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taejo
3y ago
Nobody's ever in urgent need of an anti-abortion.
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taejo
3y ago
And via Parikh's theorem, with a one-symbol alphabet, regular and context-free languages are the same.
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taejo
3y ago
I see what you see but I'm not sure whether it's a real effect or just an artifact of the photography. There must be some adjustment of exposure to have both the daytime and the nighttime well exposed, so it may just be the changi
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taejo
3y ago
Yes, I think those are the two Magellanic Clouds visible to the right of the center of the image.
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taejo
3y ago
The linked source names the mount used, the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer, but yes, you could replicate this in post, except that the frames have exposure times of up to 45 seconds, which would give star trails within individual frames.
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taejo
3y ago
An equatorial mount keeps the camera pointing in a fixed celestial direction by rotating at the same rate as the Earth in the plane of the equator. It's essential for any long exposure of the sky where you don't want star trails,
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taejo
3y ago
But the fee that the GEZ used to collect (the Rundfunkbeitrag) does still exist and that's what a lot of people call it even the entity that collects it has a different name now, which doesn't make a difference to its effect. I
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3y ago
> However it looks like Esperanto also has “liva”. Turnu liven tuj post la angulo ~= Turn left immediately after the corner. If you wanted to be understood, it'd be better to say maldekstren though. I'd never heard of liv- ,
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3y ago
Esperanto dekstra only means right, the direction/side, though, and so maldekstra only means left, the direction/side.
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3y ago
To get into a medical trial you a) know it's a trial b) get informed that you might get a placebo c) consent to participate in the trial. If a pharmaceutical company was discovered filling 30% of pill bottles they sent to pharmacies wi
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taejo
3y ago
AIUI tinnitus is the name of the symptom, not a specific disease, and it's still tinnitus whether it occurs occasionally, frequently, or constantly.
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taejo
4y ago
A parser for Things is a function from Strings to lists of pairs of Strings and Things.
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taejo
4y ago
No. Three strikes means you're out on the third strike, not the fourth.
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4y ago
Looks like it's what's called Erdnussflips in Germany
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4y ago
The usual thing in this case is to call it the 7th highest-scoring word (but call all of those above it the highest-scoring)
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4y ago
> to always hang up and call my number She needs to be sure to do this before saving "your new" number. I've read reports where even after the adult child has discovered the scam and explained it to their parent, the p
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taejo
4y ago
The South African rand was indeed also introduced as half a pound in 1961 (technically half a South African pound, but that had been equal to the pound sterling except 1931-1933)
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taejo
4y ago
Except in Kyoto, where the streets do have names (I'm not sure if they're used in addresses, though). And Mannheim in Germany is kind of Kyoto's mirror image: in a country of named streets, Mannheim has numbered blocks.
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taejo
4y ago
My grandparents had something very similar on cassette... no tidbits even, just, "1234, Greater Spotted Swallow [birdcall]" (the numbers referring to an accompanying book). My sister and I must have spent listened to those two tap
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taejo
4y ago
Everything I see has a "uni" wordmark for the pencil company. However, AIUI mitsubishi more or less means "three rhombi" -- the companies are both named after the same family crest.
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taejo
4y ago
It's kind of weird: looking at the board in the article as a Go player, I would say the game is over and white won. But they're using a ruleset (Tromp-Taylor) which is commonly used in computer Go but almost never between humans,
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In this case (IIRC) two service providers went to court and the law was put out of force for them, at which point the federal agency in charge of enforcing it decided not to do so until the matter was resolved by the highest court. So in so
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As a kid who chronically forgot to bring her calculator to school for about 12 years straight, I can now do long division well enough that I sometimes do it rather than get up to fetch my phone from the other room. It's also how I do d
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5y ago
From the article: > The rings must be nested. The innermost ring must have a ding. No region can have more than one ding. Those are the only rules. According to these rules the intermediate results are not valid numbers
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taejo
5y ago
To expand on that for those that don't know, traditionally all font sizes had names, like Great Primer for 18 pt, Ruby for 5.5 pt, and many others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_point-size_names
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5y ago
Aren't the boundaries of time zones federally defined? Does this bill change that? My understanding previously was that the only choice states had was between summer DST and year-round standard time. Otherwise California could have swi
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5y ago
In most jurisdictions the DST rules and timezone offset change rarely. In some jurisdictions, they change more frequently. Over the whole world, they change often (dozens of times per year).
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Orwell is also good on pubs: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
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5y ago
Warm, honey-like, slightly earthy, very slightly spicy
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5y ago
> One strategy which is obviously optimal is to use minimax (recursively, not like Knuth's Mastermind strategy which was mentioned by @christiangenco), however this strategy is not computationally feasible. With some restrictions it
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