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by batbomb 12y ago
Why can't she so 3 day pay or quit (plus eviction) and/or give 30 day notice for chronically late payments?
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by batbomb 12y ago
Cosmic Rays are often started from one singular particle, but by the time they hit the atmosphere, they cause air showers large and small. This is because there's not a whole lot to interact with in space, but there's tons of matt
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by batbomb 12y ago
if you think that's crazy, you should know an experiment I worked on had approval to fire an electron accelerator directly into the sky. Of course, we called it an "electron light source".
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by batbomb 12y ago
Of course, this assumes the case that also other weapons hadn't been developed as well. One of my favorite weapons, where my username is derived, was actually very effective in it's own right. http://en.m.wikipedia.org&
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by batbomb 12y ago
Surprised not to read anything about Roy Schwitters in this, although he had just taken over as chief of JASON shortly before this article. One amusing note, many of the JASONs (I believe it supposed to be capitalized) often have thinly vei
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by batbomb 12y ago
So the acceptor is a replica-read-only machine and a client-propose-commit-only machine. Also, the minimum production setup for this cluster is 6+1 machines?
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by batbomb 12y ago
cool info, thanks.
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Ask HN: My mom called me, but I got someone else. How can I report this bug?
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by batbomb 12y ago
That chart is worthless without numbers. First off, the chart makes it sound like Netflix is preferring subpar transit providers, and that by simply switching to different transit providers, they'd be fine. But there's no numbers
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by batbomb 12y ago
What is more strange is actually having other food allergies. I have bad Oral Allergy Syndrome, and eating various things like cantaloupe, bananas, avocado, grapes (and wine), among other things, make me sick, some worse than others. Inclu
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by batbomb 12y ago
Maybe he is secretive, but anybody affiliated with Stanford will instantly recognize his name.
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by batbomb 12y ago
and 30 years of any radiation pressure.
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by batbomb 12y ago
Nice to see another NASA-related astronomer here. I work on Fermi Gamma-Ray space telescope project, although I'm deep into the data processing and data management side of things. I also have been helping out with a ton of LSST camera
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by batbomb 12y ago
Somewhat related: After nearly a year of very little activity, Jython finally has a 2.7 beta 2 version released recently, with a 2.7b3 release coming soon. So, if you use Jython and you are sick of dealing with <=2.5 code, you should be
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by batbomb 12y ago
On a podcast of Cooking Issues with Dave Arnold, he mentioned his dream is to modify his oven with copper tubing and inject water into his oven (he uses bricks for thermal mass). Of course, this was largely in relation to baking and injecti
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by batbomb 12y ago
I believe it is actually not monotonic, which was a requirement for this library. That's why you end up using the high resolution timer which has a 10mhz clock rate instead. I ran into this problem trying to get better than 1us resolut
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by batbomb 12y ago
I'm pretty sure rdtsc is/was broken on Intel core 2 duos, especially those with power saving feature (like laptops).
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by batbomb 12y ago
I grew up in Farmington, NM, probably one of the few, if inly places you could actually learn Navajo in public schools, in addition to hearing it in your everyday life. Even though I'm very familiar with the tones, stops, hard consonan
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by batbomb 12y ago
...often diverges wildly from fact What is it called when somebody writes a book titled "The Decline and Fall of [company still around]"
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by batbomb 12y ago
Thanks, really. I know it's HN and I'm not trying to pick on you, but it's seriously starting to drive me insane. I can't remember where else I saw it, but in the last week I think I've ran into this several times (
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by batbomb 12y ago
Dear Submarine, Your mobile page blows on iOS. You and all the sites like you need to stop hijacking the bottom touch event preventing me from bringing up the interface to press back. As far as I am concerned, this action is the new pop-up
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by batbomb 12y ago
Oh please, the amount of math and (physical) science a typical CS major goes through is pretty laughable compared to a math, physics, or chem major. It's usually on par with biologists with a bit more calculus. It's not that CS ma
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by batbomb 12y ago
It's a O(log(n)) operation, but we aren't talking log base 2(100,000), since it's usually a B+tree, not just a B-tree. In practice, you don't usually end up with a B+tree more than 4 levels deep. So, we are usually talki
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by batbomb 12y ago
In oracle, the index on an index ordered table only needs be a unique. So, for example: 1234 "John Doe" null null null 5824 "John Doe" "Sale 1" "item 1" $5 4321 "John Doe&quot
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by batbomb 12y ago
Hadoop will not penetrate HPC. I'll say it again: Hadoop will not penetrate HPC. The reasons why vary quite a bit. But the core reasons are this: Data is rarely local. Resources are shared. Users are heterogenous, even if the cluster i
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by batbomb 12y ago
Also, starting with SQLite 3.8.3, you can use WITH RECURSIVE (Common Table Expressions) and do some fancy things all in SQL.
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by batbomb 12y ago
It does, "ok maps"
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by batbomb 12y ago
I worked on the child and grandchild of this experiment, HiRes and Telescope Array as an undergraduate and a bit as a postgraduate at the University of Utah. Currently I work with the Fermi Gamma-Ray space telescope as a "science janit
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by batbomb 12y ago
you can in oracle, and I believe db2. It's called range partitioning.
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by batbomb 12y ago
One of the most irritating ones I found was in an FPGA. There was a bug in the FPGA code with an initial state which would only fail to initiate an ADC converter correctly if the temperature was somewhere around 75F. So at room (lab) temper

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