swimfar

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by swimfar 6y ago
It's not a fact of life, it's due to poorly made screwdrivers/bits. Unfortunately, it's getting more difficult to find, or at least be certain of the quality of tools. You can only really know that it's a good too
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by swimfar 6y ago
University has a kind of "y" sound, like the word "yes", which isn't considered a vowel sound.
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by swimfar 6y ago
"One thing to note is that there is no universally agreed upon convention for denoting math objects." This is the thing that trips me up most often. It's especially a problem when the author believes that their notation and v
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by swimfar 6y ago
I never realized that was Lewis Carroll. If you want to hear someone else pronounce it, Donovan made a song out of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnqK-1CPxLk
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by swimfar 6y ago
This sounds like a better idea than flying with AR-15 parts. Less likely to scare people, and less likely to raise flags or get put on some list.
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by swimfar 6y ago
That's a funny hack. However, this looks like conflicting advice: "Only the passenger should retain the key or combination to the lock unless TSA personnel request the key to open the firearm container to ensure compliance with T
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by swimfar 6y ago
You do have to answer some questions and wait for approval before Robinhood will let you trade options. It's not available by default.
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by swimfar 6y ago
There are a number of these types of collegiate competitions in China. A student was telling me about one he was working on where you had to optimize missile trajectories to avoid radar detection.
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by swimfar 6y ago
"But in the US, usually you have to do masters-PhD in one institution, even if you already have a masters" That is definitely field specific. I think physics often bundles masters/PhD together. And maybe there others too.
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by swimfar 6y ago
BJJ=Brazilian Jujitsu
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by swimfar 6y ago
Mine too! (Updgraded from a monochrome Nokia a couple years ago) Although the battery isn't so great anymore. And reception is bad in certain places, I'm assuming due to the limited spectrums it can use. I haven't found any
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by swimfar 6y ago
Are you doing something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD9CIQ7ynOc I heard about it recently and want to try it out next time I get a basil plant.
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by swimfar 6y ago
Given the choice between a publicized $1.2M lottery win and a secret $1M lottery win, I wouldn't hesitate to chose the $1M prize.
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by swimfar 6y ago
True, but I doubt that banning this one very specific cheese (that is much less known than Roquefort in the US) is due to trade negotiations. Even the German mite cheese is supposedly in kind of a legal grey area in the EU.
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by swimfar 6y ago
Not all raw milk cheese is banned. Raw milk cheeses that have been aged less than 60 days are not allowed in the US and Canada(excluding Quebec). You can buy raw milk cheese in most supermarkets in the US.
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by swimfar 6y ago
In Germany there is a cheese called Milbenkäse (mite cheese) that contains live mites inside the cheese, not just on the rind. They contain hundreds of thousands of them per cheese block. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M
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by swimfar 6y ago
"the Burn" = Burning Man (2011)
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by swimfar 6y ago
We can't predict how one person will react to a situation. But sometimes we can estimate, on average, how a large group of people will react. Even a lot of engineering deals with similar types of uncertainty. We build huge structures
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by swimfar 6y ago
"New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27", and "The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average."
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by swimfar 6y ago
SpaceX Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZsnKGV8TE Docking begins to occur around 3:10PM GMT in the video. This link may send you to that point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZsnKGV8TE&
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by swimfar 6y ago
Note that it uses (only) images created by machine learning which are then edited together in After Effects. I don't think we're at the point yet where ML could spit out a completed video. I still thought it was cool. I also fou
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Lessons From My Nightmares – surreal short film about anxiety created by ML(youtube.com)
1 points by swimfar 6y ago|1 comments
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by swimfar 6y ago
A 2015 Time Magazine article cited Jackson as the highest-paid college president ... for a stunning $7.1 million in total. That works out to more than $1,000 per student at her school ".
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by swimfar 6y ago
Here's a version with English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGdLtVt8AUM
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by swimfar 6y ago
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23266209
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by swimfar 6y ago
I tracked every single expenditure in GnuCash for a year, mostly out of curiosity. But in general I don't worry too much about budgeting because I'm naturally a bit frugal. However, I do a yearly summary of assets in order to tr
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by swimfar 6y ago
I'm sure European governments love all the press that the US gets for this kind of stuff because it draws attention away from them. A lot of Europeans seem to know more about wiretapping in the US than in their own country. A 5 minute
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by swimfar 6y ago
I had never heard of this idea before. Do you have any references to this technique? Also, depending on what equations you're using, aren't you constrained to using a consistent system of units?
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by swimfar 6y ago
I agree, but at the same time, it could also introduce a bias and prejudice into your perception of the article. This would be especially true if you already had strong feelings and opinions about the author. Maybe the ideal way would be
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by swimfar 6y ago
LWSP=Linear White Space "Linear white space is: any number of spaces or horizontal tabs, and also newline (CRLF) if it is followed by at least one space or horizontal tab." [1] I don't know what LWSP gobbling is, though. Goo

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