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by nayuki 3y ago
> One of those circumstances is being close to a nuclear reactor submerged in water, which allows Cherenkov radiation to be observed. In layman’s terms: gamma radiation exits the reactor at the speed of light in a vaccuum, but the speed
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by nayuki 3y ago
> poor person who inherits a nice house but can't pay the inheritance tax I don't see the problem. Sell the house, use the remaining cash to buy a smaller house. The whole point of the inheritance tax is that you're not en
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by nayuki 3y ago
It's an interesting set of reasons, but I prefer Keccak/SHA-3 over SHA-256, SHA-512, and BLAKE. I trust the standards body and public competition and auditing that took place - more so than a single author trumpeting the virtues o
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by nayuki 3y ago
Parts of Preston Thorpe's story of redemption have similarities to Andreas Kling: https://awesomekling.github.io/I-quit-my-job-to-focus-on-Ser... > It was October 2018 and I had just completed a 3-month rehab progra
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by nayuki 3y ago
The headline would be fuel for anti-metric advocates. "Look! 1 pound is easier to mentally process than 454 grams." "3 cups is better than 710 mL."
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by nayuki 3y ago
> If you are selling a vintage Gameboy DMG in pristine condition with the original Pokémon games that your dad bought you 30 years ago - I should be able to pay you $150 (or whatever price we both agree on) without anyone taking a chunk
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by nayuki 3y ago
I spend my coins in ordinary cash transactions. What's the problem? If the cashier can give me change, I can give them change.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Which desugars to: if (!complex logic) return X;
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by nayuki 3y ago
Yes. Edited now.
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by nayuki 3y ago
There is no problem. The sensor is a rigid assembly where all parts are motionless with respect to each other. Simultaneity is a well-defined concept for the sensor.
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by nayuki 3y ago
FYI you cannot use the abbreviation "1/80ksec". It may be interpreted as (1/80)ksec or 1/(80ksec). But you actually intended to mean (1/(80k))sec. The correct ways to write it include 1/80000 s, 1/80
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by nayuki 3y ago
What stops someone from photographing a printed picture of a deepfake?
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by nayuki 3y ago
It's not essential. You can take hundreds of short-exposure photos and blend them in software.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Me too. From what I can see, its stylesheet https://cowboyprogramming.com/wp-content/themes/tiga-06/styl... returns an HTTP 404 status but the actual text seems to be correct CSS code.
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by nayuki 3y ago
YOE = years of experience
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by nayuki 3y ago
> burning gigantic storages of carbohydrate fuels Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons - they're made up of carbon and hydrogen (and very little oxygen). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocarbon Carbohydrate is C + H
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by nayuki 3y ago
Love the numerous British-style dry humor instances that he inserted, despite being Canadian
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by nayuki 3y ago
I can think of a few: Petroleum replaced whale hunting, cars replaced horses pooping on streets, we finally eliminated lead in gasoline, we significantly reduced acid rain (NOx and SOx), we eliminated CFCs once they were shown to damage the
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by nayuki 3y ago
> restaurants that have QR-code menus that download a PDF Oh yes, about half of the time when a restaurant requires me to scan their QR Code to read their online menu, it's a 20 MB PDF - not a responsive web page. And the PDF usuall
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by nayuki 3y ago
> The Internet standards community historically differentiated between an internet, as a short-form of an internetwork, and the Internet: treating the latter as a proper noun with a capital letter, and the former as a common noun with a
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by nayuki 3y ago
> This statement cannot occur in a well formed standard C or C++ program Not true. It's illegal to execute that statement because of undefined behavior. But it's legal to have: if (false) { *(char*)0 = 0; } (And of course it&
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by nayuki 3y ago
I used the Intel Software Development Emulator (SDE) about a decade ago. It lets you develop and test software on a CPU that doesn't have the necessary vector extensions (AVX, etc.). I presume it uses the SIGILL trapping technique. In
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by nayuki 3y ago
There's a good 12-minute documentary on how Japanese trains are cleaned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L90CpRdjMJU
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by nayuki 3y ago
You're needlessly diluting the meaning of words and making them context-dependent. You create problems at the boundaries, like when 1 GHz faces off with 1 "GB". You're helping to undo the unification of definitions that
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by nayuki 3y ago
> I can say the same goes for SI and their "iB" nonsense. The Ki-, Mi-, Gi-, etc. prefixes aren't in SI. They're defined in IEC 60027 specifically to avoid conflicting with SI.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Good luck fitting a 16 "GB" RAM dump on a 16 GB flash drive when you hibernate the computer. Your contrived example is absurd; you just have to ask for 16 GiB of RAM, as per the proper definitions. As for JEDEC, standards bodies a
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by nayuki 3y ago
A fantastic article that goes into a lot of depth and rigor until I got to the very end: > GB here means 2^30, as it should when talking about base-2 memory. The only people who think it should be 10^9 are hard drive salesmen and the typ
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The government dug a deep hole for itself with Bills C-11 and C-18(theglobeandmail.com)
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by nayuki 3y ago
And Facebook and Twitter and at some point Reddit...
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by nayuki 3y ago
The linked PDF has clear page delineations, unlike the HTML page: https://ripe86.ripe.net/presentations/134-2023-04-whence-tim...

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