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twanvl
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twanvl
9y ago
I don't know about blender; but many people use autodesk fusion 360 to do CAD/CAM for 3D printing. It is free for personal use, and easy to learn.
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9y ago
The title of the page you link to is "Weightlifting Increases Pressure Within The Eye". That is not at all the same thing as it being overall bad for you. The worst thing mentioned in the article is "Prolonged weightlifting c
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9y ago
Before the internet, publishers actually printed journals on actual paper. This cost a lot of money, and it makes sense that universities payed for subscriptions to physical journals. Today, the cost of these subscriptions hasn't chang
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9y ago
> The problem is the contrast ratios. The contrast between 0% black and 100% white on a good screen is so high, it physically causes pain, even migraines. Maybe that means you need to turn down your screen's brightness.
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10y ago
There are many different ways to encode lists. You are using the Church encoding, where a value is a fold, nil = λn.λc.n cons = λx.λxs.λn.λc.c x (xs n c) fold = λf.λz.λxs.xs z f Another option is the Scott encoding, where a
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10y ago
The standard data structure to look for in this case is the disjoint-set data structure (also called union-find), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjoint-set_data_structure . That should make your function fairly easy to
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10y ago
An efficient binary encoding is not necessary. Just use HTML, which has existed for over 20 years.
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10y ago
MSG sounds like a scary chemical, while sugar does not. Maybe we should call it a sucrose tax instead?
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10y ago
> While you can do pointer arithmatic there will be null pointers There is no reason why the concept of a null pointer has to exist. If there were no special null pointers it would be perfectly okay for the operating system to actually a
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10y ago
Bayesian and frequentist approaches ultimately have a different notion of probability. In the frequentist approach, a probability of 10% means that if you repeat an experiment many times, roughly 1 out of 10 times you will observe an event.
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11y ago
> The real blame lies with government. why did the US govt fail to properly test a car made by a foreign company ? What does VW being foreign have to do with it? Are US companies inherently more trustworthy? You should ask "Why did
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11y ago
You don't need to compute the challenge in N nanoseconds. Instead, the car could send a challenge, the key can compute it in however much time it likes. Then the car sends a one time pad, the key receives it and xors the otp with the c