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Can someone explain why authors do this?
It's a more easily readable drop in for A and B. And it being convention helps remove one unfamiliar element from a new topic.
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Can someone explain why authors do this?
It's a more easily readable drop in for A and B. And it being convention helps remove one unfamiliar element from a new topic.
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Apples to Apples
Actually, apple varieties are preserved via grafting. If you take an apple seed, the tree that will grow from it only has 50% of the DNA of the tree that made the apple. So there is absolutely no guarantee that the taste was preserved across generations.
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You can't see him!!!!
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Forsén stated in the 2019 documentary film Losing Lena, "I retired from modeling a long time ago. It's time I retired from tech, too... Let's commit to losing me.
From Wikipedia
She was a paid model, so I don't consider the usage unethical based on that. But I like this comment from a journal:
In today's age of high-resolution digital image technology, it seems difficult to argue that a 512 × 512 image produced with a 1970s-era analog scanner is the best we have to offer as an image quality test standard".
Lmao, they do have a point though!
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Anon is a T.A.
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Let's not pretend these are kids who have a test for their first time. They all were told to not cheat and that cheating would lead to expulsion.
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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox
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We already have AI in Firefox. And not gonna lie, offline (I.e. absolutely private) translations for webpages is pretty neat.
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📄 rule
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Which is awesome, because every number up halves the size. This, combined with the standard way that paper weights are given (e g. 80g/m2) allows you to easily calculate how much a piece of paper weights: 1 A4 80g/m2 weighs 5g (1/2^4 * 80g)
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xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation
This is wildly dependent on infrastructure. Both for the convenience and danger axis.
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Is this what we're doing?
If voting prevents literal murder then both parties obviously don't stand for the same values.
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Autism
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We're sorry.
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No shit it's bullshit. It's a meme about AI text in a research paper that makes fun of Elsevier by having ChatGPT write an apology template for Elsevier.
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LPT Do it.
git tag "FINAL FINAL FINAL DRAFT - v20"
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Lokführer dürfen streiken - Arbeitsgericht lehnt Antrag der Bahn ab
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Meinst du das unironisch, oder bist du der Typ "wenn ich nicht kann darf niemand"?
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A cool guide to PIN code safety
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It is! How long does it even take to type in 40320 digits?!?
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Anon is a T.A.
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At university most teachers have serious dedication. It's just not for teaching, lmao.
But once you do your thesis, discussion in their respective fields of research or general expertise is really awesome.
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Auf Bundesstraße innerorts: Keine Pflicht zur Bildung einer Rettungsgasse
Meine erste Reaktion war auch wtf, aber es scheint nur um die Feinheiten des Gesetzes zu gehen.
Obwohl das BayObLG das Urteil des AG Augsburg teils aufhob, bedeutet dies nicht, dass der Fahrer nun ohne Strafe bleibt. Das AG Augsburg muss jetzt nämlich erneut feststellen, ob der Fahrer eine Ordnungswidrigkeit begangen hat, indem er das Polizeifahrzeug behinderte. Aus dem ersten Urteil des AG Augsburg geht hervor, dass der Autofahrer für eine Dauer von 5 Minuten einem Polizeiauto die Weiterfahrt verhinderte, obwohl dieses mit Blaulicht unterwegs war. Das AG muss nun prüfen, ob eine Ordnungswidrigkeit vorlag, was für den Fahrer ein Bußgeld nach §§ 38 Abs. 1 Satz 2, 49 Abs. 3 Nr. 3 StVO nach sich ziehen könnte, da bei Blaulicht alle übrigen Verkehrsteilnehmer sofort freie Bahn zu schaffen haben.
Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass es dennoch eine Strafe gibt, da nicht zügig freie Bahn für das Einsatzfahrzeug geschaffen wurde. Es besteht de jure keine Pflicht eine Rettungsgasse zu bilden. Aber eine Rettungsgasse zu bilden ist der einzige Weg sofort freie Bahn zu schaffen, also der facto ...
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If you're old enough to remember, it's a little unsettling and strange.
You're missing the third panel of that comic.
Labeled 2050 it shows the car without bugs, but also without the human.
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Creators of Slay the Spire will migrate their next game to a new engine if Unity doesn't completely revert their changes
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I read rust as the programming language for way too long reading that article, lmao.
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xkcd #2946: 1.2 Kilofives
Bro,we have an international standard for this. To count things you need to use the unit of mole. This town has 9.96323e-21 mol of people in it.
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It's October, soon we'll switch to winter time. Does anybody know what happened to the suggestion to remove it?
The public poll was extremely skewed, mostly Germans voted.
Biologists argue against permanent summer time, people are in favor of summer time. But most people haven't looked into the issue enough. Do you like to get up early? Then summer time is indeed better for you. But for most people it's not. But summer is nice and it's really complicated to think about time and the sun and how one changes when we move the clocks, so most people think they prefer summer time. Public health and public opinion run opposite in this case.
At the moment we have one time zone all the way from Spain to like Poland. Poland doesn't want to give up summer time, Spain doesn't want to give up standard time. (Or was it the other way around?). They are on the fringes of the time zone, geographically speaking and feel the negative effects the most. Obviously neither country wants to make the situation worse for its citizens, so no agreement has been reached.
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Toxicology Rule
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I'd imagine a sedative overdose is the best way to go. First you get unconscious due to the sedative and once you don't feel anything anymore your heart stops beating.