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un52qh | As an expatriate, I’m endlessly amused at how possums can freak out people who’ve never seen one before. | The Bison
Majestic and beautiful beasts. | 200 | AskAnAmerican |
un52qh | As an expatriate, I’m endlessly amused at how possums can freak out people who’ve never seen one before. | 'Possums are cool enough, for sure!
But my little vote goes to Bobcats. They're kind of a mini-me version of a panther. All the same characteristics, just a lot smaller.
They can be just as dangerous as a panther though, so if you spot one you need to stay clear. Bobcats are crazy territorial and will most definitel... | 140 | AskAnAmerican |
un52qh | As an expatriate, I’m endlessly amused at how possums can freak out people who’ve never seen one before. | [mountain goats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_goat) - To me, they don’t really look like goats that can be found elsewhere, but maybe I’ve not seen enough of the world’s goats. Either way, they’re pretty nimble for being so brawny.
Edit: Reading a bit of the article, they’re not goats despite the name. So, t... | 100 | AskAnAmerican |
un552t | The resonance of the American accent is quite the most difficult part for me to understand.
It's there with every word but still hard to imitate.
Angggg kind of sound.
Can you suggest how a non native speaker learn this resonance?
Or is it just Vocal Fry? | Is there any certain part of America you're referring to? Accents vary greatly depending on where you are. | 730 | AskAnAmerican |
un552t | The resonance of the American accent is quite the most difficult part for me to understand.
It's there with every word but still hard to imitate.
Angggg kind of sound.
Can you suggest how a non native speaker learn this resonance?
Or is it just Vocal Fry? | OP you may be talking about vocal fry?
https://www.voices.com/blog/vocal-fry/
In which case it's not an accent, it's a... Fad? Not sure the exact definition, but it's definitely not used by everyone. Mainly young women. | 440 | AskAnAmerican |
un552t | The resonance of the American accent is quite the most difficult part for me to understand.
It's there with every word but still hard to imitate.
Angggg kind of sound.
Can you suggest how a non native speaker learn this resonance?
Or is it just Vocal Fry? | I don't notice a buzz in any of the American accents I have encountered. | 390 | AskAnAmerican |
un5yll | By **technological standard** I mean OSI (TCP\\IP) protocol, SQL commands, XML, JSON, coding standards KISS, DRY, YAGNI, design patters
By **IT trends** I mean UML, microservices, project manifestations AGILE, SCRUM, REST and SOAP protocols, NoCode, latest programming languages (Go, Rust, Typescript, Kotlin)
One time... | There are two kinds of standard: de jure and de facto.
De jure, "by right", standards are written down and backed by a recognised body, often a standards body but not necessarily. For example ISO/IEC 27001 and ANSI Common Lisp and ANSI C.
De facto, "in fact, whether by right or not", standards are not backed by a rec... | 30 | AskComputerScience |
un61oz | Do Americans strictly trace their ages using their birthdays? Is it unusual to consider yourself one year older when the new year comes? Even though your birthday hasn't come yet? | Yes we count our age by our last birthday.
Between times or close to our next birthday, we might say "almost" the next age. | 670 | AskAnAmerican |
un61oz | Do Americans strictly trace their ages using their birthdays? Is it unusual to consider yourself one year older when the new year comes? Even though your birthday hasn't come yet? | I count my age by how many trips I take around the Sun, not how many trips the Earth takes around the Sun .
Strictly my birthday. Same for anyone I know. | 280 | AskAnAmerican |
un61oz | Do Americans strictly trace their ages using their birthdays? Is it unusual to consider yourself one year older when the new year comes? Even though your birthday hasn't come yet? | Wait...is there somewhere that uses New Years? | 160 | AskAnAmerican |
un626k | What do you think about that it is mandatory to vote in Australia? would it change America? | Australian here and honestly I'd prefer the American system.
Everyone should be allowed to vote, but not required by law to. | 980 | AskAnAmerican |
un626k | What do you think about that it is mandatory to vote in Australia? would it change America? | We’d certainly have a lot more uninformed voters. They’d probably all vote for [insert party here]. | 740 | AskAnAmerican |
un626k | What do you think about that it is mandatory to vote in Australia? would it change America? | I'd like to see how many votes there are for fictional, dead, or otherwise unknown characters in countries that force you to vote. There are people that do that here when you don't have to vote. | 600 | AskAnAmerican |
un66b6 | Which state(s) would you say generally range between 65-75F the most often, with an ideal amount of humidity? Ive lived in Arizona where the heat is far too intense, and in illinois where the humidity is enough to kill you. Looking to move somewhere with much better weather.
Edit: For those claiming illinois humidity ... | No state does that. San Diego is close, but is generally a bit warmer than that. | 8,640 | AskAnAmerican |
un66b6 | Which state(s) would you say generally range between 65-75F the most often, with an ideal amount of humidity? Ive lived in Arizona where the heat is far too intense, and in illinois where the humidity is enough to kill you. Looking to move somewhere with much better weather.
