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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
don’t really have resolution per se A CRT doesn't have to have resolution in the sense of pixels per inch (although many of them do). However "resolution" is a more general limit on how far away two distinct points can be.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
As far as I know, "bill of rights" is in fact the informal name of the first 10 amendments -- which were proposed and passed as part of the political compromise that got the constitution accepted at all. The remaining amendments a
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> Doesn’t that imply that we are getting “bigger”? Yes, if by "we" you means "large scale cosmological structures". But galaxies stay roughly constant size because gravity holds them together. Smaller things are also
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
The visible galaxies. That is we see red-shifts when we observe distant objects. And comparing that to other distance estimates, we see that far away things are more red-shifted. As if they are moving away from us. When we build cosmologi
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Your intuition that there is an limited observable distance because is correct. But because of the expansion, that limit is bigger than "speed_of_light * age of universe" . I don't know enough General Relativity to give a so
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
It would not be too hard to add a field for an IPA version of the name. But populating the dataset would be a huge chicken-and-egg problem.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Even then, wouldn't a delta just be a "d"? Or do Greeks pronounce the "th" in "the"?
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> [Brussels] is French speaking, although it's in the middle of a Flemish province. This is what I keep reading, but when I visited there I observed both languages in apparently equal measure. Of course my observations were superfi
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
I was going to say that, since Rio Tinto is a mining company, that it probably originates in Brazil. But actually it is an Anglo-Australian company named after a mine in Spain. (Which, according to Wikipedia, started operations 5000 years
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
I can't think of a single use case where Java is more useful than C++. Unless it is the "we've hired some Java programmers, now what do we do with them" use case.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> Does anyone understand how such a seemingly unconstitutional law could get passed ? Things get passed because politicians vote for them. They might or might not listen to legal advice about their constitutionality before voting. It&#x
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
So yes, when I lived in the Europe one of the joys of coming back to Oz for holidays was that you can actually see stars. Even inside a big city, the nights tend to be clearer than in Europe and the light "pollution" more limited
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Which is to say, /var/ is writable when they do it. This business of /var/ not being writable early enough is probably to do with the wonderful complexities of modern Linux, and is just not a problem that OpenBSD has.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
With regards to public policy: there's not much of a problem (except to the extend that public policy props up private schools). But should it not cause us to re-evaluate how much we respect the university and it's degrees?
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
It's not about weeding anyone out. Or at least not trying to. An Engineering degree that really teaches stuff will be difficult. And some students will find it is not for them and leave. Preferably early before they have invested too
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> (Yes, that way lies the potential for moral hazard) Which is to say that it is in fact costing the UK very much less than a bailout.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Globally, the energy used per unit of GDP has dropped, although the energy used in total has increased. https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-energy-inte...
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> ... but it floated as high as 1.26 in 2013. Just before they abandoned the peg as too hard to maintian.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Financial services (as opposed to actual investing) is a form of information technology, albeit one that is older than electronic IT. It is probably no coincidence that they really took with the arrival of paper and decimal notation. But t
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
But the 4G, 5G monikers don't correlate either.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
It's one of the definitions, and perhaps not the most fundamental. In the complex plane (and all real analytic functions can be analytically extended into the complex plane), you can define the equivalent property as saying a (first!)
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Yes. And there's also The Clouds by Aristophanes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clouds ). And in my sometimes I suspect it might be the most accurate portrayal. But we'll never know.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> He may be simply giving his own opinion and attributing it to Socrates, who had a higher reputation. We'll never really know how much the human Socrates matches Plato's literary character. But the reason for that is that Soc
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> The two languages, ecosystems, and communities seem to have largely non-overlapping objectives despite having overlapping technical capabilities. I keep thinking servers should be written a bit more like embedded thingies. (Though I s
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> Just the mojo required to print an integer (having to instantiate a generic) was considered complicated That sounds complicated to me, in 2019 with 25 years of C++ experience. (And of course C++ error message sprouting mysterious stdl
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
It depends on what company you are. Some who administers some SAP thing for a huge supermarket chain tells me they do all of their upgrades on weekends because their users aren't at work. Makes sense for them, but it would be a crazy t
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Well I'm sure the ability requires training, but I wonder if it is specific to screen readers. Consider what you quote: > we’re likely limited by how quickly we can gather our thoughts Now the amount of relevant info on a screen is
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> Soon we will reinvent the BBS, shareware, etc. What I want back are the duck-strangling noises that the dial-up modem makes when connecting.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
The answer to the genre of questions is that you always want fewer small problems, and more day-to-day efficiency... ... until the big disaster actually happens at which time at which point it's simply criminal that such things were
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
True at one level. And some hypothetical country could actually have that rule as the law -- "investor beware" might work better than our real system. But in the system as it is, Oracle shareholders bought shares on the understan

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