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Reminds me of this excellent sentence of Hofstadter's, on the concept of treating language as a stack composed of clauses and popped by verbs:

"The proverbial German phenomenon of the 'verb-at-the-end', about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nunplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic pushing and popping."

What's the 52nd state? I'm assuming DC is treated as the 51st, is the 52nd the federal government? (sorry if it's a typo, I'm asking in good faith)

The way I see it, common keyboards are underpriced due to extreme competition, and top-shelf keyboards are overpriced because they're a niche market. So common keyboards aren't that bad, even if they're very cheap, but I think it's definitely worth it to spend ~$100 on a keyboard, which I think is a lot more palpable to people whose job involves typing.

I'm going to make up some arbitrary numbers, hopefully they'll make it more clear. I use a Planck, which cost about $110. Looking at Amazon, I found an alright-looking Logitech for ~$15.

Is typing on the Planck 7x better? Probably not. Is it 2x more enjoyable? I'd say so! Unfortunately, there are no $30 keyboards that are as good, but I'm fine with paying the big premium because the cheap version is already so cheap.

Could it be called an ink coating? My understanding is that the distinction between ink and pigment is that ink is a solution while pigment is a suspension, can there be both kinds of coatings? or is it a meaningless distinction to draw in this context?

Sorry to barrage you with these questions if you don't know, but you brought up a pretty fine point so you seem knowledgeable about this :)

Off the top of my head, James Charles lost a million subscribers before people changed their mind about whose side they were on.

Toby Turner had rape allegations made against him which were later taken back. It's hard to say where his channel would be had that not happened, but the timing makes it seem like it was a major factor in its decline.

Why wouldn't it be? It seems to me that at worst we would have to wait for computers to become as powerful and complex as a human brain, and then simulating human intelligence would be a matter of accurately modelling the connections.

Is there doubt as to whether a neuron can be represented computationally?

Yes, that's what the article is about.

The nerve of some people!

The website doesn't claim that the font does anything better, except that it is more readable, effective, and elegant, in the experience of the designer, Rune B.

If you really do know about several fonts that Rune B. finds more readable, effective, and elegant than this one, I would urge you to contact them.

It seems a shame that 99.99% of humans will never have the opportunity to break the record. If only there was a category for people who race unassisted by a large team of pacers, cyclists who feed them specially designed gel, and laser-equipped pacer cars.

The website changed:

>If you purchased directly from Adobe, we will refund you by the end of the month for any paid, but unused services. We are working with our partners on the same.

I wonder what caused this. Did something important change, or did Adobe just overreact at first?

Honestly, I made that comment without fully thinking through how to implement my suggestion, and now I realize that I've stumped myself. However, let me explain what I meant anyway:

First of all, you're right that this won't really impact your answer at insignificant fractions of light speed. You mentioned that using the 4.72% growth rate, the equation tells you to wait until you've passed the speed of light, and I thought it might be interesting to more accurately model the energy required at relativistic speeds.

So the same way that you used the classical mechanics equation for kinetic energy, E=mv^2/2, ignoring mass and solving for v, to get v=sqrt(2E) and approximating to v=sqrt(E), I thought you could manipulate the relativistic equation similarly.

Now, having gotten a solution from WA, I'm starting to think that I overestimated the effect on accuracy that changing the equation would have. I want to approximate the solution by ignoring some terms or changing an nE to an E^2 or something, but I think that might negate any gain in accuracy.

So to answer your questions more directly, I was attempting to address the error you get when the calculation tells you to wait until you can travel above or near the speed of light, and I only included mass in my equation to try to communicate it to you more accurately, with the assumption that when actually using it you would ignore the mass.

Anyway, I hope I at least clarified my previous comment, even if it turned out not to be very useful! If anyone has a better understanding of how to better model relativistic speeds I'd love to hear their explanation.

According to this tweet[0] the object's coma[1], the cloud of ice and dust surrounding the object, makes it too difficult to measure.

[0]https://twitter.com/AscendingNode/status/1171913641647493120 [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma_(cometary)

As others have said, E=mv^2/2 only holds at very small fractions of the speed of light. I believe the equation you need is E=mc^2/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)-mv^2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy#Relativistic_ki...

2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.

I think that most rational people would agree the already-existing baskets should be distributed instead of being left to rot, so the president deciding against that in order to strengthen his position could be seen as tending towards autocracy or dictatorship.

Why is this articled titled this way? It seems very negative to me, and if I had just read the headline and moved on I would have assumed the diet was a silly, maybe even dangerous, fad. The article explains why the science is sound and ends with the author happy with the results, planning on doing the diet again in three months.

Is it just me who interpreted the title this way?

But text is already symmetrical along the z axis, so it works.

Say your hands were 2d, so the backs looked the same as the palms. Now hold your hands so that you're looking at the palms and the fingers are pointing up. Rotate your left hand 180° along the y axis, and it would look like your right.

Flow issues sound like a problem with the pen, and there shouldn't be enough pressure on the nib for it to dig in like that.

/r/fountainpens is a really nice community with lots of guides to troubleshooting pens, as well as recommendations for beginners. If anyone's curious reading this, the Platinum Preppy is a very good, very inexpensive fountain pen that gets recommended a lot.

In the last post it was Baba is You, now Undertale, Celeste, Dwarf Fortress... I think this is a big reason why his posts are so polarizing, some people agree with his premise and are willing to overlook the insulting comparisons, while others take them as a sign that he doesn't know what he's talking about.

It feels like there are two separate discussions happening, some people saying that there are beautiful games with next to no art budget and that the author should adopt some basic principles of design, with the other camp focussing on the fact that game devs shouldn't be expected to become artists.

Obviously both camps are right and the author is right in basically saying "I'm fine with my games being ugly, they're still successful despite being ugly..." but then he goes and follows that up with "... just like all indie games,"

And the chon-honnel is the one from France to England

Do you mean to say there are 9 choose 4 == 126 possible combinations for a 3x3 pattern? I think this would only be true if you could use a maximum of four dots in the pattern, which isn't the case.

Although calculating it this way will double-count some patterns which include long lines, I would say that there ar far closer to 9! == 362880 passwords. Even if long lines cut that space in half, 150000 more than meets your minimum of 15^4.

OLKB Planck keyboards [0] (presumably Preonics as well) also come with a Plover layout included in the default firmware.

[0] https://olkb.com/planck