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by avian 6y ago
I feel like the resulting shape is more of a fluke here. > The performance of the wheel was based on the final speed achieved by an accelerating imaginary car, vf. The wheel was driven with a constant torque, τ, and no slipping. There is
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by avian 6y ago
Another former user of Tomboy here, back from the GNOME 2 era. I think I ran it for a good while after the .deb was removed from official repositories. I'm just using paper notebooks now.
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by avian 6y ago
> Dragon also carries tons of cargo Does it? I seem to remember reading somewhere that the "trunk" section will be mostly empty on crewed vehicles. It makes sense. We've seen that Dragon aborts with the trunk attached for
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by avian 6y ago
It might have been a weird iceberg, or a lightsail fragment, or just a boring rock or a gift of fire from the gods. We'll never know because we didn't get our shit together and went out to look. There's just so much you can d
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by avian 6y ago
It's always interesting to explore how far a thing can be pushed software-wise. Copying bits is free and small AVRs are literally cents per piece in large quantities.
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by avian 6y ago
I'm looking at these long series of pushes and pops [1]. You have 26 general-purpose registers plus X, Y, Z. I wonder if it would be possible to have e.g. only 4 threads and have dedicated registers for each thread, avoiding the need t
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by avian 6y ago
> Most of my issues have been down to my ISP only handing out a dynamic /64 prefix. Yes, this is my biggest issue with the move to dynamic prefix delegation as well. Delegated prefix change seems to be handled very badly in the stac
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by avian 6y ago
Is it just me or did we actually start regressing in terms of moving things off IPv4? A couple of years ago I had a working IPv6 connection at home with a static /64 delegation. I had full IPv6 connectivity at work. Since I had IPv6 co
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by avian 6y ago
Slack's home page certainly hints at it being meant to replace email. e.g. "Instead of a single overstuffed inbox...", "Unlike email...".
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by avian 6y ago
> Channel and message overload is arguably not much better than the email system it is meant to replace. I still don't understand why this is surprising. Why do people continuously think that moving to another way of receiving messa
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by avian 6y ago
> We also have webmentions, so, if bloggers start using it, it will help us find other's blogs. My informal research [1] shows approximately zero adoption of webmention. For 44 blog posts I have written in the past two years, I did
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by avian 6y ago
> The amount of content is going to explode by orders of magnitude and shared culture is basically going to die, with nearly zero chance another random person consumes the same content. Why? I believe there's already so much content
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by avian 6y ago
> Thus, it is not unreasonable to guess there may be at least one surprise in the next 250,000 seconds, a probability of 1/500 per engine per mission. It's interesting to read this in the context of the STS-93 incident [1] wher
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by avian 7y ago
One possible way I can think of is they're hosting their own mail server and route messages for all unknown addresses to some mailbox (not that uncommon as far as I know - people do that to avoid bouncing mails with a typo in the addre
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by avian 7y ago
Yes, they are called the trademark law.
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by avian 7y ago
As a fellow Slovenian, former student and now someone who's spent years professionally in academia, let me try to show your experience from a different perspective. I don't know anything about your professor except the anecdote yo
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by avian 7y ago
> on silicon, I presume? I'm pretty sure the screensaver was done in software. All DVD players have some sort of an embedded computer inside (even the earliest ones had to handle things like on-disc menus). It wouldn't make muc
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by avian 7y ago
After 15 years the original still shows up in a modern browser more or less exactly as it did back then. I wonder if this WebGL/javascript heavy thing will even load in 5 years.
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by avian 7y ago
> the more precise name "Spomeniks" uniquely refers to them This is wrong. As a native Slovenian speaker and fluent in English I can say that "spomenik" is as specific in our language as "monument" is in Eng
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by avian 7y ago
> Anyone can put a paper on arXiv. Unfortunately as an academic it's really hard to justify spending time on writing up a paper that's only going to be published on arXiv. Regardless of citations, it doesn't count towards
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by avian 7y ago
As someone who spent 4 years working on a PhD (wireless/RF technology) and then quit, your points 2 and 3 ring a lot of bells. I think "journal of failed experiments" is a wonderful idea.
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by avian 7y ago
They specifically say in the report that data differs even between individual regions in a country and are not comparable. It's really more of a qualitative "we have these numbers and they went up/down like this" kind of
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by avian 7y ago
Very likely Khan Academy can't help. Also your bank probably doesn't know why and neither does their fraud prevention service provider that runs some machine learning/AI system somewhere that decided to flag your transaction.
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by avian 7y ago
Does anyone know whether Turbo Pascal DOS/Windows compiler produced slower code than C compilers at the time? For a long time I was sticking with Pascal and resisted switching to C, even when everyone around me was doing so. One thing
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by avian 7y ago
Sometimes it's good to remind yourself that HN comment threads are not written by single person and the opinions are not those of a single entity. Different posts attract different cross-sections of users which lead the discussion in v
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by avian 7y ago
When you own the browser you don’t need cookies anymore.
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by avian 7y ago
I have a box of custom ISA data acquisition boards sitting around somewhere, mostly because I never came around to throwing them out. I actually wrote a Linux driver for them some lifetimes ago. This USB thing might actually make them usefu
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by avian 7y ago
If you check the pull requests tab there's also a showcase of why some people resist putting stuff on GitHub. Most of the pull requests are low-effort tickets like "update bart.css" with no further explanation and a bunch of
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by avian 7y ago
It’s a joke. For some reason people like making these fake Gardena adapters. Here’s a water-to-HDMI one: https://imgur.com/FHSFM9o
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by avian 7y ago
Do you have a link to the paper? Edit: I found this literature review [1] that sounds similar to what you're referring to. Note that this is only a summary of previously published results on similar viruses. If you check the source dat

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