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571.
by retrac 3y ago
Yes, not obeying pedestrian signalling is one of the exceptions. I'd say that's fairly reasonable -- if people cross freely against indicators it messes with the flow of traffic. I've only seen this actually enforced with e
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by retrac 3y ago
Worth pointing out that "jaywalking" is not a universal crime. There are jurisdictions in the USA where it's legal. And it's legal here in Canada. Even the term stands out -- I'm familiar with "jaywalking&qu
573.
by retrac 3y ago
Funnily enough, the 1801 microprocessor [1] wasn't stolen from DEC. Or rather, the instruction set was the only thing stolen. The 1801 was a new Soviet design originally with its own instruction set. It was later adapted to the PDP-
574.
by retrac 3y ago
Yes, but Yugoslavia wasn't behind the Iron Curtain. It wasn't aligned with the USSR. It wasn't under USSR control (after 1948 [1]). It was officially neutral during the Cold War (Yugoslavia founded the Non-Aligned Movement
575.
by retrac 3y ago
To catness I would add solitary. Without it we might include wolves. (Though some big cats are more social, they still mostly hunt solo.) I would also add (almost) exclusively carnivorous, otherwise we might include bears. It should also
576.
by retrac 3y ago
Yes. The MicroVAX I and II were IC implementations of the original VAX. Vax on a chip. (Two different implementations. Low and high end.) They were designed and manufactured in-house by DEC, and were for sale in VAX minicomputer produc
577.
by retrac 3y ago
I've never seen them. It doesn't surprise me. Trigraphs were added to support machines without full ASCII support, lacking characters like ~ # { } and so on. Such machines are extremely rare, in practice. For example, even an
578.
by retrac 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer, etc. In many jurisdictions you have a legal obligation to provide a sample for testing of intoxication when driving. (You consent to this by agreeing to drive.) In those jurisdictions, refusal to provide a sample i
579.
by retrac 3y ago
I'm not sure about the USA but here in Canada there are legal restrictions on game. In Ontario, you can't sell meat from game. (You can't even give it away, technically, unless it was inspected and butchered by a licensed b
580.
by retrac 3y ago
This is an effect with all antivirals, and was predicted from the start. It's much like antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Except it arises even faster as the replication and mutation rates are much higher with viruses. In people wit
581.
by retrac 3y ago
Depression impairs motivation, decreases tolerance of physical discomfort, and is also associated with impairment of planning abilities, and also has a correlation with eating disorders. Occam's razor: the depressed can't plan and
582.
by retrac 3y ago
It's obligatory to note this when it comes up: tomatoes are in the nightshade [1] family. The greens and fruits of many nightshades are poisonous. The obvious kinship is probably best demonstrated visually. The common tomato (Solanum
583.
by retrac 3y ago
On the southeastern /
584.
by retrac 3y ago
Canadian here who believes our labour safety standards are generally better than the USA (based on anecdote and experience, not data). Canadian data is poor quality. On any issue you might care to pick, the topic is better studied in the U
585.
by retrac 3y ago
> To me, this is just how people tend to behave, no matter their age. One of my favourite studies is just random virtue testing of strangers. Will they return lost property? It's easy, cheap, and frequently replicated. The researc
586.
by retrac 3y ago
It's not hot enough. Black tea is usually brewed with boiling hot water around 95 - 100 °C. Green tea is usually brewed a bit lower than that at around 80 °C. But the domestic hot water supply is typically around 50 °C, to prevent b
587.
by retrac 3y ago
Taking a long term view, half a century or a century out, at the rate the world is currently developing, it seems possible there will be no poor countries left to supply cheap labour. Most of the world will be wealthy, except for a few bas
588.
by retrac 3y ago
All of Orwell's works are in the public domain in Canada and Australia, and can be obtained in multiple formats, from Project Gutenberg Canada or Australia: http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#orwell http:&#x2F
589.
by retrac 3y ago
There is a similar phenomenon with Canada, and the USA. University is cheaper and more subsidized in Canada, and then a small but significant % of graduates - often some of the very best - move to the USA, and then never pay another tax do
590.
by retrac 3y ago
Sometimes, many gates! The 74xx series shows the progress of semiconductor technology over time. Later 74xx series chips are MSI. Oh, that term is quite antiquated now isn't it? Medium-scale integration. (Just about everything is
591.
by retrac 3y ago
> Of course the official language is the only one that is "legal" If only! Here in Canada there are two official languages. All laws are drafted, and enacted, in both English and French. Both versions are equally valid, equ
592.
by retrac 3y ago
It was always some version of Phonenet (Localtalk over RJ-11 phone cabling) in my experience; I don't think I ever saw real Apple Localtalk hardware! The Appletalk protocols were excellent for small networks. It was truly plug-and-pla
593.
by retrac 3y ago
Indeed. I mixed up my nightshades. Tomato! Not potato! Fixed.
594.
by retrac 3y ago
Technically speaking, tomatoes and chilis are fruits, while strawberries are not fruits (they are fruit clusters - each "seed" is an individual fruit). This is such a point of contention (apparently) that there's a whole &qu
595.
by retrac 3y ago
Beginner typing is a discrete muscle action, under conscious control and attention. Hunt for, or try to remember, where the letter is. Hit the key. Then the next. Sort of jerky. Letter by letter. Fluent typing is a more composite act,
596.
by retrac 3y ago
That's probably because you can read English in cursive. It's hard to imagine what it might might look like without that knowledge. But try reading something written in cursive in a language you don't speak. Even with the
597.
by retrac 3y ago
Compilers vary greatly in their complexity. In particular, optimization is a truly open-ended task, which can consume however much CPU time and memory as you're willing to throw at it. GCC and LLVM today are much more sophisticated
598.
by retrac 3y ago
> is a kind of emulator From what I've read I get the impression that for a while in the 1960s and 1970s, the terms "process" and "virtual machine" were interchangeable. I don't feel that was a mistake, and
599.
by retrac 3y ago
This bit maybe deserves some further comment: > could be a treatment for genetic deafness in adults But would they want such a treatment? What is it like to hear, when you have never heard before? From what I understand, the restoratio
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by retrac 3y ago
Looking at these temperature plots, it seems comparable to late March here in Toronto, or Chicago, or New York. Slightly lower temperature swing. Some days could be quite nice - warm, even. Others could be near freezing, with wind chill

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