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by nayuki 3y ago
In turn, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus) > Rusts get their name because they are most commonly observed as deposits of powdery rust-coloured or brown spores on plant surfaces.
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by nayuki 3y ago
I would take off the "/s", because I agree with your statement at face value. If there are a limited number of tickets but many thousands of fans who are willing and able to pay, then naturally the price goes up. And whether
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by nayuki 3y ago
Good points. Then, I guess the solution is that only auctioned tickets can be anonymous, whereas queued and lottery tickets must be sold to the real name of the person who requested it.
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by nayuki 3y ago
This is why we must implement a land value tax as Henry George proposed. People should not be able to profit from squatting on / hoarding land.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Pattern matching is awesome in Rust. It carries the stellar legacy of Haskell.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Eh, even without <noscript>, you could achieve those things by declaring them in the HTML code and then writing a script on the page that hides them immediately. As for the grandparent comment, I checked and <noscript> works fin
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by nayuki 3y ago
I'm an adult so it's fine. And it's like $10 if I break one, no big deal. Oh yeah, the beaker doubles as my metric-only measuring cup for cooking. It only has millilitre markings, no fluid ounce or cups at all.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Yes, you're right in a pedantic way =). I trust that my city's tap water doesn't have alcohol in it. After all, I previously and many people still drink it without extra filtering, and it's safe enough to do so. Relatedl
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by nayuki 3y ago
You might be interested that Microsoft developed JPEG XR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XR , https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/jpeg-xr/ . And in the past, they t
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by nayuki 3y ago
Probably referring to climate change / global warming. Carbon dioxide doesn't kill people by itself, but it can trigger floods, droughts, heat waves, etc. that will harm human habit.
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by nayuki 3y ago
I probably dodged this ceramic problem because I drink from borosilicate glass beakers. (Yes, I buy new, unused labware for cooking/drinking use.)
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by nayuki 3y ago
I fill my water distiller with hot tap water. Guaranteed to be safe. Yes, I'm talking about a machine that boils the water, collects the steam, and condenses it back to water. It removes absolutely everything.
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by nayuki 3y ago
> When it comes to domains where consistency does matter, we just don't do unit conversions. For instance, flight altitude is measured in feet, even when it's thousands of feet, instead of miles. If you're flying an airpla
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by nayuki 3y ago
Good news: XHTML was never abandoned. It still exists today as an optional serialization format for HTML5. I am using it in practice on my website and described it in great detail: https://www.nayuki.io/page/practical-g
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by nayuki 3y ago
> "Internal consistency" doesn't matter. The lack of an opinionated stance on internal consistency is exactly how we arrive at traditional measures and also the US Customary set of units. It's far easier politically t
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by nayuki 3y ago
There's no theoretical problem if we define 86400 seconds = 1000000 newseconds. One big practical problem is that because SI is a coherent system, the second is embedded in many units. For example, 1 N = 1 kg m/s^2. 1 J = 1 N m. 1
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by nayuki 3y ago
See https://www.google.com/search?q=why+imperial+is+better+than+... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odVPwNgD8w4 (the guy argues FOR fractions!), https://youtu.be/JoDQOqB5cZg?t=221 ("
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by nayuki 3y ago
That's exactly the kind of thinking that I'm alluding to. Okay, if base 12 is so great, why are gallons not divisible by 12? Why is our currency not divisible by 12? Why is a mile 1760 yards - what if you wanted to parcel a square
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by nayuki 3y ago
> It's so incredible how two engineers can look at something like this and draw literally the opposite conclusion. [...] It's almost comical how much their arguments are convincing me that INI is a disaster. And yet they are, s
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by nayuki 3y ago
The leniency of HTML burned me a lot in my beginner days. At some point, I decided to switch to XHTML (serving as the media type "application/xhtml+xml") and never looked back. Ditto JavaScript, the laxness harmed a lot, and
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by nayuki 3y ago
> Green threads were briefly available in Java between 1997 and 2000. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_thread Also see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5713142/green-threads-vs...
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by nayuki 3y ago
One of the few that I remember is fractions.gcd() -> math.gcd(). See https://docs.python.org/3.0/library/fractions.html#fractions... , https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/fractions.htm
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by nayuki 3y ago
How do you know that diamonds are made in huge quantities? The common knowledge is that it's rare.
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by nayuki 3y ago
This seems to be the inspiration for the Pokémon Diancie: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Diancie_(Pok%C3%A9mo...
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by nayuki 3y ago
IEEE 754 in base-10 still doesn't help you for (1.0 / 3.0) * 3.0.
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by nayuki 3y ago
IEEE does guarantee the correctness of a+b in the sense that it will return the floating-point number that is closest to the real number that would've been computed with infinite precision. There's no randomness or fuzziness in fl
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by nayuki 3y ago
It's not just terrible; fats are essential nutrients whereas carbohydrates are not. You will die if you don't eat some minimum amount of fats. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning , https:&#x2
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by nayuki 3y ago
The owners have the right to do sell the bikes and collect the cash. They can spend it for anything they wish - to start a new venture, to enjoy life, to light it on fire, whatever. That's the deal they entered into when they chose to
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by nayuki 3y ago
The dynamic price simulation reminds me of Primer ( https://www.youtube.com/@PrimerBlobs/videos ), specifically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNtKXWNKGN8
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by nayuki 3y ago
I forget what it's called, but something like "airplane view" architecture is also bad urban design. It's when centralized planners have lofty goals and design huge neighborhoods and plazas that look good from the air. T

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