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by nayuki 3y ago
I've been drinking distilled water for a few years now, and the quality and peace of mind have been great. I documented it in https://www.nayuki.io/page/drinking-distilled-water .
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by nayuki 3y ago
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=water+distiller , for example https://www.amazon.com/CO-Z-Distiller-Stainless-Distilling-C... for $116 USD.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthing_system
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by nayuki 3y ago
British plugs are humongous and unwieldy compared to all the others. The reason that British plugs have fuses is to counteract bad decisions upstream like ring circuits with huge current capacities instead of brand circuits with small capac
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by nayuki 3y ago
It takes way more heat to change liquid water to a gas than to bring liquid water from 0 °C to 100 °C. > the molecules in liquid water are held together by relatively strong hydrogen bonds, and its enthalpy of vaporization, 40.65 kJ&#x2F
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by nayuki 3y ago
If you think that automobiles represent unbridled freedom, you're mistaken. Cars take away freedom from people who don't drive. Ask about how the car-centric environment degrades the experience of pedestrians, cyclists, and transi
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by nayuki 3y ago
How do you do an in-place merge in linear time (i.e. without blowing up the time complexity)? I've been chasing that for many years with no solution. https://www.nayuki.io/page/is-there-an-ideal-comparison-sort
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by nayuki 3y ago
> only the rich remain driving around Think about what it means to be rich. It isn't simply having more money. What it really means is having more options. Because the rich have more options, they are the ones who can fly on a priva
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by nayuki 3y ago
That's an interesting angle. And then poorer people will host taxi services for richer people. Oops, cars are fungible, which means charging based on the user's income will not work.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Compared to a hash table, the binary array set: Has better worst-case insertion and search time, has zero slack space, and relies on comparisons rather than hashing.
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by nayuki 3y ago
When it comes to air quality, EVs still generate tire dust.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Not a regressive tax. Poorer people are less likely to own and drive a car in the first place. Moreover, everything about the cost of driving is regressive: https://cityobservatory.org/ten-things-more-inequitable-that...
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by nayuki 3y ago
Residents living in the congestion pricing zone aren't the ones commuting into the zone.
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by nayuki 3y ago
For deletion, I think you can augment the current data structure so that instead of just storing each value, you pair it up with a Boolean telling whether the value is actually still included or not. But you lose out on insertion and search
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by nayuki 3y ago
Try the "Interactive visualization" on the page! Each bucket is either empty or has size 2^k, where k is the index of the bucket (0-based).
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by nayuki 3y ago
Nope, this isn't a good approach. I prefer tab-separated values (TSV) and use it as much as possible.
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by nayuki 3y ago
X1 Carbon Gen 7 (bought in 2019): I mildly dislike the thinner keys compared to Gen 6 (tried a friend's copy). On the plus side, I got the nice middle-ground 2560×1440 LCD screen option, which was discontinued a year or two after I bou
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by nayuki 3y ago
If you want to step through function execution, try https://pythontutor.com/visualize.html#mode=edit
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by nayuki 3y ago
Note that this web page only covers the status of Meta's offerings for business users. This doesn't track the downtime of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, etc. as normal users experience them.
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by nayuki 3y ago
There's an HTTPS version of this URL; please change it.
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by nayuki 3y ago
> some months have misleading Latin names that are off-by-2 To expand on this: "sept-" is a prefix meaning 7, like septuplets. But September is the 9th month of the year. "oct-" means 8 like octagon, but October is th
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by nayuki 3y ago
I use Firefox continuously since year ~2004, when it was called Firebird. The only time I invoke Chrome is to check if a web page is broken on just Firefox or broken for all. I love all the customization options that Firefox allows, unlike
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by nayuki 3y ago
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast13/fast13... "Understanding the Robustness of SSDs under Power Fault" [2013] > Even worse, two of the fifteen devices became massively corr
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by nayuki 3y ago
Some SSDs brick themselves in an abrupt shutdown.
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by nayuki 3y ago
The name sounds like the Pokémon Magikarp or the anime series Madoka Magica.
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by nayuki 3y ago
I like this previous explanation: https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13449229
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by nayuki 3y ago
Seconded. On bicycle, I learned the Idaho stop techniques - treating stop signs as yield signs, and treating red lights as stop signs. The most important thing I got out of this experience is that traffic signs and lights are suggestions. A
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by nayuki 3y ago
You didn't read the article. > And yet what Ms DuBarry’s story shows is that, in fact, American car insurance is still far too cheap. As much as drivers may resent paying higher premiums, insurance covers only a small fraction of th
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by nayuki 3y ago
Yes, the PNG chunk ordering constraints ( https://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/#5ChunkOrdering ) were crafted to streamline streaming. Having read the source code of libpng and several others, I see th
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by nayuki 3y ago
> this article doesn't explicitly justify is whether the ten-byte zlib string is truly the shortest possible I know the DEFLATE standard intimately and implemented a decoder and encoder (open source on my website/GitHub). We kn

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