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by nayuki 4y ago
Zero-based months is awkward when printing as a number, but convenient when indexing an array: const MONTHS = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", ..., "Dec"]; console.log(MONTHS[d.getMonth()]);
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by nayuki 4y ago
Did you account for the opportunity cost of your down payment? If you chose to continue to rent, you could have invested your $100k or whatever down payment in the stock market for ~7% a year. On the other hand, you have to count the mortga
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by nayuki 4y ago
<monkeywork> we didn't lock out immigration policies to our infrastructure and housing policies *lock out -> lock our(?) <upupandup> but you are literally blaming immigration for the housing situation No, monkeywork is s
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by nayuki 4y ago
> Free market. People forget free market is not allways cheaper. It's not a free market. Look at how hard it is to get land and approvals to build new housing. If we had a truly free market in housing, we wouldn't have these pr
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by nayuki 4y ago
My preferred method: int[] array = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}; do { print(array); } while (nextPermutation(array)); https://www.nayuki.io/page/next-lexicographical-permutation-... This even
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by nayuki 4y ago
> having unprotected sex Ah yes, the Jargon File said things about that: http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/SEX.html > SEX: /seks/ 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae
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by nayuki 4y ago
I fixed two silly mistakes thanks to your comment! Added at the beginning of isSorted(): if (original.length != sorted.length) return false; Changed the wrong ordering check: if (i > 0 && original[i] <
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by nayuki 4y ago
> it apparently takes a sorting routine to test sorting routines You don't have to sort to check sortedness. boolean isSorted(int[] original, int[] sorted) { if (original.length != sorted.length) return fal
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by nayuki 4y ago
To add to the article's ideas, I would also test by brute force all sequences made from a finite set of values for small lengths. For example: Length 0: []. Length 1: [0]. Length 2: [0,0], [0,1], [1,0], [1,1]. Length 3: [0,0,0], [0,0,1
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by nayuki 4y ago
> The tax on human capital indeed has a negative effect on its accumulation. ... An increase in the tax on savings has an immediately negative effect on the growth rate So, tax unimproved land instead? https://en.wikipedia.org
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by nayuki 4y ago
> the best code is written when you are supposed to do something else > programmers are likely to spend more energies in their open source side projects than during office hours These remind me of Paul Graham's essay "Holdin
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by nayuki 4y ago
The relevant underlying theory here is not by Nyquist, but by Shannon: data rate (bits per second) = bandwidth (hertz) × log2(1 + signal power / noise power). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_capacity#Example_
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by nayuki 4y ago
Thank you so much for this! I used the website to generate brown noise to mask city noise like jackhammers and construction trucks.
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by nayuki 4y ago
Driving is subsidized in many ways. Gasoline taxes and registration taxes don't fully cover the cost of road construction and maintenance, so the rest of the money comes from general revenue at the municipal, state, and federal levels
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by nayuki 4y ago
As if paving roads everywhere, providing free parking spots, and socializing the cost of collisions wasn't collectivist. Right.
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by nayuki 4y ago
What you said is factually true, but I think there are bigger problems in context. Most people, having grown up with cars from parents and peers, can't imagine anything other than a car-centric life. The distances are too far, the bus
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by nayuki 4y ago
This is the inevitable outcome of continuing to uphold the status quo of the car-dominant society: shortages in gasoline, lithium, cobalt, copper, urban land, etc. We have to face the music: Converting gas cars to electric will only fix a s
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by nayuki 4y ago
Triangle solver on the search results page is also gone. Here's how it previously looked like: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/03/google-geometry-cal...
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by nayuki 4y ago
Oddly enough, JSC is never defined in the article. From elsewhere: > WebKit’s JavaScript implementation, called JSC (JavaScriptCore), implements all of ES6. -- https://webkit.org/blog/7536/jsc-loves-es6/
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by nayuki 4y ago
This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_64:_The_Crystal_Shards#G... : > Kirby 64 introduces Power Combos, the option to combine Kirby's copy abilities. Power Combos can be created by inhaling two
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by nayuki 4y ago
I joke that an elevator is an autonomous electric car in the vertical direction.
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by nayuki 4y ago
What about land that already has buildings on it? The buyer can't just take the land without the building. So how do you take the building's value into account?
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by nayuki 4y ago
> High property taxes are good Not necessarily. I've learned that at least in Toronto, the property tax rate is derived from the budget instead of the other way around. Let this article explain: https://torontoist.com&#x2
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by nayuki 4y ago
> When will the blockchain ecosystem provide something [...] to the average user? > Google went from a research project to incorporated and usable on the internet in roughly two years I don't think this is a fair comparison. Goog
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by nayuki 4y ago
> Don’t drive. You inevitably will kill some pedestrian. Use Uber and let professionals do it. It's ironic you say this because I find Uber/taxi drivers to be noticeably more dangerous than average drivers.
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by nayuki 4y ago
Other AES learning resources: https://www.nayuki.io/page/aes-cipher-internals-in-excel , https://www.nayuki.io/res/cryptographic-primitives-in-plain-... , https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by nayuki 4y ago
> The ultrasonic cleaner and distilled water are more expensive and have greater ongoing costs, although it looks like £13 of distilled water will last for about 3 years Weird complaint, because distilled water is $1 CAD for 4 litres her
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by nayuki 4y ago
Only if you attained 1000 reputation. https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/established-user
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by nayuki 4y ago
> In fact, your video decoders (Youtube) [...] are all GPU code. I believe this is false; video decoders like H.264/AVC have a significant ASIC component that cannot be expressed as general-purpose SIMT code. I think this is because
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by nayuki 4y ago
> "Sans serif invasion" section It should be noted that many of the old logos were already in some sans-serif font: Revolut, Facebook, Microsoft, Airbnb, Pinterest, eBay, Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Rimowa. But yes, as the

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