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by sebtron 2y ago
If you just care about finding any solution, you can consider a multi-step approach such as Thistlethwaithe's algorithm. If insead you want to find the shortest possible solution for any giveb configuration, that indeed is much harder!
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by sebtron 2y ago
I believe aggradire is an archaic form for aggradare , "to please". Gradire also means "to enjoy". The Italian word for "to aggress" is aggredire . Having studied both Italian and English literature in hi
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by sebtron 2y ago
Just curious, what does a "modern smart doorbell" do exactly?
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by sebtron 2y ago
I suppose you do not read books or watch movies either
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by sebtron 2y ago
Zig definitely has undefined behavior https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.13.0/#Undefined-Behavior
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by sebtron 2y ago
If you are interested in this topic, the author of pooltool[1], a billiards simulator, has a nice blog series about it [2]. [1] https://github.com/ekiefl/pooltool [2] https://ekiefl.github.io/projects&#
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by sebtron 2y ago
Yes, older phones would turn on to ring the alarm. At least the 3 I owned did, and they were all different brands.
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by sebtron 2y ago
In this case, a weird-ass website that immediately demands your personal data.
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by sebtron 2y ago
If you don't get to the end of the article you'll miss this gem: > If they don’t acknowledge their errors in my lifetime, I guess I’ll just get someone to pretend I’m still alive until that changes.
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by sebtron 2y ago
IMO this is likely to invalidates the whole thing. This NDA might entail paying a billion dollar fee monthly to Meta, for all we know (unlilely). Or allowing Meta to read all of their users messages (very likely).
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by sebtron 2y ago
I don't understand how this works. If I cross my eyes, the images become extremely blurry. I can't even tell if they are precisely overlapping or not, let alone see if one of the holds is out of place. Am I the only one?
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by sebtron 2y ago
> Howell said that same-sex partnerships are thought to be somewhat common among penguins, but what was different with Sphen and Magic was how they shared their duties as parents. > "They took their individual [turns] on the nest
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by sebtron 2y ago
In my experience, writing in a public channel gets slower responses, if any. Especially if nobody knows the exact solution to your problem. Some people don't have notifications enabled for group chats / public channels, and even i
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by sebtron 2y ago
I used to do the same train commute weekly for some time. Yes, it's terrible. But from what I have heard there was a direct high-speed connection until a few years ago. Allegedly this was suppressed because they could not reach an agre
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by sebtron 2y ago
Nice news, slow and steady grows in the past decade :) Regarding the article... > While Linux's growth is noteworthy, it's important to view it in the context of the overall desktop operating system market: > > Windows
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by sebtron 2y ago
Yes that's fine for me :)
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by sebtron 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toast_(computing)
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by sebtron 2y ago
For anyone as confused as I was, this article is not about toasted bread [1], but about a type of UI widget [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_(food) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.
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by sebtron 2y ago
What version of Android is this? When I install an apk I only get a single confirm / cancel popup. Also, as a sibling comment pointed out, there are third party app stores with all the comfort of the Play store (and far less adware):
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by sebtron 2y ago
GMaps is usable from a web browser, although definitely less performant than the native app.
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by sebtron 2y ago
Install it from F-Droid and live free of this monopolistic bullshit https://f-droid.org
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by sebtron 2y ago
Thanks, this is all completely new to me!
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by sebtron 2y ago
Can you give any example of an academic title being defaced by an ad placement? I doubt there was any "Zorba's Olive Oil Philosopher" in Plato's Academy.
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by sebtron 2y ago
As far as I understand yes, most people actually see something. At some point I figured out this "test" to explain aphantasia to people: ask someone to imagine a car. After that, ask them about visual details of the car: what colo
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by sebtron 2y ago
TV manufacturers will then detect this and remotely lock the user's TV for breaking their ToS.
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by sebtron 2y ago
Can't you just sync / backup your files?
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by sebtron 2y ago
> In other words, if you want to work backwards and say that smaller sets (like the natural numbers) are a subset of the bigger sets (like complex numbers), then you have to pick a “biggest set” containing all numbers, which is unsatisfa
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by sebtron 2y ago
I don't think it is a "funny" notion of inclusion, but rather that once ℚ is defined, ℤ is silently redefined to be that one subset of ℚ that was used in the construction.
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by sebtron 2y ago
Like any game or sport, millions of people do it for a variety of reasons: - The act itself is fun - Competing with others can be fun - Improving oneself in a measurable way is satisfying Many people like doing what they are good at, and no
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