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justmedep
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- justmedep parentComing from Switzerland to the US: I do not want to leave. Everything is better here… maybe not for the average person but for some individuals.
- Best way for me to get rid of my tinnitus was to get a hearing aid. In my specific case I got the Lyric hearing aid which is a totally invisible hearing aid positioned deep inside the ear canal and it is worn 24/7. It is known to reliably eliminate a tinnitus that is caused by hearing loss in the high frequency range.
- Concord was actually a cash cow for all airlines who had them. The only reason why airlines stopped using Concord was because of the crash and the inherent safety issues that were found. But the actual business model worked - limited in scope but it was highly profitable.
“That said, the airlines that flew the Concorde did make a profit. Concorde was only ever purchased by two airlines: BA and Air France. While the concept of the Concorde might not have been a worldwide hit, it was certainly a good market fit for these two airlines at the time.”
Overall it was obviously a money looser because of the high development costs (paid for by the governments).
- I totally disagree and don’t even know where to begin…
People are different. Some are just not “as resilient” as others. Some have mental issues. Some have other priorities in life. Some people are just overwhelmed when they have to focus on more than one thing (their own wellbeing) - which should and cannot be confused with selflessness.
Not everyone wants to accept the common conceptions of life. And that’s ok.
- „ In comparison, in the context of the European GDPR, the Article 29 Working Party[6] considered hashing to be a technique for pseudonymization that “reduces the linkability of a dataset with the original identity of a data subject” and thus “is a useful security measure,” but is “not a method of anonymisation.”[7] In other words, from the perspective of the Article 29 Working Party, while hashing might be a useful security technique, it is not sufficient to convert personal data into deidentified data.“
https://www.gtlaw-dataprivacydish.com/2021/03/what-is-hashin...
- And Biontech since 2008 and CureVac was founded in 2000 (after their initial CEO made a discovery that enabled Biontech + Moderna).
- RVs also use solar panels as one of the main sources of energy. But I have learned to avoid those flexible solar panels (that Sonos is seemingly using as well) because they do not last a long time. They break usually long before 10 years are over. Also it should be noted that solar panels lose efficiency the hotter they get. Solar panels that are directly glued on the surface have no ventilation and thus get hot, lose efficiency and the heat also does not help to make them last longer. Of course, properly mounted panels you find on most RVs cause a bit more drag. There are military grade flexible solar panels available that don’t have most of the mentioned side effects but they are like 5x more expensive.
- There is official support for auxiliary files in macOS/sandbox. A prime example is the use of SQLite in WAL mode which requires write access to $dir/my_db.sqlite + a bunch of other files in the same directory (for transaction handling etc). But this problem was solved years ago already because Core Data (an apple framework) actually uses SQLite under the hood.
- 3 points
- It is easier to read but harder to debug. If you activate all constraints at the same time and something goes wrong you end up with an exception at activateConstraints. Then you would have to figure out which constraint is the cause of the exception. If you activate the constraints one by one then you will get much more helpful exceptions.
The rule that I followed was:
Use activateConstraints if you actually have a performance problem and otherwise activate constraints one by one.
However since this is a framework this rule may not apply because you don't know how it will be used.
- A single problem can be solved by using many different algorithms.
However, even though algorithm A and B are "correct" they can behave differently when rounding errors are introduced.
For example – if algorithm A uses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm
and B uses naive summation then you can expect the end result of A to be more precise than the end result of B – even though both algorithms are correct.
- I think one YouTube comment named another good reason: The animals were too easy to kill.
"The problem is obvious. The animals were too easy to kill. Imagine trying to chase down a real rabbit or deer with a sword. You will never catch either one and if by some chance you corner them the deer would actually stand a chance of beating you."