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by taejo 7y ago
There's boost::intrusive::list which IME actually works quite well. There is a node type which elements derive from or contain, so you can get an iterator from an element, as well as the other way round. To include an element in multip
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by taejo 7y ago
Pragmatically, neither of them is a question: they are more and less polite requests (or a request and an order). Your daughter is perceptive enough to have worked this out; probably you did too, but at some point decided to override your
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by taejo 7y ago
And not just before 1945: lead is used for radiation shielding, but freshly-mined lead is slightly radioactive itself... shipments of lead that were mined 2000 years ago and sitting at the bottom of the Mediterranean since then, much less s
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by taejo 7y ago
Not at all. But maybe an app which asks potential dates to swipe left or right having just seen your height is not the best venue for short men.
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At least to some extent, dating sites have made the opposite. The more people know about each other, the greater the variance in their assessments of each others' attractiveness. ISTR a study that showed that the less people know eac
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by taejo 7y ago
"the agency naively relies on generic manufacturers to submit truthful data." - yes, but also the non-generics, and the FAA does the same with airplanes and the FCC does the same with telecoms, and, and, ...
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by taejo 7y ago
The United States Constitution wasn't even the first constitutive document of the United States! It was very much informed by the experiences, not only of other countries, but also very much of the Articles of Confederation.
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by taejo 7y ago
A practical implementation of Earley parsing, with some cool features, is Marpa [1]. In particular it is practical in that it parses in linear time * all the grammar classes that recursive descent parses * the grammar class that the yacc fa
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by taejo 7y ago
AIUI from that article, clock-face scheduling is just scheduling with consistent intervals of a unit fraction of one hour (or possibly a multiple of one hour) so that trains always arrive and depart at the same number of minutes past the ho
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by taejo 7y ago
It always seemed to me that the long pauses between "man... one... giant leap" are consistent with him realising that he made a mistake (dropped the word "a"), and then deciding to just go ahead.
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by taejo 7y ago
Presumably at some point advertisers aren't willing to pay for out-of-date plugs, at which point it might become profitable to cut out the plug and replace it with other ads dynamically.
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by taejo 7y ago
Excuse my mistake, the McMoneybags Museum is not in a wing of Richie's house but down the road, and it's open not once but twice a year (or by appointment). https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/busines
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by taejo 7y ago
This doesn't match what German Wikipedia says: Der Micro-USB-Standard bezeichnet eine Regelung auf Basis des USB-Standards, nach der ab 2011 die Steckverbinder für die Stromversorgung von Mobiltelefonen und anderen elektronischen Gerä
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by taejo 7y ago
It's possible, as someone used to high-involvement style, to converse in a way that's less hostile to the higher-considerateness speakers in the group. For example, if you start talking and notice that somebody has abruptly stoppe
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by taejo 7y ago
If Richie McMoneybags was going to buy a million-dollar painting, but instead decides to donate those million dollars to the McMoneybags Museum of Million-Dollar Art That Richie Wanted to Buy Anyway (that's in a wing of Richie's h
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by taejo 7y ago
It probably varies from city to city, but I always assumed that the reason car-sharing drivers are worse than others on average is just because they get less practice, are more likely to have learned to drive in a different country (with di
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by taejo 7y ago
My perception of Electroboom is that he makes it blindingly obvious why you shouldn't blindly copy him: as you say, he shocks himself in almost every episode. To me, at least, the message is that if you try to do what he does, you&#x27
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by taejo 7y ago
In South Africa it's called a stokvel (apparently the term is derived from the phrase "stock fair"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokvel
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by taejo 7y ago
Is the fifth error that there are only four errors?
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by taejo 7y ago
The illustrations from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection are at least partly digitized and are available on Wikimedia Commons at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:USDA_Pomological...
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by taejo 7y ago
> This is the only language I know of that uses None In the ML family the empty alternative of the `Option` type is called `None`; in Haskell corresponding `Maybe` type has `Nothing`.
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by taejo 7y ago
BTW, there is an English expression exactly corresponding to Hundstage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_days Apparently it originates in Latin so it's no surprise that it's shared between many European lang
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by taejo 7y ago
That's definitely part of it, but I think (and I also remember) that a part of it is that children have a well-developed sense of personal space and who they are close enough to for different types of contact, from a pretty young age,
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by taejo 7y ago
I guess they're referring to things like kids running away from distant relatives who want to kiss and hug them, which is definitely something that happens.
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It seems pretty clear that they do have insurance for accidental damage, and that's exactly where they're trying to hide the fact that they don't have insurance against fraudulent renters. The risk profile for fraud is ve
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> Based on this I believe that 'independence' means writing this off and declaring that Taiwan is not China but an independent "Republic of Taiwan" only. This is exactly what I mean by political declaration and name c
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As an outsider, what's the difference between the status quo and independence? The status quo is that Taiwan has its own government, miltary, economy and diplomatic relations: is independence just about making a political declaration a
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When I TA'ed in Germany, every classroom had a sink, a sponge and a squeegee, so you actually cleaned the board every time instead of smearing it. It was great.
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Duden agrees with you, btw: both parkieren and verzeigen are marked as Swiss. https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/parkieren https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/verzeigen
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by taejo 7y ago
Ah, that makes sense. If you want exclusively British pronunciations, you can choose that option. I think it's equally reasonable to say that "aluminum" is the US pronunciation of the single word "alumin(i)um", I wa

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