Trombone12

Whenever you've not personally done the error propagation and rounding yourself you shouldn't assume someone else has done it for you, and you should check if they have before trusting it.

For example, the number you are viewing could have been produced with finite precision floating point math and then just rounded to an arbitrary chosen (small) number of digits.

Not sure how you're supposed to do floating point math while following that rule... you'll have better luck with writing C code with all semicolons in place.

No, what is weird is that the original author seems to think you can look at a number and know how many significant digits it has.

This is almost completely wrong: the number of significant digits is something given by metadata, you cannot look at a number and know that it has been properly rounded to the correct number of significant digits. You always need to be told this special circumstance because most numbers you encounter have in fact not been properly rounded.

I guess the lesson is that not even Texans think nuclear is so safe it doesn't need weather protection, or maybe it's some pesky federal regulation that says that at least the reactor needs to be protected...

As Marge excuses herself after joining in with the taunting of Lisa's vegetarianism: "I got caught in the rhythm".

If it still doesn't make sense to you: don't worry about it, it's all just made up anyway.

I mean, it's pretty realistic at incinerator plants, the concentrations and temperatures are such that you use up some reasonably small percentage of the total plant effect on capture and you can capture 90 % of the generated CO2.

The trick will be to make sure economic incentives don't lead to people simply building so many incinerators that you end up emitting more than before anyway...

And then it becomes comes time to dismantle them, and they turn capital intensive again.

Texas had no power because they forgot everything they learnt the hard way from their "once-in-a-decade snow storm" they had 2011.

Coal piles freezing solid because there is no roof, gas valves impossible to operate because nobody would put a box around them, no water too cool reactor cores because the pipes froze: these are not failures somehow cascading from the fact they build some windmills.

Uh, that was about a very small bit of two songs that were very similar/identical. The notion that you can't just steal a large part a song and it'll be legal because it's not the full work is a pretty obvious one. Beyond that a ship-of-Theseus type ambiguity kicks in regarding to how much is needed to be taken for it to be thefth, as it does for most things that can be taken apart.

I guess it is worrying that the trial didn't decide if bits that small are protected or not before going on to decide if infringement happened, but I think this is mostly worrying for Katy Perry as it indicates that the hired lawyers are bad at their job.

Tesla most likely had undiagnosed and untreated OCD: He was obsessed with the number three, compulsively walking three times around a building before entering it. When swimming he would do 33 laps, and if he lost count would have to stop over before being able to leave.

Tesla was disgusted by earrings. He had to calculate the volume of his food to enjoy it. Pretty clearly he had mental issues, which is usually what the more crude expression "being kooky" implies.

While in the US, there are people furiously arguing for having ICMBs in silos that you have to launch as soon as you have a warning because if the nukes are coming for the silos the nukes will be "wasted".

But this fact that the silos will be targeted and destroyed is actually a feature because it means it's North Dakota that gets to become a wasteland and that's not really a bit of the US you care about, or so the reasoning goes. The nuclear sponge they call it (the ICBMs silos needing to be targeted by enemy nukes, not North Dakota proper).

Look, you got to read the whole thing, and don't ignore the bit that says: "The Command Post followed proper procedure and provided timely and accurate notifications to personnel in the Kaiserslautern Military Community"

No, the article recounts the base sending out a live warning to base personnel.

If you've sent an alert to the soldiers on the base, you've decided the warning is genuine, so the conclusion must be that they don't inform the surrounding areas as soon as they've accepted a warning as accurate.

US defence planners: "Attacking with all nukes as soon as we get a warning of an enemy launch is the only rational way to use these weapons"

US missileers: "I'ma wait a bit to see if maybe it's just Joyce that forgot to update the spreadsheet today before destroying the world"

What is the end goal of this argument? That everything is great now?

Actually, I don't think the "free speech" argument as deployed in defence the unmoderated promotion of fascism actually has a coherent concept of quality: the entire point of the argument is there will never be a time when an idea can legitimately be locked out of "the market", because there simply isn't any fair way to judge ideas.

Whenever the market idea is mentioned, it's always to invoked the principles of unregulated exchange, and not to remind readers of things like legislation about quality control for products to enter the market. And it is always argued that this market should have a constant and unceasing exchange (and more to the point that their particular idea should be given more space), so this isn't a market that works toward a consensus but rather a site that needs to be maintained in constant conflict.

The point being made is that photoshop manipulates matrices and filters are circles made of translucent material you put on your camera; and in fact many of those photographic filters don't primarily filter light but rather distorts it in some desired fashion. "Transformations" would be much more accurate.

The fact that your disinterest for rural infrastructure projects in Ghana mean you don't know about them doesn't mean they don't exist. It just tells the reader you haven't bothered to search for something like "Uganda rural internet project"; unsurprisingly for large infrastructure projects in a poor country, it's being done bit by bit and so there are in fact dozens of projects.

Not entirely sure I buy the idea that Cobain saved music from the recoded medium...

I think the proper statement is that it's possible, but not efficient. Learning go from a go-program seems much like learning assembly from gcc.

> "a star tracker, a mount that precisely rotates your camera at the same rate as the Earth"

It's called an equatorial mount! GAH!

Incidentally that setup they post a picture of looks pretty sketchy, looks like the counterweight will bonk the table if you expose for too long and you also have to move the table rather than the mount to point in another azimuth.

Isn't the point of an audit is that it tells you what problems to fix? It would be concerning if this audit happens only shortly before, or even after, the main ranking happens.

But if the increased ranking is done based on data from, say a half a year later, then that just seems like a normal audit effect? That it might just make the client better at gaming the rules is true for a normal audit too.

Since it's not from subject matter experts, expect things like sampling bias and administrative reporting issues to be completely neglected. That is to say, the uncertainty estimate is simply based on observed variance.

Pretty clearly the deal there is that false claims that a place is meritocratic makes the actual injustices worse.

Another expression for "eternally true" is often "bloody obvious" though. And even in cases where it isn't, the first source is not usually the one we go back to; it's certainly not true that we all keep reading Euclid's Elements to learn about the deep mysteries of maths.

No, just being right is an insufficient explanation for why textbooks will obtain the mythical status of the works you reference.

An obvious difference is that it's the semen that makes things unclean, while for menstruation it's the woman herself that is the unclean agent.

For semen, there is a clear distinction that it is anything it touches becomes dirty and needs washing. But for menstruation its whatever the woman touches that becomes unclean (and for seven days it seems!), not merely what the blood touches.

The original comment thus provides an explanation for why these two cases are treated separately, which is basically what you asked for.

No, "array" would be unambiguous. Asking for a list of different elm species a valid interpretation.

Another poster pointed out that he will obviously pay it back by investing in bitcoin!

Bit weird to not use spell check, but when writing a mail to a crank... eh, whatever.

I'm honestly more surprised the vice editor left out a [sic] after "fdar", did they really miss that one?

And how do you tell it's not one of those lights we've had in the sky for ages if you're driving in your car?