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That's a weird pixel. It has a black square inside of it and it's 6 5/6th by 6 1/12th.

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[edit]ugh, there's always a ninja when you least expect it[/edit] UTC isn't even a proper abbreviation/initialism, strictly speaking. It doesn't even stand for what most people think it stands for... ;) It stands for Universal Coordinated Time, except in French where the last two words are swapped. ...

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Zohar wrote:
Sizik wrote:As processors get faster, memory access speed gets relatively slower, due to the speed of light (and the physical distance between the CPU and RAM) staying constant.

OK, so how do we increase the speed of light?

You just decrease the speed of time.

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Why hasn't software kept increasing its memory requirements? Have we reached a point where the ever-growing layers of abstraction and usability do not (significantly) increase the memory footprint? (even excluding the 'cloudified' programs) That said, haskell still stands strong in eating all the me...

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Why has RAM not increased exponentially during the past 15 years?

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You haven't bought single sheets of paper lately?

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(x' = y' = 0 is trivial, so I'll assume it's not considered)
x' = tanh(x+1)*y*z+1.37+(x+z)*ln(1+x^2+y^2+z^2)
y' = tanh(x)*z-cos(z+x)*y

I dare you to give a better projection.

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Depending on how you break out the Seven and Eleven, it could also be open daily from 8 AM to 7 PM (or any other combination of eleven hours a day, using the 7-by-24 version of 24 hours a day, 7 days a week). While I have never encountered a 7-eleven (even though they do exist "nearby" in...

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That's weird. Does it still show up in the partition manager (and mounted and with a drive letter)?

Since the update I can eject the USB root hub. Personally, I like having the option, but it doesn't seem like a good idea to show it to regular mortals.

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I thought it was too obvious.

It's been called weirder things, like fluff and a title I cannot comprehend: unhatched fishes and turtle excluding devices. I also encountered this fluff while looking for past titles.

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posterior distributions, heheheh

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Inspired by soupspoon, I'd build a stock exchange with it. So if the stock market crashes, the stock market crashes.

Pray tell, in what manner is this still on a discussion level worthy of the Science board? If you want random natterings, ask it in ~~fleeting thoughts~~ thoughts for ships.

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"Microsoft puts you in control of your privacy", followed by a list of report settings toggles, one of which doesn't even have an "off" state.

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Hmm, in what scenario would you input illegal names in the first place? And in what scenario shouldn't the whole program just crash (so it doesn't matter how many valid names you accept before throwing an exception) if there's an illegal name?

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Was it "enabled by default" for people who updated from earlier versions? Because I don't recall disabling session saves and yet it is. (though it is likely I forgot I did, because I don't want all those old files to pop up when starting np++ —they're under recent files anyway)

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Analogous with the sums and products it should have some capital greek letter, like E (because ενώνω is the only word related to composition that doesn't start with a σ), instead of a bigger ∘. (Or actually history should be revised and all of sums, products, unions and whatnot should be split into ...

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To be clear, since there always seems to be a lucky-10,000-aire on this, gedit is also available on Windows, but I can see why it wouldn't place in this ranking! Well, you're spot on that I didn't know this. However, should anyone know this? :P What about inserting grep into your eyes? Force grep, ...

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So is it just me that uses gedit? If I happen to be on a (random) debianesk system and have to edit a couple of files, I'll probably use gedit. Well, unless there's already a terminal pointing at the right folder, then I'll use nano. But I'm mostly on windows, so my options are Atom, Sublime, VSCod...

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Isn't 2015 a bit late for sublime text being 'the hottest'? <thefiddler> Holy sonofabitch. <thefiddler> I think my editor is flirting with me. * thefiddler frowns <Uhmerwell> ...Notepad? <thefiddler> Errr. <Uhmerwell> oh, you mean a human <Uhmerwell> don't you :< Haha, nice one. :D

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What is ~~love~~ living?
Would a golden cardboard box suffice?

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So far, every language I met had *some* use case where it shines, and *some* use case where it's a poor choice. What was Java's "shining" example? That was JavaServer Pages, right? I guess it shines at being semi-cross-platform and embeddable in browsers in the 90s . :roll: And it has mil...

