aw1621107

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by aw1621107 9y ago
> It's been speculated that advanced spy satellites carry thrusters and fuel to conduct frequent orbit changes. That's not really surprising; I'd imagine most long-term satellites carry thrusters and at least some amount o
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by aw1621107 9y ago
I wouldn't say "many"; nuclear-powered vessels generally are ones that are going well beyond Earth's orbit. They also aren't "normal" nuclear reactors, since they use the heat from radioactive decay to pow
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by aw1621107 9y ago
>What you're describing is closer to a spy camera in a geosynchronous orbit. I was thinking of a polar orbit when I wrote that comment. You'll always be over the same longitude with a geosynchronous orbit, as opposed to passing
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by aw1621107 9y ago
I'm curious how far it'd go with something as serious as a nuke, though. I don't want to imagine how high tensions would be after such an attack, if there isn't enough evidence to pin the blame on someone.
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by aw1621107 9y ago
>Signing treaties didn't stop us from waterboarding torture. Isn't that because the US called waterboarding "enhanced interrogation" instead of torture, and therefore could claim that they were following the letter of
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by aw1621107 9y ago
Might that be just because it changed orbit and had to be reacquired? Might take a while since you have no clue what the parameters for the new orbit are or when the burn(s) took place. Some kind of new stealth tech would be pretty cool, th
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by aw1621107 9y ago
>So, what are the chances we have more than N nukes in orbit, where N > 0? I've always wondered. Legally speaking, 0, since the Outer Space Treaty forbids placing nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in orbit, an
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by aw1621107 9y ago
We already find/track orbital debris in LEO, so I'd imagine finding a satellite should be doable by interested parties, unless there's some new tech on there that makes detection significantly harder.
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Reflections on a PhD accidentally spent on language design(reddit.com)
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How to Print Integers Really Fast (With Open Source AppNexus Code)(pvk.ca)
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by aw1621107 9y ago
I think there might be a slight difference in that Uber also takes care of hiring drivers
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by aw1621107 9y ago
Saw this on /r/programming and was intrigued by comments from /u/subtly_homoerotic discussing multi-processing vs multi-threading on *nix. That's well outside my realm of expertise, so I'm curious what you guys
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OCaml 4.06.0 Released(sympa.inria.fr)
7 points by aw1621107 9y ago|1 comments
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by aw1621107 9y ago
I think it's more along the lines of "Eh, I probably don't need to look, since someone else is surely doing that".
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by aw1621107 9y ago
I'm not one of the authors; just came across this and wondered if the conclusions in there (as well as the idea of "smart" expression templates) are sound.
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A performance analysis of expression templates(arxiv.org)
2 points by aw1621107 9y ago|1 comments
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by aw1621107 9y ago
Indeed, I missed the link to the blog post. My mistake!
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by aw1621107 9y ago
Seems like they've come pretty far in the past three months. Also sounds like they were able to fix the performance issues that spurred Facebook (and maybe others? Can't remember) to move to Mercurial? Wonder how the customized gi
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Windows switch to Git almost complete: 8,500 commits and 1,760 builds each day(arstechnica.com)
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by aw1621107 10y ago
I'm not the post author, unfortunately, so I really have no knowledge of the specifics of what is going on. It seems like the libstdc++ maintainers are aware of the issue at least, so that's a start. It'd be nice if some of t
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The Horror in the Standard Library(zerotier.com)
830 points by aw1621107 10y ago|216 comments