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But why should the fairest price be equal to exactly 12 months of earnings? Why not 1 month, or 100 months? Is there something special about the length of Earth's orbit that makes …

Thanks, I missed that 将 was shinjitai. I wonder what caused the weird mixture of glyphs in that example image.

Can you clarify which characters you're talking about? I don't see any examples of Japanese-specific kanji in the simplified Chinese examples. For example, the first image uses 沟 a…

The comment above is about non-rechargable lithium-metal batteries. You are thinking of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

There's some active work recently on fixing blocking issues, e.g.: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/148725 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/149489

So first you say it has always cost this much, but in the next breath you say that its cost has outpaced a high rate of inflation. Mathematically, these can't both be true.

We're commenting on an article about IEEE 754 floating point values. Following the IEEE 754 standard, we have: >> isNaN(Infinity) false >> Infinity == Infinity true >> Infinity / I…

> two equal numbers divided by themselves equal 1 That's not true. For example: 0 == 0, but 0/0 != 1. (See also +Infinity, -Infinity, and -0.)

From over a decade ago, a paper on then-commercially-available browser fingerprinting tech, including a study of its deployment in the wild: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SP.2013.…

Oops, thanks for the correction.

In versions earlier than 1.88, garbage collection required the unstable -Zgc flag (and a nightly toolchain). But in 1.88 and later, automatic garbage collection is enabled by defau…

Automatic garbage collection of old build artifacts* is coming in Rust 1.88 (currently on the beta channel, will become the new stable release in two weeks): https://github.com/rus…

In both of those cases the designated entity was incorporated in the US (KindHearts in Ohio, AHIF-Oregon in Oregon).

In words like icône in French, ô is typically used where the original Greek uses ω (omega). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex_in_French#Indicatio...

units.txt defines `water` like this: water := gram / cm^3 // Standard density of water (defined) 1 g/cm^3 is the maximum density of water at standard pressure (1 atm), which it rea…

Looks like the author has fixed that; it’s now available under the Apache License 2.0.

Since krep doesn’t support regular expressions, it can’t run most of the ripgrep benchmark suite.

M2 Mac Studios were released in June 2023. https://support.apple.com/en-us/111835

Yes, they use Bing’s search index, but the relevant difference is that they promise not to retain logs of your searches associated with your IP address or other identifying data: h…