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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Well, that explains the horrible JPG quality.
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Sweden actually has a goal of zero traffic deaths overall. http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/02/ec...
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
This is actually more delicate than that. It is not possible to split a proton into its constituent quarks because quarks can never exist on their own. As far as we know they only appear in pairs or three at a time as in the proton. There i
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
I disagree with this. You're not normally in insert mode when using vim, you're in normal mode (the one vim starts in). This means that it really is / for searching, 1G to go to the top of the file, w to go one word forward,
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Is there anything wrong with the simple approach of just adding \<space> after the command? For example: \newcommand{\T}{Mike} \T\ is \T. Which will give you: Mike is Mike.
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Perry actually won the Ignobel price for this essay: http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2011 (you may have to scroll down a bit to see it)
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Forgot about the recent (mp) proposal. Maybe there will be a new debate on the length of a work day/week in time for the election then.
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Currently there is not much discussion about a general reduction of the work day to 6 hours in Sweden. If anything politicians are pushing for more work (though not longer days). Lower sick pay, later retirement and conversion of part time
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
"Work from home is almost common in the US and basically non-existent in Europe." It is not non-existent in Sweden. "Somehow socialists are always one step behind Mother Nature, i.e. free markets." The free market has no
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
I am fairly certain that trains do not need the slack between cars to get moving. Like others have pointed out, trains seem to be perfectly capable of starting on inclines where there would be no slack. There is one assumption in the articl
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
I cannot speak for gp but I use tiling window managers when I use Linux. Usually they do not work so well with desktop environments, or it to much effort to get them to work properly. The big advantage of tiling vms is that you always use t
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Left clicking works for me to activate as well.
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
> The global reach of the internet is at risk here. The Internet has up til now had a global reach and that may be at risk with recent developments. Individual services such as Netflix, Youtube or Spotify have not had a global reach and
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
I did like this. There is a certain elegance[1] to diagram based descriptions of mathematical/physical concepts. Another that is maybe more similar in that it removes a lot of dummy variables(indices in this case) is the Penrose graphi
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Europe is not on homogenous region. When applying for jobs in Sweden I have not had any problems using a PDF.
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Texmacs is quite nice actually. If you know emacs shortcuts and are willing to learn a few new Texmacs specific ones it is the fastest way I know to write mixed text and maths. When I tried last time a few years ago it was not as complete a
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
Same for me. Running Firefox on Windows 7.
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
I have tried downloading it again and it still looks bad when previewing the font. In Word it looks ok but I'm not sure if selecting Comic Neue and italics will use the oblique version or not? The oblique *.ttf files where last modifie
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
The oblique versions don't work on Windows(7). The letter shapes are severely deformed and the sizes are all over the place. Otherwise I think it could be a usable font (if not for the prevailing opinion about comic sans).
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
This is hilarious. This probably won't be, but should be the final entry in the series of 2048 clones. I guess that you could de-servicify it and create own2048, not that I know how it would differ from the original version...
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
Pretty cool! But the performance is too sluggish for there to be any 3d illusion on my 2013 nexus 7. With a more subtle effect and better response time it could work.
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
Lies, damned lies, and statistics! The differing quantities on the y axes of the graphs make them quite misleading. In particular between the first and tend second where the first is a relative increase and the second is in absolute income.
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
Vi Hart made an excellent series of videos related to plants and Fibonacci numbers. Here is the first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0 . Links to the other ones can be found in the description.
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
Very nice visualization. Reading these old proofs is quite tedious but having this visualization makes it much easier to follow. Still, trying to understand Euclid makes you thankful for the more than 2000 years of advancements in mathemati
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
It really depends on where you are in Sweden. Different regions have different public transport providers. Never thought I would defend Västtrafik(public transport in south west Sweden) but here I go. Their webpage http://www.vas
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
Of course, that's why I said it was a crude estimate. On the other hand, since the Tesla S is a quite high performance car, you could expect it to get into more accidents than the average car.
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
What I actually want to know is if you had the same number of other average cars driving the same distance as the Teslas, how many people could you expect to be killed in these cars. Here is my crude estimation. If we consider that there ar
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
"With a track record of zero deaths or serious, permanent injuries since our vehicles went into production six years ago, there is no safer car on the road than a Tesla." I don't doubt that the Tesla Model S is a very safe ca
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
Roller coaster design is one of the areas where you can actually use the 3rd time derivate of position, the jerk, to good effect. So the jerk is the change in acceleration over time. A typical motion with high jerk is when you are riding in
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by symmetricsaurus 13y ago
As others have said this game has nothing to do with physics except for the names of the tiles. If the progression followed particle masses it would make a tiny bit more sense but it doesn't. The neutrinos for example, are much lighter

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