rcthompson

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by rcthompson 4y ago
I don't think the GP is saying that H+ and H3O+ are literally synonymous, but rather that "H+" in the context of an aqueous solution is actually shorthand for a hydronium ion and not a solvated proton (with an H2O implied o
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by rcthompson 4y ago
There's a lot of variation in how the vertical scrolling format is used. Some just use it as "one panel at a time" but with a worse UX, while others lean hard into the scrolling format with things like sprawling panels longer
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by rcthompson 4y ago
Different constraints. Better cooling allows the processor to throttle less and achieve higher average performance, which incidentally would also reduce your battery life if you had the processor running at 100% load the whole time.
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by rcthompson 4y ago
I wonder if "cargo culting" would be an accurate characterization.
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by rcthompson 4y ago
I guess the goal is for all text elements to be readable against the background, which requires a certain minimum perceptual contrast regardless of hue. I don't know if there's also some constraint on the maximum contrast as well.
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by rcthompson 4y ago
How long until a game adds a Steam achievement for opening the game after the 2k38 overflow date?
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by rcthompson 4y ago
See also this commit: https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/roll/commit/726f0510179... Commit message: > Use random.SystemRandom as random source > Now all dice rolls are cryptographically secure against
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by rcthompson 4y ago
Here's two of mine: A while back, I wrote a command-line dice rolling program[1] that handles a bunch of esoteric dice notation syntax, both because I was getting into a D&D game with friends, and because I wanted to practice writi
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by rcthompson 4y ago
That's exactly what you get with undo-tree. The regular undo/redo commands continue working as normal, but you can also manually browse the tree if things get too nonlinear for you.
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by rcthompson 4y ago
This is exactly how undo works in Emacs out of the box. Personally, I prefer to install the undo-tree package and manually browse through the tree of undo paths. I'm not sure why this author finds a tree unacceptable for this purpose.
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by rcthompson 4y ago
One of my favorite Perl features that has been disappointingly under-appropriated by other languages is quoting with q(...).
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by rcthompson 4y ago
They make it nearly impossible to avoid snap. Every couple of upgrades, they unconditionally run a script that forcibly removes the Firefox deb and installs the snap. Nothing I've tried has been able to prevent this. It seems to be har
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by rcthompson 4y ago
I think the trash interaction command needs to be a different main command, actually. No matter what you call the option, someone can make a file with that name.
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by rcthompson 4y ago
I think all you would need to add is a daemon that automatically deletes the oldest file(s) whenever free space drops below a certain threshold, so that the filesystem GC can reclaim that space for new files.
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by rcthompson 4y ago
A bad PSU is not at all comparable to a hard reset. A bad PSU can cause individual writes to fail without the entire computer shutting down, and these failures can and will happen simultaneously across multiple disks since they are all conn
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by rcthompson 4y ago
> it is very clear in this code that a reference to the file isn't leaked Is it? What if an exception is thrown? See e.g. this SO answer[1]: > However if an exception is thrown [...] then a reference to the file will be kept as p
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by rcthompson 4y ago
USB4.1 2x2 Gen 1 V2 & Knuckles requires you to plug the cable into a special active adapter that then plugs into the device.
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by rcthompson 4y ago
I'm not sure the difference is as cut and dry as you're making it out to be. A big organization doesn't just pay Microsoft a zillion dollars for a million Office licenses and then never talk to them again. There's an ong
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by rcthompson 4y ago
Of course it takes longer to read and comprehend the method signature when there are types in it, since it makes the method signature longer. But by the time I make it to the end of the signature, before I've even taken a look at the
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by rcthompson 4y ago
Of all the artists I follow, not a single one has had anything good to say about NFTs. Their only interaction with NFTs has been dozens of scammers fraudulently minting NFTs of all their work, followed by exchanges putting the burden of pro
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by rcthompson 4y ago
Hehe, I forgot about the pipeline function. I had originally written that for something else and then repurposed it here. It always felt like something that ought to be built in to python. And I guess I'm kind of grading "easy&quo
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by rcthompson 4y ago
A while back I went through several of these kinds of build systems. The one I eventually settled on was Snakemake[1], with which I finally was able to put together an entire complex bioinformatics workflow[2]. I would say that Snakemake&#x
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by rcthompson 4y ago
I'm not optimistic about the outcome of the US government deciding that a valuable resource is inconveniently located on Native American land.
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by rcthompson 4y ago
The title seems like a weird way to describe the phenomenon, given that the robot exists within our real space, which is essentially flat at the scales and velocities involved (specifically, non-relativistic ones). Is constraining motion to
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by rcthompson 4y ago
It's true that our cohort is all patients that were hospitalized for COVID-19, but notably, our long COVID questionnaire specifically asked which new symptoms they had after COVID-19 that they didn't already have beforehand. T
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by rcthompson 4y ago
> How is everyone so sure 12 month+ symptoms are due to COVID-19? Our lab at Mount Sinai has linked gene expression patterns observed during acute SARS-CoV-2 infection with the subsequent emergence of long COVID symptoms that were still
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by rcthompson 4y ago
What a great app that was. The step-by-step animated folding instructions were actually 3D. It had buttons to rotate the view around to any angle. In hindsight they must have written their own simple 3D engine or something. Obviously they d
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by rcthompson 4y ago
This is an API, not a file manager. They're not really comparable.
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by rcthompson 4y ago
I could hear the avoided crossing even at 9 Hz once I knew what to listen for. At the middle of the crossing (exactly 2.5s in), the two tones are both rising in parallel, essentially forming a continuously rising chord, which sounds very di
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by rcthompson 4y ago
I've occasionally been interested in playing with clipboard managers, but I've always been stopped by the fact that at least a few times a day, I copy something I don't want a persistent record of (e.g. a password). How do ot

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