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by emptybits 5y ago
Thank you, I can see why this could actually become practical. I was prematurely wincing at what I thought was watered down use of the word solution but that's just pedantry on my part. Cheers.
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by emptybits 5y ago
The 1779 Euler puzzle: "Six army regiments each have six officers of six different ranks. Can the 36 officers be arranged in a 6-by-6 square so that no row or column repeats a rank or regiment?" Euler said it's impossible. Th
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Why did the flywheel hybrid system never catch on for road cars? (2021)(arstechnica.com)
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by emptybits 5y ago
Hm. Not so simple. In my province (BC), over 90% of our electricity is generated by dams on rivers.[1] I agree with you that some dams are mostly negative. And all dams have some negatives. Witness our Site C dam project currently under con
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Great Britain sized Antarctic Thwaites Glacier heading for dramatic change(bbc.com)
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Quit Worrying About Uncertainty in Sea Level Projections(eos.org)
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ESO Very Large Telescope images planet around most massive star pair to date(eso.org)
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Tesla Cybertruck Will Have Quad-Motor Option, Rear Steering(motortrend.com)
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Twitter bans posting photos of people without their explicit consent to do so(dpreview.com)
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Walrus From Space: Public conservation science from satellite images(wwf.org.uk)
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How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad (2012)(smithsonianmag.com)
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by emptybits 5y ago
There may be a faster or cleverer way to do it but here's a basic tail recursive fibonacci: (defun nth-fibonacci (n &optional (a 0) (b 1)) (if (= n 0) a (nth-fibonacci (- n 1) b (+ a b))))
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by emptybits 5y ago
1983 floppy user here. Small permanent and/or electromagnets would be driving the metal bell ringers of many telephones in those days. Don't store them under your telephone. But floppies were always hanging out on and beside and b
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China frees Canadians jailed for years after Huawei CFO cuts deal with U.S.(washingtonpost.com)
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Amateur astronomer caught an object hitting Jupiter's surface(dpreview.com)
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by emptybits 5y ago
I assume (?) Teslas have interior microphones. Maybe not in this case but how easily will cabin interior data be turned over to authorities to paint a picture of what goes on inside and outside a vehicle or nearby vehicles leading up to an
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I taught myself to lucid dream. You can too.(technologyreview.com)
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by emptybits 5y ago
US and Saudi citizens who work for Twitter are allegedly involved in serious human rights violations because they have shared users' email addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses with the Saudi government. The recent imprisonment of
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by emptybits 5y ago
Fantastic. Also a great, related, listen is the recent Corecursive Podcast with Richard Hipp as guest. He’s the man who created SQLite, with good technical stories to share. “The Untold Story of SQLite” https://corecursive.com&#x
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Huawei exec returns to court in Canada for final weeks of extradition proceeding(cbc.ca)
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by emptybits 5y ago
Can confirm. I’ve had my Ural with sidecar (2WD) for 12 years. It was my daily driver for half that. It’s wonderful and practical, but I say that as a motorcyclist and bicyclist. Seats three adults comfortably (one behind driver on a large
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China’s gene giant harvests data from millions of women worldwide(reuters.com)
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How you average numbers matters (2015)(blog.nu42.com)
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On Top of Everything Else, the Pandemic Messed with Our Morals(theatlantic.com)
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Why are our cities built for 6ft-tall men? The female architects who fought back(theguardian.com)
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Review: The Cosmo Communicator(osnews.com)
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The Body’s Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel(theatlantic.com)
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by emptybits 5y ago
Very cool. Another piece of "massively multiplayer" Game Boy trivia that might be of interest: There is a Game Boy game published in 1991 called Faceball 2000. It's a first person shooter that supports up to 16 players with a
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SNES DEV Game Jam: Create a Super Nintendo game from scratch in 3 months(itch.io)
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by emptybits 5y ago
This is quite brilliant. Here's another approach to tracking, employed by Pentax and maybe others: Use 5-axis sensor movement to track stars (i.e. use the motors which move the sensor for in-body stabilization) Given GPS coords, softwa

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