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by nwallin 5y ago
Sure, there should be a line somewhere, but not allowing the user to enable/disable hinting is obviously on the wrong side of the line. If it wasn't, we wouldn't have half the comments on this post opining about Windows vs OS
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It's wild to me that on both Windows and OSX that something that is obviously just personal preference is baked into the operating system, with no method for changing it. It's on the same level as having an operating system that d
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Why do people buy printers that aren't from Brother?
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You can go to anywhere right now and buy a b&w only laser printer and it won't have the dots. The secret tracking dots thing only works if you have yellow ink on white paper- it's hard to see. If your printer attempts to &quot
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It wasn't used for the wire frames of the Death Star/trench run briefing. Those were digitally generated on a PDP-11. I'm like 75ish percent sure the Scanimate was used to generate the orbits the Death Star's targeting c
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> it provides an intuitive model Uh. No. It definitely -- definitely -- doesn't do that. Many worlds, for all its many virtues, gives us "There's another dimension where you -- you -- are Batman!" Because that&#x2
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The problem with interjecting an implication that many worlds is true (regardless of how persuasive the arguments in its favor are) into a layperson's explanation of why quantum entanglement doesn't permit FTL communication are th
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by nwallin 5y ago
...what? We're sitting here talking about how 1+2=3 and you're telling us that we're wrong, and that the sky is actually blue . I have no basis to object to your argument, other than to tell you the thing you're arguing
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1) It's applicable for any kind of ... thing ... which lets you send a message faster than the speed of light. It doesn't matter if you build this kind of drive into a USPS truck, or if it's a special closet in an unused bedr
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by nwallin 5y ago
Is Tesla demanding that they actually fix it their way? From the article it reads as if he took it to the dealer to get it repaired, they quoted him $16k, so he took it somewhere else. I could be wrong though.
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Being able to send messages faster than the speed of light grants the ability to send messages to yourself in the past. [0] If you can send messages to yourself in the past all manner of causality goes out the window. First of all, it gives
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by nwallin 5y ago
> Of course jalapenos are grown in Thailand today, but I'd wager the original sauce used a different, more local pepper. The entire genus of capsicums are new world plants, and would have been unknown prior to the Columbian exchange
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It's also common in the US for neighborhoods to have 240V 3 phase, and for a neighborhood to have a common neutral. Each house gets the neutral and 2 of the hots. Hot to neutral gives 120V, hot to hot gives 208V. (240*sin(120 degrees))
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Varies widely. I could be fantastic in one town, but terrible in the next town over, even if the towns are similar in terms of size, density, demographics, and wealth. But in general, more places than not have pretty poor broadband. From wh
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I don't understand your point at all. I can be mowing my lawn when it's 110F outside and say, "Gosh, I'm boiling." But if a recipe tells me to "boil" something, and it means anything other than put it in 2
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If I'm a Roman general, and I have two captains, each with 1,000 soldiers, and I tell them their troops lacked discipline in the last battle, and I order them to decimate their troops, and one of them comes back with 100 soldiers and t
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by nwallin 5y ago
The videos you posted aren't of caramelized onions, they're sauteed/browned onions. It's a different chemical reaction. You are creating a Maillard reaction of the protein in the onion. Caramelization is a reaction of th
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The difference isn't in individual flaps, it's in the entire animation. There's only a difference in the first two flaps, after that they're identical.
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> immediately. I didn't say immediately. It isn't their duty to draw the line immediately, but they will need to draw a line. The attention that this case received is evidence of that. Nobody really cares about whether or not B
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Because it's a public school. It would not apply to private schools or private employers. Also note that this is a narrow ruling; the supreme court is not intending to set new precedent the way Tinker vs. Des Moines did. They just said
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It doesn't appear to have any collision detection at all. You can drive through walls, over water, through barriers. The world state seems to be limited to the 2D velocity and 2D position of the vehicle. There's no instability in
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He was born in 1912. There was a lot of celebration in 2012 relating to the 100th anniversary of his birth. Not just the 2014 movie.
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What is/was the recall for? Is there something unique about the treadmill that makes it more dangerous than 'normal' treadmills?
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Cities:Skylines has a mod called Traffic Manager which lets you ... manage traffic. It gives tools that are sorely lacking in the base game, such as setting an intersection to have traffic lights, timed traffic lights, four way stop signs,
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by nwallin 5y ago
You can access gmail via IMAP/SMTP. Any desktop e-mail client will be significantly lighter and faster than any browser based webmail client. And I don't care how shitty your computer is, mutt will run snappily on it. https:&#x2F
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by nwallin 5y ago
> As for square roots, the reason why you can't use the underlying architecture is that it only works on the native i16 type. My understanding of your code is that you've got `struct Number { int16 a,b,c,d; };` and the value of
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Astronomers could reasonably well measure angles between objects in the night sky, and with some basic geometry, you can measure the relative distances between objects reasonably accurately. For instance, if you have a triangle ABC, and y
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> For example, the old game Quake used Q16.16 for all of its code because the computers at that time didn’t have fast floating point math yet. This isn't quite true, and the reality is actually way cooler than this. Quake used a hyb
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Yes. But it's not that interesting or unusual. The Oort cloud doesn't really obey the plane of the solar system the way the planets or Kuiper belt do. That's why it's called a 'cloud' and not a 'belt&#x2
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Bus width is orthogonal to the bitness of a CPU. QPI, the bus Intel CPUs use, is a 20 bit bus. HT, the equivalent AMD technology, uses a 32 bit bus, even on 64 bit CPUs. HBM2, used on certain AMD video cards, uses a 1024 bit bus. The Commod

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