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1 points·by headPoet·قبل 10 أشهر·0 comments

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·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
I have a head-torch with a pretty good compromise. The bay either accepts the proprietary battery, or three AAA batteries. The supplied lithium battery lasts longer than the AAA, but it's nice knowing the device will outlive the battery
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·السنة الماضية·discuss
That doesn't really answer the question. Why are legumes worse than nuts, given that the macros of peanuts and cashews are pretty similar?
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·قبل سنتين·discuss
The casino will break even, but for the gamblers there will be a small number that win big, and a much larger number that lose out. Consider two rounds, there's a 25% chance you 4x your money, a 50% chance you 0.75x your money and a 25% chance you 0.25x your money
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·قبل سنتين·discuss
In the UK cell numbers start with 07 and landline numbers start with 01. And there is no region encoded in a cell number, but landline numbers begin with an area code.
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·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
"anything stored in that pointer to memory you got back from malloc() is stored in an area of ram called "the heap", which is moderately slower to access than it is to access the stack." Is this true, or a myth? Ignoring the allocation cost and access patterns making cache misses more likely, surely memory is just memory