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by Adaptive 15y ago
Maybe rephrase your question to be clearer, but I'm assuming you mean mining the chemical components of batteries. Not what I was referring to. I'm talking about the fundamental difference between a battery of any variety (chemical, flywhee
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by Adaptive 15y ago
We don't mine batteries from the ground. Misleading industry puff piece. The question isn't how much would it take but rather how much does it take. Petrochemical / coal, fossil fuels in general are already generating our power at inc
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Also, Anki 2 is in beta right now and the UI on the desktop end of things is a real improvement. The dev is super responsive. I've used a lot of flash card apps and have settled on Anki specifically because it's cross platform. The Androi
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I really like this book. I haven't finished it but I did kickstart a friend on Haskell by getting him a copy as well. It is worth noting that the book uses HUGS examples instead of GHCI so there are some (mostly minor) differences between
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by Adaptive 15y ago
There should be another option: mothballed account. My facebook account exists solely as a placeholder.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
For those interested in this sort of thing, Taskwarrior 2.0 server (taskd) will allow arbitrary front ends, including the standard CLI as well as web interfaces, app interfaces, etc. I'm excited for that project to mature. (2.0 CLI client i
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Linode has been offering it as a server image for a while now. I use it for a personal webserver, etc. Never had a critical upgrade problem, fwiw.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
There's also a local installable mirror of the arch wiki. I don't know how often it's updated but if I didn't have multiple machines laying around I'd put this on my arch laptop: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/arch-wiki-do
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Yeah, I've heard of them but to be honest most of what I hear is bad. That's not personal experience, I've never used them, and I regularly do a search on Clearwire to see if things have improved. So far still seems to be a lot of issues, a
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by Adaptive 15y ago
This really blew me away when we moved here. I'm assuming it was a carrot to get infrastructure build out but I have a hard time imagining that there wouldn't have been competition to do that even without the concession. I'd love to drop Co
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by Adaptive 15y ago
The Thais are one of the most hygiene conscious populations I've encountered, particularly in the NE where eating with hands only is most common. I could counter by saying that eating with utensils is appropriate if you are barely civilized
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by Adaptive 15y ago
This is relevant beyond food. Most "western" meals involve food preparation that anticipates forks and knives being present. This doesn't happen in, for example, Chinese cooking where food is cut into small pieces prior to cooking. Or in th
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Man, I'm no expert here and I'm typing from memory but I'm pretty sure that astronauts experience retinal sparkles/flashes that are caused by particles that we're shielded from normally by our lovely planet. The particles hit the retina and
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by Adaptive 15y ago
So this is the CMOS equivalent of the astronauts whose retinas are bombarded by cosmic rays? Neat stuff.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I don't think I've ever read a post by her previously but I'm looking at her index of posts and at least by title there sure seems to be a lot of variety. Regardless of her previous comments on Google (I don't think sexism is relevant here)
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by Adaptive 15y ago
There are some projects like Goggles that seem to be pretty well updated but which I'm never sure Google is committed to. ChromeToPhone is another one. It's well updated but I live in fear of them abandoning it. I use it constantly .
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by Adaptive 15y ago
100% agree. Irrational fear, scientifically illiterate populace, petro industry lobbying and fud have set us back decades here. We really only have two choices: cut back energy consumption (willingly or not) or explore modern nuclear power
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Suspend related problems. There's a thread of similar issues at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110459 physlock also eliminated some of the scaffolding code to deal with the multiple launches, etc. It's just a better tool solvi
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by Adaptive 15y ago
My first thought was "this is going to be a spin on dumping another cool product." It's better than that, however. There are a lot of these cool apps from Google that are/were obviously 20% projects but which really showcase Android. "Liste
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I used vlock for a long time but there were some hangups that caused me to switch to physlock (mentioned above, but here's the URL: https://github.com/muennich/physlock ). It's in Arch's AUR.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I often use physlock from X. It drops you to a virtual console and locks from there. https://github.com/muennich/physlock
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by Adaptive 15y ago
HHKB has DIP switches to select mac/non-mac modes. Mac mode works well in Linux as well. Also: Small footprint, if you can live without a number pad. I love the feel. http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards,hhk...
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Hakyll is an excellent and active project. I used it for the Solarized site and learned a lot about Haskell, though like many Haskell projects (xmonad) you can still get a lot out of it without being a real Haskell pro. One neat trick I use
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by Adaptive 15y ago
These are generally good tips. I swear by set -e # same as set -o errexit and I like using list constructs (&& ||) in lieu of simple `if` test blocks but it's really important to remember that list constructs aren't exactly
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I agree that washing machines are great. I've lived in places without them for years at a time. It's doable but hand washing is time consuming and not fun. Phosphates are a separate issue. There is phosphate free detergent. There are low wa
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Well, not so much a myth as research and theory that has since been refuted. Good link.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I don't think there is a direct correlation between letter case and old-style vs lining numerals. Most examples of early hand written numerals seem to be variable height, but regardless I'm more concerned with actual type, not hand letterin
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by Adaptive 15y ago
This isn't different for difference's sake. 1. These are often termed old-style numerals. Nothing new under the sun here. If anything, all fixed height numerals are the newer invention. (conjecture, feel free to research this and refute, bu
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Yeah, I wasn't referring to the quality problem (I'm in full agreement with you on that). I think they are in a better position that Digg at the Digg-bar point (even with low qual participation, engagement still seems deeper than Digg at th
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Condé Nast had no idea what they were buying. The best decision they made, one I'm sure that was the result of the Reddit team making the case for it, was relatively hands off mgmt. I suspect CN still doesn't really know what to do with it

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