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by NickNameNick 13y ago
On the contrary, coal and nuclear thermal power plants take a long time to throttle up and down. To increase the output of a thermal plant you need to increase the heat production, wait for the steam pressure to increase, then open the stea
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by NickNameNick 13y ago
In the case of Coke, I think the cost of packaging is bigger than the cost of the product, but either way its almost irrelevant to the price - they charge what people are willing to pay. I wouldn't buy a big bottle from a convenience store,
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by NickNameNick 13y ago
The article describes the microwave link as 'additional capacity', so I'm guessing that they had another (primary?) connection, but needed more throughput. When the rugby world cup was running last year I saw a number of temporary cell site
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by NickNameNick 13y ago
My NZ based employer does business in the US, and hold US software and/or business method patents. I can't speak for my company, but I personally feel that the whole software patent system is ridiculous, and I'm pleased that the local situa
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by NickNameNick 13y ago
I wonder if that was a similar time to when I visited that office ~feb 2011. The aircon was clearly over capacity then, and there were portable air conditioners scattered around the floor I was on, with flexible ducting feeding up to the re
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by NickNameNick 13y ago
Wouldn't that commit as soon as any file was changed, no matter who or what changed it, denying users the ability to supply a meaningful commit message?
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
I completely agree with moxie marlinspike but... This article is two years old, and the effort behind the convergence project ( http://convergence.io ) seems to have moved on to tack ( http://tack.io )
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
Do you have any idea how big and environmentally unfriendly those batteries would have to be? Ready reserve is generally provided by peaking generators (the aforementioned natural gas turbines) and by hydro dams. There aren't many batteries
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
Continually rebasing a shared repos to keep the 'A long time ago ...' message at the top would probably be a bad idea
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
And then someone emails 'the' spreadsheet to someone else, and now you have 2 different versions and no rational way to reconcile them. neither is authoritative anymore, and one probaby calculates the average of a list of phone numbers. (ac
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
Or you're trying to track down head loss caused by construction flaws, especially leaks and drafts caused by cracks or gaps. Also leaks caused by improperly installed power points. Missing or settled insulation is also common.
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
Depending on how the fields were hidden, they may need to render and reflow html, css and dom changes by javascript. None of which is all that difficult for a full size browser, but it may be prohibitively resource intensive for a high-volu
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
Do people still use that? I only ever saw it on userfriendly profiles, and userfriendly has been limping along, very nearly dead for years now.
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
Chrome 25 on windows 7. I just tried again from scratch, without going through the google oAuth page, and its worked this way. No idea what went wrong the first time around.
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
I'm getting a 400 error when I try to complete the 'choose a username' screen. No visible reaction to pushing the continue button at all, but the error shows up in chrome's console. "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token O"
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
>ensuring that there is no single dark pixel which is surrounded by all white pixels You mean, like the registration and alignment markers in three of the four corners?
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
You do realize bitcoin is not anonymous... The act of conducting a transaction posts the wallet id's of the participants to the global ledger, and associating wallet id's to real identities is far from impossible.
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9 Its not without precedent...
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
If a user gets caught leaving a library with photocopies of public, published documents, would you consider that a crime too?
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
The article doesn't say the bats dont get infected, it says infection has very little affect on the bats health.
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
It looks like they run a pair of fasteners through the whole stack of slices, to prevent them from separating too much. That will definitely prevent the ends from falling off. Not sure how effective it will be on a slat base.
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
I'm from NZ... To form a government, the party with the most votes, or a coalition of parties which collectively holds a majority petition the governor general. For a single party this is quite straightforward. To form a coalition the membe
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
Primarily, because the stored procedures are not effectively under version control.
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by NickNameNick 14y ago
I've been reading guides on getting lion to do just that, snow-leopard supposedly supported it, with filevault. Unfortunately, lion/filevault 2 no longer supports it, and if you try to force the options, the computer simply crashes on resum