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You get its integral. ^_^ I can highly recommend 3Blue1Brown's Essence of Calculus series . Each video is short and approachable, and the whole series is only about 4 hours total. It'll give you a really nice intuitive appreciation of what calculus is, what it does, and how and why it's used. (Try t...

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Oh duh, yeah, sorry, was assuming that the output was the state. If the output is trimmed from the state, you can def have repeated outputs that still have unique state and thus different successors.

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aka what madako said, yeah. It's a trivial mapping.

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Tub wrote:↶
But it's extremely unlikely for every value to be picked exactly once.

And, due the way LCGs work, once you *do* repeat a value, you loop the sequence. Anything not hit before the first repeat will never be hit.

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On the Git note, I highly recommend A Plumber's Guide To Git for a solid introduction to what Git is "under the hood", which I've found immensely useful in using it (and unfucking my repos when I do something out of the ordinary).

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I also highly recommend playing the revised rules for the Great People expansion; it makes the game play out much better than the Echoes rules of "just shuffle some in" did.

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Useful skills for a job is: get decent at any programming language. "Popular" languages (Java, Python, JS) will give you a wide variety of places to go, less popular ones will restrict where you can work, but they'll appreciate you more. (Imo, C/C++ is a dead end, cut your losses and try a...

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Blink forked from WebKit a few years back; they were the same engine before that. Android Browser "uses WebKit" because it hasn't been updated since before the fork; since then we've just shipped Chrome itself on Android.

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The Android browser was just Chrome, occasionally forked and then fiddled with, so that by the time it was released in a new Android version it was several versions behind real Chrome, and thus was always missing whatever latest features had been added.

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FlatAssembler wrote:↶
CSS doesn't support conical gradients, and neither does SVG.

Note that conic-gradient() is defined in Images 4, was cleared for shipping by the CSSWG, and is implemented in Chrome now (in nightlies).

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I also had to reread the two previous books to remember anything about what was going on. (And then the novella in Arcanum Unbound, since that was mentioned as useful reading in the preface...) ^_^ But it was worth it overall; I think I enjoyed the first two books much more this time around. Shallan...

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This is the Tudor House variation. Good luck!

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↶ Putting it in the <head> has the advantage that the browser will load the scripts while it's busy parsing the rest of the page. This is not true - the location of your script has no effect on how it interacts with rest-of-page parsing. In fact, it was common advice to put your JS at the *bottom* ...

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I expect the immediate mass-extinction in the oceans, and attendant rotting, would render the atmosphere completely unlivable for most land-based organisms, yeah. (And whatever water-based stuff survived the salinity change would asphyxiate due to the decomposition using up all the oxygen, so more m...

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In general, there is no way. Sometimes you can get lucky, and a Google search for the url will turn something up, but that's about all you can do as a third party.

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Sure. I'm not up enough on geology to know if our preponderance of sodium chloride over other salts is an incidental or expected sort of outcome, tho.

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Given that Mars once had seas, tho, presumably there are salt deposits somewhere, right? Iirc, the sea is salty due to weathering rocks producing either salts directly, or producing acids and bases which react to produce salts, and that salt just kinda hanging around and concentrating over the megay...

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I wrote myself a guide to how packages/modules work, and you might find it helpful too https://www.xanthir.com/b4pt0.

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@rmsgrey, no actual spoilers, but just in case you don't want *any* information about the thing you're talking about: We were really scared of it too and barely used it, having been burned by Season 1's "good stuff", but don't worry - it doesn't hurt. @zohar: I highly recommend...

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Finished Pandemic Legacy S2 this last weekend. Some really lucky card drawing in November made it pretty easy - we got thru 3/4 of the goals in the first November game, so the second was a cakewalk. December, then, phew: We'd set things up for a quick exfiltration of the cure, with a supply cent...

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jewish_scientist was explicitly talking about the imperial system, in which 10 is not a used conversion ratio. That said, I don't know what the $10 vs $6 example is about, because 6/10 isn't a ratio you can express with inches and feet. Maybe trying to illustrate that 10 is a *bad* base to use? I du...

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The vacuum temperature in Earth orbit is still super-freezing. We're just close-enough in that at equilibrium water will absorb enough solar radiation to stay liquid. (I think it also still has to be in a large enough body, but I don't know what that limit would be.) So it'll definitely still freeze...

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Per this Medium post from a science-y person that seems credible , no, it's definitely not realistic. Water will boil immediately when exposed to the vacuum, and violently so, but it takes a bit to freeze (due to water's huge heat capacity). However, when it boils it goes immediately to vapor, which...

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↶ Thoughts on the seventh game in the series. I like Final Fantasy 7 and all but too much peoples think it's like the best of the series. I personally think FF10 was the best of the series and the only one I finished all the way through. Number seven was decent and had some likeable characters,...

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If you disliked Civ 6, the update won't change anything. But I really liked everything the update did.

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Pandemic Legacy S2: dat October revelation, hoo boy. So hidden in plain sight!

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@pseudoidiot Yeah, having to get all three supply centers down makes the game *dramatically* harder (but will help you out a ton in the later game, which I suspect is why it's there - you really want to have some cities regularly growing, and getting the [special thing you can do for supply-center c...

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Yeah, a dict just connects keys to values. Values can be anything, keys are anything "hashable" (strings, numbers, tuples of those, and some other things). An array is basically just a dict that only accept integer keys, and only in a certain range - it just connects the numbers 0, 1, 2, e...

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A further error - array indexes are 0 or larger. If you use negative indexes, in Python it doesn't refer to another item to the "left" of the 0th item, it instead starts counting from the *end* - -1 is the last element, -2 is the second from last, etc. If you need arbitrary coordinates, yo...

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If you want vanilla Python, you have to do it by hand: blueprint = [None]*3 for x in range(3): blueprint[x] = [None]*5 for y in range(5): blueprint[x][y] = [0]*3 # or blueprint = [[[0]*3 for _ in range(5)] for _ in range(3)] Done, that'll make a 3x5x3 array filled with zeros. (The initial Nones on t...

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Additional info: AV software is, iirc, the largest single source of Chrome crashes - it's generally very badly coded, and injects itself into other processes and fucks around. Beyond the AV itself fucking things up, the combination of bad code + massively invasive means there have been examples in t...

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Magic: the Gathering has had the same experience - the last time they tried to do a no-humans set (Lorwyn/Shadowmoor), sales suffered for it. Mark Rosewater has been very clear that they'll continue putting humans in every world now.

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The two chunks of code are, as far as i can tell, equivalent. I haven't checked the paper to see if your transcription was correct, tho.

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@plytho

Spoiler:

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Phew, after the disastrous double-failures of March and April, then the skin-of-our-teeth success in May (even with 8 funded events (nearly the entire set) *and* the 4-losses-in-a-row bonus), June and July were nice, easy wins. We breezed thru, never losing any population (in June the plague-removal...

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The problem you're having is that the login process is explicitly designed to not be accessible like this - it uses some CSRF (cross-site request forgery) protection to help guard against someone directly sending data at the form's action url without actually going thru the login page. If you check ...

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Basically, yeah.

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↶ So then I thought: imagine we don't know anything about electric charge really. We know that it's some property that a particle can have one of two (nonzero) values of, and that these two values in aggregate add together to zero value. We have no idea what those values actually are, so let's just...

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(It's free on Steam, so no excuse for not trying it.) This game... is amazing. I can't go into too much without spoilers, but I can at least say that, while this game *is* technically a visual novel, it's *not* the cutesy high-school dating sim it looks like it will be. It does masquerade as one for...

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