SagelyGuru
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Comment · 2 years ago
Leave the field to the censors, create an alternative, and hope that they will not pursue you? Or stand your ground and fight them wherever they are? That is the question.
Comment · 4 years ago
A note from the author: go to line 126
Finds all items partially equal (not necessarily literally equal) to val. In a generic slice in ascending or descending order. Returns the Range of the matching items. When the range is empty (n..n), then n is the sort order of where the missing val could be inserted.
Assigns a comparator closure `pcomp` just once, depending on whether the order is ascending or descending.
Comment · 4 years ago
It is worth mentioning Jan Hus: Orthographia Bohemica, 1406 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographia_bohemica which introduced diacritical marks to facilitate expressing all the sounds of Slavic languages in Latin alphabet by single symbols. They have logical phonetic meanings, for example háček (the hook) indicating the placing of the tip of the tongue on the palate. Though, admittedly, they are somewhat inconvenient on modern keyboards, usually relegated to the top row.
Jan Hus was later burned at the stake for his 'heresies', which probably slowed down the uptake of his eminently useful invention in the rest of the world.
It is my opinion that even English more than 600 years later could benefit from it, as in: 'caš ček' instead of 'cash cheque', thus also finally attaining much simpler, logical and phonetic spelling.
Comment · 4 years ago
Granite blocks that slot together.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is unfortunately just one of many examples of generally widespread malaise of conflating correlation with causality.
It is especially common in certain "sciences" which typically involve a lot of data collection. Followed by attempts to crunch it up into some kind of popular and far reaching conclusions, intended to fool the examiners into awarding a PhD.
Comment · 5 years ago
The orbits of the electrons very much follow the pythagorean (natural numbers) laws.
Comment · 5 years ago
It is sad that even in this case, the orthodox line that "the ancients were ignorant about the movement around the Sun" is pushed by the very people who perhaps ought to know better. This machine would clearly have been a useful predictor of the positions of the planets regardless whether you subscribe to the heliocentric model or not.
It was more likely inspired by the pythagorian numerical model of the universe. Who is to say that Pythagoras was wrong? For example, all of modern chemistry is explainable in those terms.
Comment · 5 years ago
Lichess is so good that I spent more time there than I probably should have.
Comment · 5 years ago
You can make that one truck descend five times faster, giving the same output.
Comment · 6 years ago
"The principle suggests us to focus..."
Should not it be:
"The principle suggests that we focus..."?
Comment · 6 years ago
"...and millions of dollars in federal funds he’d spent developing the attack ...."
Sounds like rather expensive 30 lines of code.
Comment · 6 years ago
It would be more efficient to use a pressure tank half filled with water and use water pump and Pelton turbine for the energy cycling.