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by barbegal 5y ago
If you read the article > Large metal discs covered the paper, but only served as protection from the elements
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by barbegal 5y ago
The most popular figs to eat are: Kadota: doesn't need pollinating Brown Turkey: doesn't need pollinating Black Mission: doesn't need pollinating Adriatic: doesn't need pollinating Calimyrna: must be pollinated by a wasp
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by barbegal 5y ago
Proof of work has always had an economic flaw that you could theoretically temporarily rent enough mining power to perform double spends of more value than the cost of renting those devices. But this attack has never been performed because
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by barbegal 5y ago
I've wondered about a lot of these features and how they would be ubiquitous if only every brand of camera has a standard way of loading applications and interfacing with the sensor and lens. Sadly such an interface doesn't even e
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by barbegal 5y ago
Satellites give better performance but there is no reason why a ground based system can't work just as well. LORAN gave accuracy to a hundred metres or so across a good portion of the globe https://timeandnavigation.si.edu&#
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by barbegal 5y ago
Yes but you just can't sell it as a mattress
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by barbegal 5y ago
Has anyone tried this method of catching and lifting a dog without the added complexity of the lava? Knowing how dogs act it seems like an extremely difficult task. Whats stopping someone hiring a helicopter with a proper winchman to lift t
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by barbegal 5y ago
Certainly you are most likely to start a dev career at age 20-30. As the industry expands, the ratio of under and over 30 had stayed about the same but there are in absolute terms more developers over 30. I don't think there is any evi
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by barbegal 5y ago
I've had a look and it's hard to see how the foundation's money is being spent. The accounts suggest most of the income is from donations from Andrew Kelley and most of the outgoings is Andrew's salary.
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by barbegal 5y ago
If it's 250V or less then that's probably overkill. Rubber gloves alone will protect against a few hundred volts. Bleed resistors depend on the capacitor size but are usually in the high kilaohms.
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by barbegal 5y ago
IEC 60335 and IEC 62368 state that the voltage across the capacitors must be below 34 V in 1 second after the input power is removed. Modern electronics are remarkably safe and I have never heard of anyone being shocked by power supply capa
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by barbegal 5y ago
The official report has more details https://www.jag.navy.mil/library/investigations/IWO%2520JIMA... The accident is an example of the rare cases where the tolerance for error is tiny to prevent catastrophic conse
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by barbegal 5y ago
The reality is that a lot of sensors provide greater resolution than the lens can resolve so the actual spatial resolution barely changes.
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by barbegal 5y ago
I wouldn't read into blocked vs filtered. The report itself doesn't differentiate. This is just a BBC journalist trying to use varied vocabulary which is nicer to read.
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by barbegal 5y ago
DSPs are more expensive to engineer than these tried and tested chips. If you need the functionality of a DSP then you use one but the core performance of a power supply is relatively unaffected.
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by barbegal 5y ago
For me, the value of ingenuity has not been the fact that it flies but rather that is designed to be operated in a far more risky way than a traditional rover. A mission that consisted solely of a single larger helicopter would be far more
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by barbegal 5y ago
I don't understand all the worry about being able to modify the firmware of a computing device if one has physical access to it. If you have physical access then you can completely replace the computing device with one under the attack
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by barbegal 5y ago
Thats a serious amount of electronics for a charger. I think it probably would have worked but Apple would have had to sell it at a ridiculously high price.
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by barbegal 5y ago
Unfortunately a lot of science journalism is now funded by this kind of advertisement. The magazine publishes the story as handed to them by the advertiser without the journalist doing any scrutiny. No money changes hands so it's perfe
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by barbegal 5y ago
I personally think that clonal colonies should belong in a separate category. Whilst all the individuals are connected, can communicate and gave the same genetics it is possible to split it into many individuals which would be capable of li
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by barbegal 5y ago
So the most popular figs to eat are: Kadota: doesn't need pollinating Brown Turkey: doesn't need pollinating Black Mission: doesn't need pollinating Adriatic: doesn't need pollinating Calimyrna: must be pollinated by a w
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by barbegal 5y ago
Common figs that most people eat don't require pollination from a wasp, they are self pollinating.
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by barbegal 5y ago
Elliptic curve cryptography uses modulo of large prime numbers. Curve25519 uses 2^255 - 19 for example
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by barbegal 5y ago
Indeed, I'm using the fact that it's ludicrous to make the case that a $2M starship launch is equally ludicrous.
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by barbegal 5y ago
You raise a few good points. Falcon 9 launches could be 30% cheaper if fully reusable but that only reduces a launch cost down to $25M. I am skeptical of the claim that they will just be able to refuel and go. Every reusable space vehicle h
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by barbegal 5y ago
I don't understand how it can be an order of magnitude cheaper. There are more rocket engines to maintain, far more fuel, a more expensive launch structure and generally more expense in all the ground operations. In a world where this
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by barbegal 5y ago
> It's not done per month, but based on the amount you've paid so far this year. Does this mean you get paid more at the beginning of the year than the end?
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by barbegal 5y ago
What they fail to mention is that the bulk of a modern quantum computer is the cooling system required to keep the quantum chip at below 1 degree Kelvin. Quantum computers can only come out of lab environments once they can run at sensible
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by barbegal 5y ago
In England it is used in the context of a settlement. E.g. in part 36 https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/rule...
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by barbegal 5y ago
In England, part 36 uses the term damages to refer to the monetary value of the settlement. https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/rule...

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