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taejo
8y ago
While there are endless debates about manipulation , when it comes to actual capturing of images, the photographic community (in my experience) has a healthy dose of "the best camera is the one you're carrying" and "a g
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taejo
8y ago
> Is the amp in this article the same kind of amp that you could plug an electric guitar into? I'm no expert, but as far as I understand, this is a power amp, which takes an input at line level (~1 volt) up to a level that can power
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taejo
8y ago
The German pronunciation would be pretty close to "zooza", so the pronunciation in that video isn't German, and a German accent would hinder you from pronouncing it that way (in German you can't have the /s/ so
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taejo
8y ago
Fine, then pen and paper ballots.
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8y ago
My "many" exactly meant to exclude the commutative case :)
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taejo
8y ago
Almost: Helvetica is a typeface family, Helvetica Bold Italic is a typeface, Helvetica Bold Italic 10pt is a font (or rather, the font is a case full of bits of metal with Helvetica Bold Italic 10pt)
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taejo
8y ago
Does this mean that many Monads have two possible Applicative instances? For the two orders of "running" mf and ma?
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8y ago
Thanks. In South Africa "waitron" is standard, and I hate it, and most people from outside the country just have a "wut" reaction. "Server" is much better.
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taejo
8y ago
Newspaper subscribers still see ads... that's the whole point of this discussion.
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taejo
8y ago
But if all the people who can afford to buy stuff buy "no ads", then there won't be a free/ads option at all, because advertisers are only interested in the people who can afford to buy stuff, who don't see the ads.
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8y ago
That's only true if you take a pretty arcane definition of 1 and 2, BTW. In modern axiomatizations of mathematics, as well as Peano's 19th-century axiomatization of arithmetic, the definitions of 1 and 2 are simpler, and the proof
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Presumably if the Swedish tax authority called you, they'd speak to you in Swedish, and you'd be suspicious if they couldn't. So if you wanted to run this scam on Swedish targets, you'd need to find a bunch of Swedish sp
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> Am I expected to look at every one of those dialogs and figure out what I have to click to "customize" my tracking? Most of the sites you're talking about are probably in violation of the GDPR. They're hoping that
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8y ago
Our product occasionally does this at the moment. We've set up asserts in our application to launch a "phone-home" process (on the theory that launching a new process is more likely to succeed than trying to phone home from t
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Or somewhere in between: most people like something about you, so in a context where compliments are called for they can make a genuine one, even if they don't feel that great about you overall.
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taejo
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Are you sure? The first result I found on Google was https://www.lhr-law.de/magazin/sportrecht/schwarzmarkt-recht... 8. Darf ich die Karte teurer als zum Normalpreis verkaufen? Ja, der Weiterverkauf von Karten zu
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> I only label people that I've met and that knew I was taking their picture. Since you don't say it, one infers that you didn't have their permission to tell Google who and where they were, and that you met them.
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taejo
8y ago
And much more generally, "numbers divisble by n written base b " is a regular language decidable by an n -state DFA (and thus in linear time, looking at each digit exactly once). And see https://blog.plover.com/
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8y ago
I think you meant template<class T> struct hash< T* >
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> that the only reason we teach our kids not to swear is because we want them to remain cute I disagree with that. For swearing to be useful as swearing, it must be taboo. Avoiding it in certain places and teaching children not to do i
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Mathematics isn't a great place to find the actual meaning of words, either, if by actual meaning you mean the meaning understood by the general native-speaking population.
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US voters have probably an order of magnitude more elections than other democracies. I'm a dual citizen: in my other country, every five years I can vote on two ballots (to choose a party list for national government and one for region
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8y ago
That's not single-spaced, but it is better than code font and formatting.
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> immediately before the start of the corresponding day A month ends at the end of a day, regardless of the length of that day or any other day during the month.
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> even Asterix gets published in Mirandese Asterix seems to be a favourite for minority languages. There are seventy Asterix albums published in German regional dialects: https://www.asterix.com/de/die-buecher/d
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8y ago
> if you replace it with new wood it will still store carbon. Good point, although you need to be sure you aren't counting the wood you replace it with as more carbon storage. Every wooden house essentially provides a fixed amount
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Building houses is great, but if you're growing the trees in order to sequestrate carbon , you'd better be reasonably sure a decent proportion of the wood doesn't release it's carbon within the next fifty years. I don&#
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Oh yes, they do seem to be confused! espeed, if you happen to read this, the brachistochrone is the fastest path for something accelerated by a constant force (e.g. gravity near the surface of the earth).
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"Oh cool, they made an album cover from that t-shirt."
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You can solve the brachistochrone problem using Fermat's principle, as shown in the 3blue1brown video GP is referring to. Since you're looking for the shortest time, if you can construct a lens where the speed of light is proporti
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