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by 4ad 9y ago
> Didn't they move to Google Code to GitHub, which is the live repo, Gerrit being used for code review only? If so, the dependency is already there. If not, why is it on GitHub at all? No. Github is a mirror, the canonical git repos
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by 4ad 9y ago
Yeah. Just like in the US they don't show taxes (which vary!) on products in retail shops. It's obnoxious, and I don't understand how this is legal, even in the US.
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by 4ad 9y ago
I don't get it either. I'm a huge music lover, I have other 4000 albums, but I am an active listener only. I only listen to music when I listen to music, not while doing something else. In a car, music is annoying, not to mention
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by 4ad 9y ago
Apple makes a 12'' iPad with a 4:3 display. Apple also makes a ton of 16:10 laptops while nobody else does.
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by 4ad 9y ago
I disagree by saying that I don't think you really get the main benefit of Vagrant if you want to use it with other people's boxes. Also, since the rise of virtio (thank goodness), you can easily make boxes that work on VB/VM
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by 4ad 9y ago
Not really, the light flux is not really related to the physical aperture (diameter of the lens), but rather to the f-number of the lens (what photographers usually call "aperture" is in fact the f-number, focal length divided by
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by 4ad 9y ago
Correct. The flux for the sun on the sensor/film/whatever is: Φ/4α² * 1/A² Where Φ is the sun flux at the surface of the earth, and α is the angular diameter of the sun. A is the f-number of the lens, the only v
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by 4ad 9y ago
Surface damage mostly depends on the power density, not on total power, so it depends mostly on the aperture, not on the focal length. This makes longer focal lengths safer to point at the sun because they are slower lenses. They are also s
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by 4ad 9y ago
Focal length has nothing to do with it, in fact, longer focal lengths are generally safer because lenses are slower. Aperture is what matters, lenses gather much more light than our bare eyes.
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by 4ad 9y ago
> I'm actually rather surprised that companies like Google aren't offering solutions to integrate ads into the delivery of the page content itself rather than JavaScript at this point Isn't that what AMP is?
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by 4ad 9y ago
> So, if you absolutely need the functionality in a subscription app with local processing, what do you do? I don't use it. I don't absolutely need any particular software.
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by 4ad 9y ago
Amazon buys a significant fraction of the chips produced by Intel. I don't know how many security-sensitive chips the US government needs, but I'd be willing to bet it's a drop in the ocean.
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by 4ad 9y ago
What, specifically, about register windows and delay slots makes them unsuitable for today's needs? PS: read my profile description.
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by 4ad 9y ago
Why not?
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by 4ad 9y ago
So what chips does the US government use for classified purposes?
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by 4ad 9y ago
No, the new ME chip is an x86 running Minix. It's in the article, did you read it?
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by 4ad 9y ago
I will never use a subscription app if the computation happens in the client. E.g. Photoshop, Mathematica, games, etc. Not even if the price is low. Note that I will happily pay thousands of dollars in this programs as long as they are no
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by 4ad 9y ago
No way, in the day of cloud infrastructure I use far more other computers than my computer. And the other computers I use change all the time.
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by 4ad 9y ago
QMail is public domain.
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by 4ad 9y ago
Amazing how one gets downvoted for stating simple, trivially verifiable facts. https://i.imgur.com/VYqvYHAr.png http://www.americaneclipse2017.org/maps/the-sky-during-total... http://www.sky
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by 4ad 9y ago
All massless particles like photons and gravitons travel at the same speed, the speed of light. Yes, gravitational waves travel at the speed of light, and yes, of course they are affected by doppler shift.
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by 4ad 9y ago
A HN ban is a shadowban. The user doesn't know he is banned unless being told, and he can post normally. You can, however, see all dead posts by enabling showdead option in your HN settings. I encourage everybody to do that. There are
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by 4ad 9y ago
It was neither. It was Regulus. Mercury was further away (still relativelly close) and Venus was much further away.
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by 4ad 9y ago
Why are their planes "disgusting"? I fly a lot, both short haul and long haul, and I can't see any quality difference (is that what you mean?) between any planes from any carriers. They are all the same. Mind you, there are d
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by 4ad 9y ago
And by default, this feature is not used.
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by 4ad 9y ago
Possibly depends on the MVNO and the type of contract they got with the MNO. On Ting you are definitely exempt, other MVNOs, not so sure. However, my understanding is that MVNO traffic has lower priority in the MNO traffic shaping, so you g
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by 4ad 9y ago
Ting is not on Verizon. Verizon doesn't have many MVNOs, last I checked all Verizon MVNOs came with lots of caveats that made them unsable for me at the time. FWIW, I chose Ting, no traffic shaping whatsoever and no artificial limits o
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by 4ad 9y ago
Small planes are not used on long routes though, and similarly, large planes are seldom used for short routes. So they could disable recling seats on short flights with no problem.
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by 4ad 9y ago
I would be interested in such an in depth write up.
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by 4ad 9y ago
> People have been using dark pieces of photographic film to see eclipses since ever. Fully exposed and developed black and white film is safe, color negative film, however, is totally unsafe, regardless of how dark it might seem. The

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