Edit: For those claiming illinois humidity ... | Southern coastal California has some of the most consistent and ideal weather conditions for human life in the world. It's actually so consistent it kinda gets boring. It does get chilly at night during the winter but on average you'll find the weather somewhere between 60-80f but usually in the 70s. | 5,660 | AskAnAmerican |
un66b6 | Which state(s) would you say generally range between 65-75F the most often, with an ideal amount of humidity? Ive lived in Arizona where the heat is far too intense, and in illinois where the humidity is enough to kill you. Looking to move somewhere with much better weather.
Edit: For those claiming illinois humidity ... | I'm gonna preface that there's only a few places like that in the US and they're all eye-wateringly expensive (like, the *cheapest* home is $1M+).
The only places that come to mind are San Diego and Berkeley/Emeryville/Oakland.
There's places that have a little bit colder winters (50F/10C) like Santa Barbara and Sant... | 2,040 | AskAnAmerican |
un73pn | I was always interested in that, since small towns in America usually has very limited transport options , unlike suburbs of big cities. Especially those who are younger than 16 and don't have driver's license. Are there school buses for that cases, or the school buses are used generally only for elementary school? In ... | There are school buses almost everywhere, including for high school students. We don’t expect children, including teenagers, to use public transportation to get to school. | 740 | AskAnAmerican |
un73pn | I was always interested in that, since small towns in America usually has very limited transport options , unlike suburbs of big cities. Especially those who are younger than 16 and don't have driver's license. Are there school buses for that cases, or the school buses are used generally only for elementary school? In ... | To school, you take a school bus for all grades.
To larger towns, you get a ride with a parents or friend or you bike or walk. I know people who biked 10 to 15 miles to work as teens in rural New England. If you can't get a ride, you don't go.
Edit: added units. | 310 | AskAnAmerican |
un73pn | I was always interested in that, since small towns in America usually has very limited transport options , unlike suburbs of big cities. Especially those who are younger than 16 and don't have driver's license. Are there school buses for that cases, or the school buses are used generally only for elementary school? In ... | Public schools they have to bus you. The ride to school may be 45 min to an hour. They don't pick you up from your house, but rather a set location where other kids will gather.
If private school, you can pay for a busing service, depending, or you drive your kids yourself.
Usually kids in the city are okay on p... | 200 | AskAnAmerican |
un75f0 | Hi, I've been recently given this task where there's a file given named "test.txt" and within the file there's a line, now I've to sort them alphabetically. I'm aware of how to sort them but can't figure out how do I read the words as separate strings so that I can perform sort on them.
Done this as of now, thanks!!
... | You can use the `>>` to read a single word, i.e. all characters up to a whitespace:
string word;
fstream >> word;
Alternatively you can read the entire line as you do now and implement you own function that splits the line into words. Basically you do this by iterating over every character in the ... | 30 | cpp_questions |
un7vhd | Im curious, I've seen it in movies bunch of times in suburban area the guy is pulling his wheelie bin on sidewalk and leaves is there.
How does that work? You get the bin from local waste collection company or you have to buy your own? Then what, you just leave it on sidewalk at certain time and get it back to your ya... | Garbage truck comes a certain day of the week, that morning you leave it by the curb and the truck empties the bin into the back of the truck and leaves the bin where it was. You can then put it back where it goes wherever.
Who gets the garbage bin is entirely dependent on city, I have had it supplied to me and had to... | 1,030 | AskAnAmerican |
un7vhd | Im curious, I've seen it in movies bunch of times in suburban area the guy is pulling his wheelie bin on sidewalk and leaves is there.
How does that work? You get the bin from local waste collection company or you have to buy your own? Then what, you just leave it on sidewalk at certain time and get it back to your ya... | It depends where you live. Generally you wheel the bin down on a designated day and pick it back up after the garbage man empties it. | 430 | AskAnAmerican |
un7vhd | Im curious, I've seen it in movies bunch of times in suburban area the guy is pulling his wheelie bin on sidewalk and leaves is there.
