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by Udo 10y ago
There are other important reasons for this that don't make such a great subject for a public presentation, such as getting away from Earth's political and military sphere of influence and achieving greater redundancy in case a lar
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by Udo 10y ago
Why would acceleration difference not be the right metric? The Peale model is different because it takes material properties like rigidity into account - but let's keep in mind here that Mercury's eccentricity is 0.2 whereas Io&#x
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by Udo 10y ago
Yes, by accretion or if they get heated up.
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by Udo 10y ago
I tried some calculations to answer that ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12589228 ). Just taking into account the parent body, Mercury should experience a much more pronounced variation in its tidal gradient than does
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by Udo 10y ago
To answer the other half of your question ( mafribe already said why the moons are tectonically active): what's needed for heating due to tidal friction is not only strong gravity, but a strong gravity gradient that changes over tim
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by Udo 10y ago
I wish I could upvote this a thousand times, you're the only one here who saw it apparently, and nobody seems to care that the premise of this whole "scandal" is entirely fabricated. It feels strange to be defending Microsoft
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by Udo 10y ago
As someone who keeps having the same thoughts and Amiga flashbacks, take my modernized wish list, in case you ever set out to actually do something like that: Hardware: Smallish form factor, not with an integrated keyboard like the A500 but
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by Udo 10y ago
For a good laugh, hunt down the "Your interests" / ad preferences page while logged in to Google. Out of the 18 things Google believes I'm interested in, maybe 4 sort-of fit, the other ones were mostly stuff I'm p
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by Udo 10y ago
> In a Mercedes [...] the tank is really empty as soon as the needle hits 0 Not in mine (in Germany, recent C class). It depends a bit on whether you define "reserve level" as 0 or not. On the one hand, the needle does go b
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by Udo 10y ago
> I never understood how people handle their real lives without being able to argue or verbally discuss such issues My guess is they handle it very well, because they're just using a strategy that works out perfectly for them. Thi
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by Udo 10y ago
One of my consulting projects includes doing programming for a relatively big millenials-dominated site. Users on that site know exactly what cards to play in what order to get people on staff and/or affiliates fired - it's Crybul
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by Udo 10y ago
I think it's fair game to call ideas stupid, and that's what he did. It's his assessment, your opinion may be different, but in this case I'd personally say his judgement was correct. As far as feedback on ideas goes,
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by Udo 10y ago
I disagree about the underlying mechanism being complex. Machine learning algorithms are a class of equation-based systems and strategies for configuring these equations for a specific task. All our math and reasoning tools still apply to t
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by Udo 10y ago
SEEKING WORK / based in Germany / remote or on-site (Europe/US preferred) I'm a passionate generalist developer with two decades of experience. My primary interest is in creating MVPs, but I also do refactoring and bugfi
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by Udo 10y ago
Barring different categories for downvotes, I strongly believe that a downvote should be reserved for cases where you think the comment does not contribute to the discussion. Disagreement should not be enough. If the issue is amenable to di
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by Udo 10y ago
Indeed, yes, that's what I meant. But Jakub isn't wrong either, we lost the will too. But I thought I addressed that, but apparently not clearly enough.
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by Udo 10y ago
I wasn't aware this reality check was needed, but it's worth noting that we haven't even left Earth yet (going to the Moon doesn't really count, and we've since lost that capability again). If we were a solar-system
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by Udo 10y ago
Like any engine, Unity has its unique advantages and drawbacks. A small dev team can cover a lot of ground using Unity, and some programming tasks are actually quite pleasant with it. Some people have asserted in this thread that Unity&#x27
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by Udo 10y ago
How is this news?
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by Udo 10y ago
> There's the expression "love the sinner, hate the sin" that surely applies to more than just religious sins. It is possible to disagree with someone but not hate them for it, even if their ideas might be hateful to you.
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by Udo 10y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. Maybe I read it wrong, or maybe the article was changed in the meantime. Whatever the case, I still want to point out that a conviction murder carries with it a life sentence and possible death penalty. > A
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by Udo 10y ago
I also found it interesting that this article is hugely concerned with making someone feel loved for expressing a desire to literally have everybody killed who had an abortion. I think at some point, the severity of an ideology has to out
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by Udo 10y ago
That's not really what I was trying to say. I think it's perfectly well designed to suit Facebook's internal needs. And it's also guaranteed to drain resources from startup developers. Intent is not necessary, it's
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by Udo 10y ago
After being initially excited about the idea of React, I have been working on several teams doing React-based web development. My eventual conclusion is very simple: the overall amount work that goes into developing web apps has increased c
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by Udo 10y ago
I do agree with you about ReactJS - I think it's effectively a tax Facebook imposes on startup web development - but the same cannot really be said about ReactNative which is a relatively okay cross-platform UI toolkit that happens to
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by Udo 10y ago
I consider myself a passionate developer, and while strive to put myself into scenarios and projects where that is a plus, it's generally not the easiest route. People who care about what they're doing technically become bored o
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by Udo 10y ago
SEEKING WORK / based in Germany / remote or on-site (Europe/US preferred) I'm a passionate generalist developer with two decades of experience. My primary interest is in creating MVPs, but I also do refactoring and bugfi
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by Udo 10y ago
Exactly. I like this analogy especially because our needs as a more advanced civilization are drastically different from the function performed by beaver dams. It's not even about energy per se. We could dam all the streams, but that
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by Udo 10y ago
> The big argument against intelligent life being common (and us not being unique) Those are two different things. "Common" is something up for interpretation, especially with the huge numbers concerned. Intelligence being un
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by Udo 10y ago
A little off-topic, but what's your experience with Vulkan so far? Are you doing engine work?

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