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So this is just me trying to understand terminology, feel free to ignore (though I appreciate any help!): Is it terminology if I just use some words that I feel fit in? :P Object A defines value X; object A loads object B -- B refers to X. The problem is that B might refer to X before A has defined...

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The right board is called Religious Wars . Because taste can be argued and my favourite language is my favourite simply because it's the best. Haskell (and friends, though I'm only familiar with Haskell) makes me feel funny because of its extensive pattern matching and lazy evaluation ...and types ....

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Cyclical dependencies are a great language feature (in object oriented programming at least) so you don't have to merge your dependencies into one or mangle them to be explicitly acyclical. Okay, usually it makes more sense to just extract a relational model and put that in one module, but that migh...

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Whizbang wrote:Eventually you're just going to need one of these:
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How is a strapless bra going to help with disposing of trash bins?

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That's why we founded a new settlement last year. It's not nearly as big as Spawn or Pandora, but hopefully in time it will be. When was the last active period actually? I see the first 100 pages of this topic were filled before release (end of 2011) and the next 100 were before 1.5 (start of 2013),...

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Try visiting the xkcd server, we are (allegedly) people and we try to be not shit.

It's basically single player anyway, except you have access to a load of stuff built by the ones before you and the End is explored quite a bit.

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Always use a random line out of a Shakespearean sonnet to use as your password, interspersed with three two-digit numbers. ButBeautysWaste19HathInThe75WorldAnEnd33 Use spaces and punctuation in your password. "But beauty's waste 19 hath in the 75 world an end 33.". If the password is reje...

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I don't know any laws for the addition/subtraction of exponents. Ah, that might be a problem for this problem. I have no idea how to properly explain the rule, but let's try anyway. The product of two exponentiations (with the same base) is the same as summing the exponents: a^b * a^c = a^(b+c) . S...

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I believe that particular formula is supposed to be 2 + 2^1 + 2^2 + ... + 2^n = 2^(n+1).

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Yay! You might also like to take a look at a symplectic integrator, like Leapfrog or Verlet. They aren't as well-known as R-K, but their big advantage is that (unlike Euler or R-K) they conserve energy, which is kinda useful in sims of physical systems. ;) Thanks for the suggestion. Though for this...

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It was obvious from context that in that particular instance log^2 n meant (log n)*(log n).
But of course you shouldn't abuse the notation like that -same goes for sin^k n- and log^2 x is log(log x)) in the general case.

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Also, to go back a step... I've never seen "log² x" to mean "(log x)²"... I've only ever seen that notation for trig functions, sin²x etc. I guess because functional powers of trig functions aren't particularly common (except for that whole "cos(cos(cos(...))) is a weird us...

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2038: futurama season 8

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Let's make it more concrete. :) I'm trying to simulate an airplane in javascript. When it's touching the ground, it should rest on its landing gear —which has springs to avoid an infinite acceleration while landing or other weird hacks. The springs are damped by the way so they don't bounce for all ...

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TIL about the Runge-Kutta methods. Hopefully it will fix my discrete-time physics simulation going completely bonkers* when the time step is a bit large.

*the critically-damped struts currently act like they're anti-damped

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Give a baby zombie a dragon head, and it'll slay one befuzzled player. Give a baby zombie a dragon head and enchanted diamond equipment and it'll slay players forever. raudorn: great job expanding the underground in Whittington (and leasing the first space at the ugly city hall). :D Oh and Feylias, ...

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If it's holy wars... Crisp(/Chip) Packet colour theming, by flavour. It upsets me that more and more own brand crisps seem to be following Walker's lead of making the salt and vinegar green. Salt and vinegar should be blue, and cheese and onion green. What?! Blue is for paprika (sweet pepper)! It w...

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Oh right, the new season has been out for half a year now. Time to get a-watchin'. Scanning some reviews, it seems that the 3rd installment is as good as the previous two. :D (no I haven't watched it yet, I'm just voicing excitement to bump the thread and let you know this series exists or maybe lur...

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