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by FreeFull 6y ago
That's 28 years on-ship time, but about 2.5 million years for an external observer in Andromeda or the Milky Way. If you want to make a return journey, then 5 million years would have passed on Earth by the time you get back.
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by FreeFull 6y ago
I think it's because the wave propagation speed through the strings is much faster for compression waves, compared to the standard transverse waves.
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by FreeFull 6y ago
Eventually, the hardware will break, so it's a good idea to plan for that. There are ways to interface with old hardware using new hardware, including special modern motherboards that have ISA slots, or USB2ISA converters
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by FreeFull 6y ago
Of course, the price in the title is assuming you already have an oscilloscope :)
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by FreeFull 6y ago
Are you ready to take responsibility for all the people that would either die or have their health damaged by the virus? Including probably a significant number of teachers, parents, and even a few children?
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by FreeFull 6y ago
It's because the whole graph is a single canvas element, there's no selectable/searchable text.
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by FreeFull 6y ago
I'm not sure how using an unsigned number would help, given that when it overflows you're still going to have some code do unexpected stuff anyway.
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by FreeFull 6y ago
I'd say having special features is ok, as long as these criteria are met: 1) It's obvious the feature is being used. 2) The feature is easy to look up without knowing what it's called, just based on how it's been used. 3
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by FreeFull 6y ago
There's no reason why ray-tracing can't work with bent normals. That's how Blender's "smooth shading" works, and Blender uses raytracing for rendering.
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by FreeFull 6y ago
What's wrong with the example given in the readme? Too complicated?
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by FreeFull 6y ago
What would the shovel be in this case? LLVM?
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by FreeFull 6y ago
Well, this wouldn't be the first time they've switched architectures. Before, it was PowerPC to x86, back around 2006.
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by FreeFull 6y ago
Well, once the glob gets expanded by the shell, the `rm` executable sees something like `-rf` `/home` `/usr` `/etc`, and isn't aware that the argument was `/*`
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by FreeFull 6y ago
This sort of pattern tends to be more useful in case it's something like `CustomString` rather than just a regular `String`, and you still want your function/method to work with regular string literals. Also, other similar usecase
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by FreeFull 6y ago
Often people take notes because it actually helps memorise and pay attention what's being said, without any intention to read the notes at all afterwards.
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by FreeFull 6y ago
Atlasobscura does tend to have rather interesting content. Anything that gets to the front page of HN already got upvoted by a bunch of people first. The title is also relevant to the actual contents of the article, rather than being some s
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by FreeFull 6y ago
Brace expansion won't work if you need to make edits in multiple places.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
Maybe not 16TB, but it is possible to have a desktop computer with 1.5TB of RAM (16 RAM slots, with 128GB per RAM stick). It is going to be fairly expensive, though.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
Burning coal is generally known for being really bad for air quality. The ash is somewhat radioactive, and if there's any sulphur in the coal it'll cause acid rain. The exhaust from burning the coal nowadays ends up going through
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by FreeFull 7y ago
Another kinda related website: The Incredible Proof Machine http://incredible.pm/
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by FreeFull 7y ago
You could always combine the iron lung with a mask that supplies oxygen.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
You can go with more of a Haskell/Rust style approach, where you declare a type, and then define operations using either plain functions, or using something kinda similar an interface (typeclasses in Haskell, traits in Rust).
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by FreeFull 7y ago
Vulkan itself supports both GLSL and HLSL (and any other shading language that can compile to SPIR-V), so you'd still usually end up writing GLSL anyway.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
Actually, it's signed 32-bit integers that overflow in 2038. Signed integers have been used because people wanted to store dates earlier than 1970 too.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
A memory allocator without the ability to free memory is a lot simpler and faster. Usually though, I'd expect to see static allocation for this sort of code, I'm not sure why a missile would have to allocate more memory on the fly
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by FreeFull 7y ago
All the luggage is stored below the passenger cabin, though.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
I just don't see why consciousness would require any sort of special physics. We live in a world full of emergent phenomena, and consciousness seems like it should just be another one of them.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
There is a subset of Prolog called Datalog, explicitly designed for use in databases. Datalog queries are guaranteed to terminate, and unlike Prolog it is fully declarative (order of declarations doesn't matter).
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by FreeFull 7y ago
From what I could find, oxygen is neither alkaline nor acidic. Bases and acids are ionic when dissolved in water, but O2 isn't.
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by FreeFull 7y ago
Officially Steam only supports Ubuntu, and other distros do the work to make it run on them. The same could probably be done for games.

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