How does that work? You get the bin from local waste collection company or you have to buy your own? Then what, you just leave it on sidewalk at certain time and get it back to your ya... | I don’t see it mentioned here, but some places do not have any government subsidized trash collection at all. I have some friends who have to load their stuff in their vehicle and drive it to the dump. They live out in the country, however. Suburban or urban areas will have some kind of collection service. I think.... | 240 | AskAnAmerican |
un8cgg | I recently saw an article claiming that right and left wing people have the areas of the brain responsible for fear and empathy developed differently and that this was the cause of their political differences. Does this hypothesis has any merit among neuroscientists? | I say *no* (I am a neuroscientist)
What usually happens is, you collect a bunch of MRI data. This takes the form of a huge block of data, a datapoint for every cubic millimeter or so of brain tissue, every second or so (called a "voxel"). You collect an hours worth of this data for dozens of individuals - now you have... | 10,010 | AskScience |
un8cgg | I recently saw an article claiming that right and left wing people have the areas of the brain responsible for fear and empathy developed differently and that this was the cause of their political differences. Does this hypothesis has any merit among neuroscientists? | We talked about it in grad school(political science), I am going to try to find [source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/)
The gist of it though is there is a difference in the brain as you said, and it is statistically relevant, but the effect is just not that strong. There is also still no good... | 1,000 | AskScience |
un8cgg | I recently saw an article claiming that right and left wing people have the areas of the brain responsible for fear and empathy developed differently and that this was the cause of their political differences. Does this hypothesis has any merit among neuroscientists? | As tempting as it is to judge one's ideological opposites, and how satisfying it might be to have some scientific data that could be massaged to support that judgement, I think causation and correlation's on-again-off-again, tempestuous relationship is important to think about here. I don't personally think structural ... | 300 | AskScience |
un975o | Trump vs Biden again? And if yes, who do you think will win and WHY? | My head hurts. | 6,110 | AskAnAmerican |
un975o | Trump vs Biden again? And if yes, who do you think will win and WHY? | God fucking kill me. | 3,520 | AskAnAmerican |
un975o | Trump vs Biden again? And if yes, who do you think will win and WHY? | I think they are both going to be done and buried tbh… hope someone way younger gets the spot. Tired of seeing these old geezers in office. | 1,860 | AskAnAmerican |
un9aln | [Previous weeks!](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/search?sort=new&restrict_sr=on&q=flair%3ASASQ)
**Please Be Aware**: We expect everyone to read the rules and guidelines of this thread. Mods *will* remove questions which we deem to be too involved for the theme in place here. We *will* remove answers wh... | There's a trope of a medieval knight and his trusty squire traveling through the countryside on quests.
I know quests didn't really happen but how many squires or servants would accompany an average, mid level knight on his journeys?
Like for example, a knight has his knight's fee in Swabia and he's traveling to Ital... | 100 | AskHistorians |
un9aln | [Previous weeks!](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/search?sort=new&restrict_sr=on&q=flair%3ASASQ)
**Please Be Aware**: We expect everyone to read the rules and guidelines of this thread. Mods *will* remove questions which we deem to be too involved for the theme in place here. We *will* remove answers wh... | Would the annexation of serbia, even though that was unlikely an initial goal of Austro-Hungarian empire, have gone to Austrian empire or Hungarian kingdom? I'm sure the Austrians would have wanted to keep it, but it mostly bordered Hungary and sounds like a disrupting event had it succeeded . | 50 | AskHistorians |
un9aln | [Previous weeks!](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/search?sort=new&restrict_sr=on&q=flair%3ASASQ)
**Please Be Aware**: We expect everyone to read the rules and guidelines of this thread. Mods *will* remove questions which we deem to be too involved for the theme in place here. We *will* remove answers wh... | (Book suggestion on Christianity)
I would like to read a book on the history of the early Christian church (up through and including the East-West Schism). The two books I'm looking at are MacCulloch's *Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years* and Robert Louis Wilken's *The First Thousand Years: A Global History... | 30 | AskHistorians |
un9u8w | So I was looking for job offers, and I came across an HTML email developer, it pays a bit more than what I am doing right now (technical designer), but I never heard of this kind of jobs, in my mind, it sounds like quite simple. I googled and I found that it was mostly doing HTML and debugging through different browser... | The HTML in HTML emails is a tightly restricted subset of HTML since it can only be what's safe enough to embed in a webmail client. So I imagine it would be pretty annoying since so much of what you Google wouldn't be usable and most of the techniques you end up using would be considered bad practices on normal web pa... | 280 | AskProgramming |
un9u8w | So I was looking for job offers, and I came across an HTML email developer, it pays a bit more than what I am doing right now (technical designer), but I never heard of this kind of jobs, in my mind, it sounds like quite simple. I googled and I found that it was mostly doing HTML and debugging through different browser... | It's basically doing 90s style HTML (and very limited inline CSS)... because most email clients only support very old + basic HTML/CSS.
It's fairly straight forward work, because not much changes... you just need to do lots of compatibility testing.
But it can be frustrating, because you won't be getting to play wi... | 90 | AskProgramming |
un9u8w | So I was looking for job offers, and I came across an HTML email developer, it pays a bit more than what I am doing right now (technical designer), but I never heard of this kind of jobs, in my mind, it sounds like quite simple. I googled and I found that it was mostly doing HTML and debugging through different browser... | I imagine a large part of the job will be finding ways to bypass the spam filters on gmail and outlook | 70 | AskProgramming |
un9vmo | The Stonewall Riots were a watershed moment in American queer history, but personally I didn't hear about them until some point in college - they weren't even mentioned in any history or social studies classes. I'm curious whether they're at all widely known outside of the New York area. | They were briefly covered in AP US history in my high school in the late 90s.
My teacher was a very liberal activist type teacher. I don’t know if it was part of the normal AP US History curriculum.
