Aeolos

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by Aeolos 11y ago
That is not the only report. There appears to be a consensus that this will happen at the latest by 2100. This report claimed only 30 years. And all these are not taking into account the record temperatures in the Arctic circle that are cur
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by Aeolos 11y ago
This is the first relevant article I read [1]. I've since gone through google scholar and there is lots of relevant research. "Alarming" doesn't begin to cover it. [1] http://arstechnica.com/science/
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by Aeolos 11y ago
You are being rather optimistic. Current projections have parts of the planet already uninhabitable before the end of the century (uninhabitable as in "you die even in shade and with plenty of water"). We are messing up our grandc
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by Aeolos 11y ago
You are being downvoted for two reasons: 1. No, the existence of gravity waves does not, in any way, impact our climate models. Both because their effect is way too small to change anything, and also because we measure the distance to the s
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by Aeolos 11y ago
I don't if this is available on Ubuntu, but recent versions of libinput are way nicer than the old synaptics touchpad driver.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
We, as a human species, are supposed to evolve beyond our basic immediate needs. We created societies, because we need to eat, reproduce, survive, without reverting to base violence. We created medicine, technology to improve our quality of
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Which is of course misdirection through diffusion of responsibility. Stay classy.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
You really want to know? Because of regression towards the mean. Having a single state would mean that the US couldn't afford to have a significantly higher standard of living compared to the rest of the world. In fact, 1st world count
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Cynically speaking, this is win-win for everyone involved. Except for the innocents who are killed. The US gets to debug and optimize their assassination program "on brown people that noone cares about". Pakistan and US also get t
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Thank you for stating the obvious. Share information about terrorism suspects, arrest them, bring them to justice. Don't go all Rambo, shooting first, asking questions later. That only perpetuates terrorism - "you killed my innoce
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by Aeolos 11y ago
I meant both, in fact.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Exactly. In which freaking world are assassinations without due process legal or even desirable? The mere fact that we are debating whether someone was or wasn't assassinated is a perversion in itself. Arrest them and try them in a cou
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by Aeolos 11y ago
I am not. I am just at a loss why a foreign sovereign would give the US, or any other country, the license to randomly kill their own citizens.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
"Obliterated a wedding because people where celebrating by shooting in the air." This is the definition of evil. How and why is the Pakistani government allowing this program to operate within their territories?
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by Aeolos 11y ago
If enough people care, it will evolve and survive. If not... another distribution will take its place. Darwinian evolution in Free Software.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
That's pretty much a C/C++ problem though. I don't think I've ever had to translate types in C# or F#.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Exactly. The imprecision of the mirror surface (and various other optical surfaces in the system) cause their own interference pattern that can be measured and subtracted from the recorded signal. Even so, measuring gravity waves requires r
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Cheers, fixed. I wrote this in a hurry while calibrating my device ;)
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by Aeolos 11y ago
It's pretty much as Velox and bbrazil said. You can use "low-coherence interferometry" to measure tiny signals that would be undetectable otherwise. Combine a "reference" beam with a "signal" beam and you
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by Aeolos 11y ago
At what age do kids take this test? I find it bizarrely simple compared to the college entry exams at my country...
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by Aeolos 11y ago
The thing is... std::shared_ptr is slower than a modern GC. It also doesn't protect you from memory fragmentation. GC is indeed a hack: it approximates an infinite memory system on systems that have finite memory. Reference counting is
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by Aeolos 11y ago
It still works correctly. Try it.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
> Learn some OCaml :) - really, I feel like much better C++ programmer after I understood how a properly designed language with a static type system works. (I hear "Real world OCaml" is a good book). This. Or F#.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
With the amount of pushback and bikesheding, I don't expect reflection to happen this decade at all. For me, modules would be killer. This is right now the single biggest issue facing large C++ codebases.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Until you need to build a cross-platform cmake-based project on windows. Which means modifying the system path using the lovely "environment variables" panel straight from the Win95 era, downloading and compiling dependencies (hal
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by Aeolos 11y ago
> They just see the X11 driver allowing them to define their own areas etc on a touchpad, while libinput does not. That's one specific X11 driver for a few specific touchpad devices and with no user interface to configure. I doubt i
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Have you heard of the "halo effect"? It's a very common fallacy where people mistake cause and effect. If a company is doing well, people will say "this company has great management and has a great, productive work cultu
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by Aeolos 11y ago
I'm not sure you could get an accelerated OpenGL context before KMS+EGL were implemented. Indeed, even today most ARM vendors don't support accelerated OpenGL without X11/GLX. Edit: libinput covers all your low-level input ha
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Open-source drivers have supported this for years, it's nvidia that was (very) late to the game. Edit: this was one of the big hurdles that Wayland had to surpass, and the main reason why it took so long to develop. The whole kernel- a
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by Aeolos 11y ago
On Linux, you can construct an OpenGL context without an X server on any system supporting kernel mode-setting (KMS) and EGL. This includes the open-source radeon, intel and nouveau drivers and, soon, the closed-source radeon drivers. The O

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