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by pif 1y ago
As an experimental physicist, I refuse to get excited about a new theory until the proponent gets to an observable phenomenon that can fix the question.
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by pif 1y ago
> I don’t understand std::function<> implementation. This is the kind of (maybe brilliant, maybe great, maybe both, surely more than myself) developers I don't like to work with. You are not required to understand the implemen
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by pif 1y ago
You are right. Don't listen to the idiots!
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by pif 1y ago
> Keynes lived in a time when the working class ... Keynes lived in a time when the working class could not buy cheap from China... and complain that everybody else was doing the same!
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by pif 1y ago
> As a programmer, I’ve always been annoyed by the concept of administrative time zones. That's because you committed one of the capital sins for a programmer: you tried working with time. The old mantra "use a library" st
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by pif 1y ago
I'm missing the usual suspects complaining about how browsers exploit undefined behaviour and break programmers' expectations.
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by pif 1y ago
> ordinary atomic nuclei crushed into a solid lattice with a sea of electrons flowing through the gaps That is not purely neutrons, indeed, but it's different from an ordinary lattice made of ionized atoms, each missing a handful of
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by pif 1y ago
Undocumented Undefined Behaviour, anyone?
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by pif 1y ago
> closer than in neutron stars, where atoms are femtometers apart I suppose you meant neutrons instead of atoms . Atoms do not exist in a neutron star. At least, non in any significant quantity.
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by pif 1y ago
If you only need to write sentences, what you say makes sense. If you need to draw approximate diagrams, or formulae, or flows, or trees, or whatever else, instead...
161.
by pif 1y ago
Who could have foreseen that laziness would be that demanding?
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by pif 1y ago
Where you see a housing shortage, I see too many people in too little an area. Megacities are a problem everywhere. We have not yet found a scalable way to improve the economy without resorting to unnatural concentrations of people. Still,
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by pif 1y ago
> Not sure what the speeds are at the point of its creation That will be the speed of light for you. Not exactly the speed of light, but 0.999... with a few 9's.
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by pif 1y ago
> There's a facility being built in Düsseldorf, Germany ... [and shipping] appears we are just a liquid helium supply away from getting it to work That "just" is not just a "just"! As far as I understand, given t
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by pif 1y ago
I think this is a case where it is unfortunate that the biggest players are from the USA, because they are notoriously mono-lingual and cannot fathom what it means to know more than one language. If they did understand, no site would ever p
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by pif 1y ago
The article is not against geolocation: it is about guessing the language! In your example, there's only one language available, and it depends on your location, and that is fine. What is NOT fine is the general case, where several lan
167.
by pif 1y ago
Please, correct the stupidly wrong title: the last Pope was an American!
168.
by pif 1y ago
I mean, you are right. But your father was an a*, too! It was his responsibility to make sure you did not go hungry, and he chose to ignore it.
169.
by pif 1y ago
It should be a crime for web browser letting the back button be hijacked in the first place!
170.
by pif 1y ago
A flat map on a wall does not take any three-dimensional space. You can't say the same for a globe, though!
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by pif 1y ago
I wish people learnt that (a) European Union is not Europe, and (b) Europe is a continent.
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by pif 1y ago
Please, do not compare an engineer working on something built by humans with publicly available documentation, and a scientist working on something built by nature without event a single hint of documentation, nor assurance of any logic beh
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by pif 1y ago
Thank you sincerely for running this experiment. Unfortunately, we didn't learn anything new. People buy cheap. They don't buy quality, they don't buy local, they don't buy green: they buy cheap.
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by pif 1y ago
> Most cats catch for fun rather than food Domestic cats do. Stray cat's hunt for a living.
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by pif 1y ago
> that is probably bad news for us. Apart from the Sun, the nearest star to us is four light-years away. I'm not loosing my sleep on the thought of being "discovered" by anyone over there.
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by pif 1y ago
The conclusion of the article is flawed. The article could have been a nice recollection of a battle with a wonderful, long-lasting effect, yet unknown to most people - generally speaking, I mean... you'll surely have studied it if you
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by pif 1y ago
> in a healthy amount That's the crux! Constant hunger starts nagging me as soon as I try. I've tried several times for several months, with nice results from the weight's points of view, but I never got to the point where
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by pif 1y ago
> One of the most depressing stats is that dieting does not get easier with time. Yeah, I've tried several times under medical control. I kept asking my supervising doctor: "When is the constant hunger going to get better?&quot
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by pif 1y ago
> Those stupid blue collar... This is your opinion. I have not judged anybody. My point is that cheap imports were welcome by everyone, especially by those who had the least purchasing power.
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by pif 1y ago
> Blue collar workers never pushed for globalization Maybe they didn't with their words, but they surely did with their money!

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