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by nayuki 2y ago
> calling spelling I'd never see a "common mistake" (like "gr." for grams) Maybe I should change the example for gram to "gm" (or "GM"), because I actually see that in Canadian supermarkets -
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by nayuki 2y ago
6 Mg is technically correct and it has the advantage that 1 tonne (or metric ton) = 1 Mg exactly, so it's just a simple substitution of words without changing numbers. At that point in the article, I wanted to ease the reader into the
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by nayuki 2y ago
Structures like bridges are a complicated case because you can't describe its load capacity as a mass or a weight (force). I'll assume that a bridge fails when the downward force on its deck exceeds a certain constant number. But
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by nayuki 2y ago
https://www.nayuki.io/page/common-mistakes-when-using-the-me...
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by nayuki 2y ago
According to their video ( https://vimeo.com/502475794/ffbfb82b15 ), the company patented bit plane image storage. What the heck? That is so obvious and shouldn't be patentable. On a side note, they keep touting h
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by nayuki 2y ago
I had to do a double take on this, as I associate Iron Mountain as the brand that shreds papers and hard drives as their most common service.
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by nayuki 2y ago
Hydroelectricity causes pollution. Flooding a piece of land causes more conversion of metallic mercury to organic methylmercury. > Increased methylmercury concentrations in water and fish have been detected after flooding of soils associ
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by nayuki 2y ago
I largely agree with the article, but... > Well understood mechanical bike shifting transitions to electronic shifting which requires you to pay more and charge your pedal bike This has been on my mind lately. I own a bike with mechanica
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by nayuki 2y ago
Use mine - more technical options, fewer graphical options. https://www.nayuki.io/page/qr-code-generator-library
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by nayuki 2y ago
Thank you for building this wonderful UI on top of my library!
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by nayuki 2y ago
"Person of color" is one of my favorite phrases to hate on these days. On the surface, it sounds like a respectful way to refer to people that belong to a racial minority. But if you do even a second of thinking, you realize that
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by nayuki 2y ago
> Java is one of the most backward compatible languages period - other than hashmap iteration order a while back I want to know more about this. What were the behaviors before and after the change? In what year or versions did this happe
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by nayuki 2y ago
It reminds me of The 512KB Club. https://512kb.club/ , https://github.com/kevquirk/512kb.club , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30125633
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by nayuki 2y ago
Oh The Urbanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FB_xI-U6w , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wlld3Z9wRc
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by nayuki 2y ago
> your food that magically appears in grocery stores comes from those useless rural yokels that use these roads That's fine. Roll those costs into the price of food. That way, the amount of road tax you pay is proportional to how mu
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by nayuki 2y ago
Perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_visual_system_model , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoacoustics
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by nayuki 2y ago
> even if you try to emulate the analogue system including all those noise sources and bandwidth limitations > Variance within the emulation is trivial I pointed out those limitations not as a target for digital systems to emulate, bu
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by nayuki 2y ago
It's about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform . > (subtitle) His digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs and MPEGs possible Technically, the DCT isn't restricted to only
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by nayuki 2y ago
Specifically this refers to 48 kHz, stereo, 16 bits per sample.
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by nayuki 2y ago
This article is bullshit. It fails to mention the many limitations of analog hardware. > Analog signals are continuous waveforms that vary smoothly over time, capturing every nuance of the original sound. > The continuous nature of an
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by nayuki 2y ago
The calorie is not part of the current SI. The SI unit that measures the same quantity is the joule (J). Like all SI derived units, the joule is obtained by multiplying or dividing any number of SI base units, without using numeric scaling
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by nayuki 2y ago
> 1 MET is 1 kcal/kg/hr These guys need to get with the program and use metric units. For example, the cycling world uses watts per kilogram (W/kg) to quantify an athlete's output. This is the correct unit to use. To
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by nayuki 2y ago
When I wrote a bigint library, it was much easier to store the array of digits in little endian for arithmetic operations like addition and multiplication.
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by nayuki 2y ago
Self-promotion: https://www.nayuki.io/page/primitive-recursive-functions
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by nayuki 2y ago
<twitches in metric prefix> 60 micrometres. "micron" is a deprecated irregular word that is unlike every other scaling of the metre.
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by nayuki 2y ago
I liked PBS Infinite Series on math but it stopped after 65 episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@pbsinfiniteseries/videos
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by nayuki 2y ago
> Apps that allow people to rent scooters or bicycles rely on non-fake location data. There's a way to fix this. Each bicycle can store a private key, and your phone needs to talk to the bike nearby to do a live challenge-response b
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by nayuki 2y ago
You're basically arguing for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing . You're saying that the manufacturer should have more power than the consumer, that the consumer cannot run arbitrary code, that t
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by nayuki 2y ago
I tried to make a daily timeline in SVG where 1 unit = 1 second. There are 86400 seconds in a day. Both Firefox and Chrome did not render the image properly, so I had to scale the numbers down too. What a shame.
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by nayuki 2y ago
The fastest way to confirm that a given HTML document is not valid XML is to change the HTTP Content-Type from "text/html" to "application/xhtml+xml". Here is what I know about using XHTML in practice: https:&

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