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This is an interesting point about energy market balancing but it has causality backwards. Spain simply has a better energy mix than Germany, no matter how big the spread between t…

Reminds me of US Pinball laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball#Relation_to_gambling

What is going on with the second element in the final example? std::pair x {1, 2.0}; auto [v, w] = x; Why is the second element a float according to the blog post? std::tuple_eleme…

The meandering movement of the droplets around the sides remind me of the Gray-Scott reaction–diffusion system

This has little to do with equilibrium analysis, it is just the market for lemons story but for the ad space. You need to investigate the buyers and what they believe about brand q…

Meta famously tracks people extensively even if they don't have an account there, through a technique called shadow profiles.

Democratic AI is non-negotiable

I experienced the same, I had to disable my adblocker to view it, it seems the content is inside a tag ` ` but I am unsure whether this triggered my adblocker.

I think in the example the parent gave `arr[3]` is past the end of the 3 element array, where `i` might reside, potentially changing its value.

Not really, the lava lamp's fluid dynamics are very sensitive to initial conditions and the fluids behave chaotically, whereas the bouncy balls have highly predictable trajectories…

The author claims to be an expert in C++ but begins the article with a detour that incorrectly states that static and dynamic dispatch are necessarily orthogonal in C++. In reality…

Businesses just rise to meet demands. Texas is the ideal place for the highly individualistic, neighbors an environmental issues be damned attitude. It's not like the cities there …

Then why shouldn't those people choose Ada, which also has Ada Web Application (AWA)?

This is sad news, I was aware of his work on Half Life 2 through art books, and I bought the first Dishonored game because of it

Meta AI asks permission to do this, but note that in some U.S. states personal publicity rights end upon death. Isn't it hilariously Wallacian that this technology can be used to m…

I guess it is a century behind because Europe hasn't scrapped their commuter rail for roads. I took a train from Manhattan today and its theoretical max speed is 110 mile/h, so the…

Yes but the train from Manhattan to Newark is an additional hour and is terribly slow, taking almost as long as the subway to JFK. Going by car is as slow or slower if you get caug…

I had a lot of fun writing low latency parsers for various message standards C++. There are a lot of fun things you can do when you can take ownership of the read buffer and you ca…

Curious about the differences between this map and the Europa Universalis IV extended timeline https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=21741... ? I get the the latte…

Do fighter pilots accumulate all that much exposure to G-forces in terms of duration? 2000 flight hours sounds like a lot, but aren't they flying steady most of the time? Wouldn't …

The chart in the article is multi-dimensional, it has two dimensions: what you mean is time-varying.