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by widforss 1y ago
Wouldn't the tilt affect the gravity assist of Venus?
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by widforss 1y ago
And back?
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by widforss 1y ago
This is great. I'm starting a new job after the summer. I'll get a printer and set it up in my new office and let it automatically print tasks.
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by widforss 1y ago
I think it's great that you don't have executive dysfunction. That's not the case for me, and obviously not for the author. If you've never had your dream job yet still wasn't able to do shit, you don't have to
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by widforss 1y ago
Rough surfaces increase reflection in non-specular directions and decrease it in the specular direction. I have never heard that it would facilitate destructive interference.
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by widforss 1y ago
Interesting. But given the lack of magnetic field, how does the particles enter the atmosphere on the backside (night side) of the planet? On Earth it's easier to understand due to the magnetic field and that the polar regions also a
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by widforss 1y ago
The only way I could understand the borrow-checker was to implement my own version. Then it made sense.
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by widforss 1y ago
Even in Lampedusa?
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by widforss 1y ago
I was extremely confused for a moment and pondered returning my MSc.
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by widforss 1y ago
That's the whole point of Fermi estimates. Find a plausible number given uncertain inputs.
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by widforss 1y ago
I always assumed it was a dark pattern to get more engagement.
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by widforss 1y ago
Regarding the other way, I guess a lot of (practically) legal C wouldn't compile to Rust at all due to the language's restrictions and C's laxness, while I think all Rust could be translated to C.
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by widforss 2y ago
How is this not true for every format that includes quote marks?
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by widforss 2y ago
To make it stick
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by widforss 2y ago
That was a fascinatingly good approximation of sin().
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by widforss 2y ago
Let me tell you about Svalbard curtains. Dish soap and aluminum foil.
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by widforss 2y ago
I don't understand. The stars come out earlier in winter, but the train starts later? And wouldn't the trains rather stop when the Sabbath starts?
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by widforss 2y ago
They certainly like their flag :) Growing up in Sweden, it was mostly immigrants and nazis who used the Swedish flag. Now I live in Norway, which is a lot more nationalistic (just an observation, not a judgement), and there are flags eve
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by widforss 2y ago
They use the sign outside for the most hilarious messages. On Google Maps you can see two versions, "IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A SIGN HERE IT IS", and "SORRY KIDS SCHOOL TIME AGAIN".
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by widforss 2y ago
I think pastors and politicians have quite some use of them as well.
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by widforss 2y ago
HP 50g is "modern" and has RPN out of the box, I use it regularly.
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by widforss 2y ago
It's the unusual vacations that get time in the coffee break.
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by widforss 2y ago
Have you seen birds swimming in the winter? Doubt they care much about temperature. /s
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by widforss 2y ago
I started using Svorak A5 ( https://svorak.ahall.se/ ) the summer before I started college in 2016 (with the standard bindings on the numerical keys as well, so it's redundant). Since I have started using more alphabets
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by widforss 2y ago
As a previous long distance hiker, I must say: Holy shit that website is broken.
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by widforss 2y ago
Some of these academic fields are just wild. I'm not sure whether I should be impressed or highly sceptical of this paper.
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by widforss 2y ago
Everybody knows you have to be a drop-out to become successful in tech. This is basically their way of identifying potential entrepreneurs and helping them to drop out.
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by widforss 2y ago
What? You didn't even do anything? This is extortion.
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by widforss 2y ago
Cool. How do blind people navigate while riding bikes?
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by widforss 2y ago
You do know Hitler was the German Reichskanzler, not French?

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