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by tgb 6y ago
Some of those do seem to be claiming to contain X-rays but others, like the golf balls, just seem to be using it as a brand name. I don't see the problem with that: we don't complain about the lack of snakes in Python. The "c
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by tgb 6y ago
Really? I can't tell what accuracy a good theodolite gets, but this consumer device [1] claims 3/16ths of an inch at 30ft. Obviously that won't scale to 1km distance like they're doing in this, a professional one seems c
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by tgb 6y ago
It sounds like it would more be used for relative elevation differences. Is GNSS the gold-standard for that? I'd have thought you could do better with a laser and a level.
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by tgb 6y ago
What are you quoting? I can't find that in the article linked here and I don't understand what it's saying. Surely Rust didn't cap arrays at length 32?
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by tgb 6y ago
Does anyone use SQLite as their daily-driver in lieu of R or pandas for data analysis? I don't think I can use the sqlite command-line since I'd want a fully-developed plotting utility, and it seems less convenient to do the actua
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by tgb 6y ago
I want this on a simpler scale: an external drive that has a physical switch. In normal operation the switch is in "append only" mode and the drive ensures that nothing can be erased. Only when the switch is temporarily hit to a &
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by tgb 6y ago
p-adic is quite different though. It's not really that relevant to this conversation though as far as I can tell as it's not just about representing the integers or rationals in a different way. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by tgb 6y ago
It's not universal on Windows: for example it doesn't work in MS Word. The place I'd want it the most! Ctrl+Shift+V does nothing at all there. It's Alt-HVT for this in Word (duh). But you can set the default to be no-for
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by tgb 6y ago
This is a cute solution but I feel like the exposition makes it more mysterious seeming then necessary. If you have n%15, that's enough to do FizzBuzz on it's own, without having to take a fourth power. It's just then you nee
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by tgb 6y ago
> That answers itself - if someone doesn't believe in a threat, it doesn't make sense to invest in stopping it. But you're the one claiming they're not anti-environmentalism! This is literally what anti-environmenta
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by tgb 6y ago
That works, thanks!
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by tgb 6y ago
Can you elaborate on this? It sounds like it would solve my "I can't open two files with the same name" problem too, but I hold down ALT and double-click my second file in explorer and I get the "Properties" dialogu
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by tgb 6y ago
I think the scenario for pasting formula is the same as for pasting values: paste what was there at the time of copying. Is there a situation where this doesn't make sense? I'd be fine with it being kinda-wrong in situations like
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by tgb 6y ago
Paste Values should paste the values that it had at the time of copying, period. Other programs behave thusly. If I'm making an image in Inkscape, I copy a portion, delete it and then paste it, I get the value I copied even though it h
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by tgb 6y ago
I hadn't used Excel in years and now that I do, there's some things about it that drive me nuts : - It forgets what you've copied to clipboard. Copy something. Insert another row so that there's space for it. Paste. Not
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by tgb 6y ago
This one does: > In Model 1, we estimated hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) adjusted for race, Townsend deprivation index [20], education, employment, smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical activity, and in women
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by tgb 6y ago
The video seems to show it "beating" the team without either using brooms, but both still playing a game. I.e. they all have stones in play at once and therefore there is theoretically strategy not just accuracy. Am I wrong? I don
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by tgb 6y ago
You're saying the US is the middle ground between Texas and Puerto Rico - both parts of the US? Maybe you need to be more specific about where you are referring to.
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by tgb 6y ago
I know that's what you're paying for, but I wonder what the marginal effects are. I.e. am I paying for a 100% renewable energy that otherwise would have been sold to a customer not on a renewable plan? If I use more of the 100% re
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by tgb 6y ago
You can but only under very arbitrary situations that aren't common in real life. And if you're assuming it's not hollow and has constant density, then I doubt there's any way to make such an iceberg except if you look
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by tgb 6y ago
The error messages in the readme look a lot better than what you'd get from doing a ad hoc solution. That's worth a fair amount.
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by tgb 6y ago
Of course I don't, but I guess the question is: would they have owed that much anyway? My thought was that the IRS just billed you what you should have payed already plus maybe some interest. So if you get a $10k bill, it's an unp
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by tgb 6y ago
What does "IRS going after" mean here? I've been filling my taxes by hand, and back when I used some "free" online thing, I had problems multiple times and the IRS basically just sent me a bill saying what I owed an
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by tgb 6y ago
You'll have a hard time convincing people that Bitcoin is OK by comparing it gold since most people who think Bitcoin is wasteful would also think mining of gold is very wasteful. Moreover, I feel like you're making the mistake yo
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by tgb 6y ago
Whether we lock them up or punish them afterwards is besides the point: in either case the "I'm genetically programmed this way" is not a defense that would (or should) fly when it comes to murder.
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by tgb 6y ago
There's also the other side: if someone is a homicidal psychopath due to their genetics, then I still do not want them to roam free. So genetically predetermined is not a good argument to use in favor of gay rights. People should be al
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by tgb 6y ago
Scientology literally has a business consulting front. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Management
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by tgb 6y ago
Your theory is, at best, completely orthogonal to event in the tweet. Dropping the medieval literature department is secretly a plot to produce activists who seize the means of production by purging quantitatively minded people? I would ser
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by tgb 6y ago
You're suggesting that the math department is out of line with the universities propaganda? Are you aware that they're also axing humanities departments? They're not axing applied science departments. Your "experiment&qu
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by tgb 6y ago
Interestingly, I was going to blame my inadequacies at Mario on having grown up only playing PC games and therefore relatively little in the way of platformers. I'm not sure there was a big-name platformer for PC was released in my ent

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