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by ordu 4y ago
> Willow ptarmigan carcasses were excluded from the analyses as these are known to collide with the tower base (see Stokke et al., 2020[1]) How?! It takes some mental effort to not blame victim in this situation. The article linked giv
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by ordu 4y ago
> Wait, does it? Thinking about it, I'm not so sure it doesn't. I'm not a physicist to know it for sure.
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No, octave resonates in two different places. If we talk about octave as of sum of two sines.
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> If you have a 2:1 (octave) relationship between 2 waveforms, then you won't hear the beating as the beat frequency exactly overlaps the frequency of the lower frequency. If we take a look into a human ear we'll see there an
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by ordu 4y ago
But then you'll need to watch for `<script>` in examples of your articles, so you dont need to write it as `<script>`. And how you are going to get the second in your blog? How do you like to write `&lt;scri
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by ordu 4y ago
> I think space colonization will be similar to European Colonialism but only for the Solar System. I think not. European Colonialism for the Solar System will be the first phase of becoming a race of people in tin cans. When travel ta
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Such airbags would throw a pedestrian away. A long way.
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I doubt that there can be objectivity in music. It seems that even the basic notion of consonance is an acquired one, and people learn it from others. But when all the people got the idea of consonance as a pleasant sound, this idea becomes
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Probably it is an answer. People gravitate to a distro offering them docs in their preferred style. And some of these people contribute to docs later in their preferred style. This process becomes self-enforcing at some point: the style is
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> If his motor continues to perform with high speed and efficiency, he says he’ll move forward with the patenting process. Is it a wise move? Shouldn't he just file a patent application instantly? (It is not a kind of a sarcasm or s
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> Real-time is a property of the whole system though (?) not individual functions. As I see it, it leads to a contradiction. `cat` have unbounded time of execution. It depends on a size of input. It means that `cat` cannot be realtime. B
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I don't know about this joke, but I can imagine how the punchline was lost in a translation with exactly these results. Probably English just lack some words like a verb with meaning "to find something by looking around a corner w
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> The way I read your comment, the SuperEgo consists out of social norms that only exist because society exist. Not just like that. It is about ideas of Good and Evil absorbed in a childhood. It is mostly is a social things, but not qu
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> It's Freudian psychology [1] that adults are the ones who have integrated their super-ego into their ego. It is impossible, if I understand Freud. Ego is defined as a place of a conflict between SuperEgo and Id. SuperEgo and Id
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If your input is not bounded you can't know in advance the time needed to process it. In other word you cannot be realtime. `cat` can be realtime, but only by fixing the size of its internal buffer where it reads to and writes from. In
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by ordu 4y ago
> You could say that a PDF reader, say, is an “interpreter," Yes. PDF is based on PS, which in turn is a programming language. With variables, conditionals, loops and so on. One cannot render PDF without an interpreter of PostScript
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> They are the same value, but with different identities. vs[0], vs[1] etc. are different objects What allows you to say that they have different identities? They are zero-sized types. Literally zero. `()` is a type and `()` its the on
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> How would you define object identity fn main() { let vs = [(), (), (), (), ()]; for v in vs { println!("{:?}", v); } } This loop will five times print "()", bec
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> As with C APIs, the people who make C++ APIs, know how to make them robust as well. It seems too optimistic for me. I use Gentoo, and I believe that the only reason I have no such troubles is Gentoo with all its maintainers who do a
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Nice. But `content-type: text/plain` makes html to be shown as a text. Not a big difference, because mostly it is a one big `pre`, but nevertheless.
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I do not believe that human perception has anything to do with "true" colors. Such a complex system with so many quirks cannot be called the true way to deal with wavelengths. And yes it starts with cones in a retina, which wipe o
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This phrase implies that there are some "true colors", but are they? People see colors in weird ways, and it is a bold move to declare them to be the true ways. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/c
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Is it normal in chess to break fingers of an opponent who breaks rules? I think not. If it was not a robot but a human being he would be considered guilty. Yeah, boy broke chess rules, and what? He probably should be punished by losing ches
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> One of the reasons: ideology. No, it was more about bureaucracy. Why an existing organization might want a computer? There were no reasons for managers to want it. They didn't need to run to keep their jobs, they just had jobs. Wh
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Why it never spins recursively? Let a drug cartel to be a conspiracy, bringing an excuse to make USA great again? But really it was a conspiracy of billionaires who really runs all the governments, and they meant to consolidate their power.
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> This is the obvious answer for any rational observer. "Obvious" and "rational" in one sentence seem to me suspicious every time. I'm suspicious about "obvious" itself, because of my math education,
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> I think simply that Musk do not see the imminent market crash It is possible of course, but unlikely. Musk doesn't seem to me as a person who might be surprised by this market crash, I heard him talking about the coming crash an
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> The point you did ignore was: Rust is being sold as magically making software safe and people selling that completely ignore the fact that logical bugs are also a thing. You know, I'm a Rust evangelist. And I can tell you, why I
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Smartphones Blur the Line Between Civilian and Combatant(wired.com)
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> It's easy to monday-morning quarterback a result that was successful and unexciting, but imagine how intolerable the world would be if we'd chosen not to verify it. I once read a paper complaining that the most of psycholog

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