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by nayuki 2y ago
> tune to your favorite station on an analog FM radio ... dial I mean, when an ad says "Listen to 123.4 FM!", they are literally conveying that information to you digitally; they are telling you the number to tune to. A fully a
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by nayuki 2y ago
Relevant quotes from the article: > 2. Banks lend people the money to buy houses, but the government encourages them to do so by guaranteeing the loans. > 3. Banks lend people the money to buy houses, but someone else guarantees the l
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by nayuki 2y ago
> analog navigation techniques became relevant again I'm not sure exactly what methods were used in this navigation exercise, but if they write down numbers with finite precision at any point in the process, then the method has at l
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by nayuki 2y ago
The article opens with: > Any navigation equipment that used electricity was prohibited, including all GPS sources, the Essex’s electronic Voyage Management System (VMS), and the computer-based celestial navigation software STELLA. That
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by nayuki 2y ago
Encryption. For example, GPS's P(Y) code is encrypted and only for military use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
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by nayuki 2y ago
And the text about the airplane problem was added on 2024-11-26: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=String_girdling_E...
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by nayuki 2y ago
I see this effect in Java Maven pom.xml files. It's hard to get a straightforward answer on why each build step is needed, what each attribute means, what parts are optional or mandatory, etc. There seems to be a culture of copying the
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by nayuki 2y ago
> Do untyped languages even exist, or could they? Even POSIX shell and assembler type their values. I program in assembly language. Memory is just a big array of bytes. Values don't have types, but each instruction chooses what type
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by nayuki 2y ago
> The __hash__() method should return an integer. The only required property is that objects which compare equal have the same hash value; it is advised to mix together the hash values of the components of the object that also play a pa
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by nayuki 2y ago
> without any typing? >>> "abc" + 321 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str
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by nayuki 2y ago
In other words, this is a case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band_signaling versus out-of-band signaling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling_(telecommunications)... .
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by nayuki 2y ago
Very nice. It reminds me of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest : "a beauty contest where judges are rewarded for selecting the most popular faces among all judges, rather than those they may
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by nayuki 2y ago
[2025-01-10-Fri 19:31 UTC] <JD Kaim> Final update. The university has determined that I have satisfactorily complied with their request to take down the site, and I’ve said publicly that I do not plan to pursue anything like HuskySwap
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by nayuki 2y ago
git checkout is not fine. git checkout <commit> requires a clean working tree, and will change HEAD to the specified <commit>. git checkout [<commit>] <paths> does not require a clean working tree, will replace the s
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by nayuki 2y ago
About 5 years ago, I made a comment on that platform which went something like "Americans are arrogant" (can't remember the exact words anymore). Within minutes, I received a warning and a strike against my account for violat
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by nayuki 2y ago
This is an extremely detailed explanation of the twin paradox that covers things from multiple angles, even situations that involve no acceleration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv5d5KHKDVE
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by nayuki 2y ago
I discovered this trick independently about a decade ago, to use cross-eyed viewing to easily spot differences between two similar images. Like you said, the parts that mismatch appear to shimmer and be unstable, making them obvious. Howeve
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by nayuki 2y ago
My independent implementation: https://www.nayuki.io/page/animated-floating-graph-nodes
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by nayuki 2y ago
I would love to see examples of your sassy writings. Maybe I could learn a thing or two about responding to people. Note that I've become more cynical in these 10 years that passed. I was, let's say, more charitable with people in
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by nayuki 2y ago
As a non-student, I received an overzealous takedown request from the University of Washington a decade ago. https://github.com/nayuki/Reference-Huffman-coding/issues/1 Also related: https://meta.s
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by nayuki 2y ago
Scripty McScriptface
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by nayuki 2y ago
I was replying to that_guy_iain, who pointed out that Oracle didn't sue Microsoft for TypeScript. Notice that TypeScript does not have the word "Java" in it either.
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by nayuki 2y ago
But it's also Serverscript due to Node.js.
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by nayuki 2y ago
Nor did they sue ActionScript (Macromedia Flash's implementation of JavaScript), CoffeeScript (a separate language that compiles to JavaScript, and has a name very much evoking Java).
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by nayuki 2y ago
> And by the way, and I've already fallen into this trap here, do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. Because if you--you need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthro
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by nayuki 2y ago
> It might make sense on a per-individual or per-trip basis to say that you prefer using a car, but if everyone makes that choice (old used cars are fairly cheap), it's a problem. A classic case of the https://en.wikipedi
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by nayuki 2y ago
According to Google street view, the road had 3 general car lanes per direction up to and including Nov 2016. Shortly after, the middle lane of each direction became a bus-only lane, but this was implemented with temporary road modification
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by nayuki 2y ago
Do you know what it means to be rich? Serious question. It's not "having a lot of money". It's actually "having a lot of options". By definition, rich people will have more ways to get around than poor people.
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by nayuki 2y ago
By un-disabling the stock market buy and sell buttons, I was able to buy even when I didn't have enough money (stimulation), and I was also able to short-sell shares. So funny!
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by nayuki 2y ago
>> " https://news.ycombinator.com/ " or " https://google.com/ " > both trailing slash variant examples you have provided (HN and Google) do redirect to non slash ones This is incorr

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