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The assumption that 'a byte is eight bits' is less specific than 'a character is one byte is eight bits' but I think captures it pretty well and affects at least all the people who are affected by RTL writing, I would th
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The quote may make sense, but it's still moved the goalpost. > when one of the SpaceX boosters will have flown 100 times with between flights maintenance at an economical level, then it will be an actual success The hope is that the
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Many CLI tools will detect if they are running in an interactive shell and change their output accordingly. Git for example will colourise terminal output if it can tell a person is interacting with it, but if a script is calling then the c
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It's hard to co-ordinate that kind of thing, so we might see it in the future but I wouldn't hold my breath. The FCC regulates the radio spectrum usage in the US, which means if you want to talk to your satellite you need to get p
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Maciej, thanks again for these stories; I never knew if you were going to circle back to lede and I really didn't care. Was a fantastic read. I should figure out how to get notified of all your updates, it's some of the most fun I
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For what it's worth, it seems this woman had specific dietary requirements, though it's not specified if it was celiac or something else. She herself was complaining about people who 'became' gluten free after getting on
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More generally, I think the thing you are noticing is that visual and physical items offer random access. Compare trying to find a specific piece of information in a book, vs in some training DVD. If I'm just learning how to cook, watc
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This would be true if fuel usage was linearly related to wear and tear on the roads, or road usage. Fuel taxes almost never tax heavy usage vehicles enough, compared to the amount of damage they do to the road. A fuel tax also doesn't
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I've always explained the boundary as the point at which, in order to use wings to provide enough lift to keep you in the sky, you have to be travelling at orbital speeds. As the air gets thinner you have to travel faster in order to d
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To clarify for anyone reading, the difference is not constant vs variable magnitude of g, it's constant vs variable direction of g. Gravity is a vector pointing at the (weighted by inverse of distance squared) centre of mass, so on
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It is reasonable to call it cultish, but it is still very different to what that comparison implies, in that it is fundamentally different to pretty much any other cult. Whenever someone says they believe in something because science they a
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I agree with you completely, the cargo cult thing is real. To extend my point a bit further, my argument is that even if you treat science exactly the same as a religion - for all the points you mention and more - it is still fundamentally
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It seems like so much of these discussions come from attempts to position 'belief in science' as faith exercise. These attempts appear to be taught in various communities as defence against the rational, and as a tool when evangel
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I've been meaning to read a number of different things, many from friends I've convinced to jot down in my reading suggestions spreadsheet. It took a new local library opening up, and a holiday, for me to finally get to Snow Crash
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Exactly, I think there are solutions for more or less everything I listed, or solutions could be found if necessary. I think the headphone jack is a very practical component of the phone, and miss it regularly, but removing it does remove a
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Thinness and waterproofing are the two things I've heard that lead to removing the jack. Neither seems insurmountable, but if you want to try and remove as many obstacles as possible in the search of those two things then the headphone
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Just finished Snow Crash! It's really good; as I was reading it I would stop and check the date it was authored. It holds up very well.
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>> Importantly, if you look at any large amount of mass - at least everything we've looked at - the total electric charge is near 0. > This is the assumption made. It’s not an assumption. It’s measured and modeled, and if it
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> What are the error bounds on measuring such an object at the distances they exist at? Let's look at two ways of judging the size of a quasar. We have photos of quasars, each at the middle of the galaxy they are at the centre of. W
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The issue with electric forces is not getting the right amount of force together in one place, it's separating the positive and negative forces from each other. They don't like being separated, and so it's difficult to isolat
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> The general portrayal is that they are smaller than solar system sizes. But that is an assumption that may be completely wrong. What do you mean by this? People think they're that size because that's the size they've bee
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I also love Factorio - it gets better when you play multiplayer and with mods. I've found, getting back into it, that Project Euler really helps me 'just start coding'. Last time I got into it (around 2014) I would focus on t
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Look at that I completely used the wrong starting figure... On $3.99, this is $0.37 - $0.42, or 9.27% - 10.51%
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3% plus a flag of $0.30 from memory? It wasn't hard to check so it's actually 1.75% domestic cards (Australia) or 2.99% international, $0.30 flag fall. On $30 that is $0.83 - $1.20, or 2.75% - 3.99%
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None of the links I checked on the site are affiliate links. The site looks like a fun, and well polished, side project. Someone wanted to see if they could make a useful product aggregator. They may have plans to monetise it, but I wouldn&
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Not sure which bit you're replying to, but with this constellation latency is expected to be < 100 ms, more likely on the order of 35 ms. I've heard reports of the test satellites achieving 25 ms, but haven't found a sourc
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I agree that it's interesting they found no android devices that failed. Would love to see a more comprehensive study, looking at which devices fail at what levels, etc. Not that this is necessarily 'Not Invented Here' syndro
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It’s not economical in the sense of cheap parts, rather it’s economical in that Apple uses the same part in all devices. This can simplify supply chain and engineering efforts, so makes sense when possible. The comment is looking to explain
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Description of the issue from the original thread [0]: The processor in a modern, high volume device typically has its main clock driven by what's known as a MEMS oscillator. These are barely visible mechanical systems that resonate at
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Depending on what exactly you are trying to do, I've found wikis like Confluence pretty good for quite a few things. It used to have a halfway decent forum addon, and the ability to have the wiki features/content embedded was enou

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