radeklew

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by radeklew 6y ago
Reminds me of this excellent sentence of Hofstadter's, on the concept of treating language as a stack composed of clauses and popped by verbs: "The proverbial German phenomenon of the 'verb-at-the-end', about which droll
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by radeklew 7y ago
What's the 52nd state? I'm assuming DC is treated as the 51st, is the 52nd the federal government? (sorry if it's a typo, I'm asking in good faith)
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by radeklew 7y ago
The way I see it, common keyboards are underpriced due to extreme competition, and top-shelf keyboards are overpriced because they're a niche market. So common keyboards aren't that bad , even if they're very cheap, but I th
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by radeklew 7y ago
Could it be called an ink coating? My understanding is that the distinction between ink and pigment is that ink is a solution while pigment is a suspension, can there be both kinds of coatings? or is it a meaningless distinction to draw in
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by radeklew 7y ago
Off the top of my head, James Charles lost a million subscribers before people changed their mind about whose side they were on. Toby Turner had rape allegations made against him which were later taken back. It's hard to say where his
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by radeklew 7y ago
Why wouldn't it be? It seems to me that at worst we would have to wait for computers to become as powerful and complex as a human brain, and then simulating human intelligence would be a matter of accurately modelling the connections.
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by radeklew 7y ago
Yes, that's what the article is about.
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by radeklew 7y ago
The nerve of some people!
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by radeklew 7y ago
The website doesn't claim that the font does anything better, except that it is more readable, effective, and elegant, in the experience of the designer, Rune B. If you really do know about several fonts that Rune B. finds more readabl
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by radeklew 7y ago
It seems a shame that 99.99% of humans will never have the opportunity to break the record. If only there was a category for people who race unassisted by a large team of pacers, cyclists who feed them specially designed gel, and laser-equi
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by radeklew 7y ago
The website changed: >If you purchased directly from Adobe, we will refund you by the end of the month for any paid, but unused services. We are working with our partners on the same. I wonder what caused this. Did something important ch
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by radeklew 7y ago
Honestly, I made that comment without fully thinking through how to implement my suggestion, and now I realize that I've stumped myself. However, let me explain what I meant anyway: First of all, you're right that this won't
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by radeklew 7y ago
According to this tweet[0] the object's coma[1], the cloud of ice and dust surrounding the object, makes it too difficult to measure. [0] https://twitter.com/AscendingNode/status/1171913641647493120 [1] https:
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by radeklew 7y ago
As others have said, E=mv^2/2 only holds at very small fractions of the speed of light. I believe the equation you need is E=mc^2/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)-mv^2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy#Relativ
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by radeklew 7y ago
2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control. I think that most rational people would agree the already-existing baskets should be distributed instead of being left to rot, so the president deciding ag
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by radeklew 7y ago
Why is this articled titled this way? It seems very negative to me, and if I had just read the headline and moved on I would have assumed the diet was a silly, maybe even dangerous, fad. The article explains why the science is sound and end
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by radeklew 7y ago
But text is already symmetrical along the z axis, so it works. Say your hands were 2d, so the backs looked the same as the palms. Now hold your hands so that you're looking at the palms and the fingers are pointing up. Rotate your left
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by radeklew 7y ago
Flow issues sound like a problem with the pen, and there shouldn't be enough pressure on the nib for it to dig in like that. /r/fountainpens is a really nice community with lots of guides to troubleshooting pens, as well as r
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by radeklew 7y ago
In the last post it was Baba is You, now Undertale, Celeste, Dwarf Fortress... I think this is a big reason why his posts are so polarizing, some people agree with his premise and are willing to overlook the insulting comparisons, while oth
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by radeklew 7y ago
And the chon-honnel is the one from France to England
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by radeklew 7y ago
Do you mean to say there are 9 choose 4 == 126 possible combinations for a 3x3 pattern? I think this would only be true if you could use a maximum of four dots in the pattern, which isn't the case. Although calculating it this way will
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by radeklew 7y ago
OLKB Planck keyboards [0] (presumably Preonics as well) also come with a Plover layout included in the default firmware. [0] https://olkb.com/planck