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by ajnin 5y ago
China is a totalitarian dictatorship, with an otherwise pretty capitalist organization. No European country is socialist in the sense of social ownership of the means of production. How they describe themselves is irrelevant.
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> 25% for cryogenic Also from Wikipedia, the efficiency if 25% if you let the heat of liquefaction and the "cold" of vaporization go to waste, but it can be improved to 70% if you store that heat and re-inject it in the cycle.
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by ajnin 5y ago
Don't patents examiners receive bonuses based on the number of patent applications they process? And isn't accepting a patent basically checking a box, while rejecting one requires an argumented memoir and a lengthy back and forth
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That's highly dependent on humidity. If it's dry your body has means to cool itself through perspiration, but if the air is saturated in water vapor, temperatures as low as 35 or 36C can be deadly.
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Global warming brings more energy into the system so it's likely there will be more wild swings into extreme temperatures in the future and more energetic events like hurricanes etc. (not a climatologist).
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My current backup strategy is to backup the whole filesystem. I run services in actual VMs, not docker containers, with disks mounted from LVM volumes which allows me to take snapshots and back them up live without needing to shut them down
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My intuitive answer to that problem was to say that if we assume the captured serial numbers are randomly distributed, and the numbering starts at 1, then they will have the same average as all the numbers, so the estimate should be the ave
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How convenient it must be to always have a paper or two ready that show warming trends are wrong and that it will stop in the next few years. It does not matter that the previous papers in the same vein were proven wrong by facts, like the
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by ajnin 5y ago
Sprites Mods, great hacker, an inspiration for me : https://spritesmods.com/ Fabrice Bellard, creator of FFMPEG, QEMU, and lots of other amazing stuff : https://bellard.org/
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You're getting downvoted but the producer of the show "24" has stated that it was a "patriotic" show and it's at least in part responsible for the acceptance in the American public opinion of the torture inflic
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They're also requiring all new apps to be published in the Android App Bundle format instead of APK. Likely it will soon after also be required for updates to existing apps.
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If you hang around gaming communities a bit the sentiment is the same. Google has killed many products used by a lot of people.
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You have to use the engines to slow down rather than aerobraking in the atmosphere.
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I very much doubt Valve has the required licensing to release the game they have on their store to any other platform (except for their own games). If Valve ever goes bankrupt and closes shop, it is likely that the users would lose access t
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by ajnin 5y ago
Repeating the same thing over and over does not make it a fact. Maybe the stated aim of the research was to study the process. But what they actually did was study how the people involved implemented it. Being publicly manipulated into merg
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With the death of third-party cookies Google is trying to force browsers to add enough bits of entropy so that the same level of user tracking can be achieved through fingerprinting instead. Simple as that. The fact that Google is rolling t
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by ajnin 6y ago
His blog is hosted on the modem but it does not actually use the cellular network, he routes traffic back to the host using adb port forwarding and then to some other host via USB and then to the Internet.
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It's a stretch to call it unneeded, being able to communicate over the cellular network is pretty much the definition of what a mobile phone is, if you remove that it stops being a phone. In that sense running the phone with any system
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He's not actually serving data over the cellular network, but even if he did, how much traffic does being on the front page of HN generate ? His blog is very light, this page is only 22.2kB. Assuming 100k pageviews from HN, that would
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by ajnin 6y ago
What is that "group of people" you're talking about, can you be more specific ? Are you attributing certain characteristics to people only because they are part of that group ? Should people that are born into that group with
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> In the US eggs sold retail are required to be pressure washed. That's interesting. In France it is actually illegal to sell washed eggs. As a result they can be kept easily a month without refrigeration. I wonder why there is such
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Guys like you are not able to be convinced. You accept scientific articles such as this one as evidence of "alarmism". But you'll dismiss other scientific articles about climate change because they are "alarmist". Y
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When I read articles like this I'm always reminded of this little story about the law of averages : a few years after WW2 the US air force had a problem : their planes kept crashing. After some investigation they realized the issue was
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The problem would be that everyone would have a different time depending on where they are on the globe, not only different hour but also minute. That would make things like meetings between people living in slightly different places very d
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You can't conflate games that try to create a fun experience, and engage people through feelings of discovery, fun, achievement, and games that use manipulative techniques to create frustration and exploit psychological feedback loops
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You're forgetting the various fluids : oil, coolant and associated tubing, filtering and pumps, the radiator and fan, the starter/alternator, the gearbox, the transmission, the air filter, various belts ... Quite a bit more comple
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I see that as just another hardware manufacturer limiting what people can do with their hardware. And "creating tailored products for customers with specific needs" ? Just regular old market segmentation as they've always don
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I think there is a bit of circular reasoning here. If by "physics" we mean the way the universe works, then of course we are "within physics", and we determine our actions in exactly the same way as the rock falls to the
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The fact that the video is sped up is not new information. It is immediately known when you watch it, it says that the video shows a week in the life of a whale yet the video lasts only 45s. You can only pretend in bad faith that it is not
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by ajnin 6y ago
It does have something to do with it in the sense that it locks code in a proprietary format that does not allow code traceability and source co trol, and does not favor best practices like code comments and commit comments. That does make

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