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by bewo001 8y ago
This is a DNS provided by Google, a company that earns money by analysing user data. If you want privacy, run your own DNS.
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by bewo001 8y ago
What if wind/solar + inefficient storage, conversion losses still turn out to be cheaper than fusion? I'm all for doing fusion research, but fusion might be a completely uneconomical solution to the energy problem.
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by bewo001 8y ago
"after startup cost" is the elephant in the room. [this]( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054421... ) estimates a price of 59.31$ / MWh for the proposed DEMO2 fusion reactor
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by bewo001 8y ago
What if the construction cost of the fusion plant is so high that the electricity price is not competitive? That's already a concern with recent fission reactor projects, where the investors demand price guarantees from the public.
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by bewo001 8y ago
There was also this concept of a telescope beyond the Pluto orbit using the sun as gravitational lens..
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by bewo001 8y ago
Wasn't there a close collaboration between IBM and SUSE?
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by bewo001 8y ago
Every Unix used to have its own implementation of those standard tools. They were often quite buggy and outdated (eg the C compiler that came with SunOS and Solaris in the mid 1990's only supported K&R syntax). When installing Sola
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by bewo001 8y ago
huh, "video unavailable in your country". We have Celtic burial mounds in the area, for Teutates' sake!
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by bewo001 8y ago
You are right. There is no good reason for them to develop and build autonomous cars, just like there is no good reason for them to develop and build conventional cars. When autonomous cars take off, Lyft and Uber can still use their curren
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by bewo001 8y ago
It's called a 'terminal'
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by bewo001 8y ago
Those systems are not complete failures, but the underlying philosophy has certainly failed. People don't prefer the ISP's QoS-guaranteed IPTV product over Netflix or Youtube, which was the IPTV systems vendors' promise.
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by bewo001 8y ago
There are examples for this, eg carrier IPTV. 3GPP IMS had the grand vision of telco-controlled Internet Multimedia System (IMS), an Internet modeled after the phone network. It runs over separate lines or at least separate layer 2 sessions
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by bewo001 8y ago
I wonder if microservices will have a similar evolution as microkernels. While some microkernels almost closed the performance gap to monolith kernels, the communication overhead killed them. It turned out that the kernel's complexity
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by bewo001 8y ago
I've read somewhere that bio fuels make a lot of sense for powering agricultural machinery, while they'd be disastrous if we tried to power all cars with them.
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by bewo001 8y ago
In Fermi's time, the perception was that an advanced civilization would have large powerful radio stations that could be detected from many light years away. Up until the 1930s, radio stations did indeed get bigger and bigger. But afte
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by bewo001 8y ago
The problem with land line voice quality is that people expect a land line phone / VoIP adapter to cost like 20 USD or Euro. At this price point you can't have fancy codecs and audio hardware that delivers a decent signal. Bad aud
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by bewo001 8y ago
And he was probably the only French politician who could convince his people to make peace and even become friends with Germany. If a general who spent a large part of his life fighting Germany could do it, anyone in France could do it.
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by bewo001 8y ago
Well, Iceland has a lot of gravel roads so they might assume that this is normal..
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by bewo001 8y ago
..and his proposed alternative requires that you have already decoded the message to create the corresponding Message objects. To create those objects, you still need some sort of switch somewhere, eg switch(ip.protocol()) { case 6: m = new
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by bewo001 8y ago
Reusable airplanes would make less sense if they had to fly back empty all the time..
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by bewo001 8y ago
And telcos are usually required to keep track of cgNAT assignments to comply with legal interception laws.
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by bewo001 8y ago
Actually there is some standardization activity trying to do this. It does not solve the main problem: if you let the originating carrier sign the caller id, you still have to trust that carrier to really check if the caller is authorized t
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by bewo001 8y ago
At least, remove the metadata if the originating carrier is not trustworthy.
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by bewo001 8y ago
To get a project going you need to convince mgmt that it can make or save money. And you need a shiny demo. With IPv6 migration, this was tricky. It costs a lot of money up front to get IPv6 support for all routers and backend systems. Ther
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by bewo001 8y ago
deepl.com is pretty good. This translation of your question into German is flawless: "Ist dieser Übersetzungsservice online verfügbar? Ich habe in letzter Zeit auf Reisen verschiedene Dienste ausprobiert, keiner von ihnen war besser al
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by bewo001 8y ago
It seems to be a common theme with projects in big companies: somebody comes up with a good project idea and a catchy name. As it gets resources and management attention, other departments re-brand their long-time toy projects with being a
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by bewo001 8y ago
At the time it was just one among many. I first encountered it using telnet info.cern.ch, which was a line mode browser. There wasn't much to see other than links to other web servers. Usenet was much more important and gopher had mor
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by bewo001 8y ago
AFAIK the idea was that SQL is so close to plain English that any accountant could simply use it to generate reports or enter data. It's really an old fallacy that using plain language would make complexity go away.
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by bewo001 8y ago
As a European I was surprised how many buildings in Manhattan are not sky scrapers.
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by bewo001 8y ago
The brilliant stroke of Musk was to market the electric car to sports car buyers. They don't care about high cost, short range, and performance at sub zero temperatures.

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