Most of what I know about them was from just reading about history after high school. | 250 | AskAnAmerican |
un9vmo | The Stonewall Riots were a watershed moment in American queer history, but personally I didn't hear about them until some point in college - they weren't even mentioned in any history or social studies classes. I'm curious whether they're at all widely known outside of the New York area. | When I went to school (80s-90s), History covered very little after WW2, except for brief discussions of Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War. Anything recent of a more cultural nature we were expected to just pick up ourselves, I think; to be fair, that mostly worked. Now that we’re talking about something over 50 years ... | 180 | AskAnAmerican |
un9vmo | The Stonewall Riots were a watershed moment in American queer history, but personally I didn't hear about them until some point in college - they weren't even mentioned in any history or social studies classes. I'm curious whether they're at all widely known outside of the New York area. | They're mentioned, but typically as an example of the general societal unrest during the 60s rather than directly focused upon. | 60 | AskAnAmerican |
unaazq | So, several times in my career over the years, I have contemplated a switch to an IT career. My focus would be networks and/or security. My father in an IT lifer and have several good friends in the IT field. I myself am an industry biologist. While I absolutely love science and am passionate about my work, some toxic ... | I'm 38, went back to school at 35 and got my associates degree in CIS/MIS. Graduated a year ago. I'm finishing up my second contracted project this month and starting my first direct hire IT role next month in desktop support. Ill be enrolling in the fall to pursue my bachelor's as well. I also have a wife and 3 kids, ... | 4,390 | ITCareerQuestions |
unaazq | So, several times in my career over the years, I have contemplated a switch to an IT career. My focus would be networks and/or security. My father in an IT lifer and have several good friends in the IT field. I myself am an industry biologist. While I absolutely love science and am passionate about my work, some toxic ... | Why do you care what your friends think? If they're not ambitious, that's their problem. You can make plenty of money as a 40 year old just starting in IT. Go for it. | 840 | ITCareerQuestions |
unaazq | So, several times in my career over the years, I have contemplated a switch to an IT career. My focus would be networks and/or security. My father in an IT lifer and have several good friends in the IT field. I myself am an industry biologist. While I absolutely love science and am passionate about my work, some toxic ... | You have a STEM degree, you have a good story to tell, you (presumably) have a work ethic that will enable you to be successful. Go for it. | 700 | ITCareerQuestions |
unacle | I am experimenting with A\* pathfinding, and I have been using the Wikipedia pseudo code for reference. It works fine, but I have a question regarding optimization...
Towards the end, I have to check if a node is in the open list:
if neighbor not in openSet
Assuming the openSet is a min heap, what is the most ... | Hashsets, bitsets. | 50 | cpp_questions |
unaikd | Welcome to our weekly feature, Ask Anything Wednesday - this week we are focusing on **Biology, Chemistry, Neuroscience, Medicine, Psychology**
Do you have a question within these topics you weren't sure was worth submitting? Is something a bit too speculative for a typical /r/AskScience post? No question is too big o... | [Neuroscience]
It’s said that, when you go though some trauma (I’m thinking about ptsd) your brain is physically damaged in the process. How can that happen? How does that actually happen? (So what is damaged and how)
Thanks! | 240 | AskScience |
unaikd | Welcome to our weekly feature, Ask Anything Wednesday - this week we are focusing on **Biology, Chemistry, Neuroscience, Medicine, Psychology**
Do you have a question within these topics you weren't sure was worth submitting? Is something a bit too speculative for a typical /r/AskScience post? No question is too big o... | If a physically and psychologically healthy person experiences no significant situations of fear, stress or excitement on any given day, will adrenaline still have a role to play in their bodily function on that day?
In other words, does adrenaline have a role to play outside of the fight-or-flight response? | 170 | AskScience |
unaikd | Welcome to our weekly feature, Ask Anything Wednesday - this week we are focusing on **Biology, Chemistry, Neuroscience, Medicine, Psychology**
Do you have a question within these topics you weren't sure was worth submitting? Is something a bit too speculative for a typical /r/AskScience post? No question is too big o... | I've always wondered if the electricity in our bodies has been observed to dissipate when we die or when we go to sleep. | 130 | AskScience |
unbdc6 | What condiments do NOT go with barbecue? | This is going to be a proxy war for people slamming different regional barbecue sauces | 1,690 | AskAnAmerican |
unbdc6 | What condiments do NOT go with barbecue? | Ketchup. You can use it as a base for making a barbecue sauce if you want (there are better ways) but don't ever give me ketchup itself. | 1,020 | AskAnAmerican |
unbdc6 | What condiments do NOT go with barbecue? | Maple flavored corn syrup. | 650 | AskAnAmerican |
unc1ll | Yesterday I went to a cheesecake factory that opened in my country with a friend from the US, everything was delicious and very big, but it was quite pricey (I mean they serve a lot so it wasn't going to be cheap) but then I ordered a cheesecake slice with strawberry and it was very expensive for what I got IMO, and my... | They're on the expensive side of the average but they are far from "very expensive". | 1,670 | AskAnAmerican |
unc1ll | Yesterday I went to a cheesecake factory that opened in my country with a friend from the US, everything was delicious and very big, but it was quite pricey (I mean they serve a lot so it wasn't going to be cheap) but then I ordered a cheesecake slice with strawberry and it was very expensive for what I got IMO, and my... | Cheesecake Factory is typically a full service restaurant mostly based out of malls. It is probably a higher price point for the more casual sit-down dining (think TGI Fridays, Applebees). The prices aren't budget prices, but you're getting a lot of food and they specifically promote that "everyone leaves with a doggy ... | 1,360 | AskAnAmerican |
unc1ll | Yesterday I went to a cheesecake factory that opened in my country with a friend from the US, everything was delicious and very big, but it was quite pricey (I mean they serve a lot so it wasn't going to be cheap) but then I ordered a cheesecake slice with strawberry and it was very expensive for what I got IMO, and my... | I would put them above average, and not really worth it unless you just love cheesecake. | 960 | AskAnAmerican |
unc50n | So I have heard that infra-red radiation is heat. In other words that IR is a certain frequency of electromagnetic radiation, like visible light and radio waves. I also know that heat is something like the energy in a system, or that it’s kind of a measure of how much molecules are vibrating.
