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by andrewwharton 9y ago
It's not comparable to concrete though as it has completely different physical properties (ie. much lighter and weaker). It's more rigid insulation made with natural fiber and a lime based binder to hold it together.
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
I started getting into book binding as there's a lot of stuff online that I want to collect into volumes for future preservation and reference, and then I discovered that there's book binding[1] and then there's bookbinding[2
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
In general yes, but a better measure of thickness specifically is it's caliper. These are usually strongly correlated with gsm for a particular type of stock, but not necessarily for different types of stocks. For example, we use uncal
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
You can't judge the quality of decisions you made in the past based on what you know now. Imagine going to a casino, putting $100 on red in the roulette wheel, black coming up and then thinking, "Man, I really regret putting it on
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again. We've been cruising past orders of magnitude ($0.10 > $1 > $10 > $100 > $1000 > $10000) and at any one of those jumps it seemed like the top of a bubble and just as li
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
That's one use case. The other is for performance/seo where the initial markup for the app is generated and served to the client as HTML, then the React app bootstraps on the client and takes over managing the DOM.
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
> a SpaceX employee visited its facilities at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and asked for access to the roof of one of ULA’s buildings. > The SpaceX representative explained to the ULA officials on site that it was trying to run down all poss
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
Behind Google sign-in 'pay-wall'...
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
Interesting point about on-site combustion heating. Assuming that the fossil fuel to electricity conversion is about 1/3 efficient and the heat pump CoP is 3, then on-site combustion heating is effectively as "efficient" as a
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
This feels like a weird "Mainframes are making a comeback", submarine article[1] targeted at people likely to buy stock, especially the "Mainframes Today" section. There also seems to be a (legally obligated?) disclaimer
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
Re. college level IQ, I think they were referring to the level of IQ required to be able to successfully complete a college degree, ie. keep up with courses (which requires quick acquisition of knowledge), rather than the level of IQ '
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
He's stated previously (can't remember where) that building all that is someone else's problem (opportunity).
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
I'm going to go with the assumption that the "Ajacks" written on the board in the second photo is meant to be a pun/joke?
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
After reading Enterprise Integration Patterns [1] a few years ago, I've been under the impression that message queues are the holy grail for decoupling systems that you want to pull apart, but this offers a really nice perspective on w
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
Yeah, I accept this argument, but I guess the point I was trying to make is that, as always, they're standing on the shoulders of giants, and Musk is the first to acknowledge the huge contribution from NASA towards their success. I&#x2
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
Slowdown in development pace I believe. Not to take anything away at all, but a large part of the rocket development until now was based on an existing knowledge base from NASA. Going forward, there's going to be more and more uncharte
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
TLDR; Because that's when c-sections are scheduled.
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
Although I think you'll end up with a divide by 0 error. :) /pedantry
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
It really is a death spiral in the making. As grid electricity prices rise: 1. Insulation and rooftop solar/domestic battery storage become more competitive / cost effective 2. Which drives adoption (including retrofitting to exis
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
Are you sure about that? The marketing materials [1] for the Falcon Heavy say: "Falcon Heavy can lift more than twice the payload of the next closest operational vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy - at one-third the cost." [1] http:&#x2
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
No one said anything about hosting your own email or making your own website. eg. My wife has a small business with an online store hosted on Shopify and her email provider is Gmail. But her website is www.her_domain.com and her email addre
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
Ha! Try telling this to the current Australian government... The current narrative is that India desperately needs coal and our coal is the cleanest, so we need to dig it up [1] and sell it to them to help fight climate change, because othe
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by andrewwharton 9y ago
The undersea cables don't need to be cut, they're perfectly capable of breaking on their own.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink#2015-2016_outage
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by andrewwharton 10y ago
We use Grails for a lot of internal applications at our company, all 2.x (2.3.x through 2.5.x). I can't really comment on Grails 3, funnily because the applications were written before 3.x came out and we haven't bothered upgradin
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by andrewwharton 10y ago
I'd like to see this philosophy applied to some of the open content out there already like the OpenStax textbooks [0]. For example, the Prealgebra text is 1152 pages in the PDF format. I think there would be a huge amount of value in d
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by andrewwharton 10y ago
I'd recommend Grails. https://grails.org/ You use Groovy, but it's pretty similar to Java and there's plenty of resources to bring you up to speed.
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by andrewwharton 10y ago
> Why we can find whole ATMs at junkyards is beyond me: there are many easy to spot flaws. If there are many easy to spot flaws, I don't think finding them in a junkyard is the root of the problem here. This is good old security by