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The actual principle behind the C type declarations is "declaration follows use". Let me explain what this means. Take this declaration int *pi; Means that when I dereference the v…

You can compute this integral as follows. First, you remember that sinc(x) = sin(x)/x is the Fourier transform of 1/2 * indicator function of [-1, 1]. In general you have: sinc(x/n…

I didn't read the article but, in case you don't know quantum mechanics, I should tell you that the vast majority of people who study such things think that Bohm's theory is plain …

I tried to find an example that contradicts what you said, but I can't find any. Here's an online example which can be compiled as both C and C++ and I obtain exactly the same asse…

No, she most certainly did not discover the DNA. The DNA (which was not named like that) had been around since Friedrich Miescher's work in the 19th century. Your statement is at l…

I see they are adding an analog of the C++ iostreams, but I don't see a discussion of how to disambiguate between `sin' as in stream-in and `sin' as in the mathematical function. R…

I don't know if you're going to see this, but I feel the need to defend myself. Sorry about going on a tangent here, but I have no other way of doing this. Here's what happened. So…

Well, the argument feminists make is that inequality=injustice. For car mechanics, there is clearly inequality. Why aren't they rushing to fix the injustice? And by the way, this c…

> the fact that many sexist anti-STEM cues are given to children at a much earlier stage, way before careers are even on the horizon It doesn't look like you read the article. It c…

I'm wondering, what is the police upset about, an admission of guilt? This is clearly just a bad joke, but apparently a bad enough joke to get you fired. I don't know the full circ…

I wish people stopped using the term fascist. It's been abused and overused to the point of becoming meaningless. An upsetting instance of usage of this term, for me, was when it w…

This article is from 2016. There are some really odd choices there: for example, Lena Dunham or Emma Sulkowicz.

Your intuition is correct and the question of the speed of gravitational waves is pretty complicated. The usual treatment of gravitational waves is done by linearization of some no…

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Please, please, please, don't take MathML away from us. Even though we are few in number, we want to be able to put mathematics on the Web. I'm sad Chrome and IE chose not to imple…

It's funny how some companies now literally enforce a "don't ask don't tell" policy when it comes to some points of view. In the academia it is probably even worse than in the indu…

If you find a rational person willing to defend any of the points you made, then yes, it is wrong to be against that discussion.

I think using "deeply buried in identity politics" is overstating facts. And I'm sure you can find many people in academia and otherwise who will clearly identify as Marxists and w…

IANAL, but I think legally they are forced to act in the interest of the shareholders. In other words, if a shareholder feels like the management harms the company they can sue the…

If you're a professional you should be able to work with people you disagree with as long as the disagreement is civil and reasoned. I'm astounded to see that you would say he "had…

People should understand that undefined behavior allows you to squeeze the last bit of performance, so it can actually be very useful (if you know what you're doing). Here's a cute…

I think it might be a bit more than that. As far as I can see, all the primitive data types in Rust have sizes which are multiples of eight. However, there are still architectures …

I think there's a constraint that if you want to call your program something with TeX in the name then you need to be able to process the "trip" torture test by Knuth (see http://t…

I haven't heard of any instance where the Duma disagreed with any of Putin's ideas. I don't think the Duma is providing any checks and balances to the power that Putin has.

I think this is really unfair. I was downvoted a lot and I'm not sure what for. Every single statement I made in the initial post in this tread was 100% correct and I stand by it. …