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by phaemon 6y ago
Your numbers are totally wrong. The fact your own link suggests that bitcoin uses as much electrical energy as Chile should tell you it's not close to the USA. Recheck?
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by phaemon 6y ago
Be as snarky as you like. What have you contributed to the field of CS that's so much more impressive than the Professor?
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by phaemon 6y ago
That's a terrible simulator. Something bad happens every day, the sums are crazy (75 for a cellphone bill?), basically it's too much. I've been poor. You have good as well as bad days. I remember the day I won £75 with £1 on
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by phaemon 6y ago
I suppose I should be the first to point out that 982.002 is not actually an integer :) But, as the article puts it, "suspiciously close". Except, I guess you'd accept .003 as close also. And, from the other side, you have .9
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by phaemon 6y ago
No, because it breaks down into CO2. Methane is 21x more potent than CO2 over a 100 year period, and 72x over a 20 year period. So, if you're concerned about what's happening now, that's the figure you need to consider.
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by phaemon 6y ago
Are these examples of good products or are you making some other point?
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by phaemon 6y ago
From previous comments I assume you're from the UK. And I also suspect you've grown up with anti-Catholic bigotry and have assumed that this is normal. I do understand this. My father would talk about Protestants as if was synonym
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by phaemon 6y ago
The reason we want self driving cars is the same reason we don't have flying cars.
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by phaemon 6y ago
So people keep claiming, but I've yet to see a single example of an actual Tesla owner who was confused about this. The person in this story wasn't confused and didn't even attempt a defense that Tesla had mislead them.
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by phaemon 6y ago
Your source is a "Reference guide for primary", it clearly states "Europe's average temperature", and grapes have been grown in Britain continually from the Roman occupation up until WW2. Global temperatures were no
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by phaemon 6y ago
That's the sort of scenario that would be presented to you. If it happened to engage some people that would otherwise have spent some time with their family, that would not be mentioned. I didn't have to argue very hard to get you
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by phaemon 6y ago
Edit: or, of course, I could be a clueless twat who hadn't read the article properly and realized the context. Sorry, mea culpa. > check, test and double check. Clearly that's not what you want to do, because you want to assume
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by phaemon 6y ago
I don't work for YouTube. But what if I told you that 30% of users who stop watching YouTube go on to use a different media service, even though they could have watched exactly the same content on YouTube . Would you feel comfortable
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by phaemon 6y ago
Matrix is like an updated IRC. There are Matrix servers and you connect to them with a Matrix client (I believe Element is the most popular).
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by phaemon 6y ago
Indeed. What kind of person would use an environment in a way it wasn't intended to be used, especially for their own intellectual curiosity? There should be a word for people like that...
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by phaemon 6y ago
I can't think of any difference if you're trapping both with the same handler. Probably only if you want a separate handler for ERR vs EXIT.
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by phaemon 6y ago
You're missing `errtrace` (-E) which means "any trap on ERR is inherited by shell functions, command substitutions, and commands executed in a subshell environment" You probably haven't used it much if you haven't b
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by phaemon 6y ago
...for he rails at Communism, when the land is almost lost in Capitalism; and would cry Fire! Fire! in Noah's flood.
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by phaemon 6y ago
That's completely wrong. And by that I mean "you just failed your statistics class" wrong. Imagine you had a graph of earth's temperature and decided to set the y axis at absolute zero. What would that look like? Would i
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by phaemon 6y ago
I didn't claim it didn't exist so your strawman is irrelevant. If there was only a single dinosaur skeleton in existence I certainly wouldn't be claiming they were common animals. The fact is it was barely used until the OSI
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by phaemon 6y ago
One. The same one you already posted. Where are the thousands of examples of this common usage? Rejected after they'd made the term popular.
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by phaemon 6y ago
So where are all the examples on public mailing lists and Usenet of them using this? I'm afraid I simply don't trust people's hazy memories of conversations from years ago.
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by phaemon 6y ago
> But at least this much is not true Yes it is. Just because a phrase was used once or twice in some obscure post in the past, doesn't mean that someone can't come up with it independantly. > a common term back then as well,
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by phaemon 6y ago
So now you're saying that "slavery started to fade away" as soon as it was abolished but it had nothing to do with the actual abolition? Just co-incidence? And, yes, it halved as a % of the population because the urban popula
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by phaemon 6y ago
> Slavery started to fade away around the 1800s. This is completely wrong. In the 1800 US census, it recorded 893,602 slaves. By the time of the 1860 census (the last before the Civil War), that had risen to 3.9 million slaves (the 185
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by phaemon 6y ago
This book might be what you're looking for: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Atmospheric-Physics-Da...
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by phaemon 6y ago
You say you don't agree, but you don't disagree either. Perhaps you should know a modulo operator but that's still not what FizzBuzz is for. It's to see if the candidate has the most basic concepts of loops and tests.
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by phaemon 6y ago
The point of FizzBuzz is to see if the person understands the basic concepts of a loop and "if" tests. You're supposed to give them the modulo operator to ensure you're testing the right thing.
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by phaemon 6y ago
"shellacked" means "physically beaten", though it's usually used metaphorically.
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by phaemon 6y ago
If you like visual explanations, you might enjoy this from 3blue1brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBw67Fb31Cs

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