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 Discussion on question by tailingfibe…

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Krupip
Mar 14, 2023 19:41
@Nobody While fortnight may be antiquated, and non-native speakers may not be familiar with the term, it's extremely rude for you to stomp your feet, huff an puff, and pronounce that Americans don't know what a fortnight is. it's often repeated through out public education through american history courses, as certain quotes and passages require it's understanding, so it would be a tad bit unusual to find even younger adults who don't know what a fortnight is.
 

 Discussion on answer by AlexP: Is the…

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Krupip
Sep 11, 2022 20:40
You're playing a semantic game, and I'm telling you this doesn't answer my question.
Krupip
Sep 11, 2022 20:40
@AlexP paternity test = biological parentage.
 

 Discussion on answer by Floris: How c…

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hythis
Apr 27, 2021 21:30
@Frank Also Homo sapiens, 100s of thousands of years, not millions between different hominids. Many island species phenotypically differentiate in only 10,000 years (such as species of insect and lizard), species with fast reproductive rates even faster. Maybe chromosomal changes that stop interbreeding between species don't take place on average until 1,000,000 years later, but that has no effect on actual species phenotype.
 

 Discussion on answer by Ruslan: What …

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whn
Feb 13, 2021 00:40
@Ruslan this article : sciencealert.com/… seems to suggest that the woman in question also only has an extra shitty cone, and does not display the ability to view frequencies outside of the common visual spectrum, and her tetrachromy works as I describe previously. It appears the other women either have their nervous system handle the attenuation of the signal, or the extra cone is some how not attached neurologically.
whn
Feb 13, 2021 00:40
@Ruslan Not sure if this affects the tetrachromat line, but my understanding is women with it just have the extra shitty cone from common colorblindness. They don't see more colors like a insect, but have higher sensitivity to the cone freq. Your statement seems to imply something else. Also, what we see is actually not determined just by our cones, and I don't believe tetras have higher "eye bandwidth" to compensate. It's possible nerves automatically scale the the input signal. I don't think you can accurately predict if a human will think the spectrum is wrong based only on tetrachromacy
 

 Discussion on answer by Jontia: Who "…

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whn
Nov 12, 2020 17:20
@Clay07g " The electoral college was designed specifically so that you could be legitimately elected president without the majority vote." True, but the number of house members was meant to expand as the nation grew, not arbitrarily halt at 435 in 1920. There would be 11,000 members if we followed the founding fathers, or 1600, if we followed 1911 precedent, but regardless, the number we have now is too few. We should have at least have around 600 house members to be on par with other nations.
 

 Discussion on question by ZachS: Nice…

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whn
Aug 12, 2020 18:03
@ZachS if learning is better with ugly numbers, that isn't a justification for using them on the test. You shouldn't be learning anything on a test, you should be just demonstrating you know something. Things that are good for learning go in the learning material, IE, homework.
 

 The Litter Box

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whn
Jun 27, 2020 05:31
@trondhansen It would be nice if I could start offloading that information to a QA site and direct people there. I don't use Pets because barely any one uses it and some of the aquarium answers are of particularly poor quality. I respect your decision and I'll keep your advice in mind going forward.
whn
Jun 27, 2020 05:31
@trondhansen Ah that's a good point, pet's is barely used as it is. One thing I've noticed though is that there appears to at least be a desire for a one stop solution for Aquatic QA outside of SE. I mainly answer questions on reddit these days, and there's a lot of frustration with the way information for aquariums and planted tanks is scattered amoungst the stars.
whn
Jun 26, 2020 23:57
@trondhansen Again, only if you are interested.
whn
Jun 26, 2020 23:56
@trondhansen I've also got a proposal written up as well if you would be interested in that, you would also be able to contribute to the proposal on Codidact meta directly once we get enough support to propose it.
whn
Jun 26, 2020 23:55
@trondhansen Hey would you be interested in trying to form a community to create a separate QA site just for Aquarium/Aquatic pet and plants related things? I notice you have a lot of high quality posts on Pets related to aquarium contributions here and are fairly active. This site would be on Codidact, not on SE. They are eager for new communities, and if we get at least a handful of people we could get the site approved fairly soon.
 

 Discussion on question by Dilitante: …

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opa
Sep 27, 2019 13:19
What is a "canteen" in this context?
 

 Discussion on question by rigs: How c…

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opa
Sep 20, 2019 02:37
@thumbtackthief In this case it has four legs, fur, whiskers, slit eyes, cat ears, cat face, cat tail, cat movements etc... But sure, maybe somehow it isn't a cat, only a biologist could tell us if a cat was a cat.
opa
Sep 20, 2019 02:37
@thumbtackthief Some small studies show that people with misophonia generally have strong negative feelings, thoughts, and physical reactions to specific sounds, which the literature calls "trigger sounds". These sounds are apparently usually soft, but can be loud. One study found that around 80% of the sounds were related to the mouth (eating, slurping, chewing or popping gum, whispering, etc.), and around 60% were repetitive. A visual trigger may develop related to the trigger sound.[1][3] It also appears that a misophonic reaction can occur in the absence of an actual sound.[1]
opa
Sep 20, 2019 02:37
@thumbtackthief I'm basing that there is a diagnosis on the fact that Misophonia exists?
opa
Sep 20, 2019 02:37
@rigs I'm pretty sure there is a diagnosis for getting so severely annoyed by such things. In this case, you may be able to get an actual medical diagnosis for this. Regardless your reactions are not normal, most people do not experience what you experience here.
 

