beojan

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by beojan 3mo ago
> So you could, even knowing only "phobia" and being able to guess "hippo", have a good basis for your choice. Except "hippo-" is from Greek and means "horse".
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by beojan 1y ago
How do they know they're your first pick? Unless things have changed, you don't provide a ranking until the universities have made their offers.
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by beojan 1y ago
It's like Boost Lambda2 or Boost HOF. Boost Hana also has a similar feature. This seems to be more fully featured than all of those though. Maybe some could be ported over to Lambda2.
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by beojan 2y ago
The Eurostat style guide puts the Euro sign in front of the numbers for English text: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... I think the general rule is that in English the currency symbol
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by beojan 2y ago
There was no monthly fee.
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by beojan 2y ago
At least for the identification sticker / stripe on cars we've moved from GB to UK. Maybe we'll just move to uk as the ISO 2 letter code.
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by beojan 2y ago
They do, albeit without a heart rate monitor. https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.ABL-100WE-1A/ With a heart rate monitor it's considerably more expensive.
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by beojan 2y ago
Nokia decided to use the LGPL and the KDE Free Qt agreement was then updated to specify LGPL.
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by beojan 2y ago
You don't have to use all the fuel produced. Presumably some could be used to make plastics and everything else we make from oil. You could also bury some.
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by beojan 2y ago
> For instance we don't install backup engines on the off chance that all 2 engines fail. We used to. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS
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by beojan 2y ago
This isn't a case of slot machines where they got the logic for the house edge wrong. This is a case of double redeeming winnings because the machine would give you your winnings but not mark the ticket as redeemed.
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by beojan 2y ago
That technique is something you get pretty much automatically if you use an electric toothbrush.
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by beojan 3y ago
You need a lot more infrastructure for trains, and more people to maintain everything.
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by beojan 3y ago
There's also a prescription charge, so it's not completely free.
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by beojan 3y ago
Visa and Mastercard (and American Express) are international networks. How could any individual central bank provide that?
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by beojan 3y ago
There was until Google and Mozilla decided W3C wasn't moving fast enough and introduced WHATWG.
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by beojan 3y ago
Target is a bad example, because they don't charge you the same no matter how you pay. If you use a Target red card you get a 5% discount.
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by beojan 3y ago
Mathematics isn't a humanity but it isn't a science either. It's purer than a science, demanding logical proof, not just evidence.
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by beojan 3y ago
P = (v^2)/R. It's R that stays constant, not P.
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by beojan 3y ago
A heating element is basically just a resistor, right? Which means if you run one on half the design voltage it'll draw half the current it's meant to and produce ¼ the power.
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by beojan 3y ago
In English, if the names are separated by a comma it generally indicates that they're in surname, given names order. I think this is to make sorting easier, since names are sorted in alphabetical order by surname then given names.
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by beojan 3y ago
They don't pay corporation tax on your salary. They do pay employer's NI, though.
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by beojan 3y ago
Why not just show your subscription feed instead?
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by beojan 3y ago
The Open Source Definition is effectively identical to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Given that the FSF plays games to pretend the GFDL is a Free license when it really shouldn't be, in practice Open Source is preferable to Free
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by beojan 3y ago
T + 1 millisecond seems impossible. Light can only travel a couple of hundred miles in a millisecond.
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by beojan 3y ago
CentOS Stream seems to be more like stable + proposed-updates than just stable.
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by beojan 3y ago
The one you stir tea with is also probably smaller than a teaspoon (probably about half a teaspoon).
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by beojan 3y ago
A teaspoon is 5 ml. I think you're thinking of tablespoons.
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by beojan 3y ago
It would only reduce demand for exported goods if those goods are priced in local currency and the exporter doesn't (or can't) reduce their prices.
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by beojan 3y ago
Which state are you in? My annual premium is 12 times the monthly premium (all on the first page) and there's no 16% mentioned on page 48.

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