JamesCoyne

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   by JamesCoyne 6y ago

   Facebook will "memorialize" your account and hand moderation over to someone you designate. Come to think of it, you would think getting someone declared "facebook dead" would be more common as a malicious act.
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   by JamesCoyne 6y ago

   They say the transition temperature is 1.4 Kelvin, so I would guess that a new type of superconducting material is exciting, but this particular material does not hold much promise as a high-temperature superconductor.
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   by JamesCoyne 6y ago

   Sure, but it is concerning that
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   by JamesCoyne 6y ago

   All the assembly workbenches are external, doesn't count in my mind. You're right, FreeCAD can handle the basics nicely. I was coming at this with my experience from university, where I don't think FreeCAD is good enough yet.
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   by JamesCoyne 6y ago

   Does FreeCAD handle constrained assemblies yet? You can't kneecap students while making the argument that their participation will make the tool better for someone else, maybe, in the future.
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   by JamesCoyne 6y ago

   CAD is a bad place to make this argument. FreeCAD is the closest thing to commercial 3D parametric CAD, and it is still missing some key features. Further, teaching FreeCAD to engineering students would be a detrimental; the engineering p
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   by JamesCoyne 6y ago

   Can someone please explain why Zen/Zip is focused on Japan? I feel I might be missing some context.
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   by JamesCoyne 6y ago

   For a hobbyist, the free tier is amazing. 2 micro instances free forever.
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   by JamesCoyne 6y ago

   Audio for a number of Damn Interesting articles can be found on their podcast feed.
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    by JamesCoyne 6y ago

    I think the same thing happens with the "Random" button. Results are always at https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/out3.png
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    by JamesCoyne 6y ago

    The application was made in May: (look for "Space Exploration Technologies Corp.") https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/instances-proceedings/Defaul... Western Canada only has one rural ISP of note: Xplorenet
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    by JamesCoyne 6y ago

    Small editing issue: I think the author missed adding a hyperlink in the summary at "You can check the source of an email to do this - here's a guide on how to do that. "
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    by JamesCoyne 6y ago

    According to this arbitrary comparison, December 2017 was a pivotal moment for editors https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
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    by JamesCoyne 6y ago

    "Analog computing" is a great subject to get lost in on Wikipedia. Some prime examples: Babbage's Analytical Engine, the Norden bombsight, the Mark 1 Fire Control Computer, etc.
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    by JamesCoyne 6y ago

    In Alberta, solar panels and other renewable sources of electricity, would compete with the price of natural gas [1], since that is what a new conventional generating station would likely use. Natural gas and oil prices [2] are not tightly
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    by JamesCoyne 6y ago

    Am I reading this correctly? A five day old account has a video rocketing past 100k views already?
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    Missed that announcement I guess
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    Personally, I have been favoring Gitlab over Github because Gitlab allows private repos on the free tier.
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    Down for me too. Mirror. https://web.archive.org/web/20200309211517/https://bugs.xdav...
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    I'll give the sales pitch. Solus calls itself a curated rolling release. You get a stable, pretty, desktop OS which is continuously updated. Package manager (eopkg) does what it says on the tin, is not radical or interesting (in my o
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    Ubuntu Budgie updates are not driven by Solus updates. Ubuntu Budgie is independent and downstream from the Budgie project.
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    Those last few paragraphs of the story are not meant as an apology to the reader. They are hinting at a broken system of accountability. Journalist in Canada can face multi-year struggles to extract any information from Ottawa under the c
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    Manitoba Hydro's major export market is the US, with ~10x more transmission capacity compared to SK. Transmission capacity to SK is a 150MW. See here: https://www.gov.mb.ca/sd/environment_and_biodiversity/ener
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    https://sci-hub.se/10.1002/jcpy.1140
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    Does HN allow Sci-Hub links?
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268086
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    > Better make that all the popular non-ext4 filesystems... Fair.
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    They announced they were dropping support for several less common filesystems used by Linux, then they decided that was a bad move and recanted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20498454
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    Or rather, "Redditor works out which generation of US spy satellite took pics..." This twitter thread explains evidence for exactly which satellite took the picture. https://twitter.com/cgbassa/status/116
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    by JamesCoyne 7y ago

    Read the complaint here: https://docdro.id/ODq2yNC Count one is civil RICO. Make of that what you will. Edit: Very similar to this: https://www.classaction.org/media/nessmith-v-juul-labs-et-al...