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by plank 5y ago
The situation the author is considering, is a future event in some geographical location in which the rules for the timezone change. In my honest opinion this is a non-solvable problem. So yes, storing in UTC or storing in local time is not
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by plank 5y ago
Seems that another thing to consider is multiple usages of same letter. Eerie for instance. So if the first try gets a single letter, this does not immediately mean that one should not try multiple letters. Considering that eg the letter e
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by plank 5y ago
Interesting. My partner had this problem (?) or something just like it just now on her Windows machine, but my assumption was that this was a firewall problem (Windows defender had different firewall settings for Firefox as opposed to Chrom
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by plank 5y ago
The author is wondering why the creature is waiting. If it was my creature (just for the record: it is not!) I would perhaps try* the following: set up a few transfers so that IF someone tries to empty their account, immediately make a two-
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by plank 5y ago
Perhaps. But things like Log4j might help us: while in the previous century (2k problem) making a potential problem largely go completely away, it might be that in 10 years such an endeavor may be a simple task.
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by plank 5y ago
“Holland is building”. No. In the coalition accord, a study is ordained ( https://www.deingenieur.nl/artikel/twee-nieuwe-kerncentrales... : “de nieuwe coalitie wil laten onderzoeken of het haalbaar is om twee nieuwe ker
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by plank 5y ago
Reading many of the comments, it seems most agree that listening at a factor>1 is better. As a fast reader (books, not audio nor video, never really tried that myself) I wonder how this can be understood with the 'common knowledge&#
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by plank 5y ago
Well, lets consider another reason. How about this one: walking down the staircase is more dangerous then up. When two British people meet, they tend to turn to the left. The one walking down now walks on the safer inside. Very probably bul
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by plank 5y ago
Not saying that I know for certain that the button-one is not a urban legend, but the tale is usually that the button on womens’ clothes is due to the fact that the lady of the house is dressed more often by the staff. Unlike the gents, whi
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by plank 5y ago
Seems the grown-ups strategy is consistent with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_aversion So why is this an article?
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by plank 5y ago
Interesting. New idea: measure rank in the ‘prime function’. Is it of low or incredibly high rank? And if the latter, does this ‘prove’ that there is no simple polynomial generating functon?
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by plank 5y ago
Another example are perhaps printer companies? "Execute the jet some ink" protocol needs the exact inkjet cartridge they sell, other products are actively shielded. The technology is completely different, the effect is quite simil
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by plank 5y ago
Reading all the comments, the bulk of which are in agreement with my own beliefs in this, it is perhaps better to write an alternative article that has the opposite position. Or, indeed, instead of <<article>> an <<!articl
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by plank 5y ago
In the same logic: investing in Van Gogh art is a ponzi scheme. Indeed, “People invest into it because they expect good profits, and that expectation is sustained by such profits being paid to those who choose to cash out. However, there is
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by plank 5y ago
My solution for these problems (kind of like turn off/turn on): Create a new word document, and copy-paste stuff in front and stuff after to the new document. Sometimes this works when normal editing doesn’t.
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by plank 5y ago
Read it. Astonishing to not read what I would have expected: larger animals may have larger brains then smaller animals as an extra gram of brain has a smaller impact on e.g. the amount of energy to keep it working. (To clarify: suppose a p
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by plank 5y ago
Same message on Firefox-on-iPad, so more of a webkit thing, I guess.
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by plank 5y ago
Sorry. Too many experiences to really buy the logic "it can be done, it has not been done, hence contradiction". Indeed e.g. the proof of Fermat's theorem (Wikipedia: After 358 years of effort by mathematicians, the first suc
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by plank 5y ago
Read it through (quickly though). One thing that I did not get is why the alien should be around 310kg. If I were to naively use the same arguments: as surely as I am probably from a country with a very high population, and as surely as I p
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by plank 5y ago
I am actually not convinced it is that different. Method is perhaps different, motivation and effect (had Snowden been on board) is quite similar. And yes, the threat to the flying airplane is the same: it would be a shame of something happ
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by plank 5y ago
My information is different (e.g. Greenwalds account: Without enough fuel to fly an alternative route, the Bolivian pilot was forced to make a U-turn and land in Vienna.)
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by plank 7y ago
Interesting, I did so as well, back in - I think - 1990 or so. Did it together with a fellow student, we both reported seeing a quark, but did not get the Nobel prize;-)
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by plank 9y ago
Got as far as number 12: did not accept prime as answer...
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by plank 10y ago
Discussion in Dutch: http://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/ineens-klopt-het-univers...
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by plank 10y ago
Ah. 2 distinct characters now.
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by plank 10y ago
Took me a couple of tries... (Spoiler): Anyone anything shorter then 4 characters (two characters)?
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by plank 10y ago
OK, so if Paramount loses (as I would expect), does this then mean that the lawsuit between Oracle and Google around speaking the language 'Java' gets an interesting precedent?
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by plank 10y ago
I remember the same feeling, a long time ago. I would read the Dutch 'NRC' science page, and be annoyed that they really did not understand the Schrödinger cat problem. Of course, since then I strayed away from my physics career (
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by plank 10y ago
Good* for Google to spot their own website being not completely safe! Wonder if they did click on https://www.google.com/webmasters/hacked/ themselves to see how to get Google.com unhacked.... ;-) * Actually, I t
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by plank 10y ago
Tried it with three different pictures, one from clker.com ( http://www.clker.com/cliparts/0/3/f/0/1194984730712928848mag... ) mistaken for a lamp-post, and two from unsplash ( https://unspl

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