 Discussion on answer by Ludo: Does th…

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opa
Aug 9, 2019 00:46
@llama I'm not sure how that article supports "good reasons for fortran to maintain large stake"? The only thing that stood out to me about that was the un-supported assertion that "the ideal language people used was basically fortran", which, also did not actually appear to be the case. "derivative(function)" is no more "basically just fortran" than a for loop is.
opa
Aug 9, 2019 00:46
@llama I definitely wouldn't say "most", some work might be, but in my experience I've never seen any one working with a modern super computing system use fortran, or at least interface directly with it.
 

 Discussion on question by jvn91173: H…

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opa
Aug 7, 2019 08:20
@jvn91173 You don't need deterministic physics. Unless your puzzles rely on precisely the exact same movement no matter what, with exact number, which would be poor design, you don't need the physics to be exactly the same across platforms. Just make your game and ignore this problem of floating point consistency. There are times when this matters, physics is rarely it. At most you'll have to make sure fast math is not turned on (but fma is still turned on).
 

 Discussion on answer by Ville Niemi: …

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opa
May 8, 2019 14:40
@Molot and for a thought experiment we can do top 2% and 3% as well, 48/42 (14% more men) 19.5 million and 47/38 (23% more men) 29.25 million. Heaven forbid you applied this to a much larger country or the whole world, in China with more than 4x the population of the US, 29.25 million turns into 117 million people. Polygamous societies sent the men to war/through life threatening trials/find ways to push them out to keep men/women ratio low. Masai circumcise their young at 12, push them out if they show "weakness", and then send them out into the wilderness for many months to survive.
opa
May 8, 2019 14:40
@Mołot To add to what you said (and I agree) this can be an issue for even top 1% of men. Every man takes 4 wives each out of a 50/50mf population, that alone is enough to offset balance to be noticeable in the population and cause issues (49 vs 46 is 6% more men than women, 3% of US 325 million, that's 9,750,000 people). I also want to mention that the economic issues are still real as well. What happens with health insurance, what happens with inheritance, dependents, divorce etc... there are a lot of economic questions that become extremely complicated with poly marriage.
 

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opa
Apr 17, 2019 07:38
@Fattie Uh... no, that isn't common at all, and also a gross mis-characterization of what happened with Rustler.
 

 Discussion on answer by Richard U: Pu…

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opa
Dec 15, 2018 03:18
This is the correct answer, you should not be bending over backwards for doing the right thing unlike what the other answers are suggesting.
 

 Discussion on answer by motosubatsu: …

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opa
Nov 16, 2018 23:00
In the world of Java, not moving on often has security implications and can provide substantial benefits to usability as Oracle plays catch up with C#, with usually no backward compatibility breaking. There's no doubt that there are immature pushes to very new technologies in the web world, technologies which often don't change anything but the date they were created. In the systems programming world, this is a much rarer occurrence.
opa
Nov 16, 2018 23:00
@motosubatsu Out of curiosity, do you work with web developers? That's the environment where I see the "lets move to a new framework!" for no reason attitude. But on the flip side, if you were, say, a C++ dev, the whole stereotype flips on its head. "New" is no longer made last month, but on the magnitude of years.
 

 Discussion on answer by problemoffice…

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opa
Nov 5, 2018 15:23
@J... Then don't use the GPU, its way easier to reason about it that way, and you can debug it much better. There is simply no place for old opengl in the classroom. By the same logic OpenGL doesn't teach you any real graphics concepts, its just an API. And the whole thing is middled with hardware considerations regardless of whether or not you use the old api. From texture filtering to alpha blending, it isn't about graphics, but considerations of what your hardware is doing and what you have to do to compensate.
opa
Nov 5, 2018 15:23
@J... I'm not sure about oracle, but you simply don't know what you are talking about with respect to opengl. I specified old opengl, old opengl is not very usefull for teaching core concepts because it lies to you, and makes the GPU out to be something it isn't. It becomes harder to learn things like Vulkan or CUDA if you come from immediate mode. Its a tool you won't be able to use forever either, as vendors start to deprecate any support for older version of opengl (which I've already run into issues with). Use libraries with opengl if you want a sandbox, we've got GLM for that.
opa
Nov 5, 2018 15:23
@J... OP could be annoyed that they are learning something obsolete, and they might actually know none of the technologies. In the real world, there is some times a detriment to learning certain technologies which are no longer in use or are niche. In graphics this is a huge problem right now because we still have universities teaching old opengl hat's been far outdated for nearly a decade, and don't model efficient programming nor how a GPU actually works. I don't know if this is actually the case here however.
 

 Discussion on answer by ohwilleke: Ha…

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opa
Nov 4, 2018 16:38
@elliotsvensson Why does that even matter? Christianity =/= conservative... Martin Luther King Jr. was, you know, a Baptist minister after all... Race intolerance is definitely a conservative issue.
 

