TheOtherDave

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by TheOtherDave 5y ago
AFAIK (which probably isn't that far) it's not any worse if you die from the explosion, but, unlike with a regular bomb, with these if you survived the blast you have to then immediately find air to breathe (probably while injur
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by TheOtherDave 6y ago
What about the lives lost to the increased rates of suicide and drug/alcohol abuse that will accompany an economic collapse?
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by TheOtherDave 6y ago
There's been some testing. It generally shows that _way_ more people have (or had) COVID-19 than we thought, and that most of the cases are so mild that people never even knew they were sick. NYC Hospitals find that 15% of pregnant wom
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by TheOtherDave 7y ago
On the plus side, a catapult that could get the airplane up to cruising altitude in one piece would make for a heck of a ride.
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by TheOtherDave 7y ago
I wonder if this means Boeing/Airbus/etc will have to move towards flying wings or other designs which might risk some degree of passenger comfort to achieve efficiency goals?
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by TheOtherDave 7y ago
Because music theory doesn't know how numbers work. The interval of A(440Hz) to A(440Hz) is "1" in music theory even though it's 0 in literally every other context ever in the history of everything. I mean, if they'
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by TheOtherDave 7y ago
Excel is programming, it just doesn’t call itself that so people won’t get scared off.
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by TheOtherDave 7y ago
It kinda depends on the context. If your machine isn’t on the internet and is dedicated to running like a large computational fluid dynamics simulation or something, security isn’t as much of an issue because there is no untrusted code runn
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by TheOtherDave 7y ago
Cool!
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by TheOtherDave 7y ago
If you’re talking about losing the ability to recreate any particular relevant CPU, then maybe . But computers in general? No. I suppose we could be exceptionally unlikely and lose access to all the modern fabs, but the knowledge of CPU de
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by TheOtherDave 7y ago
I’m under the possibly mistaken impression that most computers already do everything in UTC and the “local time” which gets displayed is just calculated from that.
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by TheOtherDave 7y ago
Don’t do that... it’ll knock wood particles into the air, which might settle in the butterfly mechanism and jam up a key.
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by TheOtherDave 7y ago
I think it’s on tvOS and watchOS, too.
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by TheOtherDave 7y ago
+1, would agree with again
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by TheOtherDave 7y ago
My thoughts as well.
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by TheOtherDave 8y ago
Unless the ladder is anchored to something, it’d probably just fall over backwards if you put any weight on such a rail. They get unbalanced if the load isn’t kept forward.
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by TheOtherDave 8y ago
+1
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by TheOtherDave 8y ago
I'm sure they'll reconsider as soon as someone develops jet engines capable of mach 2.2 that don't burn fossil fuels. In the meantime, since speed is their goal, they don't have much choice.
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by TheOtherDave 9y ago
Or you could just decrement base.
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by TheOtherDave 9y ago
Yeah, but that’s still an improvement over the current situation (at least as I understand it).
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by TheOtherDave 9y ago
Yeah. The thing that blows my mind is that the guy who runs Input Club (they make/design keyboards with open-source firmwares) sent the USB consortium an email a year or so ago asking if there were any plans to update the USB HID spec
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by TheOtherDave 9y ago
I'd like to use it, but they turn custom operators such as "|>|" into an illegible jumble of characters (in this case, "▷|"). If I'd wanted my operator to be "▷|", I'd have defined it that way