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by pflats 3y ago
I was curious, so I grabbed three undergraduate-level physics texts I had nearby. One explicitly recites the Ultraviolet Catastrophe prompted Planck story, complete with Rayleigh's incomplete formula. One essentially matches the story
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by pflats 3y ago
Suppose an author uploads their book to ExamplePrint Inc, a one stop shop that prints made-to-order books for customers. The reader goes to ExamplePrint and buys the book. ExamplePrint prints a softcover copy of the book on the spot and shi
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by pflats 3y ago
A bit of an oversimplification and slightly wrong, but the problem is essentially that it is a Bad Spaniels brand dog toy, parodying the sound-a-like Jack Daniels brand whiskey. There exists the Rogers Test in trademark law that says that,
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by pflats 3y ago
More specifically, Steve Jobs founded NeXT after Apple pushed him out in the late 80s. A decade or so later, Apple was on the tail end of a long, slow, downward slide. The team wasn't happy with the current state of their Mac operating
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by pflats 3y ago
Zuckerberg almost always refers to one specific person; Cuban is a last name of an investor and also describes things related to the nation of Cuba.
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by pflats 4y ago
Not true. One of the very first lines there states that: > OGL 1.1 makes clear it only covers material created for use in or as TTRPGs, and those materials are only ever permitted as printed media or static electronic files (like epubs a
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by pflats 4y ago
20% is going to the publisher. They paid for the Steam version, including hiring the graphics and sound people. They're also handling customer support for the paid version. https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress&#x
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by pflats 4y ago
The study also does not claim to show a causal relationship.
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by pflats 6y ago
To add a little detail to what others said, amphetamine and its salts are explicitly a Schedule II controlled substance in the US. https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr/cfr/1308/1308_12.ht...
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by pflats 6y ago
> Isn't there a serious risk of bias, there, though? For example, if a journalist is specialized in CS and have to write about the ecological impact of technology, you can expect them to be biased in favor of technology, even in goo
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by pflats 6y ago
This is the case; it really shouldn't be downvoted. > Apple dominates the global handset market by capturing 66% of industry profits and 32% of the overall handset revenue. Samsung and Huawei are second and third with about 20% and
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by pflats 7y ago
> Also, curse the Greeks for not using more idiomatic variables. ∑ would never pass code review, what an entirely unreadable identifier One thing I tell my high-school students: mathematics always looks harder than it actually is. One of
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by pflats 7y ago
> I'm sort of conflicted about the fine hitting now, as a result. If they were still being intransigent about the issue, sure, but they've already fixed it... It seems right to me. It's a relatively small fine; Apple makes
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by pflats 7y ago
Thanks for writing this! It's spot on. I referenced it in a post upthread[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204995
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by pflats 7y ago
Thanks for writing this! I referenced it in a reply upthread for why I like the equation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204995
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by pflats 7y ago
Thanks for writing this. It was indeed a large part of why I like it. I added more detail in a reply to the parent post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204995
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by pflats 7y ago
I got busy, so I wanna say thanks to everyone who tagged in for me. So many great answers. I'll link a few that speak the most to my own feelings. Why do I like it? I am, as klodolph notes [1], a dyed-in-the-wool algebraist. It's
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by pflats 7y ago
I'm a pure math dude at heart, even if I don't get to do it much any more. Two years ago, my wife asked me, "If you had to get a math equation tattooed on your body, what would it be?" I answered, "i^2 = j^2 = k^2 =
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by pflats 7y ago
It depends on what the app does and how it does it. The first step (authenticating) returns a token with your app id, user email address, a unique user id, an expiration time 5m from issuance, and various other info. Suppose the token is no
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by pflats 7y ago
The process deregisters the phone number from the account; it does not shut down the entire iCloud account or disable iMessage entirely. "iMessages" sent to your phone number will be translated to SMS. iMessages sent to your email
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by pflats 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there are a number of confounding factors that skew male, such TV shows/movies/video games marketed to men that feature Iran and/or the region.
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by pflats 7y ago
I really like it, but just a heads-up: the directions threw me for a solid 15-30 seconds. "Click a piece to select it, then click on the board to place it." Okay, cool! I clicked on the King's Pawn, then e4. The king's p
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by pflats 7y ago
I went to the National Review (the conservative magazine) probably because they're @NRO on twitter.
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by pflats 7y ago
I teach mathematics and write math curriculum professionally, and have literally taught the lesson I describe above for the better part of a decade. I say "we" in that post because in more than half of those classes, I did not tea
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by pflats 7y ago
Huh, I was part of a study during my brain MRIs at NYU Lagone. I wonder if my brain is in there.
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by pflats 7y ago
> The problem with deriving the quadratic equation that way is that for most people, that is a lot of symbols to keep track of, and you have to not only do an unintuitive "completing the square" step but you have to unintuitive
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by pflats 7y ago
> To me it is obvious that the method in the article is far superior than teaching completing the square. I disagree. I would need some convincing that "two numbers that multiply to C and sum to B must have an average of B/2, s
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by pflats 7y ago
You are correct. It is generally expected to be part of an Algebra I curriculum (as per Common Core Appendix A's Traditional Pathway). > Common Core High School: Algebra » Reasoning with Equations & Inequalities » Solve equatio
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by pflats 7y ago
> The part that really pisses me off is the "10 strikes and we wipe your phone bit". That happened to me too on an infrequently used iphone last year. This is an optional setting, and I'm relatively certain it used to be o
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by pflats 7y ago
iPads can use GraphNCalc83[1] and Apple Classroom on a teacher iPad/Mac to restrict students to the app[2]. I'm not sure if there's an android equivalent. I still find using a touch screen much more frustrating than a calcula

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