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Have you ever spoken to a person from Spain?

In current times, there will be more people offended that some prefer to use "main" rather than "master", than people that will be offended if "master" is used

Freudian slop?

Rotations have determinant 1, but not all matrices of determinant 1 in the connected component of the identity are rotations

But is that the same thing? 300cpm says something about the risk to someone near the worker, not about what the worker has been exposed to

To more precisely represent the words of the person you're replying to, you should have said "memories" not "opinions".

I found this parody of an AI generated video, full of all typical errors in AI-generated art, very funny. Or was this how AI-generated video's looked a year ago? Great music too

The most important is that they capture enough light, for which the lenses must have a large diameter. 50mm is typical. Magnification around 10x is good. This is referred to as 10x50. I have a Celestron Skymaster 15x70 myself, which is specifically for night sky observation. The 70mm is very good, but the weight and the magnification make it difficult to hold still without a tripod, though you can still use it without, e.g. lying on your back

According to the article, the other way around didn't happen: the legalization didn't decrease illegal gambling

That is not when an encryption algorithm is usually considered to be broken, it just means that a certain key length is not sufficient anymore. You can break 20 bit RSA with pen and paper, but as long as a linear change in the key length causes an exponential increase in the decryption time, the algorithm is not broken. At this moment, the record for the factorization of a specific RSA key is one of 829 bits, which suggests (by extrapolation) that within a few decades 1024 bits may not be safe if your adversary has the resources. No (reasonable) key length can be expected to be safe forever, even without any mathematical breakthroughs

You don't need to buy a place to live in the cities. In Amsterdam, 70 percent of the places are for rent and over 2/3 of those are in the social sector (almost 50% of the total), meaning that there is a cap on the rent.

It is ironic that you would speak of a country's values, especially in the context of the USA, where many people that consider each other Americans don't even accept each other's values

I think this inverts cause and effect: they often were money lenders because they were excluded from more traditional jobs and/or land ownership

The 8x8 is just a choice made for jpeg, the DCT can be done for any m x n array (or m x n x k x ...). Here the full image is transformed

A real image not, but a digital image built up from pixels certainly is band limited. A sharp edge will require contributions from components across the whole spectrum that can be supported on a matrix the size of the image, the highest of which is actually called the Nyquist frequency

Another thing that was done in football, and could be done in chess as well to reduce the number of draws, was to grant 1 point for a draw, but 3 points for a win, up from 2 points in the 90s (earlier in England)

> Chernobyl was entirely a product of design compromises due to cost savings, combined by a totalitarian system suppressing the known impact of those design decisions.

This sounds exactly like what could happen when a private for-profit company would exploit nuclear, which is already happening

> This is bunk, even if we forget that campaign donations aren't bribes

Are you sure? A quick search seems to indicate that Boeing certainly makes campaign donations

I think the intended difference in tone would be that between

> "Can you run the SQL update in prod?"

(optionally with "please" appended) and

> "Run the SQL update in prod"

(or something like that)

I actually think it should be considerably higher

+1 for read-only access

Great, thanks!

Could you explain how this works?

From what I understand this is not about forcing individuals to use one platform it another, but rather about what the official instances themselves use. And I very definitely think the people can and should force the EU to switch away from platforms like Twitter

There's a typo in the article: it should be "all our bug are belong to us" (rather than "all our bugs")

I'm not sure if this was exaggerated on our side of the straight, but here we read quite a lot about Brexit politicians (including Boris Johnson) complaining about made up EU regulations they'd have to follow (a famous example was the ban on curved bananas)

Thanks, I'll check it out!

I have often seen people on HN with mind boggling (to me) incomes to whom houses that seem relatively very inexpensive are inaccessible. Why is that? Naively I would think you could rent for 30k/y and save enough in just a few years to buy a house without a mortgage

I'm not an expert in any of these, but in the past few years, in addition to the success of LLM's for natural language processing, I have repeatedly read about the impressive advances in SAT solvers and in proof assistants. Given how impressive LLM's are in spite of their inability to reliably perform reasoning tasks or follow instructions with logical strictness, I wonder how much more impressive it could get if such systems got integrated

I'm not a native English speaker. I didn't get what is wrong with the sentence

> “States were further required to limit soot from power plants, cars and other sources to 2.5 microns, or 28 times smaller than [who can be sure what this means?] the width of a human hair.”

that is quoted in the text. Should they have said "soot particles"? Or is it something else? And why can't we be sure what "28 times smaller than" means?