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by scatters 4y ago
> the more I look at the news the less it seems like any of these changes are happening What news are you reading? Last year the world invested $500bn in wind and solar, and another $500bn in energy efficiency. The IRA has $369bn for gre
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by scatters 4y ago
It seems fine to me, although maybe it's backwards. Add a prime to the RHS, perhaps.
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by scatters 4y ago
The war started in 2014, with the invasion of Crimea and the Dobnas. The 2022 invasion was an escalation.
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by scatters 4y ago
The Pythagoreans are often considered integral to the history of mathematics, if not the start of mathematics itself, and they murdered the guy who proved that the square root of two is irrational.
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by scatters 4y ago
At some point the cartel will run out of capital. Before then, the mispricing becomes evident enough that speculators come in on the other side and burst the bubble.
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by scatters 4y ago
NIMBYs. Hopefully the Builder's Remedy upcoming in California will demonstrate whether restrictive zoning is indeed to blame.
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by scatters 4y ago
The number of graphemes an emoji displays as depends on the platform and font. How many "characters" does Safari think Ninja Cat[1] is? It displays as a single grapheme on Windows 10. 1. https://emojipedia.org/ninj
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by scatters 4y ago
Imagine having a neurological disease or some other disability that means that you can't drive .
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by scatters 4y ago
Ugh, I really need to clean up and submit my patch that adds those warnings. Hopefully I'll have some time this year.
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by scatters 4y ago
You do realize that antibiotics are completely ineffective against a cold? You're wrecking your digestive system and risking antibiotic resistance for nothing. If your doctor is prescribing antibiotics, either they're a terrible d
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by scatters 4y ago
Try an 8 with the cross-bar erased, and two eyes - nothing else. That gives me U+26C4. I can't get U+2603, though.
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by scatters 4y ago
That's 0.9. It's a percentage. 0.9 is not great, not terrible.
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by scatters 4y ago
Why wouldn't you pay by direct transfer?
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by scatters 4y ago
If you're calling back into user code, you need to reestablish invariants first. As for threading, C++ distinguishes mutating from non mutating (const) methods. Usually, any number of threads can call const methods simultaneously, but
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by scatters 4y ago
> you'd have to go out of your way to add those in And yet food companies are adding minimal amounts of peanut oil or sesame flour to products, specifically so they don't have to guarantee that they are free of those allergens.
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by scatters 4y ago
Not sport in the sense of exercise purely for the sake of burning calories, but sport in the sense of fitness display for status, bonding through teamwork and practice for warfare, definitely. The amount of calories and protein that can be
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by scatters 4y ago
Expecting people to have personal projects outside work is very much selecting for a certain type of person. You're ruling out people who devote their time outside work to their families, or sport, or hobbies that don't involve pr
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by scatters 4y ago
Submit a sample of their work? What employer lets their ex employees do that?
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by scatters 4y ago
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes
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by scatters 4y ago
People are aware the PR isn't going to be accepted; they just want to publish it somewhere .
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by scatters 4y ago
Because they do resemble the actual outcomes. The 2 major parties in the UK regularly get majorities in Parliament on far less than 50% of the vote. In the USA gerrymandering has been brought to a fine art. How can this not contribute to di
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by scatters 4y ago
Worse, imagine that in 51 constituencies A gets 51% of the vote, and in 49 it gets 0% of the vote. This gives A a majority in parliament even though voters as a whole prefer B nearly 3-to-1.
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by scatters 4y ago
Yes, but a weird machine program may be able to turn an extremely unlikely exploit into a guaranteed one; for example rowhammer, or heating up the hardware to induce bit flips, or simply making enough vulnerable objects that when a "co
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by scatters 4y ago
JSON is the JavaScript Object Notation; it's in the name! The closer your language's object model is to JavaScript, the more likely it is you'll get away with treating it as a direct serialization format. Conversely, the furt
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by scatters 4y ago
Sorry, but that doesn't make sense at all. An LCD screen emits photons of all wavelengths and in all directions, as does a piece of paper. That's totally different to flashlight vs. laser, where there is a physical distinction bet
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by scatters 4y ago
Why should your eyes care whether the light was generated behind the screen or bounced off it? Photons are photons.
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by scatters 4y ago
The West has always had pandemic measures. We were just lucky enough to go a hundred years without needing them.
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by scatters 4y ago
(-0x80000000, 0x7fffffff)
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by scatters 4y ago
That's only because they haven't been in use at scale for as long. Solar power kills more people than nuclear does, and wind isn't far behind.
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by scatters 4y ago
Amortised constant is over all inputs, and almost all natural numbers are not 1 less than a power of 10. Of course, you need to start at the correct end, otherwise it's logarithmic just to get there.

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