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Interesting to consider the total complexity of that approach though. An iterative fibonacci solution runs in linear time. Calculating the N'th fibonacci number requires O(N) seria…

You don't need any specific instructions. The hex encoded double contains the final binary representation of the floating point number. So no conversion is required to load it, exc…

The average price of existing houses in the Netherlands increased by 55% since 2013. Source: https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2020/52/house-prices-almost-9-...

Does the chance of seeing a vaccine-defeating mutation increase after injecting parts of the population with a less-effective vaccine (compared to the baseline scenario of no vacci…

Unless I'm misinterpreting the tweet, she suggests that a partial vaccination campaign will somehow lead to a higher rate of mutations? As a non-biologist, it's not immediately obv…

Maybe that was done to prove the point that the language, unlike most other programming languages, does not have any built-in English assumptions? Also I think the examples are act…

There is https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 Most CSV files do not follow this standard of course. But you could normalize all CSV files to RFC4180 (or any other consistent format)…

Well you're right, I misremembered. Also I just looked it up and I think it was actually a Panda and not a Punto (only owned it for a short time around 2009 and it was already clos…

Some (maybe only slightly related or relevant) background: In Germany, there is a pretty serious problem with dangerous driving and street racing: In the last ten or so years, ther…

This "tiny cube" weighs 500kg. For comparison, the first car I owned, a Fiat Punto, also had 500kg. In hindsight, I'm happy that I wasn't allowed to drive it at age 14 without a li…

Unemployment in Germany didn't go up much because they reclassified the "unemployed" as "furloughed". The end result is the same though, recipients are living entirely off governme…

I also feel like the project recommendations on Github have become really... stale. At some point, the sidebar would display a new set of projects almost every time you hit refresh…

In Germany there are, as far as I know, also a number of ways to get an exception. The normal way to attend Uni if you did not get the right Abitur from your high school however is…

The other difference of course is that in Germany, only a fairly small proportion of high school students is even allowed to go to Uni. People that were not placed into Gymnasium a…

> Not that long ago someone decided that it is not a problem to ignore humiliated people who came back home from battle fields of I World War straight into poverty, however there w…

Maybe I should have added that I actually hold a german passport. I realize that posting a hitler quote here looks really weird, but before instantly writing it off as a case of Go…

Things are starting to look pretty scary in Germany with the CDU coming out and defending their decision on this. The fascists have gained enough political control that the major c…

> operation will just panic at runtime if the array is too short Exactly, rust doesn't provide a good solution to this problem at all. Panics in rust are an escape hatch used to en…

Indications of a net change - not sure, but individual examples, yes. For example, some parts of Eastern Germany have seen a trend reversal in recent years. Also a number of previo…

True. Still, one alternative model to consider is one where the recent trend of opportunity concentrating in a few big cities could reverse. Either due to market forces (cheaper ev…

In most places, except the obvious exceptions, the government can also create new land for construction.