So are heat and IR on... | This question has a lot to unpack.
First, IR is not the same thing as heat, as you surmised. Heat is energy, which is transferred in a thermodynamic system. IR is electromagnetic radiation- so while IR *has* energy, it's not right to say that is *is* energy/heat.
So, what are the connections between heat and IR? Fi... | 820 | AskScience |
unc50n | So I have heard that infra-red radiation is heat. In other words that IR is a certain frequency of electromagnetic radiation, like visible light and radio waves. I also know that heat is something like the energy in a system, or that it’s kind of a measure of how much molecules are vibrating.
So are heat and IR on... | Since it has already been explained quite thoroughly by others, let me add this sidenote that might help:
Any objects with a temperature radiate that thermal energy away slowly to its surroundings. Take for example a book that is lying on your desk. It is constantly radiating away its energy to its surroundings. But... | 40 | AskScience |
uncjr1 | have you met any veterans? | Gen Xer here. I went back to school last year to complete my degree and currently I'm taking US History, post 1865 (just after the Civil War). The book we are using is Give Me Liberty by Eric Foner. Let me just say, I cannot recommend this book enough. My comment doesn't answer your question, but if you want an accurat... | 180 | AskOldPeople |
uncjr1 | have you met any veterans? | My great uncle was a veteran of WW1. He didn’t say much about it, but then he didn’t talk much. He was a bit of a recluse. He did give me peppermints whenever I saw him though. | 180 | AskOldPeople |
uncjr1 | have you met any veterans? | My grandfather was a US Army veterinarian who treated horses. He was in France in WW1 but never spoke about what he did or saw there. | 90 | AskOldPeople |
uncvn4 | For example I was born in the late 90s, and I can’t imagine what technology would be like in 2050 and beyond, I imagine it’d blow me away | Some folks think everyone over 60 have problems w technology. But the truth is, most of us who still have our faculties, don’t.
We totally grew up w it; ALL of it. The good, bad and ugly. However, it was an option whether you chose to use it, evolve w it, or live with it.
I was born in 50’s and technological change... | 2,090 | AskOldPeople |
uncvn4 | For example I was born in the late 90s, and I can’t imagine what technology would be like in 2050 and beyond, I imagine it’d blow me away | Well it would be a shock if you had a time machine and could get there instantly. But change happens over time. We were there for the small, incremental changes that gave us the modern technology. Some things were shockingly ‘fast’ because we didn’t see or hear of the research that lead to it. The first heart transplan... | 1,480 | AskOldPeople |
uncvn4 | For example I was born in the late 90s, and I can’t imagine what technology would be like in 2050 and beyond, I imagine it’d blow me away | 71 here...
It just creeps in quietly. With each new thing, there's no watershed moment.
I once asked my grandmother [b.1886] what she thought when she saw her first airplane. She didn't remember it.
That's how that shit goes. | 1,200 | AskOldPeople |
und2mk | In a field dominated by introverts, I haven't met many (if any) extrovert developers. To those that are extroverts, do you like being a programmer? Do you think you'd be happier in another career where you could check more of your extrovert boxes? | I do. I don't think I agree with the premise that it's introvert-dominated tbh
The fact you haven't met any extroverts makes me think you've either been worked in very homogeneous companies, or you don't really understand introversion/extraversion | 50 | AskProgramming |
und2mk | In a field dominated by introverts, I haven't met many (if any) extrovert developers. To those that are extroverts, do you like being a programmer? Do you think you'd be happier in another career where you could check more of your extrovert boxes? | > In a field dominated by introverts
That's more a stereotype than reality. | 30 | AskProgramming |
undd0a | When you give it day and leave work - what do you do? | Lay in bed and rethink my life choices
Then I get a snack | 1,410 | AskAnAmerican |
undd0a | When you give it day and leave work - what do you do? | I usually pick up shifts at my second job where I work as Lead Patriarch and Diaper Technician. | 820 | AskAnAmerican |
undd0a | When you give it day and leave work - what do you do? | Go home to the wife and kids.
Go and coach my son's ice hockey team.
