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by beojan 9y ago
An average isn't very helpful here. A single kettle / oven / heater will use 1 kW by itself.
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by beojan 9y ago
Or the seat you're moving to would normally cost $250 less.
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by beojan 9y ago
> Great landscape photography takes you to an interesting location or interesting angle. A post-processing algorithm cannot take you somewhere interesting. This isn't just a post-processing algorithm. It also picks the place from Go
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by beojan 9y ago
> MEPs should be banned from using domestic party branding on their material, and have to canvas themselves based on the bloc they plan to align to in the EU, and what that stands for. MEPs align themselves with the bloc their party is a
575.
by beojan 9y ago
No voting system would have yielded a different result in the EU referendum, it was a two option referendum.
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by beojan 9y ago
The problem with that is that it isn't fair to those who did vote, because the ones voting now have more information to go on. The only fair way to do this would be a second referendum with mandatory voting.
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by beojan 9y ago
Every single implementation of cryptography would be required to encrypt the message both with the original key and separately with the government master key, and store / transmit both. The master key suddenly becomes very valuable, an
578.
by beojan 9y ago
Shouldn't you multiply by your specific click through rate? For many people, this is 0.
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by beojan 9y ago
> There is a bug that breaks applications using kdialog horribly That was fixed in the 5.8 branch. I wonder why the fix isn't in 5.9.
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by beojan 9y ago
If a second user enters the same unconfirmed email, presumably he would need to know the original password?
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by beojan 9y ago
Well, they also lose the right to paid holiday, sick pay, not be fired at will, and so on.
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by beojan 9y ago
I think you mean 20% cocoa. 20% Coca-Cola is just weird. Isn't it a Yorkie in British ration packs?
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by beojan 9y ago
The problem isn't being deprived of the use of the laptop in flight, it's that you're separated from the laptop, which increases the chance it will be damaged / stolen (especially given that bags can only be locked with
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by beojan 9y ago
> would collect some fixed amount of money from enterprises in exchange for support on all OSS projects said enterprise uses (limited by hours per month?). That's called getting a job with said enterprise.
585.
by beojan 9y ago
The poor kids were clearly cheating, otherwise their pass rate wouldn't have fallen.
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by beojan 9y ago
Let's imagine that was a transcript of a verbal conversation. How would you pronounce the emoji? Facial expressions?
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by beojan 9y ago
This is really a specific example of the benefit academia generally provides to society being highly underappreciated.
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by beojan 9y ago
But if its completely open source, what will backers get that others won't?
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by beojan 10y ago
The author is British, so I don't see how this is relevant.
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by beojan 10y ago
I don't see Apple becoming as successful as it did if it hadn't had Jobs at the helm, so we would in all likelihood just have Windows now.
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by beojan 10y ago
You don't really have a choice if you need to travel between Europe and the US. Travelling by sea would take far too long.
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by beojan 10y ago
Right, so the codec decodes the audio and writes it into the buffer, and the sound card (or driver) reads out of that buffer and plays the sound. Where am I going wrong?
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by beojan 10y ago
> Alexa only transmits when you trigger it You really only have Amazon's word that the only data transmitted is for that particular command. Unless you tap the transmission, you only have Amazon's word that it only transmits wh
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by beojan 10y ago
I'm not sure the sort of person who's OK with an always-listening device in their home would find this particularly invasive.
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by beojan 10y ago
The Tesco Pure or Cravendale milk will have a 3-4 week shelf life, and is also pasteurized rather than UHT.
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by beojan 10y ago
If that happens, the entanglement would be broken, and Charlie wouldn't know.
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by beojan 10y ago
> I just allowed Charlie to make the choice to emphasize that the choice happens outside of the room. The problem is that allowing Charlie to make the choice allows him to use entanglement to transmit information faster than the speed of
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by beojan 10y ago
That does describe entanglement. To say that A and B are entangled simply means the state of A is correlated with the state of B. Entanglement is only "spooky" or "weird" because (from Charlie's point of view) Bob
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by beojan 10y ago
The NT kernel has had a POSIX subsystem since the beginning. I'm not sure whether WSL uses this though.
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by beojan 10y ago
Nevertheless, GR and QFT describe the same universe.

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