Donald Trump has said he has received a letter notifying him he is a target in a US Justice Department investigation into attempts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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A ray of light is fired from the top left vertex of an MxN Chamber, where M a denotes the width and N denotes the height of the chamber. The ray of light advances one grid space per second. ...
Farquaad is interrogating Gingerbread Man:
Gingerbread Man: You are a monster.
Farquaad: I'm not the monster here. You are. You and the rest of that fairy tale gang, poisoning my perfect world. Now, ...
In gatomic.c of glib there are several function declarations that look like this:
gboolean
(g_atomic_int_compare_and_exchange_full) (gint *atomic,
gint ...
Some language specifications invite compilers to make certain assumptions, and behave in completely arbitrary fashion if such functions are violated, even if the code in question would have ...
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A spaceship is crewed entirely by self-aware artificial intelligences, who have no permanent physical bodies; they are processes in a digital environment controlling the ship. This ship is ...
Our house is not connected to a town water supply, we just have a water tank under our house (approx. 12000 litres / 3000 gallons). We have it filled from a water truck every 3-4 weeks. Apparently ...
So a nascent interstellar civilization is exploring the local stellar neighborhood when they encounter an earth-like inhabited planet with a developing medieval civilization. The Arcadians are roughly ...
The following sentence is from GRE Text Completion.
This book cannot be evaluated properly without examining the author's choice of format, which is the inverse of the format of standard academic ...
We know that the orbit of the earth is elliptical considering the force of gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance. But assume that, gravity does not depend on distance. ...
While looking at this article, it mentioned that one cannot test the capacitance of a capacitor while it is on a PCB. The explanation given is:
The reason is, that when a capacitor is inside the ...
I have a race of aliens whose technology roughly corresponds to humanityโs in the early 1970s. Wireless communications via microwaves have been developed, but are only available to important groups ...
I'm trying to change a UK light ceiling rose in a 1920-30's house and after taking the old rose cover off, the wiring has thrown me. It looks like there's 3 of each live, neutral and earth, and some ...
I'm looking for a financial advisor but not someone to tell me about investments. I'm willing to pay for it but I don't want to pay some percentage of my savings/investments. Probably want a fiduciary ...
Say you have a function $f: [0,1] \to [0,1]$ such that:
$f(0)=0$
$f(1)=1$
Let's just say that $f$ is everywhere differentiable (not really necessary)
$f$ is increasing i.e order preserving
Now what ...
I've been studying the relation between free will and the U.S. criminal justice system, and it appears that there is the argument that whether or not a defendant had free will to commit a crime is a ...
Context: I've just started reading Tate's thesis. In it, we start with a local field $k.$ The aim of the section is to describe the structure of the character groups of $k^+$ (the additive group) and ...