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by 08-15 6y ago
Yeah, but before that, it was 20 years away for about 50 years, so there is some progress after all! Seriously though, the article reads like "Remember SPARC? We're still trying to build it." I wish them luck, but if past e
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by 08-15 6y ago
The sun "burns" ordinary hydrogen. The first step in this proton-proton-chain is the reaction of two protons to a deuteron, which requires conversion of one of them into a neutron. This is an interaction of the weak nuclear forc
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by 08-15 6y ago
And that's why electricity is so cheap in Germany, right?
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by 08-15 6y ago
Quick point by point: - A bugfix to a library requires every program that uses it to be relinked. It's true for dynamically linked programs, too, they are relinked over and over. The solution to a forgetful admin is a freaking makefi
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by 08-15 6y ago
Yes, regulatory and activist bodies. And calling something that is basically religious dogma a "model", is an insult to models.
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by 08-15 6y ago
Good article, until they ask the usual suspects and get this answer: no2nuclearpower says, "there is no such thing as an absolutely safe level of radiation: all exposures no matter how small entail some risk - even background radiation
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by 08-15 6y ago
So the theory is that MSDOS tried to detect if a bootsector contained executable 68k code, because if it did, the BPB was valid and could be used to locate the FAT(s) and the master directory? That's triply dumb, because of the typo no
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by 08-15 6y ago
This is an outright lie. Google's carbon footprint is still positive, but their net greenhouse gas footprint is negative now, according to some particular accounting scheme which posits that 1 ton of methane is equivalent to 34 tons of
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by 08-15 6y ago
There might be an architecture out there, where malloc() creates a new memory segment, free() invalidates it, and merely loading an invalid pointer into a register causes a hardware trap. It may not even be possible to load a pointer into
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by 08-15 6y ago
> why they couldn't just measure bradykinine levels directly? Is that too hard? It is. To measure gene expression, you isolate total mRNA and sequence it. This tells you the expression of all genes simultaneously. The protocol is
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by 08-15 6y ago
> either free will or true randomness Isn't unpredictability enough?
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by 08-15 6y ago
> Take a look at these three statements [...] they cannot all be true Okay, so we have to kill one. The easiest one to kill is > It is possible to make free choices. In other words, quantum mechanics is incompatible with free will.
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by 08-15 6y ago
Come think about it, it could be. That's not how it's implemented in any Haskell implementation I know of.
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> the monad is only kinda building a graph to be evaluated That's what the free monad does. Not every monad is a free monad, IO certainly isn't.
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by 08-15 6y ago
> Only people who tested negative were allowed to the event. I can't confirm that. The BBC article doesn't mention testing at all, and Spiegel Online writes: "Mitmachen darf jeder, der keine Vorerkrankungen der Lunge oder
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by 08-15 6y ago
> Is this ambitious timeline even possible? Of course it is. Pick a design that can be built right now, which means the Chinese or Russians have to do it, because everyone else (Siemens, Areva, Westinghouse, ...) seem to have forgotten
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by 08-15 6y ago
And Timothy McVeigh used ammonium nitrate with nitromethane to blow up a federal building in Oklahoma city. What's your point? That terrorists use shitty explosives if they can't get the good stuff like Semtex? Meanwhile, much la
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by 08-15 6y ago
Because NASA is no longer relevant, but desperately wants to be. So they publish anything, and anlways with a sensational headline: microbes that incorporate arsenic into biomolecules, reactionless microwave propulsion, and not fungal rad
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by 08-15 6y ago
> Why did it take us so long to recognise this? It didn't take us long. Schemers did multiple dispatch at least 40 years ago. SICP explains how to do it. (Arguably, both R and Julia are Lisp dialects under the hood, just disguised
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by 08-15 6y ago
This sounds like "You're just bitter and hateful!", but with sarcasm mixed in. That you can put a label on an emotion doesn't make it go away, nor does it make the emotion unreasonable. It does make you look like an a
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by 08-15 6y ago
> What if one's parents have condescended and belittled them for decades? It's all a matter of perspective. You see, one day, your parents will show up at your doorstep and expect you do the mature thing and take care of them
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by 08-15 6y ago
Point taken; bureaucracies were even slower back then. But... > it was a tool for censorship When did that change? Did it ever?
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by 08-15 6y ago
> Have you ever heard of the term 'Closed Circuit'? Same thing. Of course I've heard of it! Very much not the same thing. The cooling chain is open at both ends . It isn't closed like a circuit, it is still cal
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by 08-15 6y ago
You have to admit, they've got a point: Digital books are inherently different from physical books. So maybe copyright should never have been applied to digital books at all. Now if the courts decide that applying copyright, which
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by 08-15 6y ago
It seems to also cause oxygen deprivation, in which case it has roughly the same effect as sniffing glue. Definitely life changing...
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> The mental image triggered by that sentence is funny and there is some truth to it. Sure, but funny isn't insightful. > I just looked up the words. Words from one language don't map perfectly to those of another; idioms ma
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by 08-15 6y ago
I noticed the same thing and had the opposite reaction. "Social media is the world's brain hooked on dopamine - creating a permanent seizure" Wow, what an insightful statement! Except it isn't. It's not even a sta
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by 08-15 6y ago
What? That isn't even remotely related to the point you tried (and failed) to make! At no reactor size is waste management a significant fraction of the cost. It may become a larger fraction with future developments, but never a larg
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by 08-15 6y ago
That would change the brand in the answer, but not the spirit.
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by 08-15 6y ago
If not rocks, what is it that mines dig out of the bedrock? What's bad about the wastes from steel and cement production?

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