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Re:Quantifying the diva-ness of national anthem performances on Saturday February 24, 2024 @04:27PM (#39495275)
I hope they also analyze Enrico Pallazo's performance during the Queen's visit.
Re:Apple Faceshield on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @04:31PM (#22807184)
The only sulfur containing bleaches in that list are potassium persulfate and sodium hydrosulfite. Neither contains chlorine.

Furthermore, the synthesis of mustard gas is non-trivial. Those two chemicals are not enough to put the sulfur on a carbon chain.

Re:Apple Faceshield on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @03:34PM (#22806650)
Bleach breaks down to chlorine, which in turn reacts with ammonia to form chloramine. Mustard gas has sulfur and cannot be synthesized this way.
Re:Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:29PM (#20447036)
Turing machine has unbounded memory. There is a difference between unbounded and unlimited memory: You can extend the tape as needed, but at any given step of computation, the used space is finite.

A Turing machine with bounded memory is called linear bounded automaton. Although LBA is less powerful than a Turing machine in the absolute sense, it is not trivial to form a problem that a Turing machine could decide but a LBA could not.