japanuspus

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by japanuspus 13d ago
The IPA chart is missing `w`. As a non-native English-speaker, I would say that the `v`/`w` pronunciation distinction would be a major challenge: Asking someone to pronounce "Darth Vader" is a pretty good check, at least in t
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by japanuspus 15d ago
As the family bike maintainer in Scandinavia, hub gears and coaster brakes are a godsend: Simple, cheap, and the only wear item to replace after a winter driving in salty sludge is a cheap chain -- and this takes half the time if there are
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by japanuspus 1mo ago
Came here to post this. There is even a typst plugin for merman[0]. [0]: https://typst.app/universe/package/merman/
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by japanuspus 3mo ago
Yes - for the high profile journals (Science, Nature): Once it's public, you can forget everything about getting it accepted there.
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by japanuspus 3mo ago
This is what I miss from (the early) Stack Overflow: often the process of writing up a well-framed question ended up solving the problem. I sometimes put out the question anyway and added an answer. Never quite figured out if this was consi
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by japanuspus 3mo ago
Just to nitpick, in the section after "On the other side, these following guards are more of a “you really shouldn’t do this” variety – much closer to a disabled state in graphical user interfaces:" The second and third examples a
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by japanuspus 6mo ago
Just don't try this on Ryan Air. A good friend got stuck at the airport on a Sunday night after being denied boarding because he waited out the standing line sitting on a bench right by the gate. As soon as the last person standing wal
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by japanuspus 6mo ago
It should be trivial to combine ephemeral options with file name options, which seems like it would be the best of both world. With some agreement on mapping (maybe just `%HH` for anything outside `A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ -`), this could be complet
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by japanuspus 7mo ago
"Gnonom" by Nick Harkaway describes a society that takes this all the way to invasive mind-reading. A very special read.
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by japanuspus 7mo ago
I completely agree in the game of chicken. Usually I spend the time up to T-3s wondering how the crazy beepers on microwave ovens is still a thing, generations after the novelty has worn of. I can sort of understand why beepers where a cool
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by japanuspus 7mo ago
Or just a long pipe where the inertia of the water resists change in motion. This is what causes the "water hammer" effect which is a problem for plumbers, but a great thing for all kinds of fun experiments, e.g. creating predict
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by japanuspus 8mo ago
And Norway. Mjøstårnet [0] claims to be the worlds tallest wooden building at 85.4m. [0]: https://www.moelven.com/mjostarnet/
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by japanuspus 8mo ago
> Identity -- This is a difficult problem. My hope is that in 5 years, I will not have anything in my feeds that have not been signed in a way that I can assign a trust level. Here in the Nordics, we are already seeing messaging apps suc
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by japanuspus 9mo ago
If the Bayer pattern makes you angry, I imagine it would really piss you off to realize that the whole concept encoding an experienced color by a finite number of component colors is fundamentally species-specific and tied to the details of
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by japanuspus 10mo ago
Just as important here: The higher the temperature of the storage medium, the higher the fundamental limit to how much electric energy you can recover. Put differently: If you used the same amount of energy to heat one bucket of sand by 200
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by japanuspus 11mo ago
Please go have a look -- this is really well done with a clear message, good documentation and the call to action implemented very nicely (which is the background for TFA).
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by japanuspus 1y ago
I think a lot of it is covered under "New Public Management" [0], which was maybe a result of the financialization happening in the 80's [1]. And I completely GP, having been in or in contact with academic research since the
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by japanuspus 1y ago
> PSA: the "No Tax On Tips" provision expires... My understanding is that this is true for all the Trump handouts: otherwise the ten-year economic outlooks would have cratered. The Economist had a couple of nice analyses on thi
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by japanuspus 1y ago
Did you read the article? The author specifically addresses accessibility in multiple places, including taking extra steps to work around browser bugs [0]. [0]: https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js
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by japanuspus 1y ago
Seems an overly pessimistic take. TFA specifically mentions per-cell temperature monitoring, and I would assume there is also per-cell voltage monitors. As long as the controller is made sufficiently conservative, there is no fundamental pr
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by japanuspus 1y ago
This is such a great use. Excalidraw does this too [0], and uses a two-level extension, `.excalidraw.png`. [0]: https://excalidraw.com/
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by japanuspus 1y ago
> Well right now I am very skeptical, but I think we have somewhat given quantum computing plenty of time (we have given it decades) unless someone can convince me that it is not a scam. Shor's paper on polynomial time factoring is
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by japanuspus 1y ago
> Borrowing and taxation are completely different concepts. Unless I am the only idiot who hasn't asked for their tax back with interest. Possible. I get the impression that maybe you are not aware of what is implied by the 'bu
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by japanuspus 1y ago
This is exactly it. Especially for the UK offshore projects where sites were auctioned off: All bidders knew that a competitive bid had to aim for an ROI only slightly above market rates, given that risk was very low. This means that 1 perc
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by japanuspus 1y ago
Thank you for making this! My initial take was to share this with my son who used to built all kinds of things in Scratch, but I know that the lack of simple install instructions will be a deal-breaker for him. Given that (part of) your aud
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by japanuspus 1y ago
I use a mix of bakers yeast and a wet (1:3) starter/sourdough. Just 2g yeast/kg flour makes a huge difference, even with 150 g starter. My wet sourdough is 1 part flour to 3 parts water. As noted in a sibling comment, this favors
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by japanuspus 1y ago
The fact that the post you reply to includes such technical details as frequency-based pricing, indicates that the author has an above-average understanding of the technicalities of the power-grid. Also, nobody in the field disagrees that i
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by japanuspus 1y ago
Agreed: this is the key question. One effort I follow in this direction is Terraform Industries[0] who are building exactly this type of system. Their approach is PV + DCC (Direct Carbon Capture) and then simple carbohydrate synthesis, wit
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by japanuspus 1y ago
A friendly person on the internet already put up the typst-to-mathml part of this [0]. I have been considering the ultimate yak-shave of building a static site generator around this... [0]: https://github.com/wcshds/typ
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by japanuspus 1y ago
Traveling to awesome places is a perk of (physics) academia that is not widely appreciated. A large fraction of physicist seems to do rock-climbing or other hobbies that align well with exploring the outdoors when traveling. I got my first

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