mbrubeck

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by mbrubeck 6mo ago
But why should the fairest price be equal to exactly 12 months of earnings? Why not 1 month, or 100 months? Is there something special about the length of Earth's orbit that makes it the correct ratio for converting flows to values?
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by mbrubeck 6mo ago
Thanks, I missed that 将 was shinjitai. I wonder what caused the weird mixture of glyphs in that example image.
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by mbrubeck 6mo ago
Can you clarify which characters you're talking about? I don't see any examples of Japanese-specific kanji in the simplified Chinese examples. For example, the first image uses 沟 and 时 forms that are found only in simplified Chin
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by mbrubeck 8mo ago
The comment above is about non-rechargable lithium-metal batteries. You are thinking of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.
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by mbrubeck 9mo ago
There's some active work recently on fixing blocking issues, e.g.: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/148725 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/149489
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by mbrubeck 10mo ago
So first you say it has always cost this much, but in the next breath you say that its cost has outpaced a high rate of inflation. Mathematically, these can't both be true.
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Seattle passes 70% college grads for first time(seattletimes.com)
5 points by mbrubeck 10mo ago|3 comments
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by mbrubeck 11mo ago
We're commenting on an article about IEEE 754 floating point values. Following the IEEE 754 standard, we have: >> isNaN(Infinity) false >> Infinity == Infinity true >> Infinity / Infinity =
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by mbrubeck 11mo ago
> two equal numbers divided by themselves equal 1 That's not true. For example: 0 == 0, but 0/0 != 1. (See also +Infinity, -Infinity, and -0.)
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by mbrubeck 1y ago
From over a decade ago, a paper on then-commercially-available browser fingerprinting tech, including a study of its deployment in the wild: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SP.2013.43 Nick Nikiforakis, Alexandros K
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by mbrubeck 1y ago
Oops, thanks for the correction.
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by mbrubeck 1y ago
In versions earlier than 1.88, garbage collection required the unstable -Zgc flag (and a nightly toolchain). But in 1.88 and later, automatic garbage collection is enabled by default.
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by mbrubeck 1y ago
Automatic garbage collection of old build artifacts* is coming in Rust 1.88 (currently on the beta channel, will become the new stable release in two weeks): https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/12633 *E
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by mbrubeck 1y ago
In both of those cases the designated entity was incorporated in the US (KindHearts in Ohio, AHIF-Oregon in Oregon).
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by mbrubeck 1y ago
In words like icône in French, ô is typically used where the original Greek uses ω (omega). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex_in_French#Indicatio...
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by mbrubeck 1y ago
units.txt defines `water` like this: water := gram / cm^3 // Standard density of water (defined) 1 g/cm^3 is the maximum density of water at standard pressure (1 atm), which it reaches at 3.98°C. (Or at leas
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by mbrubeck 1y ago
Looks like the author has fixed that; it’s now available under the Apache License 2.0.
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
Since krep doesn’t support regular expressions, it can’t run most of the ripgrep benchmark suite.
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
M2 Mac Studios were released in June 2023. https://support.apple.com/en-us/111835
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
Yes, they use Bing’s search index, but the relevant difference is that they promise not to retain logs of your searches associated with your IP address or other identifying data: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
Chris Lattner was 21 or 22 when he created LLVM.
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
You keep posting this, but the official US inflation numbers do not claim 0.3% year-over-year food inflation (and have never claimed that at any point in the past several years): https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
"Lines of constant bearing" (or "rhumb lines") depend on the choice of poles. A rhumb line relative to true north looks straight on a standard Mercator projection, but can look like a spiral on another Mercator-style pro
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
It sounds like it is dual-mode / transflective, based on the description of the button that “turns the display into an e-ink format” with ”a huge increase in battery life, up to 7 days of reading.”
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
The Mac mini G4 turned 20 years old yesterday. It’s about as old now as the original Mac 128k was during the G4 era.
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
No, the Consumer Price Index for November 2024 showed inflation of 0.3% over the last month . CPI inflation for food over the last year is 2.4%.
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
No, the Consumer Price Index shows (seasonally-adjusted) inflation of 0.3% over the last month . The increase for the food category over the past year is 8× higher than that. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
You can initiate a conversation with anyone while you are connected via satellite. But you do need to set up an emergency contact and/or Family Sharing Group if you want to connect via satellite and receive messages that were sent to
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156680
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by mbrubeck 2y ago
Apple's "Dim flashing lights" accessibility option is built into tvOS, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

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