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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Python and Java are barely comparable. I adore both languages equally and use them about the same amount at work. They are just different tools better suited to different tasks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Not unless someone methodologically captures all the accounts through interviews and surveys and turns it into one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I agree that anecdotes aren't worthless, but for different reasons. There's actually a saying that goes, "the plural of anecdote isn't data." Anecdotes are just stories. They aren't data points and they aren't peer reviewed. If you want to turn anecdotes into data, you have to do the proper interviews and surveys to actually build a dataset and then get the peer review, but at that point we aren't talking about anecdotes anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ah. That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Not sure I understand. Are you agreeing that the moon landing happened but you also claim the footage is faked? Do you have any reasons to support that? You mention something about radio technology from the 1920s, but the moon landing occurred nearly 50 years later, so I hardly see how that is relevant.

Edit: I misread your comment. Thanks to @[email protected] for pointing it out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm gonna need more than your incredulity to convince me. Like, fun that you think it is inconceivable, but your inability to imagine has no bearing on reality. Especially when there is plenty of evidence to suggest they actually filmed and broadcasted it live. For example, the fact that a live television broadcast was a primary goal of the mission, or the fact that RCA made custom TV cameras for the Apollo program , or that the broadcast lasted for hours, or any of the analyses out there that shows the video is likely real. Also, no one suggested that the Apollo astronauts had a camera crew with them - what a bizarre thing to mention.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Uber Black drivers are commercially licensed in addition to satisfying a bunch of other requirements.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Housing is taxed at the value of the property, not the difference between the value of the property and the purchase price.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why stop there? They're just as real as any number.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just say you recently came into some inheritance and that you are looking into investment opportunities. Then they will expect you to be out of your element, so you won't need to try to pretend you're someone you're not. If they ask about the inheritance, say your grandfather made a fortune selling lumber or something boring like that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I heard it was supposed to be human body temperature, but they used horse body temperature instead because it was close to human body temperature but more... stable.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A vector space is a collection of vectors in which you can scale vectors and add vectors together such that the scaling and addition operations satisfy some nice relationships. The 2D and 3D vectors that we are used to are common examples. A less common example is polynomials. It's hard to think of a polynomial as having a direction and a magnitude, but it's easy to think of polynomials as elements of the vector space of polynomials.

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