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www.seattletimes.com 7mo ago

Seattle passes 70% college grads for first time

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arstechnica.com 2y ago

European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls

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arstechnica.com 4y ago

1.7M Hondas are being investigated for phantom braking

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matklad.github.io 5y ago

For the Love of Macros

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bedford.io 6y ago

Cryptic transmission of novel coronavirus revealed by genomic epidemiology

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magnushoff.com 6y ago

Dependency-Free JavaScript

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blog.mozvr.com 7y ago

Pathfinder: A first look at the best fonts and vector graphics on VR/AR

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gankro.github.io 7y ago

Why Hashbrown Does a Double Lookup

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fullyfaithful.eu 7y ago

Pulldown_cmark 0.3 Release Announcement

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limpet.net 7y ago

Rust: A unique perspective

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gizmodo.com 7y ago

Video of Glitter Bomb for Package Thieves Exposed as Partial Fake

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googleprojectzero.blogspot.com 7y ago

Finding and Exploiting Safari Bugs Using Publicly Available Tools

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www.businessinsider.com 8y ago

Elon Musk's Tesla will eventually crash – and scientists think they know where

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blog.burntsushi.net 9y ago

Rust and CSV parsing tutorial

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blog.wikimedia.org 10y ago

Semi-automated content translation is coming to Scandinavian Wikipedias

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arstechnica.com 10y ago

Another driver says Tesla’s autopilot failed to brake; Tesla says otherwise

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blog.reverberate.org 10y ago

Floating Point Demystified, Part 2: Why Doesn't 0.1 and 0.2 == 0.3?

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arstechnica.com 10y ago

Benefits of a single US electrical grid with high-voltage direct current

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idlewords.com 10y ago

Scott and Scurvy (2010)

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idlewords.com 10y ago

Scott and Scurvy (2010)

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blog.lmorchard.com 11y ago

The Verge's web sucks

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kateheddleston.com 11y ago

Criticism and Ineffective Feedback

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blog.portswigger.net 11y ago

Detecting and exploiting path-relative stylesheet import vulnerabilities

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blog.jquery.com 11y ago

Getting on Point with W3C Pointer Events

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op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com 11y ago

What If We Lost the Sky?

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bitsup.blogspot.com 11y ago

HTTP/2 is Live in Firefox

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en.wikipedia.org 11y ago

Sentinelese people

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tenfourfox.blogspot.com 11y ago

TenFourFox Development: IonPower now entering low Earth orbit

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github.com 11y ago

Dimensioned: Compile-time checking of arbitrary units of measure in Rust

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www.iihs.org 11y ago

Death rates fall as vehicles improve

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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? If a business were incorporated on Mars, would the fair price be one Earth year of earnings, or one Mars year of earnings? (The latter price would be 88% higher.)

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 Chinese. In both Japanese and traditional Chinese, these are written 溝 and 時.

The images also correctly use the Chinese forms of 統/统. The Japanese form [0] differs from both and does not appear in these images.

请 as shown in the image is similarly used only in simplified Chinese, not Japanese. In Japanese, the traditional Chinese form is normally used in handwriting, and an alternate form of the 訁 radical (different from either of the Chinese forms) is often used in printed text.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B5%B1#Japanese

The comment above is about non-rechargable lithium-metal batteries. You are thinking of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

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 == 1
    false

    >> isNaN(0)
    false
    >> 0 == 0
    true
    >> 0 / 0 == 1
    false
Also, you say NaN ("not a number") is "defined as a number" but Infinity is not. I would think every IEEE 754 value is either "a number" or "not a number". But apparently you believe NaN is both and Infinity is neither?

And you say 0 / 0 is "undefined" but the standard requires it to be NaN, which you say is "defined".

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 Kapravelos, Wouter Joosen, Christopher Kruegel, Frank Piessens, and Giovanni Vigna. 2013. Cookieless Monster: Exploring the Ecosystem of Web-Based Device Fingerprinting. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP ’13).

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.

Frink 1 year 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 least, that used to be true by definition. Using the current definition of the kilogram, and the latest measurements of water density, the maximum density is actually closer to 0.99997 g/cm^3.)

"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 projection where the pole and center-point have been swapped.

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.”

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 you while you were offline.

(I’m referring to the "Messages via Satellite" feature that launched two months ago in iOS 18. This is different from the "Emergency SOS via Satellite" feature that has been around since 2022.)