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Comment · 2 years ago
The guide has a section on accuracy but doesn’t talk about having punctuation outside of quotation marks. There’s a world of difference between

1. Please enter the text “foo bar.”

and

2. Please enter the text “foo bar”.

The first is normal American practice, but suggests incorrectly that the period (.) should be input.

Technical writing should be accurate - meaning all quotes should be a true representation that is not subject to style whimsy.

Comment · 3 years ago
It’s possibly competition for ASML if it works well.

If it makes sense for them, TSMC could buy it and use it to keep doing what they’re doing.

The key point is that it’s equipment used to manufacture semiconductor devices, and Canon would be competing with ASML rather than TSMC.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't know how much rice you eat, but my experience has been that 1 rice cup cooks enough rice for a modest serving for 2 adults - in our household at least.
Comment · 8 years ago
In that case I would suggest that Olive Garden Canada didn't "go out of business" (i.e. naturally through business dying off), but was killed intentionally.

It didn't die as a result of failure on its own part.

There is also a difference between a restaurant and a chain of restaurants - in any case the US component survived, so I would say that the (overall) business didn't "die off".

Comment · 8 years ago
"The mining of rare-earth minerals was at one time dominated by the United States. The People's Republic of China has since come to dominate the market."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_mineral

Presumably because China doesn't mind the cost to its miners or the environment (for now).

If that should change then it might start to be viable to mine this deposit.

Comment · 8 years ago
I listen to Youtube fairly extensively while working, but don't get any ads because I have an ad blocker.

I don't even get "you have an ad-blocker installed" warnings...

Comment · 8 years ago
Rather than the abstract, the legality of a patent is based primarily on the claims. That's what you should be looking at to see if there's prior art. Here's claim 1:

1. A virtual currency transaction system, comprising: a non-transitory memory; and one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising: identifying a first user primary wallet that is associated with a virtual currency and that includes a first user primary wallet private key; creating a plurality of first user secondary wallets that each include a respective first user secondary wallet private key; performing a respective virtual currency transaction using the first user primary wallet private key to transfer an association of predefined amounts of the virtual currency from the first user primary wallet to each of the plurality of first user secondary wallets such that at least two of the plurality of first user secondary wallets are associated with different predefined amounts of the virtual currency; receiving, subsequent to associating the predefined amounts of the virtual currency with each of the plurality of first user secondary wallets, an instruction to transfer a payment amount to a second user; and allocating a subset of the first user secondary wallet private keys to the second user, wherein the subset of the first user secondary wallet private keys are included in respective first user secondary wallets that are associated with predefined amounts of the virtual currency that equal the payment amount.

Comment · 9 years ago
You realize the NIMBYs have had the law changed for their benefit? Why did that need government intervention?
Comment · 9 years ago
The Liberal party is the conservative party. No Conservative party in Australia AFAIK.

The Liberal party is broadly social-conservative, pro-business.

The Labor party is broadly speaking socially liberal and pro-labour.

Comment · 9 years ago
the algorithm may be nigh-on unbreakable, but the implementation can always have flaws. Getting crypto right is hard.
Comment · 9 years ago
One of my Japanese teachers really stressed reading out loud as good practice - you practice reading the piece, you practice saying the words, and you get some listening practice too.

One nice big feedback loop!

Comment · 9 years ago
Japanese train drivers have a system that's called Pointing and Calling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-ja...

Visual and audio feedback is great for your brain.

For me, I often need to make a 200mL bottle for my child, and each scoop of powder makes only 20mL - meaning that I need to put 10 scoops in. Especially when I have a crying baby it's easy to lose track when you count in your head. But no worries if I vocalize my count.

Comment · 9 years ago
#1 There's nothing wrong with TODO comments. Often you don't want implement feature B in full so that you can focus on feature A. Of course you've told your customers that you'll do both features, so you push feature B back to a future release. No problem in using TODO there - at least you have comments as to what's actually going on and what may need to be fleshed out in the future.
Comment · 9 years ago
Try accounting for population size before touting universities as a good measure of anything.

Try looking up cost of tertiary education and maybe cost of medical care and see who ends up better.

You haven't proved your point.

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