Go to one of my hockey games. | 340 | AskAnAmerican |
unds1k | At first I presumed it was because they were polymorphs, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It also doesn't seem to be a result of particle size (i.e. like maybe only nanoscale particles appear red). What's going on here? | I think fully anhydrous iron(III) oxide is black, so when macrocrystalline (as in haematite) it appears silvery. Much like a metal - metal powders are black, but the crystalline material is silvery. It's almost certainly not the same physical phenomenon causing the shininess though.
Rust is red, orange, yellow etc. be... | 90 | AskScience |
unds1k | At first I presumed it was because they were polymorphs, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It also doesn't seem to be a result of particle size (i.e. like maybe only nanoscale particles appear red). What's going on here? | Huh, I had always assumed it is different forms of rust, like hydrated iron oxide Fe2O3 being red, waterless iron oxide being brown, iron oxide-hydroxide being yellow and Iron II oxide being black.
Curious to see if theres something more to it. | 50 | AskScience |
undwpj | I work at a thrift store and my job is to inspect everything that gets donated to make sure we are able to sell it. I've noticed that a lot of items have social security numbers carved into them. I see it a lot with old cameras, but I've also seen it on the bottoms of statues and even on a piano once. It's really confu... | When I was in college, it was my student ID number.
The kind of identity theft we worry about now just didn’t exist. Getting any sort of credit was a difficult process and needed a lot of face to face interactions to procure. | 130 | AskOldPeople |
undwpj | I work at a thrift store and my job is to inspect everything that gets donated to make sure we are able to sell it. I've noticed that a lot of items have social security numbers carved into them. I see it a lot with old cameras, but I've also seen it on the bottoms of statues and even on a piano once. It's really confu... | In 84-86 when I was in tech school, they requested our SSN as ID when cashing checks. I actually had it printed on my checks because it was much easier than writing it out every time. | 80 | AskOldPeople |
undwpj | I work at a thrift store and my job is to inspect everything that gets donated to make sure we are able to sell it. I've noticed that a lot of items have social security numbers carved into them. I see it a lot with old cameras, but I've also seen it on the bottoms of statues and even on a piano once. It's really confu... | Ignorance and because in the "good old days" there was virtually no way for the average criminal to take advantage of having that social security number. It was not like today where any idiot can strip the other needed information from the internet to be able to do some identity theft.
For some weird reason, people t... | 80 | AskOldPeople |
une32d | I finished 2/3 of this computer science assignment, but I am stuck on the last part, and to be honest I am not 100% sure what it is asking. So in part 2 of the assignment I created a a decryption program “decrypt.cc” (https://pastebin.com/ST21nEY3) that is called from the terminal like this: “$ echo input | ./decrypt ... | >is key literally the variable key?
It would appear so. More generally, it is the key provided to do encryption / decryption, so the number on the command line in your case. | 30 | cpp_questions |
unehbf | Hi all,
I'm interested in learning cpp and found [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list) SO post that outlines some books to use whilst learning. However, my question is does the cpp version that the book uses matters all that much to me?
Thanks | > does the cpp version that the book uses matters all that much to me?
Not as long as you stick to at least C++11.
Subsequent C++ standards generally dont invalidate old ones, they add new features (which may make some older patterns obsolecent).
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Obligatory mention of www.learncpp.com as the best free online... | 90 | cpp_questions |
unemde | This question mainly pertains to people in my age group (Millennials) but everyone is welcome to comment!
I was talking to a foreign friend of mine and he recently just started watching old Nickelodeon American sitcoms. (Not really old just shows that some of us in our 20s-30s grew up watching.) Shows like Zoey 101, D... | Yes, every court case ends with sending in the dancing lobsters. ^(I wish) | 680 | AskAnAmerican |
unemde | This question mainly pertains to people in my age group (Millennials) but everyone is welcome to comment!
I was talking to a foreign friend of mine and he recently just started watching old Nickelodeon American sitcoms. (Not really old just shows that some of us in our 20s-30s grew up watching.) Shows like Zoey 101, D... | TiL that those shows are “old” and here I am having grown up with “Salute your Shorts” “Pete & Pete” and “Hey Dude” | 380 | AskAnAmerican |
unemde | This question mainly pertains to people in my age group (Millennials) but everyone is welcome to comment!
I was talking to a foreign friend of mine and he recently just started watching old Nickelodeon American sitcoms. (Not really old just shows that some of us in our 20s-30s grew up watching.) Shows like Zoey 101, D... | For what it's worth I think those shows you named will connect more with younger millennials, I'm in my early 30s and they were all a little bit after my time. I couldn't tell you what any of them were like. | 160 | AskAnAmerican |
unf88w | TL; DR: How do i display things such as a\* pathfinding algorithm with c++ (preferable in linux)
So how do i make a window, where i can display things, such as a grid where i use the pathfinding algorithm a\* to find the shortest path between a and b.