 Discussion on answer by Machavity: Wh…

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opa
Oct 17, 2018 16:19
@AzorAhai I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion that she gained some social benefit, but I think Machavity put enough information to show that she definitely could have received some. Are you going to deny that being claimed as the schools first minority woman professor couldn't give some benefit? I won't go as far to say that this would mean she wasn't qualified, in fact it kind of shows the opposite (harvard may not have been able to get many minorities who were qualified for the position, thus EW looked like an good hire for diversity in addition to qualifications)
 

 Discussion on answer by nvoigt: Offen…

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opa
Sep 25, 2018 20:17
The diction for the phrase "stream sniping" in addition doesn't leave much room to be ghosting, since "stream" + "sniping" gives a very heavy context of killing someone on a stream, not cheating via extra information (IE as seen in the phrase "ghosting"). So you'll see people use stream sniping to refer to both but not because stream sniping means both, but because it implies both.
opa
Sep 25, 2018 20:17
Saying some one is doing A can implicitly imply they are doing B IE: "I think Mark is running an errand" may imply Mark is using their car in order to get to where they need to go.
opa
Sep 25, 2018 20:16
@JMac The act of looking at some one else's screen in order to get and advantage over them is most certainly ghosting, and **not** stream sniping. However one only needs to ask "is this person stream sniping?" to encompass *both* ideas of stream sniping and ghosting, since the ability to ghost and take advantage of it would be *implied* by stream sniping. A accusation in English *can indeed* imply another accusation.
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 Discussion on question by Keshav Srin…

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opa
Sep 18, 2018 22:56
@Oddthinking NPR and PBS had a recording of Trump talking about 6 - 18 people dead at a time when there was 45 recorded deaths, though it is actually possible he made an honest mistake there.
 

 Discussion between Caleth and snb

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snb
Jul 27, 2018 16:25
So if the base class is Q_OBJECT do signals work?
snb
Jul 27, 2018 16:19
@Caleth templates = no Q_OBJECT = no signals.
snb
Jul 27, 2018 16:19
@Caleth I'm not sure that would work for my specific case, QT doesn't do Q_Objects and templates IIRC, but I think it may be work while for you to post an answer about that for future reference (it doesn't have to be very specific). I might be able to bypass the Q_OBJECT thing via encapsulating it in another widget which swaps MatrixBoxWidgets<T> and links events to it. It wouldn't be pretty though.
snb
Jul 27, 2018 16:19
@NicolBolas I've added more context, tell me if I need to add more
snb
Jul 27, 2018 16:19
@Caleth yes all objects in both the UI table and m_matrix are homogeneous.
snb
Jul 27, 2018 16:19
@NicolBolas It is an opencv thing, m_matrix is a cv::Mat the type of the values in a matrix is interpreted pretty much, defined by an integral value for type. you can query the type via .type(). qvariant came from retrieving the value from the UI, i've updated the code to reflect this.
snb
Jul 27, 2018 16:19
@Caleth No, there is more than one entry point in the sense you are talking about, this is UI code, type needs to be derived for from separate instances. events fire off and cause different things to need to happen. For example, the user can edit the type, the user can load a matrix, the rows can be edited (and type must be maintained) or cols must be edited. All of those happen independently from one another, and are initiated from the UI when the user so chooses. Thus separate switches need to exist for each.
snb
Jul 27, 2018 16:19
@gnat I should mention it isn't just the class hierarchy thing, the question regardless is just not useful and the answers don't address any of my concerns.
snb
Jul 27, 2018 16:19
@Caleth No. the type is only known at runtime, and all the functions that are called with these switch statements are called at runtime, the type can only be known at runtime (I mention this previously, because its defined through UI via user manually selecting type or by loading a separate file). For example, there's a UI function to update the internal matrix with the display widget In order to update the matri I need to set values in the opencv matrix. The only way to set values from a opencv matrix is to also know the type along side it, it is a templated function (at<T>)
snb
Jul 27, 2018 16:19
@gnat most definitely not, the fact that it has switch in the name doesn't mean it helps me (the answers are completely irrelevant to my needs) though it would be nice if there was a duplicate. I'm not looking to put a giant class hierarchy to "solve" this that would just make the code not clean. I need away to have the structure of the switch statement, and also input templated functions into ideally like so: foo<T>(type, bar) where bar is templated inside of foo.
 

 Discussion on answer by T.E.D.: Is th…

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snb
Jul 10, 2018 02:46
By theory, I assume you mean hypothesis here.
 

 Discussion on answer by Konchog: The …

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snb
Jun 21, 2018 03:17
@Renan in such a surface, in what way would it even look like a sea?
snb
Jun 21, 2018 03:17
This question makes no sense to me, where did this even come from? What do you mean by "topology"? Topology to me just means a description of the shape and formation of a surface, object or structure (such as a node graph). You clearly mean it to describe something totally different and with out context is not very useful to most readers.
 

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snb
Apr 13, 2018 17:58
@Kevin "Frankly, it seems like you are simply ignoring this fact" is that a pun?