and one for the column number). Generally, matrices would be thought
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by morcus 1y ago
It's because the collection types (and generics) don't support primitives, only objects. So you been to stuff the primitives into objects to use them with a lot of the standard library.
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by morcus 1y ago
This seems like it has at least partial overlap with the "small web": see https://kagi.com/smallweb
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by morcus 1y ago
Perhaps what you're missing here is that it's ice loss , not ice levels . The rate of change is at near record levels.
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by morcus 1y ago
As I said, intro calculus books will spend a large amount of time teaching you the mechanics of finding closed form solutions for integrals and derivatives of various kinds of functions. Look at https://ocw.mit.edu/courses&#
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by morcus 1y ago
Two thoughts here: 1. I don't think it is at all intended to serve the beginner. It's geared towards readers wait a reasonable amount of mathematical maturity already (it explicitly says that in the landing page). 2. Many, many of
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by morcus 1y ago
This article started out interesting and then there were a series of baffling claims that... didn't quite make sense to me and feels like they are just trying to set up a straw man. 1. The author complains that React devs don't un
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by morcus 1y ago
> But "fair source" cure is a new, unproven drug with serious side effects, all while ignoring the established, effective vaccine (strong copyleft GPL/AGPL and dual-licensing) Can you explain this a bit more? I don't
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by morcus 1y ago
Is this DEI for Trump supporters?
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by morcus 1y ago
Disclaimer: I don't know much about this programming language or about Effects, so there may be a better way to do this already something I'd sometimes like to do when I'm profiling complex code will be to have an (essentiall

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