MathMonkeyMan

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by MathMonkeyMan 5mo ago
Detroit is moving southwest along with the rest of the [North American tectonic plate][1]. It's not moving relative to surrounding cities, though. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_plate#Plate_mot..
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by MathMonkeyMan 5mo ago
Yes, it's missing a few important pieces. As is, it more describes how dynamic dispatch works.
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by MathMonkeyMan 5mo ago
Hm I gave the prompt: > Summarize a technique for type erasure as is done in C++. Assume that your audience is familiar with all of C++'s features, but not with the technique of type erasure. The briefer the summary, the better, but
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
Maybe not! Let's find out.
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
I appreciated learning what's involved, though.
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
There's been this since 1998, likely earlier: std::vector<std::string> split(const std::string& text, char delimiter) { std::vector<std::string> parts; std::istringstream stream(text); std:
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; My computer has neither Verdana nor Geneva, and my browser's default sans-serif is Noto Sans, which has bars on the upper case "I". Verdana does, too. It looks like Geneva does not (&
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
I think the serifs would be embellishments at the ends of the bars, not the bars themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
Yeah I heard it describes a movie where the line to get into the theater went around the block. edit: ah, but wiki disagrees < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_(entertainment) >
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
It's a way to manage a fleet of corporate workstations, and some other things that businesses with lots of people on laptops end up needing.
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
Quite low compared to a power utility's HVDC, but quite high compared to the 5/12/24 V output of most AC/DC converters used for electronics.
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
Yeah I always heard that the phone lines carried their own power, and in Florida the phones did keep working when the power went out, but I never knew why. So the grid was always charging up the lead acid batteries, and the phone lines were
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
can call it PCRE now
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
As my high school friend said "Everybody likes their own brand." Consider the alternative.
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
> Not most of the developers but whoever put in place a system where so much time is spent on overhead/retrograde activities. Dude that's everybody in charge. You're young, you build a system, you mold it to shifting custo
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
> The cold reality, in my opinion, is that the things we value about ourselves are generally not that valuable to others. I love my own personality and humanity, my soul if you will, but nobody's paying me for it, and so I have to v
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
How many GB? I see "bluray rip" mp4 files on torrent index sites, which I assume have been aggressively recompressed, but there are three size tiers in the "1080p" category: 2-3GB, 7-10GB, and 15+GB.
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
Anyone know where I can buy/borrow an ebook version of "Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate"? Can't find it anywhere.
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
Yep! But you are also a mouse who has limited venues in which to complain. I wonder if the vaccine causes inflammatory and other unpleasant responses when administered. If so, I wonder if those responses go away after the last dose, when th
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
Gotta chug that verification can.
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
The title of this post changed as I was reading it. "It looks like the 'JVG algorithm' only wins on tiny numbers" is a charitable description. The article is Scott Aaronson lambasting the paper and shaming its authors as
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
That was my thought as well, but all I know is hearsay. It doesn't have to be one or the other, either. Whether women excel in science and medicine is not the sole indicator of their status in society.
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
I haven't gone deep on enough things to know whether science fiction is worse than anything else in that regard. But science fiction is largely trope-ridden young adult male power fantasy emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually be
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by MathMonkeyMan 6mo ago
I use firefox and have my autoplay policy set to aggressive no. There's an icon left of the address bar that shows a crossed-out play button when scripted video is prevented. If I click on that play button, I can select "always al
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by MathMonkeyMan 7mo ago
A former coworker was evaluating the cleanliness and structure of some non-free GeoIP data that took the form of several large CSV files. He was writing nested loops in Go that parsed the CSV and evaluated the predicates that interested him
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by MathMonkeyMan 7mo ago
And how noisy it can get! I hope that things go as well as they can for Iran.
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by MathMonkeyMan 7mo ago
> They don't really care about tricky things like 'legality' or 'the court of law', they could just force everyone to stop interacting with them, raid their offices and steal all their shit. This is criticism tha
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by MathMonkeyMan 7mo ago
Smaller government has always been code for bigger me, at least in recent American politics. Now me is government, so bigger government.
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by MathMonkeyMan 7mo ago
I regularly refer to [the unix shell specification][1] to remember the specifics of ${foo%%bar} versus ${foo#bar}, ${parameter:+word} versus ${parameter:-word}, and so on. It also teaches how && and || work, their relation to [outpu
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by MathMonkeyMan 7mo ago
Even if the ambient relative humidity is near 100%, water's latent heat of vaporization is nothing to shake a stick at. I like the idea of a giant heat pump into the ground, but heat exchangers are expensive and so is digging.

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