Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 2mo ago
I keep coming back to the idea he's advocating using long function names as a substitute for comments. Instead of // do the thing followed by 5 lines of code to do the thing. You're supposed to put those five lines in a
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by Gibbon1 2mo ago
Every cycle of violence leaves them in a worse position than before.
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by Gibbon1 2mo ago
You need about 50-55kwh to produce a kg of hydrogen. Urea molar mass is 60. And the formula is CO(NH2)2. 4 moles of hydrogen per mole. So 6.6% hydrogen by weight. 1000kg of urea needs then 66.6kg of hydrogen. At 55khw per kg of hydrogen you
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by Gibbon1 2mo ago
Used to be Palestinians could freely travel between the West Bank and Israel. That ended after the First Intifada when general travel permission was revoked. And you needed personal exit permits. After the second Intifada and terrorist atta
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by Gibbon1 2mo ago
increment previous character.
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by Gibbon1 2mo ago
Elop knew what his job was. Sell Nokia to Microsoft.
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
25 years ago if you wanted to sell a product you had to ship samples to buyers who would beat the crap out of it and if they liked it they'd place orders for 100s of thousands a month. Amazon got it's start in that world undercutt
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
I think if you define energy as force X distance then integration alone will give you the squared term. How I got banned from some reddit channel. Flip this around ask if a ball were fired out of a gun up into the air what height would it r
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
The later version of Wordstar had a style template system which I thought was nice. So where Word Perfect had tags and more tags. Wordstar you just applied a predefined style to a block of text. I think somewhat like CSS.
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
When I think back to when I was 10 and every boy I knew idolized Norris and I instinctively hated his guts I feel better about myself.
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
Just making the point that the cost of solar panels to power a car is a fraction of the purchase price of the car. If the world can afford to manufacture 100 million light vehicles a year it can afford to manufacture the solar panels to pow
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
You seem to think the conflict will be decided by the vibes and sentiments of people who don't matter.
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
I think 1600 watts of solar panels produces enough energy to drive an EV 12000 miles a year. Your car though would have to be always plugged in during the day. But probably 3200 watts would be enough for a car used for commuting to be charg
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
Undefined behavior according to WG14 but perfectly fine on most architectures. Even on architectures that don't support it (what the fuck ARM cortex) the compilers do support it.
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
With modern CPU's unaligned accesses only matter when it straddles a cache line address not a register address.
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
Large family sizes dilute family wealth and leave children at a disadvantage to their better capitalized peers.
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
I just remember buying 16MB from a wholesaler operating out of a nondescript warehouse. I'm pretty sure they had a runner delivering your order from elsewhere in the building. The PCB layout program wasn't cutting it with Win 3.1
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
The difference between solar+batteries and oil and gas is the former is a durable good and latter are consumables.
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
Buying electric cars, installing solar, and switching to heat pumps are one of the few things you can materially do to screw the powers that be. The the other one is limiting your family size.
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
Problems with unaligned pointers are basically a hardware defect. Signed overflow is an issue because academics are unhappy computers only can do finite math. Issue with types and C is while the compiler knows about them the standards commi
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
I think housing isn't an ordinary durable good the way economists think. If there was a shortage of toasters you couldn't make money by churning toasters like you can if there is a shortage of housing. But you could make money imp
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
There is a tenancy to believe Israel is a vassal state that does the US's bidding. The actual record says not really. And also Israel is only able to resist being conquered by it's Arab neighbors because of the US. Record says als
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
The Obelisk at the Vatican weighs in at 360 tons. And was moved from Egypt to Rome by the Romans around 40AD. And then moved to it's present location in the 1586. The Romans moved at least 8 Egyptian Obelisks to Rome and also commissio
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
Trolling/Not Trolling. Imagine if we spent the money we did developing nuclear on photo voltaic and batteries instead. Because seriously we spent next to NOTHING on PV solar and batteries.
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
I've said over the years a few times, this isn't our fault but it's our problem.
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by Gibbon1 3mo ago
Yet you encourage people to start wars they can't win. I keep coming back to the first gulf war when Bush encouraged the Shiites to ride up against Hussain and then left them out to dry. Its what gets done to the Palestinians over and
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by Gibbon1 4mo ago
Yeah buying an EV instead of a gas car is a hedge that doesn't cost much. There is an asymmetry in the upside and downside risk. The downside risk is all on gas with no upside. No downside for the EV.
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by Gibbon1 4mo ago
If they're the same you can swap them and see if the problem changes. Otherwise swap in known good ones till to works. Old bus based systems you did that too. I remember once sending a dozen cards to a customer who had an intermittent
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by Gibbon1 4mo ago
In the Loma Prieta earthquake most of my coworkers fled the newly constructed office building. Dodged falling ceramic roofing tiles. And then ran across the parking lot to take safety under the power lines.
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by Gibbon1 4mo ago
I read those before but will read them again. That narrative influenced my thinking about this. There is confusion I think because peoples attitudes tend to be stubborn over time. But they tend to match the milieu they were raised under. An

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