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511.
by schoen 2y ago
It looks like lipstick to me. Or possibly the end of a screwdriver or chisel.
512.
by schoen 2y ago
And thus, something will have to happen in series in order to end up with just one output.
513.
by schoen 2y ago
I did both this and the Nand2Tetris course before realizing that they are implementing the same computer -- this is an interactive graphical version, while the original Nand2Tetris uses a textual HDL where you write down the connections b
514.
by schoen 2y ago
Don't you get the "it's already tomorrow for half the world" problem in place of the "it's still yesterday for half the world"?
515.
by schoen 2y ago
It's super-cool to see an alternative approach to dealing with Wikipedia content disputes. In the past, when there have been Wikipedia forks, they haven't generally tried to stay in sync with Wikipedia, at least not in both direct
516.
by schoen 2y ago
It sounds exciting to watch. What suggests that it would be more efficient than other methods? I guess most forms of "get some energy into water so that some of it evaporates, then condense it" will produce desalinated water, re
517.
by schoen 2y ago
Usually this means that you have one more false positive hiding somewhere!
518.
by schoen 2y ago
Backticks were fairly important for shell scripting in the past, but have officially been replaced with $(), which can be nested. My intuition is that Perl would be the most challenging on a keyboard where it's harder to type unusual p
519.
by schoen 2y ago
Cool! There are actually some expert players who intentionally play without the flags as an extra challenge. They have to remember (or re-deduce) where the mines are. The game is considered won whenever the number of unexposed squares, whet
520.
by schoen 2y ago
Try flagging the mine rather than revealing it! (Right click.)
521.
by schoen 2y ago
They've now published the prime, and it's turned out to be somewhere in between our speculations (new exponent 1.65× the length of the previous exponent discovery). https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M1362
522.
by schoen 2y ago
I just took a look at Sanskrit, and it doesn't represent everything. It has a larger consonant inventory than any other natural language that I've ever seen, which is impressive, but that doesn't make it phonologically univer
523.
by schoen 2y ago
I think there was an intended humor element there, particularly since some of those people were also working on new post-quantum primitives, but they also "committed to the bit" and did the research for real.
524.
by schoen 2y ago
The EFF Cooperative Computing Awards, which pay out money for (four specific sizes of) prime records, were meant to show off how the Internet is useful for letting people who don't even know each other work together to solve problems.
525.
by schoen 2y ago
For anyone who didn't get the joke, this is a reference to https://www.schneierfacts.com/facts/365 from the "Bruce Schneier Facts" series (which was inspired by the "Chuck Norris Facts").
526.
by schoen 2y ago
Sure, but all actual historical discoveries of Mersenne primes since the 1980s have been in strictly increasing size order, with no missed primes in between found in retrospect, and the successful exponents have increased gradually rather t
527.
by schoen 2y ago
If it was literally around "20+ years ago", like 2004 or slightly before, it might have been M40 or M41. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mersenne_primes_and_pe... If this happened the way you remember,
528.
by schoen 2y ago
I used to run the Cooperative Computing Awards, and I don't think this is the reason in this case. The most recent award was given out in 2009 for a prime over 10,000,000 digits in length. The next available award is for a prime over 1
529.
by schoen 2y ago
After writing the above comment, I watched videos of people playing conkers and now I understand how it could, in theory, cause an eye injury. It was hard for me to visualize how close the defender's conker is to the defender's bo
530.
by schoen 2y ago
I can't really visualize the amount of momentum involved, or how sharp the chestnut is. Is that specifically about eye injuries, or could it hurt someone some other way?
531.
by schoen 2y ago
What are the health and safety risks from this game? Do the chestnuts fragment violently when they break up?
532.
by schoen 2y ago
Even though the frequency survives the long trip, any changes in that frequency are observed only after a delay corresponding to the speed of light. Someone once pointed out that shadows (which aren't objects with a mass and position)
533.
by schoen 2y ago
What are the relative contributions of the total internal reflection property of the fiber optic cable and the particular low-attenuation material it's made of?
534.
by schoen 2y ago
Probably "don't fuss about Fußball" for the same reasons, right?
535.
by schoen 2y ago
You can read about it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurable_interest (I don't know if that will make you more sympathetic to the legal rule or not.)
536.
by schoen 2y ago
(1986)
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by schoen 2y ago
Usually when we have something like numbers (objects) and something like addition (an operation) we're accustomed to getting various rules that apply. For example, a + b = b + a Also, a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c These work for addition a
538.
by schoen 2y ago
> The CDN can't give you content you're asking for without knowing which content you're asking for. Maybe some PIR protocol can also eventually change this (if the users and Cloudflare don't mind the computational and
539.
by schoen 2y ago
So many times in Python when doing something related to a word game or puzzle I've written something like d = set(open("/usr/share/dict/words").read().split()) There's a lot of luxurious conven
540.
by schoen 2y ago
Another example: a relative of mine was on a trip last year and was almost in walking distance of a place I thought he might like to see. But it was on the other side of a border with tight controls and long lines, so it wouldn't have

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