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by roelschroeven 7y ago
I got MATTEL right by looking at the sizes of the spacings between the letters. Not sure if it is real or just an artifact, but I picked the one where the spacings where the most regular and that turned out to be the Helvetica one. For TOYO
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by roelschroeven 7y ago
I wouldn't want to ride on such a road with a racing bike or a normal city bike; but with at mountain bike with suspension and perhaps somewhat fatter than normal tires I think riding there would not be too uncomfortable.
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by roelschroeven 7y ago
Similarly but yet completely different I always positon the mouse cursor away from the text I'm reading, since I find the cursor distracting. Nowadays that sometimes has an annoying side effect: some news sites have video thumbnails in
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by roelschroeven 7y ago
Speedcrunch does that, if you don't mind typing it as "10 meter * 1000 kilo gram * 9.8 meter/second^2 in kilo watt hour". Qalculate! works better for those things: it understands it like you wrote (you have to use "
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by roelschroeven 7y ago
Isn't it still the model that is exposed to the programmer, even though internally all kinds of things are going on to make it all go faster? For example, nowadays many/most processors have separate caches for instructions and dat
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by roelschroeven 7y ago
No. The way the text is written obfuscates the point the text is trying to make, IMO.
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by roelschroeven 7y ago
> The author is not using "data structure" with the standard Computer Science meaning, but as C language struct. The text would have been a lot clearer if that would have been more explicit from the beginning!
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by roelschroeven 7y ago
Indeed, IIRC the intention was to define the meter so that the distance between the North Pole and the equator at the meridian through Paris would be exactly 10000 km, making the full circumference along that meridian and the one opposite i
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by roelschroeven 7y ago
U is not the same as u, though: u undoes the last change, U undoes all latest changes on one line.
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by roelschroeven 7y ago
My smarthphone has issues sometimes: no mobile data, or no GPS, or a Bluetooth-device fails to connect, or an outright crash. Not very often, perhaps once a month. Not too big a deal for a phone: I can simply can reboot it. If an autonomous
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by roelschroeven 7y ago
One of the requirements for an airplane to receive a certification is that the pilot needs to put more and more pressure on the stick to achieve higher and higher angle of attack. If at some point the airplane starts to pitch to higher AoA
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by roelschroeven 7y ago
The thing is: without such a deal, they probably wouldn't have continued cooperating, and the pack would have eaten them. With the deal, both of them ended up on the podium. Also, making a deal and then not honoring it is not what I ca
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by roelschroeven 7y ago
Sometimes IT and biology share some jargon, or at least they share the words but not exactly the meaning. Both in IT and biology a collection of trees is called a forest. In IT, if you take a tree and remove the root, the result is a forest
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by roelschroeven 8y ago
I wouldn't say "easily": at some point in the video the guy on the right tries to trim manually but fails -- it only starts working when the guy on the left starts helping him.
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by roelschroeven 8y ago
From what I read it's a bit different. At high AoA the airspeed sensor doesn't work very good, therefore at high AoA the computer indicates that the airspeed is unreliable. The failed AoA sensor indicated high AoA, so the computer
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by roelschroeven 8y ago
The makefile in that article is not really a makefile though. It is just a convenient way to bundle some shell commands. The real intention of a makefile is to specify dependencies, and how to (re)build targets if they are out of date compa