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by rdlw 5y ago
This post should be retitled to "11 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds", the blog post has been renamed to that as per this update: "...So the 5.5 mm actually only takes 0.625 nanoseconds each way, the signal actually goes 11 mm in 1.25
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by rdlw 5y ago
Some chess tournaments make draws worth ⅓ instead of ½ to incentive aggressive play, but they seem to end up with similar draw rates as normal tournaments. Of course, that wouldn't work at all for a 1v1 event like the WCC, it would pro
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by rdlw 5y ago
It's hard to call the event as a whole exciting, especially from Game 7 on, but if you have any interest in chess I highly recommend watching a recap of Game 6—that one's going into the history books, I think. GothamChess made my
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by rdlw 5y ago
This is a genuine question, is there an HN guideline that says not to upvote reposts? I don't know if I knew about HN four years ago and if I did, I almost certainly missed that post, and if I didn't, I certainly don't rememb
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by rdlw 5y ago
A heuristic I use when looking at products with low numbers of reviews is to add one positive and one negative review, so (positive+1)/(positive+negative+2). This basically makes the 'default' rating 50% or 3 stars or whateve
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by rdlw 5y ago
You can tell by reading this that Lehmer really loved number theory, and especially his favoured problem of factorization. The last paragraph especially is closer to an ode to mathematics than a progress report for the stated problem; I o
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Hunting Big Game in the Theory of Numbers (1932)(ed-thelen.org)
2 points by rdlw 5y ago|1 comments
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by rdlw 5y ago
That seems a bit unfair since it literally comes from the direct translation of 'idiot proof'. It's true that you can benefit from idiot-proof design without being an idiot, but I would argue that you could market a microwave
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by rdlw 5y ago
Reminds me of mixtela's MIDI breath controller [1], they do some crazy stuff over MIDI. [1] https://youtu.be/oE-uB1Vw40w
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by rdlw 6y ago
Autological words, like pentasyllabic . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autological_word
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by rdlw 6y ago
Here's an official Gmail Blog post about the same feature, although the images are broken. https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sendin...
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Google’s Mail Goggles Prevents Drunk Emailing (2008)(wired.com)
1 points by rdlw 6y ago|1 comments
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by rdlw 6y ago
There are some screenshots on pp. 72-75 of surface details on a trench and a cube.
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by rdlw 6y ago
Apparently an 'official' Cannonball Run Instagram account has denounced the attempt because "doing runs in these days of #covid19 devalues the difficulty of the exercise." This seems like a weird line to draw, since atte
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The Tale of Genji(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by rdlw 6y ago|0 comments
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by rdlw 6y ago
> What if you asked Google "what's the weather?" and ... with more snark, responded with, "I don't know. Look outside". Now that you mention it, I find it strange that voice assistants don't give natura
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by rdlw 6y ago
I've read Aristotle in two classes, and both times the professors have commented on the writing style to prepare us. In an ancient philosophy class, Aristotle still stood out as densest and dryest.
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by rdlw 6y ago
> ...I think something relaxed like Animal Crossing somewhat undermines "games are a serious artform" It seems ludicrous to judge an artform entirely based on what you consider to be its least-worthy example. It's like see
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by rdlw 6y ago
This is NOT what the People's Republic of China claims, the PRC does not recognize the government of the RoC.
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by rdlw 7y ago
Software can be bad.
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by rdlw 7y ago
You can colisten to somebody's Spotify through Discord. Sadly it's a pretty obscure feature no one uses much, but it's worked well the couple of times I've tried it.
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by rdlw 7y ago
While that certainly seems like a reasonable and legally distinct name to me, 'Golf with Friends' was forced to change its name by Zynga, so be careful with that.
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by rdlw 7y ago
It's not totally clear from the article, but it would seem that the small coins are worth much less than the large ones since there is little hardship involved in their excavation and transportation. So the small ones function more lik
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by rdlw 7y ago
Do you, or does anyone reading this, have experience with taking it, improving, and quitting it? How does the risk compare to its effects?
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by rdlw 7y ago
For me, even not depressed, "[d]o not use the snooze function" means "turn the alarm off and sleep in another three hours." Obviously if it works for you it works for you, but if you don't have the willpower to st
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by rdlw 7y ago
Yes, and even a simple string like "...---..." has 200 possible solutions, including "VTTIE", "3NI", and "SMB". Especially for longer inputs, there's no way to guess which one is right.
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by rdlw 7y ago
Yes, the video goes into some depth about scales/keys. I actually had to look up what the difference between a key and a scale is, as I thought the terms were pretty much interchangeable. I've edited the last part of my other comm
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by rdlw 7y ago
I found this video to be an extremely helpful and concise explanation of music theory basics: https://youtu.be/rgaTLrZGlk0 "Learn music theory in half an hour" is obviously an exaggeration, but it really comes ast
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by rdlw 7y ago
I don't have a great ear, but I think it's a similar melody, albeit at a different tempo and key (?). If you can't hear it, try changing the video speed to 1.5x during the Sam Smith part. If these two songs are similar enough
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by rdlw 7y ago
On the world map, it's distinctly 1962. 1996 seems to be the correct date: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_Ecuatorial_Airlines

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