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by twic 2y ago
Similar to an unrolled linked list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrolled_linked_list But you size the nodes dynamically, rather than using a fixed size.
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After posting that comment, i went to our office kitchen, and got a green apple and a mini babybel, and did much the same.
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Good point about having it with cheese. The anonymous melonomist of the Orange Pippin website [1] also points out that it's good in salads. [1] https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/granny-smith
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I thought they only customers for green apples here were office catering managers who didn't actually have to eat the horrid things and just wanted an aesthetically pleasing display. But according to your first article: > But he war
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> The characters ○金 and ○ビ were invented by the author Kazuhiro Watanabe in 1984 in his book Kinkonkan. These were quickly accepted into Japanese vocabulary, and they won a buzzword award at the time. And they are right there in the Shar
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by twic 2y ago
That is an absolutely mental stance - effective asserting that he knows better than both the developers and users of a piece of software what features it should have! Promote this man to the Debian technical committee immediately, he's
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by twic 2y ago
For anyone in or near London, the RCA degree show is worth a visit: https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/rca2024/ Lots of really interesting work across a huge range of disciplines, from industrial de
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In fact, Google should prosecute the US government.
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Where i work, there is a lot of NIH wheel-reinvention. People make exactly these arguments for it. I think it's mostly nonsense.
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I wonder if they might be more common than you think. You will never see someone standing up at a conference and describing this setup, but there are millions of machines out there quietly doing work which are run by people who do not speak
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FWIW, Mercurial has this, and calls it changeset evolution: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/
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And how did a portfolio of randomly selected dot-coms of that vintage do in comparison?
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If you're buying dot-coms in 1999, you absolutely have 99x as many losers as winners.
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by twic 2y ago
IF you'd bought an S&P 500 tracker, you would have more than quadrupled your money.
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There is a novel in the form of a Choose Your Own Adventure book called Life's Lottery, by Kim Newman [1]. It follows a character from birth to adulthood, with the reader constantly making decisions which will shape his life. Things ca
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by twic 2y ago
I found a paper which measured the energy of the transition [0], but it doesn't talk about why it's so low. Might be a starting point if you have more time to read than i do, though! EDIT Hmm [1]: > Interestingly, the existence
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by twic 2y ago
Also, even if there was some advantage to doing so, i'm not sure how animals could see a wavelength that short. They would need a photoreceptor protein which can absorb photons of that wavelength and turn them into some sort of chemica
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Even better, Thorsten = Thor's stone!
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I found an old applet of mine from the late '90s, and tried running it. Crashed with a NullPointerException from deep inside AWT. My guess is that there is now some setup that needs to be done that didn't at the time.
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Streams had a pretty huge impact on how a lot of people write code. Also, lambdas came in in 8, not 9. Streams without lambdas would have been pretty painful!
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It's been standard practice for a very long time to use the Gradle wrapper, which fixes the Gradle version, so there really shouldn't be a problem building an old project. Making changes to one is indeed fraught.
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That's what i'm saying. The frequency with which the site just loses the plot and fails to load, or fails to carry out some action or other, is orders of magnitude higher than anything else i use.
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I'm not sure i'd cite Reddit as a positive example of such a thing.
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Yep, phone camera technology has been deliberately held back by Majestic 12 to prevent evidence of their activities being collected.
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> Imagine trading pork belly futures but the typical pig doubled in size every six months. My gut feeling is that a lot of traders would relish the excitement of that.
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Those glide bombs have a range of about 40 miles. If a target has good air defence with a range of more than 40 miles, it's safe, and if it doesn't, it's not. Air defences with that sort of range include, first and foremost,
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Another article, which mentions other distilleries: https://www.cntraveller.in/story/rajasthans-heritage-liqueur... And helpfully compares this stuff to amaro. So, where can i buy it? Neither Whisky Exchange nor Gerry&
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Shoot down the planes before they drop them. Commentary on this recent trend usually attributes it to weak Ukrainian air defences, for example in this article: > Russia’s air force appears to have been a key player in turning the tide of
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Agreed. The only thing i have against Kavrayskiy VII is that i learned about it from the XKCD about map projections, which makes me feel like a complete fraud.
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Is it more transparent than other metals? How transparent is a 200 nm film of iron or aluminium?

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