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by taejo 8y ago
> for a Stirling engine, a few percent would be considered excellent efficiency. Wikipedia says "Stirling engines have a high efficiency compared to internal combustion engines, being able to reach 50% efficiency," which seems
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by taejo 8y ago
I think megaman22 is saying they don't want to become a SaaS, for exactly the reason you say.
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by taejo 9y ago
> "at a given instant in time, only ~10% of your neurons are firing". At any given instant in time, your computer is using less than 50% of its RAM: more than half of the bits are off!
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by taejo 9y ago
> Up until then we were supposed to learn to read by reading. It was the big thing then: learn to read the same way we learned to speak: by doing it. It worked for lots of kids. Not for me. My impression is that it's pretty much set
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by taejo 9y ago
Yeah, I think that would be clear even if I didn't speak German, which I do. I'm curious what their semantics are / what they're for.
576.
by taejo 9y ago
What are Strukturindizes?
577.
by taejo 9y ago
Hopefully just one :)
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by taejo 9y ago
AFAIK that is already illegal in the EU, and certainly will be under the GDPR.
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by taejo 9y ago
My understanding is that she'd like to treat a new machine "on its own terms" -- but modern machines are too complex. AmigaBASIC and Amiga C address the machine's native capabilities. A bit of retro-brite and a few spare
580.
by taejo 9y ago
You wrote: > it also applies to any operator or function. I understand what you mean (that anticommutativity is a property that any binary operator might have) but it did sound like you meant all operators are anticommutative.
581.
by taejo 9y ago
Whitespace overloading was an April Fools' joke
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by taejo 9y ago
And now you can't do it in C++ any more because you can overload operator->
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by taejo 9y ago
It is absolutely possible to operate a Project Gutenberg- like service accessible in Germany. It would just have to serve books in the German public domain, just like the original PG serves books in the US public domain. Project Gutenberg
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by taejo 9y ago
In German, it's necessary to clarify in some way that job positions are open to both men and women, since most job titles are gendered. In English, Engineer and Developer, and almost all other job titles are not (waiter/waitress a
585.
by taejo 9y ago
You've made the exact mistake the article is talking about. You're weighting all blocks equally, but at any moment the current block is more likely to be one that was the current block for a long time.
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by taejo 9y ago
> And even these algorithms can help asymptotic complexity Is this a theorem or conjecture?
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by taejo 9y ago
"Fine" as in the syntax of English allows both. "Like that" in that yes, human language is incessantly, pervasively ambiguous. Most utterances are technically ambiguous. In this case your suggestion certainly is cleare
588.
by taejo 9y ago
The cake is too pretty to eat. The child is too full to eat. Both are fine. Human language is like that.
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by taejo 9y ago
Regions 1 and 5-9 are now part of Poland rather than East Germany, and once you remove them the pattern is a lot less clear.
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by taejo 9y ago
Eeww, yoghurt. Fermented dairy products may be more popular in Europe than the US, but not hugely so
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by taejo 9y ago
OK, I'll concede that on length measures between one inch and one fathom, customary measurements might have an intuition advantage (and indeed, I've been known to measure things with my own feet before converting to metres). Once
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by taejo 9y ago
What about customary measurements was more intuitive than metric?
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by taejo 9y ago
> There are even people that will argue that shellfish are suitable for vegans to eat: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2010/04/consider_the... "Vegans should eat oysters" is not
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by taejo 9y ago
Dutch pronounces <r> in the same way in some contexts (before another consonant or at the end of words) and the first time you hear it you might have a moment of confusion, thinking people are speaking English but you just can't
595.
by taejo 9y ago
I'd like to add The Lathe of Heaven to those two.
596.
by taejo 9y ago
The same is true of the diagrams in IKEA instructions, but that doesn't mean that the human brain works with them in the same way as it works with human languages.
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by taejo 9y ago
Unfortunately I don't have a source, but as I understand it, there are three important factors for effective punishment (as a deterrent and to prevent recurrence). Namely, that punishment should be certain, immediate, and proportionate
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by taejo 9y ago
Kind of strange that this refers to "Sinitic" contrasting to "Min Nan" when Min Nan is a Sinitic language.
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by taejo 9y ago
It looks like the author's first language may be Dutch, where carbon monoxide is "koolmonoxid" and "kool" can mean both "coal" and "carbon" (although there are more specific words for coal such a
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by taejo 9y ago
And some countries manage to achieve proportional representation while still giving each district their own choice of representative (e.g. Mixed-Member Proportional Representation in Germany and New Zealand).

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