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by scentoni 3y ago
When sugar dissolves in water, it stays sugar. When salt dissolves in water, it becomes separate Na+ and Cl- ions.
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by scentoni 3y ago
Most of what's in these handouts, and much, much else, is just in their heads--at least the part that's relevant to their field, obviously an organic chemist is going to have slightly different things memorized than a geochemist.
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Roman ham sundial reconstructed (2017)(bordersundials.com)
2 points by scentoni 3y ago|1 comments
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by scentoni 3y ago
The airlines’ pricing irrationality is akin to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I486SX where it cost Intel extra money to disable the floating point unit.
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Researchers unscramble mysterious roles of human yolk sac(science.org)
2 points by scentoni 3y ago|0 comments
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by scentoni 3y ago
I wonder how much Russian online recruiting of randos is behind attacks on the US electrical and communications infrastructure https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/26/physical-attacks-el...
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by scentoni 3y ago
Some ingredients of life likely came from deep space. That doesn’t mean that life did.
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by scentoni 3y ago
A number of MacBook users leave their laptops shut and plugged into external monitors a large fraction of the time, making the sensor awkward to get to.
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by scentoni 3y ago
You’re mixing up two different models. You’re thinking of the $55 Yubico YubiKey 5C NFC https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-5-series/yubikey-5c-n... What they chose is the $29 Security Key C NFC by Yubico htt
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by scentoni 3y ago
It’s not an amalgam (that means a mercury alloy) or any metallic alloy. It’s an oxide (more complicated than that but there’s more oxygen atoms than metal atoms).
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by scentoni 3y ago
The studio executives are trying to extinguish quality movies because they only want predictable mainstream cliches that can churned out inexpensively in enormous volume from AI on a regular schedule.
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by scentoni 3y ago
I’d rather reduce the weight on my face by combining the computer with the external battery.
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by scentoni 3y ago
Those are examples of useful functions. They are not examples of useful hash functions.
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A New Formula for the Determinant(arxiv.org)
95 points by scentoni 4y ago|33 comments
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by scentoni 4y ago
A new explicit formula for the determinant that contains superexponentially fewer terms than the usual Leibniz formula
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by scentoni 4y ago
On iPad, I can’t drag logic blocks out of the corral on the left into the working area.
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by scentoni 4y ago
I think you’re confusing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_geometry with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_algebra which is a type of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by scentoni 5y ago
https://stanfordtheatre.org is a repertory cinema (though currently closed due to covid) that has themed schedules (one month Hitchcock, another month Satyajit Ray, etc).
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by scentoni 6y ago
I wonder why they would use something so inefficient in this context. Are there phishing scanners that look for more efficient (high-entropy) strings of characters, like base64?
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by scentoni 6y ago
https://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
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by scentoni 6y ago
No, this about signals, not power.
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by scentoni 6y ago
Changing the wavelength like this is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence and is the basis of fluorescent lights.
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by scentoni 6y ago
That is incorrect. The virus particles are mostly identical. The reason the dose matters is because each individual particle doesn't have a 100% chance of infecting an individual. That is partly due to the https://en.wikiped
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by scentoni 7y ago
Well, muons are made by getting electrons or other particles up to high speeds and then crashing them into stationary targets or counterrotating beams. But you have to create muon-antimuon pairs, so that requires at least 212 MeV in theory
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Trump cites Amazon concerns, Pentagon re-examines $10B cloud contract process(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by scentoni 7y ago|0 comments
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Artificial Cranial Deformation(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by scentoni 7y ago|0 comments
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by scentoni 7y ago
People have been doing that intentionally since prehistoric times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation
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by scentoni 7y ago
https://www.xkcd.com/1667/
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by scentoni 7y ago
Aluminum does have safety issues in household wiring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_building_wiring
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by scentoni 7y ago
My current favorite roguelike is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Maj%27Eyal due to the rich list of available classes and a mostly useful autoexplore feature.

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