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by alricb 11y ago
It's a fine line. Newspapers were always partly entertainment; their goal is to get read so they can sell advertisement. You wouldn't have crosswords and comics and the NYT style section otherwise. A bit of infotainment is okay, w
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> new tests that were conducted on all diesel car models in the United States by E.P.A., the California Air Resources Board and the regulatory group Environment Canada. Environment Canada, a "regulatory group"? It's a depa
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The value used to determine the Design Basis Flood is a 10000 year recurrence. Over a 100 year lifespan, there is around a 1% chance of that flood happening. The consequences of loss of all power including backups is the loss of the plant +
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In this case, I don't think it's possible to answer without access to the original context, and there doesn't seem to be an electronic version of the book. I would also note that the book has been translated from the German,
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> Indeed, the article says almost nothing about what criteria we could use to judge if writing is needlessly complex or opaque. And that's a huge problem for all the "clear writing" mandates; it's hard to give clear
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Er, the example from the article isn't that bad, if you're used to the jargon. > The work of the text is to literalize the signifiers of the first encounter, dismantling the ideal as an idol. In this literalization, the idolatr
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It's very hard to estimate the probability of very rare events like tsunamis and earthquakes, so you kind of have to use heuristics to get a reasonable "design basis" event. Then you design your system to survive said event.
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Carl A. Eckelman, Ph.D., Professor of Wood Technology – Publications(agriculture.purdue.edu)
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To be fair, we know about the progress on NTPsec by ESR's posts, but there isn't a public repository.
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One reason car companies are conservative: unit-body construction and safety and efficiency standards mean that getting a new car to market is very expensive nowadays. In the 50s and 60s, restyling every year or so cost a lot in tooling (me
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In this case it's definitely ASN.1; the problem is that "objects" are defined with OIDs, which are sequences of integers (called arcs numbers) like { 1 2 840 113549 1 }. The first integer is always 0, 1 or 2, and with 0 or 1,
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A lot of murders get solved not because of great forensic work, but because someone comes forward with information; here, nobody has, or at least not with good enough information. Also, it's not just sex or money that lead to murder. A
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The most densely populated part of Montréal is Côte-des-Neiges, at around 7500 people/sq. km. (edit: to be comparable to the examples in the article, that's around 19500 people/sq. mi.) Typical street: https://www.
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by alricb 11y ago
So what you're telling me is that perl no longer automatically applies flatten to nested lists? Yay!
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I thought we were supposed to use Concurrent Pascal? Did I miss a memo?
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In addition to being old news, this story isn't all that exciting. They've made an Aluminium-based steel that's 13% lighter than ordinary steel(density of about 6.83 vs. 7.85) and that isn't brittle like previous Alumini
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by alricb 11y ago
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9001704 (Same South Korean researchers)
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But it takes a good bit of time for something to become "traditional"; long enough that it becomes hard to figure out who, exactly, owns the copyright to what, as in this case. Limiting the term of copyright also has a function of
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That "sword" was the spring offensive of 1918, and it didn't work. Germany had fought on three fronts: East, West, and the Sea, and they were badly beaten at sea, resulting in the suffocation of their economy (see: food short
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by alricb 11y ago
By European standards, France is a truly old country; its population today (66M people) is barely three times what it was in 1700 (21M). By contrast, England went from 5M people to 53M today, or about ten times the size.
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The French won WWI, yo. It was a Pyrrhic victory, but it was a victory. That's partly why they lost WWII; they were resting on their laurels.
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Unix was insanely successful in its day: an indication is that when Richard M. Stallman decided to create a Free Software operating system in 1984, he chose to call it "GNU" for "GNU's Not Unix".
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by alricb 11y ago
A better name for the short-circuiting && operator is "andthen". Since "false && X" is false for all X, && does not evaluate its right operand if the left operand is false; this translates into br
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Nitpick: often we refer to "omnidirectional" bass because, given that subwoofers are usually much smaller than bass wavelengths (around 16 ft at 60 Hz), they have an omnidirectional radiating pattern. Live sound is usually highly
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Probably Cosmic Rift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Rift (shut down). Another 2D space MMO was SubSpace, but it was released in the mid-90s.
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A better (pdf) article on the subject: http://embc.embs.org/files/2013/3185_FI.pdf Fukuro Koshiji, Nanako Yuyama, and Kohji Koshiji, Transmission Characteristics of Body Area Communication Using Electromagnetic R
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Honest question: Would it be possible to create a "friendly" version of signed that is actually unsigned underneath? After all, it's just bit patterns.
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Some context from back in the day... http://harrop-highly.blogspot.ca/
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It's logical: the higher the antenna, the larger the area it has in its line of sight. If your base station is going to serve a large area, you want it as high as possible. If it's only for a small one, not so much.
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It's really not that bad. Canada did it in the 1970s and it's still around, and we didn't revert to the stone age or anything. SI units are already in wide use in the US, for instance for electricity (Amperes, Watts, Volts).

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