irishsultan

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by irishsultan 1y ago
The word epidemic does not imply contagiousness, not in the medical context and therefore definitely not outside of it.
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by irishsultan 1y ago
You've used reasonable twice, but haven't explained how it's reasonable.
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by irishsultan 1y ago
So let me get this right: It's okay for a blind person to write content about accessibility being trash, but it's not okay for a privileged person without disabilities to share that content. I'm not sure how that's suppo
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by irishsultan 1y ago
Aren't discrete and discreet homophones?
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by irishsultan 2y ago
I'm very confused, the author talks about having to charge a device instead of replacing batteries and blames it on Lithium-ion batteries, instead of doing the sensible thing and blaming it on devices with non-replaceable batteries. Th
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by irishsultan 2y ago
> Q is indeed dense in R, but firstly it’s very clear that there isn’t an equal number of them because rational numbers are a subset of the real numbers and there exists at least one irrational number (I pick “e”) that is in R but not in
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by irishsultan 2y ago
I don't see how you could interpret "a != b != c" as equivalent to "not (a == b == c)" in the first place. In the first expression a doesn't equal b and b doesn't equal c (no restriction on a and c). In th
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by irishsultan 3y ago
> It may look obvious to you, but someone will interpret “the same value” as literally the same. But it is literally the same? Numbers are immutable, so there is a performance optimization where you can avoid using pointers internally, b
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by irishsultan 3y ago
Sorting your data before searching it will only pay off if you need to search multiple things. If instead you need to search for one specific thing then going through things linearly is O(n) while sorting and searching the sorted result wil
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by irishsultan 3y ago
TeX and Metafont have version numbers that are approaching pi and e respectively, so the sensible way is to read these as decimals.
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by irishsultan 3y ago
Depends on your shell, if you execute `which -a cd` it will show you /usr/bin/cd in addition to the built-in command. (zsh has which as a built in command, apparently bash doesn't, which causes the different output). It&
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by irishsultan 3y ago
IANAL, but I think the right comparison for standby power usage would be the power usage in sleep, not in idle.
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by irishsultan 3y ago
bc and dc are arbitrary precision. By using -l you are specifying that it should keep track of 20 decimal digits (plus you are importing some extra stuff). You can try higher precision by setting the scale. $ echo "scale = 100; (
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by irishsultan 3y ago
When they tell you "the price is low if A is the case, and high if A is not the case" and you say "I'll take the lower price" and A is not the case then you are deceiving them.
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by irishsultan 3y ago
Imagine the expansion rate starts out at 2. Then 1 day later it's 1.5, after 1 more day it's 1.25 and after another day it's 1.125. Hopefully you can see that if this series continues then the expansion rate is always droppin
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by irishsultan 3y ago
1 januari toegevoegd sounds like you're adding the date. If you're going to write it as a sentence it ought to have something like "Op 1 januari", and in that case it actually doesn't matter whether you put the toeg
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by irishsultan 3y ago
You need to take a closer look at the Pages sidebard, there is for example this https://ruby-doc.org/3.2.2/syntax/pattern_matching_rdoc.html
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by irishsultan 3y ago
It doesn't make sense at all, if you see them as a sequence (which is wrong, sets are not ordered) then after taking the first 3 elements the odd numbers are at 5 and the naturals are only at 3, clearly the odd numbers are approaching
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by irishsultan 3y ago
Consider the following sets: the primes (let's call it P), the odd numbers (let's call that O), the odd numbers except for 3 (and let's call this O3). Using your definition O would be equal in size to P, P would be equal in s
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by irishsultan 4y ago
Unless state boundaries suddenly become convex it's definitely impossible. Ignoring state boundaries you have the issue that you need approximately equal numbers of population. It's possible that you can still tile the plane with
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by irishsultan 4y ago
What you're describing seems to be the D'Hondt method which favors larger parties, not smaller parties.
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by irishsultan 4y ago
According to wikipedia even shakespeare parodied the style of subtitles in "Twelfth Night, or What You Will", so again much older than 1929.
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by irishsultan 4y ago
The first element of an array is usually indexed by 0 (usually here means in most modern programming languages). The second element is usually indexed by 1 etc. So the eight bit in a byte is indexed by 7, but that doesn't suddenly make
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by irishsultan 4y ago
It doesn't matter for you personally, but it kind of matters globally. If everyone hits that same inefficiency at the same time then there needs to be a lot of extra capacity in the electric grid that can be spun up during a small part
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by irishsultan 4y ago
That first quote (as well as the rest of the article) supports the view that people tend to underestimate the usefulness of procedures they are not yet using and especially to overestimate their own abilities. It also shows that social pres
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by irishsultan 4y ago
not quite deterministic when you consider multithreading and monte carlo search.
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by irishsultan 4y ago
That's not always the right behaviour either. `#set_table_name` was replaced by `#table_name=` in ActiveRecord, so (especially around the time this changed when you might have projects in older and newer versions) it would be a likely
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by irishsultan 4y ago
No, that's not correct, that unit while intended to be a universal measure of distance never was called a meter (the "inventor" wanted to call it "toise universalle"), all that comes from the wikipedia page you link
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by irishsultan 4y ago
In any reasonable definition of what a median is then there is either a unique value, or the mean between the two middle elements is a median, so it's perfectly reasonable to take the average (something which you can always do and gi
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by irishsultan 4y ago
It doesn't specify a religion only in a very narrow sense. It rules out atheism as invalid, it rules out polytheistic religions (singular god). Stating that somethings is the case does not make it so. The very article you link to state

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