I know how to do all the coding a\*, but i don't know how i can d... | Ui frameworks or libraries: wxwidgets, qt
Rendering abstractions: sfml, sdl
Rendering api: opengl, dx11, dx12, vulkan
For a quick job I'd stick with sfml/sdl | 110 | cpp_questions |
unfc4j | Try this experiment: film your face with your phone as you look to the side and try to move your eyes smoothly across the screen. You can't. All you'll see is *saccadic* eye movement (rapid little darts in eye position).
Next, hold your finger behind your phone and focus on it while you move your finger from one side ... | When you fixate on a target you do what’s called a pursuit eye movement as you track it. These are smooth almost involuntarily extra ocular muscle movements to maintain binocular fixation of the retinal image on the fovea (area with the most dense photo receptors)
When you try to voluntarily do the same thing you have ... | 290 | AskScience |
unfdqk | I ll be travelling to the US soon, and I heard here and there that the testing requirements will be soonish dropped when wanting to fly to the us. But its difficult to search us news when living abroad. So i was wondering if there are any meetings planned or discussions on this topic in the us. When can i expect the te... | Anybody saying they know anything for sure regarding covid rules and regs is lying to you. | 1,200 | AskAnAmerican |
unfdqk | I ll be travelling to the US soon, and I heard here and there that the testing requirements will be soonish dropped when wanting to fly to the us. But its difficult to search us news when living abroad. So i was wondering if there are any meetings planned or discussions on this topic in the us. When can i expect the te... | Lemme gather my fellow US homies for a quick meeting about this and we’ll get back to you. | 560 | AskAnAmerican |
unfdqk | I ll be travelling to the US soon, and I heard here and there that the testing requirements will be soonish dropped when wanting to fly to the us. But its difficult to search us news when living abroad. So i was wondering if there are any meetings planned or discussions on this topic in the us. When can i expect the te... | We are not privy to the internal meeting schedule of the CDC. | 260 | AskAnAmerican |
unfgrk | So, I am a qualified researcher in machine learning and am doing my second post-doc in Germany.
Not trying to blow my own trumpet, but I need to set my qualifications straight to ensure that my question is not taken as a casual novice question.
I am well-versed in Python, C++ and Rust. But in machine learning researc... | That depends on what exactly you are planning to do. If you're primarily interested in exploring models then I'd stick to Python, the interface is simply much nicer. E.g. if you're doing things "I'd like to have a layer with feature X, then another layer with Y activation function, then Z more layers, ... and compare t... | 90 | cpp_questions |
unfmt7 | There are some really impressive hardware pieces on the market (usually made for specific purposes) that are way beyond their common counterparts (Samsung's new 512GB RAM, some audio cards, network cards that can reach absurd speeds -think I saw this one on LTT, etc), but the one thing they all have in common is that t... | There seems to be a bit of a disconnect between the title of your question and the body. As you've already noticed, hardware manufacturers do use PCIe where it makes sense to do so. They don't use it *everywhere* because of cost-benefit tradeoffs: either PCIe isn't better than the alternatives, or it isn't *sufficientl... | 130 | AskComputerScience |
unfscf | Hey folks so I am currently going through the Rust book and had this doubt. So if I have the following code -
enum Message {
Quit,
Move { x: i32, y: i32 },
Write(String),
ChangeColor(i32, i32, i32),
}
impl Message {
fn move_call(&self) {
println!... | >My understanding here and I could be wrong is that we cannot just simply access one of the variants of the enum. The code wants us to write the cases for the other variants as well hence we need to resort to a match expression.
Yeap, that's exactly right.
So your `move call` could look like this:
```
impl Message... | 70 | LearnRust |
unglm9 | I’m going to the US and Canada for 27 days total in the summer and was wondering if around $50 a day will be enough to enjoy myself there. I’m aware I’d be able to survive on this amount but was wondering if eating out, drinking and clubbing occasionally could be covered by this amount. I’m going to NYC, Toronto and LA... | > survive
Absolutely, no problem.
> drinking
Of course, as long as you're not picky!
> clubbing
Uhhhh....
> NYC, Toronto and LA
I give you approximately 1.5 days. | 22,070 | AskAnAmerican |
unglm9 | I’m going to the US and Canada for 27 days total in the summer and was wondering if around $50 a day will be enough to enjoy myself there. I’m aware I’d be able to survive on this amount but was wondering if eating out, drinking and clubbing occasionally could be covered by this amount. I’m going to NYC, Toronto and LA... | Visiting the 3 most expensive cities on the continent. I’d plan for double or even triple your assessment or get creative. Outside of those areas you might be able to get by with that though… | 9,870 | AskAnAmerican |
unglm9 | I’m going to the US and Canada for 27 days total in the summer and was wondering if around $50 a day will be enough to enjoy myself there. I’m aware I’d be able to survive on this amount but was wondering if eating out, drinking and clubbing occasionally could be covered by this amount. I’m going to NYC, Toronto and LA... | You're gonna need to quadruple that for la and NYC idk bout Toronto | 6,460 | AskAnAmerican |
ungm6s | also if you're not flaired tell us what region this is applicable to | How much does their shittiest beer cost? I'm not necessarily going to order it, but it tends to correlate with pretentiousness in my experience. | 310 | AskAnAmerican |
ungm6s | also if you're not flaired tell us what region this is applicable to | Places that barely pass health and safety inspections>>>>>>
Best food on earth | 310 | AskAnAmerican |
ungm6s | also if you're not flaired tell us what region this is applicable to | For a bar, I’m mostly looking for the atmosphere. I’ll sometimes test them a bit by ordering a basic cocktail like an old fashioned. If they screw that up, I know to order beer from them on. I once ordered a Manhattan and got a shot of bourbon with a cherry in it.
