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Aedes aegypti is a non-native invasive species introduced by humans in the places where these efforts are taking place (including the entire Western hemisphere). They are not essential to native food chains here.

But why should the fairest price be equal to exactly 12 months of earnings? Why not 1 month, or 100 months?

Is there something special about the length of Earth's orbit that makes it the correct ratio for converting flows to values? If a business were incorporated on Mars, would the fair price be one Earth year of earnings, or one Mars year of earnings? (The latter price would be 88% higher.)

Thanks, I missed that 将 was shinjitai. I wonder what caused the weird mixture of glyphs in that example image.

Can you clarify which characters you're talking about? I don't see any examples of Japanese-specific kanji in the simplified Chinese examples.

For example, the first image uses 沟 and 时 forms that are found only in simplified Chinese. In both Japanese and traditional Chinese, these are written 溝 and 時.

The images also correctly use the Chinese forms of 統/统. The Japanese form [0] differs from both and does not appear in these images.

请 as shown in the image is similarly used only in simplified Chinese, not Japanese. In Japanese, the traditional Chinese form is normally used in handwriting, and an alternate form of the 訁 radical (different from either of the Chinese forms) is often used in printed text.

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B5%B1#Japanese

The comment above is about non-rechargable lithium-metal batteries. You are thinking of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

There's some active work recently on fixing blocking issues, e.g.:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/148725

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/149489

So first you say it has always cost this much, but in the next breath you say that its cost has outpaced a high rate of inflation. Mathematically, these can't both be true.

We're commenting on an article about IEEE 754 floating point values. Following the IEEE 754 standard, we have:

    >> isNaN(Infinity)
    false
    >> Infinity == Infinity
    true
    >> Infinity / Infinity == 1
    false

    >> isNaN(0)
    false
    >> 0 == 0
    true
    >> 0 / 0 == 1
    false

Also, you say NaN ("not a number") is "defined as a number" but Infinity is not. I would think every IEEE 754 value is either "a number" or "not a number". But apparently you believe NaN is both and Infinity is neither?

And you say 0 / 0 is "undefined" but the standard requires it to be NaN, which you say is "defined".

> two equal numbers divided by themselves equal 1

That's not true. For example: 0 == 0, but 0/0 != 1.

(See also +Infinity, -Infinity, and -0.)

From over a decade ago, a paper on then-commercially-available browser fingerprinting tech, including a study of its deployment in the wild:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SP.2013.43 Nick Nikiforakis, Alexandros Kapravelos, Wouter Joosen, Christopher Kruegel, Frank Piessens, and Giovanni Vigna. 2013. Cookieless Monster: Exploring the Ecosystem of Web-Based Device Fingerprinting. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP ’13).

Oops, thanks for the correction.

In versions earlier than 1.88, garbage collection required the unstable -Zgc flag (and a nightly toolchain). But in 1.88 and later, automatic garbage collection is enabled by default.

Automatic garbage collection of old build artifacts* is coming in Rust 1.88 (currently on the beta channel, will become the new stable release in two weeks):

https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/12633

*EDIT: For now this only deletes old cached downloads, not build artifacts. Thanks epage for the correction below.

In both of those cases the designated entity was incorporated in the US (KindHearts in Ohio, AHIF-Oregon in Oregon).

In words like icône in French, ô is typically used where the original Greek uses ω (omega).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex_in_French#Indicatio...

units.txt defines `water` like this:

    water := gram / cm^3     // Standard density of water (defined)

1 g/cm^3 is the maximum density of water at standard pressure (1 atm), which it reaches at 3.98°C.

(Or at least, that used to be true by definition. Using the current definition of the kilogram, and the latest measurements of water density, the maximum density is actually closer to 0.99997 g/cm^3.)

Looks like the author has fixed that; it’s now available under the Apache License 2.0.

Since krep doesn’t support regular expressions, it can’t run most of the ripgrep benchmark suite.

M2 Mac Studios were released in June 2023. https://support.apple.com/en-us/111835

Yes, they use Bing’s search index, but the relevant difference is that they promise not to retain logs of your searches associated with your IP address or other identifying data: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

Chris Lattner was 21 or 22 when he created LLVM.

You keep posting this, but the official US inflation numbers do not claim 0.3% year-over-year food inflation (and have never claimed that at any point in the past several years):

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01.htm

This has been pointed out to you more than once, so at this point I assume you are deliberately lying and not just badly confused:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42607919

"Lines of constant bearing" (or "rhumb lines") depend on the choice of poles.

A rhumb line relative to true north looks straight on a standard Mercator projection, but can look like a spiral on another Mercator-style projection where the pole and center-point have been swapped.

It sounds like it is dual-mode / transflective, based on the description of the button that “turns the display into an e-ink format” with ”a huge increase in battery life, up to 7 days of reading.”

The Mac mini G4 turned 20 years old yesterday.

It’s about as old now as the original Mac 128k was during the G4 era.

No, the Consumer Price Index for November 2024 showed inflation of 0.3% over the last month. CPI inflation for food over the last year is 2.4%.

No, the Consumer Price Index shows (seasonally-adjusted) inflation of 0.3% over the last month. The increase for the food category over the past year is 8× higher than that.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01.htm

You can initiate a conversation with anyone while you are connected via satellite. But you do need to set up an emergency contact and/or Family Sharing Group if you want to connect via satellite and receive messages that were sent to you while you were offline.

(I’m referring to the "Messages via Satellite" feature that launched two months ago in iOS 18. This is different from the "Emergency SOS via Satellite" feature that has been around since 2022.)

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156680

Apple's "Dim flashing lights" accessibility option is built into tvOS, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.