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by scatters 3y ago
We walked that back, sorry. http://eel.is/c++draft/diff.cpp20.lex#1 Change: Previously valid identifiers containing characters not present in UAX #44 properties XID_Start or XID_Continue, or not in Normalization Fo
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by scatters 3y ago
> I don't know how recent those versions are gcc 14 has not yet been released; going by past years, 14.1 should come out around the start of May (2024). clang 17 was released September (2023); note that you need to use libc++ (stlib
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by scatters 3y ago
A radially symmetric object does not produce gravitational waves, whether it is spinning or not, since it has zero quadropole moment.
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by scatters 3y ago
The Remington No. 1 - which introduced the QWERTY layout - omitted number keys for 0 and 1; the O and I letter keys were considered sufficient. The No. 2 added a shift key, and a full number row.
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by scatters 3y ago
Does Apple block imessage on rooted phones? If not, what level of device security do you really have?
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by scatters 3y ago
ceil(0.000001) = 1 ceil(0) =... 0? Wtf? But that's a perfectly well defined function. Not every function has to be continuous.
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by scatters 3y ago
Is there outrage when a clothes store puts the items they haven't been able to shift onto the sales rack? Is there outrage when a grocery store puts discount stickers on the food that's approaching its sell by date? Dynamic pricin
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by scatters 3y ago
Sticking gold in a vault is only a means to saving if you have a reasonable expectation that when you take it out you can use it to obtain goods and services. It is thus a disguised claim on future production, and so relies on debt to exact
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by scatters 3y ago
I'd be happy if they have an easier and safer commute because everyone else is staying home.
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by scatters 3y ago
No, they couldn't. One person's savings is another person's debt. If everyone tries to save then no one can; this is the paradox of thrift.
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by scatters 3y ago
The Russian rouble was not free floating prior to the crisis. They tried to defy the iron triangle and paid for it. This is not a problem for the USA, since other currencies are denominated in terms of the dollar. The reason it would be imp
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by scatters 3y ago
It exhibits two distinct constructions both of which demonstrate that n^2 + 2 unit equilateral triangles are sufficient to cover an equilateral triangle of side n + ε. The obvious area argument shows that at least n^2 + 1 are required. A sm
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by scatters 3y ago
OpenStreetMap has the zone as a map feature: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/127782964
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by scatters 3y ago
Try driving to get your groceries with epilepsy or a vision impairment.
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by scatters 3y ago
Location and vision are separate senses. I'm completely aphantasic, but of course I can orient myself in remembered spaces. Fictional spaces are more difficult, but not impossible if the description is good.
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by scatters 3y ago
We write the same way an LLM does; by putting together words in the order that convention dictates. It's less of a chore if we can make them mean something by metaphor or allusion; in your example, the author clearly intends to signify
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by scatters 3y ago
Clarification: a knot is one nautical mile per hour.
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by scatters 3y ago
The politicians are aware their messages are being read already. This just opens up existing practice and levels the field.
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by scatters 3y ago
The referendum was advisory. The decision to leave the EU was made by parliament, not by the people. With that out of the way, you should read "EU" as being in parentheses.
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by scatters 3y ago
The CADT model continues to demonstrate its relevance.
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by scatters 3y ago
> Saying that people in Salt Lake should cough up enough cash to outbid the people who want to grow alfalfa to sell it to China is kinda gross It's also incredibly easy ; SLC could outbid the farmers hundreds of times over and it w
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by scatters 3y ago
An economy needs money to be created to ensure full employment. If that money is created as loans to businesses it will result in investment; to the government, in lower taxes; to homeowners, in house price bubbles, but if it is created as
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by scatters 3y ago
Yes, but instead of consumption, that alternative money would be biased towards investment or even less productive activities, such as house price speculation. Consumer credit creates money where it has the greatest benefit.
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by scatters 3y ago
You can use `std::array<char>` (which, as it happens, is a literal type) as an intermediary when performing materialization. A nice toy example is to build a comma-separated string listing enumerators: template<class E> re
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by scatters 3y ago
The nearly entire length of the river is navigable, with the flow controlled by locks and weirs. This isn't to minimize their achievement, but they didn't have to contend with rapids, shallows or swamps like the river would have h
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by scatters 3y ago
It's a simple solution to give the file the right extension, and preserving query parameters can be the right thing to do if you hit the same path repeatedly e.g. for pagination.
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by scatters 3y ago
`&unused=.htm`. It usually works.
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by scatters 3y ago
Those kiosks are a thing of the past, now that you can get an e-sim.
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by scatters 3y ago
Most modern cars have a center console with Android Auto, so you just plug in your phone to USB and it takes over navigation, communication and entertainment.
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by scatters 3y ago
But also "whatever timezone that office building will exist in" may not actually be the same as the timezone that is actually used by the occupants of that office building. There are numerous communities which unofficially obser

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