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by patal 5y ago
How so? Every MATLAB code base I've seen rolls their own unit computation. The symbolic toolbox costs money and I've seen it on university installations only. The unitConvert command is rather new. Neither mechanisms are native to
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by patal 6y ago
The article only considers quoted arguments. Quoting should be recommended for test, and OP probably even has a formal check for quotes being in place. However, let's just set that aside for now. Quotes are optional. And if you don&#x2
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by patal 6y ago
> guaranteeing the powers of law enforcement and the judiciary to operate on the same terms as in the offline world Have there ever been prohibitions about which encryption I can use on paper letters?
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by patal 6y ago
The Steve Yegge article: "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" serves basically as a Java joke story. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
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by patal 6y ago
Q: What's the difference between Ant and Maven? A: The creator of Ant has apologized. ( https://twitter.com/technomancy/status/10994115673 )
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by patal 6y ago
This is my experience with Jamulus, too. However, to get down to 10-40ms, you need to setup your tech as follows. - ethernet instead of wlan - dedicated audio interface, takes calculation overhead off your computer - a proper microphone, im
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by patal 6y ago
That does not work so well if you're working in a team. A fairly complex regular expression is always hard to read. We see this as early as in code review and as late as when you find a production bug because expectations of the surrou
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by patal 6y ago
> [Freud] had to return to check his results later in the year, he chanced upon a pair of furrowed organs, hidden away in the abdominal cavity, which he identified as the much-sought-after testes of a male. With the two sexes now clearly
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by patal 6y ago
It's mostly about habit. Apart from that, I really enjoy this venture into the history of 0-based vs. 1-based indexing: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/ > the technica
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by patal 6y ago
So it's from Fortran ;)
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by patal 6y ago
What's up with the layout though? For one, the text alternates between serif and sans-serif fonts, like someone came in and edited the prewritten complaint, but didn't care about formatting. Second, they have problems matching the
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by patal 6y ago
Thanks for the tip! Haven't seen this yet, and collegues complain about the MS4000's loudness when I type.
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by patal 6y ago
It seems that sun was feminine and the moon was masculine in Old English up to about the 16th century: "sun (n.) [...] Old English sunne was feminine (as generally in Germanic), and the fem. pronoun was used in English until 16c.; sinc
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Assange Hearing Day 3(craigmurray.org.uk)
152 points by patal 7y ago|78 comments
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by patal 8y ago
A lot of "dimmable" LEDs are actually shifting the flicker pattern to dim the light (shorter on phases). This is for LEDs where the user dims per remote control. OP was talking about the older "legacy" dimming, where you
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by patal 8y ago
I thought the same. Rearing a newborn recently, I find that much of the parental/pre-parental advice works well. However, I just now realized, they probably actually understood the problems. But since only the advised actions stuck in
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by patal 8y ago
Good point. Says 2016 in the site's breadcrumb line.
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by patal 8y ago
Now I understand Monty Python's sketch from the Meaning of Life, where old financials pirate a multi-story building and sail it off out of town. The wikipedia article mentions that in the chapter "relocated buildings". Before
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by patal 8y ago
> A high severity CVE-2017-9780 (CVSS Score 7.2) has indeed been assigned to this vulnerability. Flatpak developers consider this a minor security issue. The flatpak release notes talk of a "minor security update", where "
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by patal 9y ago
> say "move, sloth" when people stand on the left side of an escalator That's insulting everywhere. Even if there was consensus about escalator etiquette (in Europe and America), that's still needlessly offensive. Peo
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by patal 9y ago
Wow, thanks for the resources! You make a convincing argument. I studied sinology, but did not go that deep into character etymology. So basically, what those writers did when they wanted to write properly, was to have the older script vari
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by patal 9y ago
Thanks for clearing that up.
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by patal 9y ago
Are you really suggesting that writers changed hands during writing a single character? That sounds totally impractical. Also, that does not explain why there should be a different stroke order.
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by patal 9y ago
Do you have a source for your claim? Particularly, you're suggesting that the stroke order for the top left part was once different in China. I'd really like to see a document on this.
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by patal 10y ago
Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome I consider this timeless humour, because it gets me to laugh out loud in public. People get startled by this. Also, I read episodes from the book to my 7 year old, who loves it. Occasionally, I need
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by patal 10y ago
Would you tag that NSFW, please?
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by patal 10y ago
Do you mean instance where the release number be the same, as in 1.77 vs. 2.77? Because that likely won't happen, as due to the different compatibility these should be different releases. Or do you mean, if the release numbers are reas
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by patal 11y ago
Also shown here, although without robots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNmJqRV7LOA&t=2m18s
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by patal 11y ago
> Or if you have a list of 1,000,000 words, then you can use Sift to pare that down to the top 100 closest, then use Levenshtein to get the exact one. You cannot do that, because, other than performance, Sift gives no guarantees regardi
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by patal 11y ago
I think that's a great argument. If someone mails the code, I hope to have the cleverness to suspect the encoding. However, I thought about a code repository or similar where this may be an issue, but most often is not. And I have seen

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