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Because he composed the anthem?

Who blatantly ripped that off from Karl Marx...

> The square root of -1 doesn't correspond to any quantity you could count or measure directly (you can't have negative one apple, for instance) That must be the worst explanation …

Unix time does not count elapsed seconds in real time since 1970-01-01T00:00:00, this is a common misconception. Unix time assumes a fixed number of seconds per day. 86400. If a le…

No, the current rules are being relaxed because with the current ones, a negative leap second _might_ happen in the near future. It did not happen yet. No negative leap second that…

GitHub Incident again/

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, we detect optical light emitted by high energy particle Cascades in the atmosphere to observe cosmic gamma radiation. The particles need t…

One would be support for ligatures

Our telescopes actually need the (or at least an) atmosphere to function. There are some classes of observatories, which you cannot build in space but which are still affected by s…

> This is where I usually insert that 3,000 year old Gandalf meme. Elrond?

Copying my comment from the other recent thread: The authority on the definition of SI units is very clear: > The hertz shall only be used for periodic phenomena and the becquerel …

Keep in mind that our current instruments are not really sensitive to most exoplanets that would be interesting for a sci-fi setting. Current instruments are mostly good at finding…

Please don't. The authority on the definition of SI units is very clear: > The hertz shall only be used for periodic phenomena and the becquerel shall only be used for stochastic p…

Yes, the year has pi * 1e7 seconds 1e5 / 3.14e7 ≈ 3e-3, milli, not micro

Or as Stephen Fry put it: "Nature, Nurture and Nietzsche", very fitting here.

There is a section in the GitHub Readme of Eurooffice with a justification of the fork: https://github.com/Euro-Office#euro-office-liberates-the-onl...

"Most companies still do not publish Linux builds for creative software" There, fixed it for you. It's not like Linux is the blocker here.

Absolutely not. You could argue this for entry level lectures, but not at the PhD level. PhD is learning how to do original research, how could you separate teaching that from doin…

Ever tried latexmk for the automation?

But this exact example is different, because the critical step of mutation is missing. The initial line is the same, but: a = b = random.random() a += 1 a == b # False Only because…

Science never proves a positive. You can only disprove . The only way to prove a positive if there is a finite number of possibilities and you have disproven all but one. But even …

If you are more into doing this locally than using a Webservice, have a look at astroplan based on astropy. https://astroplan.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. https://youtu.be/EYPapE-3FRw?si=LjSNyltYaVUY5bzX

But on any modern CPU, clock speed won't be constant. It's not compile time constant, nor a runtime constant. Its variable over time. You'd have to record the clock speed over time…