ajnin

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by ajnin 6y ago
Since you seem intent on being a reference usenet archive I think it's important to preserve the integrity of the original material. Moderating posts 20 or 30 years after the fact seems ill advised. If you modify the content in any way
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by ajnin 6y ago
Microchip need to realize that they're selling chips, not software. The barrier to entry should be as low as possible, providing a free, developer-friendly tool chain to attract hobbyists. Instead they treat software as another IP that
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by ajnin 6y ago
From the picture it looks like we're seeing M51 from the "top", does that mean that the planet is orbiting the star system at a right angle from the galaxy plane? Isn't that unusual?
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by ajnin 6y ago
So this is a very simple circuit. Basically a microphone amplifier directly connected to some earphones with a volume knob. No frequency control of any kind. I'm wondering why this sort of device is not already available like loupe typ
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by ajnin 6y ago
Do you have a study of this idea? At first glance it seems that the problems of fermentation, transportation, and resources needed to produce at that scale would be too large to overcome.
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by ajnin 6y ago
The only solution is to stop releasing CO2. There is nothing else that will save us. How much desert would we need to "green" to compensate the emissions? Where do we find the resources to do so, knowing that we must also cease to
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by ajnin 6y ago
Your comment is puzzling. It is true that there is nothing we can realistically do about the CO2 that is already in the atmosphere. Whoever lives on this planet will have to deal with it for thousands of years. But we can do something about
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by ajnin 6y ago
We are on a trajectory to increase the average temperature of the planet by as much, if not more, than from the last ice age to now, when so much of the oceans were frozen than the sea level was 120m lower than it is today and northern Euro
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by ajnin 6y ago
I think the point is resiliency. The real world is resilient. In the face of massive threats to the infrastructure people will find new ways and keep living. But the average webapp is not resilient. If one out of 3700 libraries breaks then
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by ajnin 6y ago
Eh, it's mostly replanting what has been destroyed previously, and with only a few fast growth species who don't make very useful wood for other purposes, while more varied forests are being destroyed to make room. It's prett
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by ajnin 6y ago
I doubt China's official figures include the so called "educational schools". If they did they'd easily top the chart. I mean, official USA figures probably don't include Guantanamo and black sites either but that&#
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by ajnin 6y ago
> "not all of our rules or guidelines are published" Which probably means "we make them up on the spot as needed to serve our interests."
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by ajnin 6y ago
It's not fair to blame people for not knowing that "3nm" does not mean "3nm". Knowledge about measurement units is more prevalent than knowledge about marketing practices of semiconductor companies. Blame those misl
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by ajnin 6y ago
I see that in the face of overwhelming evidence the narrative is changing from "climate change does not exist" to "climate change is not that bad", so that the conclusion remains that "we don't need to do anyth
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by ajnin 6y ago
I guess that fort is build with the threat of the Al Quaeda/ISIS groups in mind, which are mostly equipped with firearms and a few RPGs and such but nothing too advanced. It's not intended to take on a full siege by a regular army
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by ajnin 6y ago
> Nobody cares, human time has value, machine time is free, and it's 2020. I disagree about types, it's great to actually know what you're dealing with and instantly know what operations you can do on objects without deep
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by ajnin 6y ago
> release games to a community that is rather famous fo being cheapskates Wrong, if you look at game sales that are donation-based, like the humble bundle (they used to publish average price per platform but I haven't found recent d
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by ajnin 6y ago
I feel the term "micro particles" is too broad. I'm pretty sure there is a difference for health between car exhaust particles, tire particles, brake pad particles, industry particles, fertilizer particles, wood smoke particl
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by ajnin 6y ago
I thought so too. It sounds uncomfortably close to "pleurome" which is a French word for pleural cancer. I'm not sure if there is a similar English word. I looked up pleroma, and apparently it is a word of Greek origins which
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by ajnin 6y ago
That reminds me of a bad headache I got once after riding on a particularly shaky rollercoaster. It lasted the afternoon and made me feel quite sick. I think some of these rides are not safe either.
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by ajnin 6y ago
First, when you make millions of a thing, then saving even fractions of a cent add up to a lot of money. Chinese manufacturers favor high volume, low margin products. Second, Maxim parts are not cheap, in fact they are among the most expens
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by ajnin 6y ago
International standardization organizations (like ISO) are not governmental organizations. They are private entities, which sometimes become too involved in official standards. But they are controlled by whoever funds them.
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by ajnin 6y ago
You really can't use "we promise we won't misuse the information" as an argument, that's what everyone says whether it's true or not, and the whole point of using a privacy-centric browser is that as a user you
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by ajnin 6y ago
FCC is the acronym for Future Circular Collider, the name of the proposed new accelerator.
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by ajnin 6y ago
I'm not sure HSL would be better in that case. For unsaturated colors (black to grey to white) HSL has many points that have perceptually the same color but different HSL values. If S is zero, then you have the same color for any value
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by ajnin 6y ago
That match was still arguably not fair for the human because of the imperfect input and outputs he had to deal with. In the end I'm not sure it makes sense to put artificial handicaps on the machine to leave the human a chance. It&#x27
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by ajnin 6y ago
> the next refresh can be delayed by up to 60 days, after which a refresh will be performed regardless of the refresh.hold value Taking a leaf right out of Microsoft's book, I see.
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by ajnin 6y ago
He's talking about fixed point, not floating point. The decimal type in SQL is an exact, fixed point numeric type. It can avoid loss of precision, like integer, but without the scale conversion step.
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by ajnin 6y ago
OT but it's a real shame the bubble LED displays used in those calculators are not manufactured anymore. Something about the warm red glow and incandescent-like filament look appeals to me. They are also very compact, it's occasio
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by ajnin 6y ago
> There seem to be builds using a through hole resistor for R3 That's the "electron-detector" version, which uses a 10M feedback resistor. The alpha-spectrometer version is the one that uses the 40M SMD resistor.

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