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by ajnin 5y ago
CO2 levels are not the only factor that is beneficial to plant growth, you also need sunlight and water, and nutrients, and other things, it's hard to predict what regions of the Earth will have favorable conditions in the future and i
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by ajnin 5y ago
Yes, that's why planting trees to offset carbon emissions is not really as good an idea as it seems, trees can live a long time but they're not immortal, and when they die they release their carbon back into the environment.
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by ajnin 5y ago
When you're writing code, you have your problem, and you're trying to figure out how to make the computer solve it for you. When you're reading code, you have the detailed computer steps and you need to figure out what the pr
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by ajnin 5y ago
It's mind blowing to imagine that the observable universe is bigger than 90 billion light years, space-time expanding at multiple times the speed of light. If expansion keeps accelerating, then at some point gravity won't be able
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by ajnin 5y ago
> You don't want a program where in 100 different places you handle exceptions and pop up error dialogs. What if you want to change the way you put up that dialog box? That's just terrible. The exception handling should be cent
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by ajnin 5y ago
I've setup jellyfin on my media server but I barely use it because the web player bugs make it unusable for me. I think most issues are due to the fact my hardware is underpowered for the task, and the player gets confused when the ser
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by ajnin 5y ago
Got an F because I didn't implement XSS protection on my static non-interactive non-JS website.
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by ajnin 5y ago
Thanks for sharing that, I hope it does not land you into trouble. So, how many billions did you make with that site ?
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by ajnin 5y ago
The "biased" exponent has a constant 127 added to it, so for example if the bits are 00000000 the exponent is actually 0-127=-127, if the bits are 10000111 the exponent is 135-127=8, and so forth.
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by ajnin 5y ago
Power consumption is a function of the voltage squared, but maximum operating frequency drops down slower than that as you lower the voltage, up to a point as GP said. So efficiency defined as f*P goes up as V goes down. People definitely d
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by ajnin 5y ago
What would be the impact of all that heat on sea life and fishing activities ? Also, as we tend to learn the hard way, natural resources are finite. How big of a heatsink is the bottom of the Baltic sea ? For how long could you cool all of
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by ajnin 5y ago
With that move I don't see how Apple will be able to refuse when a government asks it to scan for images of Whinnie the Pooh for example. They say they won't but they are too reliant on Foxconn's Chinese plants for manufactur
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by ajnin 5y ago
Absolutely. If there is nothing new and a bug is still there, there is simply nothing to add to the bug report. Too often now bugs get closed automatically for "inactivity" after a short period. Should users come back every months
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by ajnin 5y ago
What's premium about Uber ? My personal experience is that taxis are usually much more comfortable cars, they're allowed to drive in dedicated bus lanes, and they don't try to scam you by taking a longer route to rack an over
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by ajnin 5y ago
You seem to be confusing a bunch of cherry-picked newspaper clippings with scientific research.
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by ajnin 5y ago
It's not true, solar is very cost effective, cheaper than coal. But there are industries build around extracting coal from the ground and they have an interest to continue to push coal.
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by ajnin 5y ago
I get the same kind of fascination reading those comment threads as one would get watching a train wreck. To multiple users telling them that their stuff is broken, they reply that this is their actual intent. The thought that maybe there m
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by ajnin 5y ago
These are some good changes. Perceived performance is very important for a program you use many times per day. One of my long time complaints is that with Chrome, when I want to search for something I'll often ctrl-N to open a new wind
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by ajnin 5y ago
It doesn't, it just plays the data as PCM and with whatever sample format and sample rate it is currently configured for.
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I'm curious: current trends predict that the temperature increase from the pre-industrial age to 2100 might be as much as it was from the last ice age (look it up, it was a very different time). And this will happen roughly within 200
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by ajnin 5y ago
> How do you know we need to care? The temperature difference between now and the last ice age, at a time there was 3km of ice over much of the northern hemisphere, and sea level was 120 below current average, was 5°C. Current prediction
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by ajnin 5y ago
Defender is deleting the app as a "potentially" unwanted application, a better analogy would be if firefighters went to every home and confiscated every "potential" source of ignition.
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I guess the reason you're being downvoted is that you're complaining about comments which have already been downvoted, which brings nothing to the discussion, and also you're drawing conclusions about a community that does no
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by ajnin 5y ago
Producers want to sell more, therefore they select varieties that look pretty, that are uniform in color and shape, they will also select varieties that keep for a long time for transport, or that grow bigger and ripen faster for better yie
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OK I was way off, the sheer complexity definitely feels like 700 pages though ;)
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by ajnin 5y ago
I way prefer XML over something like YAML. I can't believe people criticize XML for being too complex and then rave about YAML. YAML is a monstrosity, the spec is something like 700 pages, and is a frequent source of bugs. To me at lea
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by ajnin 5y ago
I don't know where the notion that RPN is more intuitive comes from. My dad had an HP-45 when I was a kid and I didn't quite grasp the concept of a stack. You've also got it wrong in your example (you've got stack 1 and
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by ajnin 5y ago
Here's my solution : generate the 1B records .sqlite file once beforehand, then before running each test, copy it over the test DB file ;)
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> Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support And it fucking sucks. It consistently fails to load, or stalls even at low quality. Even replaying a video often fails despite it already being in memory. And it degrade
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by ajnin 5y ago
> I am not confident in the ability of the government to implement a reasonable single payer system. I am concerned that regulatory capture, small government politics, and special interest groups will result in system that is worse than

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