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by wenc 3y ago
TeX converges to pi It's currently at version 3.141592653 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
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by wenc 3y ago
Antigen tests, on their box, usually say that if you test positive (there's enough virus to turn the strip, it's most likely correct. But if you test negative, it doesn't guarantee it's actually negative -- since there a
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by wenc 3y ago
I’m curious — I’ve been using DuckDB for 2 years now on large Parquet datasets and rarely encountered any fatal errors (and being C++ hasn’t seem to have been an issue in my experience) — what errors have you encountered and what data were
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by wenc 3y ago
Kinda does. Poulet (poultry)
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by wenc 3y ago
For passive investments, it’s partly the Law of Large Numbers at work. The key to exploiting LLN is to avoid “game over” scenarios. You have to survive and stay in the game in order for LLN to converge. If let’s say your expectation of win
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by wenc 3y ago
We work in our own ecological niches which sometimes entails having a specialized language that allows us to be precise when referring to things. I sometimes see HN comments complaining that acronyms and terms are dropped with no explanatio
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by wenc 3y ago
I own two pairs of AirPods Pro 2 with active noise canceling. It works amazing. Two pairs because each pair lasts 6 hours, and I swap them every 6 hours while the other pair is charging in the case. This gets me through a 10 hour work day w
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by wenc 3y ago
What about opposites that are complementary? My parents are as different as can be, yet somehow they work well together. Difference is not just difference. There are different kinds of differences.
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by wenc 3y ago
Location location location. I would pay $3500 if it meant I could live in NYC. (I'd rather pay less, of course)
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by wenc 3y ago
You can get holy basil at Mekong Market on Rainier. You definitely can't find it at Fred Meyer or Safeway or QFC; you can't even find it at Asian Family Mart. If there's a will, there's a way of course, but lack of easy
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by wenc 3y ago
Can you point me to a source for your $50/kWh number? My gut instinct is that it's orders of magnitude off. That's $50,000 / MWh. ERCOT wholesale prices in the Day Ahead market average around $30 / MWh, peaking at $
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by wenc 3y ago
Most Americans only know pad thai, but pad gaprao is where it's at, especially pad gaprao kai dao (with a fried egg that has a runny yolk). It's not that easy to replicate because of its main ingredient: holy basil. This is not no
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by wenc 3y ago
I have a copy of the combined La Méthode and La Technique. Although I don't have any special affinity for French cooking, Jacques Pepin got me into cooking because he showed me that method and technique was universal. His knife skills
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by wenc 3y ago
The article states that "the system’s maximum efficiency of 13.2 kWp (kilowatt peak) and ability to deliver 8,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) annually when operated in Sweden." Sweden's wholesale electricity prices is ~€32/MWh
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by wenc 3y ago
Absolutely.
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Exactly this. C# (and Java but I have less experience there) was designed for an IDE, otherwise one spends a lot of time editing metadata files). That's why to use C# productively, one essentially has to learn the IDE (VS or Rider). Bu
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by wenc 3y ago
I'm a minimalist so I don't have an EDC backpack, but when I travel I have a small manbag (tagged with an AirTag). 1. Umbrella 2. Sunglasses 3. Wipes 4. Anker battery 5. USB cables with different connectors (Micro-USB, Lightning)
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by wenc 3y ago
I just dump stuff in Google Docs. For backups from Google Docs (or cloud in general) to local, I use rclone. [1] But otherwise Google Docs works fine. [1] https://rclone.org/
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No that is not right at all. I won’t continue.
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> So what you’re actually saying now is that any inferred form of address may come across as rude, which means you original suggestion is plain incorrect: splitting given name and family name does not allow generating a genetically never
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> Are you or your people Asian? Yes. > I'm not sure how your personal ideas about rudeness are relevant here. Names matter.
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> Stuffy, Maybe, but rude? Calling people by their first name is rude. Calling people by forms of address which don’t exist is rude. For me and my people, it's perceived as rude (it sounds infantilizing). Just because you don't
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I would not do this. For reasons of respect, you may need to address a person by either their first or last name (with a title). Addressing a person by their full name can come across as rude (I personally find it rude too, e.g. "Hey J
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I wonder if it’s going to be live or streamed since it’s at a theater.
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Well, 1 glass = 250ml, so 1L is 4 glasses. That's really not a lot. Milk in bags probably last more than a week (the opening is very small so there's not a lot of air that gets in), but I've never not finished milk in under a
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by wenc 3y ago
I used to live in central Canada. The milk in bags with the corner snipped stay fresh for about a week. In a 4L bag, there are usually 4 1L bags. It doesn't take a week to get through 1L. If one is obsessed with absolute freshness, one
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by wenc 3y ago
Milk bags make environmental sense. Sure the plastic may or may not be recyclable, but the bags are so much lighter than glass, and a little lighter than cardboard, as well as being more efficient with space -- it's saves on transporta
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Mosquito screens on windows, or mosquito nets may help.
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> How much do people transfer me data via cable now? I don't think I've ever plugged my iPhone into my Mac. Data transfer between a computer and a phone is use-case that isn't that common these days (except maybe for video
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> Indeed, but that does not make it right or rational. Bayesian method helps keep things rational. This is pertinent because human brains are terrible at conditional probabilities. I agree with you on Bayesian methods keeping things rati

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