For restaurants, I look online to see the menu and re... | 180 | AskAnAmerican |
ungxwc | Does the atmosphere bulge at the equator like the land/water does? | Yes. | 120 | AskScience |
unhzm3 | Can be entrees drinks or sides or all three together | Cheddar Bay Biscuits from Red Lobster | 2,450 | AskAnAmerican |
unhzm3 | Can be entrees drinks or sides or all three together | The blooming onions at Outback from like 25 years ago.
And their bread and butter. | 1,590 | AskAnAmerican |
unhzm3 | Can be entrees drinks or sides or all three together | The All-Star Special at Waffle House can't be beat. Huge waffle, 2 eggs, toast, hash browns, and your choice of one - bacon, sausage or ham for 7.50 in my neck of the woods | 1,370 | AskAnAmerican |
uni1tr | Does anyone have an example of erathostenes sieve for only odd numbers? like v[10] corresponds to 19 and so on? | Im confused how an erathostenes sieve with even numbers would look like | 30 | cpp_questions |
uni6sa | Currently, I am practicing my Java and DSA skills on [hyperskill.org](https://hyperskill.org), although they are fantastic for Java and Python, unfortunately C++ is not available on their website.
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Does anyone know whether there is any website that can provide c++ like Hyperskills? | Why is there no rules on this subreddit against thinly veiled marketing of sketchy Chinese websites?
Incase you request was in at the very least somewhat genuine, just try to do the same exercises in C++.
EDIT: OP corrected a typo in their post, website linked originally was incorrect. | 40 | cpp_questions |
unibap | I was thinking about this between delicious sneezing episodes. Anecdotal, but I know immigrants who claim they’ve never had issues with pollen in their home countries but after arriving here they suddenly started succumbing to Big Pollen. What gives?
Side note, the people I’ve asked have been mainly from warmer countr... | [https://www.immunology.org/news/molecular-mechanism-allergies-discovered](https://www.immunology.org/news/molecular-mechanism-allergies-discovered)
"For a long time, we’ve been aware that allergies occur much more frequently in Western countries"
Developed countries suffer from allergies more often. | 70 | AskScience |
unikqz | Humans are very culturally different across the globe. They learn different things from their culture, then think and act a certain way because of what they’ve learned and how they were raised. Are there any examples of animals who have similarly profound cultural differences based on where they are from? | [Cultural change in animals](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0271-4)
[Strongest evidence of animal culture in monkeys and whales](https://www.science.org/content/article/strongest-evidence-animal-culture-seen-monkeys-and-whales)
[Geographical and cultural differences in orangutan behavior](https://www.scie... | 90 | AskScience |
unikqz | Humans are very culturally different across the globe. They learn different things from their culture, then think and act a certain way because of what they’ve learned and how they were raised. Are there any examples of animals who have similarly profound cultural differences based on where they are from? | You can see it all over the place once you realize that culture doesn't have to look as extravagant or complex as humans happen to have taken it. Cultural knowledge are ideas and behaviors that, once learned, spread through certain populations usually because they are proven useful (even though they sometimes stick aro... | 70 | AskScience |
unildl | Hi, I hope this isn't the wrong place to ask this. I'm a college student about to start my internship. I've been thinking about getting something like the rocket book or an e-ink tablet, like the supernote or remarkable for school, and was wondering how often a notebook comes in handy in a professional environment bef... | It sort of depends on the job and the individual. I've always been happy with just a smartphone, to jot a couple reminders or take a picture of a whiteboard discussion. I know people with my exact same role though who absolutely depend on a notebook.
On a more general note, workplaces are much more collaborative than ... | 30 | AskProgramming |
unildl | Hi, I hope this isn't the wrong place to ask this. I'm a college student about to start my internship. I've been thinking about getting something like the rocket book or an e-ink tablet, like the supernote or remarkable for school, and was wondering how often a notebook comes in handy in a professional environment bef... | I just use a paper notepad for scrawling down stuff during meetings.
It depends on the job really. | 30 | AskProgramming |
unj838 | Watched a documentary there called American Factory where a huge corporation spy’s on its workers to see who’s in a union and find ways to fire those who support it. In school I was also taught that when the mafia was prevalent they were able to corrupt a number of unions. Do you feel any unions in the US are effective... | >Do you feel any unions in the US are effective nowadays.
It's hit or miss. I've worked with union guys that worked hard and were extremely professional. I've also worked with union guys that were so drunk by lunch they couldn't walk and they still didn't get fired.
>huge corporation spy’s on its workers to se... | 220 | AskAnAmerican |
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