Nick_C

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by Nick_C 14y ago
The difference is that birds killed by glass are in an urban environment and, because of that, are adapted and, with a few exceptions, not endangered. In contrast, almost all wind turbines are in rural or wild environments where some endang
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Interplanetary Transport Network(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Good idea at first look, but it would be tricky to get the trajectory right, though. The Moon's sphere of influence is tiny compared to the Earth's. You would need a guidance package and, perhaps more importantly in terms of cost, onboar
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by Nick_C 14y ago
No. You only need to use special technology if you have to limit the g-forces for humans.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
The mass of the entire asteroid belt is only about 0.05% of the Earth's, and the metallic (M-type) ones only 10% of that, so not much effect. Interestingly, Ceres alone is 1/3 of the total mass, and the big four make up half. http://en.wik
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Hollywood loses High Court appeal in ISP liability case [Australia](theage.com.au)
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Assuming /etc/resolv.conf is set up with "search <localdomain>" before any nameserver entries (which it invariably is), then any DNS query will first try the localhost. In the absence of a nameserver on the local host, then the DNS
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Thanks. Actually, that video is about cut-n-paste. The michaelkelleher.info site mentioned in the video no longer works. Do you have an updated one?
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by Nick_C 15y ago
No. It's root is not Latin.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> Cadbury have been able to exert some protection of their usage of purple To be fair, Cadbury has trademarked a specific tint of paint that they created (which is the important bit). It just looks surprisingly like purple to the rest
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by Nick_C 15y ago
OP here. There was a discussion on HN a few months ago where someone noted that U.S. customs and immigration procedures were scaring visitors away. I commented that the Aust. press was reporting a forthcoming marketing effort to redress t
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U.S. to begin tourism marketing: Brand USA friendly to visitors.(theage.com.au)
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by Nick_C 15y ago
A technological reason might be that it is quite handy to have a place with similar demographics but a small user base to test stuff. For example, they might use it to see how easy/hard it is to implement country-specific rulesets. When I
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by Nick_C 15y ago
My fault. I should have realised that this is on a VPS where the OS is installed from a pre-configured image. I guess the VPS provider configured it to use bash.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Not on my new install of Debian 6 (squeeze). sh is a symlink to /bin/bash.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> It's checks I worry about, I've heard this repeated so many times it is almost becoming an internet meme. I suspect because most younger people have never seen a cheque, they think it is somehow "risky" to show the account number and
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> I have a cron script Neat. Any chance of you putting it up somewhere?
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Australia is about to do this for bases in Antarctica (which all suffer from sporadic satellite coverage). The cheapest solution is two non-geosynchronous satellites in opposition to each other on highly elliptical orbits, providing pretty
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I'd like to use this, but it has been corrupted by URL shortening. Viewing the source doesn't fix it. Can you re-enter this as code (indent 4 spaces).
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I agree with you about IBs and large banks. We had some really interesting stuff going on to the extent we were leaders in our field. I wouldn't call CFA lightweight though, I found it hard. It was mainly memorisation of boring, boring, b
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I'd recommend Matlab too. Many quant shops use R or Matlab.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Yep, same here. Sort of amusing to see some historical revisionism going on here from the E-E people. I don't doubt that there were some genuine contributors, but claiming other's hard work as their own tainted E-E's brand for me. P.S. Fo
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> Banning clorine gas was a silly thing to do -- it didn't exactly stop the next war and only made the concept of war less terrifying. This is such a silly statement I don't know where to begin. They knew there was going to be another
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Just to note, Flightgear is open source and free. It uses a pretty good flight dynamics engine and the basic aircraft are modeled accurately. The Cessna 172 handles just like a real one. For free, it's great. It's let down, if you can c
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Nah, we have plenty of 2 lane roundabouts here in Australia, and I'm sure the UK does too. It's really a matter of what you're used to. They don't seem to get used much in the US from what I see.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I'm interested in your comment about m4. I've never really used it except for sendmail configuration. The idea of using it to pre-process namespaces is interesting. Would you mind expanding on how you set things up and what you do to use
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Thanks for this insightful post. As an outsider, I wondered how the US associated itself so strongly with "freedom".
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> Do use ssh-agent > exec ssh-agent bash Or, if you are already in bash, "eval `ssh-agent -s`" which exports the necessary environment variables.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I don't know if it follows those exact steps, but in the last few months I had several times a machine crash (flaky power supply) in the middle of various Windows Updates and it always recovered pretty well. It looked to this outsider like
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I guess I should mention my vim script to do online thesaurus look-ups. http://www.nickcoleman.org/blog/index.cgi?post=vim-thesaurus...

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