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by twic 2y ago
I want a mouse with a button that automatically headshots in FPSs.
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by twic 3y ago
> Edgeworthia gardneri (common names: Indian papertree,[2] Nepalese paperbush;[2] Nepali: अर्गेली (Argelee))[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworthia_gardneri
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by twic 3y ago
Or make the default some sort of sentinel, and resolve it to a real default in the method.
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by twic 3y ago
Okay firstly, how are they getting fusion? You need a lot of energy to overcome the Coulomb barrier for boron - apparently at least 148 keV [1]. For a proton to have that much kinetic energy it needs to be going at 5340 km/s [2]. &quot
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by twic 3y ago
Is there any a priori reason to pay attention to this? Is this company known for its excellent engineering? Or are they just another bunch of opinionated nerds?
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by twic 3y ago
No, in Java, this is true for reference types in general. The method receiving the pointer can mutate the object, but it can't change which object the original variable points to. This is also true when passing a pointer variable by va
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by twic 3y ago
No, Java really is pass by value. You can rely on this in Java: String s = "hello"; foo(s); assert s == "hello"; In C++, if the function takes a non-const reference, you can't. Yes, Java always passes poi
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Setts, Cubes and Cobbles(pavingexpert.com)
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by twic 3y ago
1987-05-05 is "8th wedding anniversary". So the author was introduced to Liz on 1978-01-21, and married someone on 1979-05-05. It's possible that's Liz, but that's fairly quick, even for the 70s.
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by twic 3y ago
It looks like the author went to Wales for the Eisteddfod in 1982, which suggests some degree of interest in Celtic traditions. Also, the 1st of January is described as "civil new year", which implies there's some other new y
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by twic 3y ago
Heat pumps here heat water. In a new build with a heat pump from the start, or a big refurb, the hot water is used for underfloor heating. In a smaller refurb, or where that's not possible, it's used in radiators, although I think
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by twic 3y ago
My views are coloured by the fact that i live in the UK, where almost no houses have air conditioning.
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by twic 3y ago
By boiler i mean the big box on the wall in the kitchen which burns natural gas to heat water. This may be a UK specific usage.
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by twic 3y ago
Heat pumps are obviously great in many ways. But fitting one is a big deal - they are quite expensive, they take a lot of work to fit, really require extensive additional insulation, and there are all sorts of caveats to them that mean they
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by twic 3y ago
Indeed! That was almost a decade before the founding of Nintendo, absurd.
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by twic 3y ago
That was partly a hiring decision - most of the muppets themselves were alumni of the Royal Shakespeare Company of course.
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by twic 3y ago
Backticks are going in the right direction, but not quite it. I want to operate on lists (or iterables etc), not strings, so i have all the usual safe and convenient facilities of the language available to build them. I want to get an objec
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by twic 3y ago
I have written a lot of bash. When you know what you're doing it's very productive. But it still feels like walking a tightrope, where some corner case in quoting, interpolation, comparison, etc will one day rm -rf / you. Wha
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by twic 3y ago
That's a really interesting comparison. I think brunost has a lot of flavours that are nothing like Marmite - it's creamy, it's sweet, and it's a bit sour. But they are certainly similar in that they have a sort of conce
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by twic 3y ago
I've come to think of miso paste as a distant cousin of the Marmite family. Less salty, less acrid, still packed with umami, and with much more discernible flavour. A more civilised cousin, really. Although it's not traditional, y
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by twic 3y ago
The Irish are the Icelanders? The Finns are ... South Africans?!
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by twic 3y ago
I recall that one year, they did a Marmite made from Champagne years for Valentine's day. I vaguely remember that it was quite a bit milder than normal Marmite.
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by twic 3y ago
My dad had some American friends come to stay once, with similar assumptions, and a similar lesson.
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by twic 3y ago
This is new to me: 2025-01-28 Brownout Read more about the Brownout schedule below. 2025-02-28 Blackout Service terminated. All data deleted. Brownout schedule First week 1 hour down each day Second&#x2F
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by twic 3y ago
> It is easy to fit formulas to the first six terms, in a million different ways, but none of them are of any interest (the seventh term can be chosen to be any number you wish). - N. J. A. Sloane, Oct 22 2017 A microcosm for the "p
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by twic 3y ago
This is what I do. I don't actually roll the duvet up, just do a rough concertina fold
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by twic 3y ago
Did something like and unlike this a while ago. Payment processing system, multiple microservices written in Java on a cloud platform. Tool runs on a developer machine, uses the cloud tools to SSH into a running container and run jdb. It ca
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by twic 3y ago
Oh, so Tancred in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tancred
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by twic 3y ago
I believe he developed the idea with another researcher, Diederik Loerakker, aka Protolambda, who contributed the other part of the name: https://ethereum.org/en/roadmap/danksharding/
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by twic 3y ago
Unfortunately not, there is no wind in space.

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