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by bodyfour 13y ago
Electric engines can easily be above 90% efficiency. ICE's are around a third of that -- since they're Heat Engines, Carnot's Theorem even gives a theoretical maximum efficiency. So yes, an ICE will have an order of magnitud
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by bodyfour 13y ago
A common rule-of-thumb is "100W per person" I think that's probably slightly high, but it's in the right ballpark. If you're standing in a crowd, you should expect that it'll be as hot as if every person wa
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by bodyfour 13y ago
Plus the obvious problem that it presumes all automotive batteries will be electrically and mechanically identical... or at most there could be a small number of variants that they keep in stock. If all the world's a Model S it could
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by bodyfour 13y ago
Unfortunately I think the fork didn't go very well. If they'd immediately just released a nearly-the-same version and iterated from there the entire Nexuiz community would have brought along to the new project. Instead, the deve
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by bodyfour 13y ago
It's mostly a historic artifact. Early on, cars were sold by local dealers. Later, when manufacturers wanted to sell direct they learned that local politicians cared more about the business down the street than some giant company in Detroi
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by bodyfour 13y ago
They have a similar end result on wages, maybe. It doesn't matter if your paycheck (and public benefits) decrease outright because of austerity or its silently inflated away. They differ though on who pays overall. Inflation is a tax on an
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by bodyfour 13y ago
If you're using pcre directly from C code, this is controlled by specifying the PCRE_UCP flag to pcre_compile(). By default, \d and friends only match ASCII characters even if the PCRE_UTF8 flag is set.
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by bodyfour 13y ago
No compiler issues to speak of. * They're not nearly as fast as an Intel server CPU. If you have a task that can be easily split across any number of machines this may not matter, but not every case is like that. For many tasks it's just
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by bodyfour 14y ago
That's one interpretation. A more cynical one would be that very few anglophones would ever vote "Oui" in a secession referendum. Therefore the Parti Québécois had motivation to make life as uncomfortable as possible for english speakers,
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by bodyfour 14y ago
Near the edge, it's just a matter of using the same silicon you have for routing and ask the question "would I have routed a packet to this claimed source IP down the pipe I'm receiving it from?" In cisco-speak this is "ip verify unicast s
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by bodyfour 14y ago
Yes, egress filtering is the only solution. I personally think that the focus on open recursive resolvers is misplaced. All authoritative nameservers have to be "open" to queries for the domains they serve. So instead of the amplifying
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by bodyfour 14y ago
Remember that liquor licenses are controlled by the ABC, which is a statewide bureaucracy based out of Sacramento. Sometimes the enforcement policies of the SF authorities and the ABC diverge. If the ABC wants to punish you, they send thei
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by bodyfour 14y ago
I would definitely tell someone just visiting SF (especially from a foreign country) that the TL is a "no-go". I've been there many times, but it's not the kind of place I'd want to be lost and disoriented.
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by bodyfour 14y ago
All of the chromebooks so far have been able to run non-chromeos linux distros just fine. (The ARM-based ones require a little effort, but it's possible. I've got fedora/arm on a Samsung chromebook that I play around with) Hopefully that
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by bodyfour 14y ago
OK, I'll give you that. A goto into with a tricky destination is a particularly bad case, worse than most uses of "break;" I was just trying to point out that they're all violations of the LISPy ideal where all control flow forms a hierar
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by bodyfour 14y ago
They're really a closer cousin to the RAII pattern common in C++ than exceptions. Exceptions usually imply action across functions, but here they're just trying to enforce end-of-scope invariants. So if you're writing C++ code with "excep
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by bodyfour 14y ago
> many more probably had mild cases that were never disambiguated from other seasonal respiratory illnesses It's certainly possible that some people got "low-grade" or even asymptomatic SARS. However, given how it spread like wildfire
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by bodyfour 14y ago
> Apparently our mid-grade is a 50/50 mix of regular and high-grade. I don't know if that makes sense, but that is what I've been told by 4-5 different people. Yes, typically gas stations only have two tanks of gasoline: low-grade and h
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by bodyfour 14y ago
It makes me sad from a retrocomputing standpoint as well. I have a sun386i in storage that I always said I would port linux to one day. Oh well... I can't blame them for wanting to drop it though, not only do you not have the full range o
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by bodyfour 14y ago
I'm sure all political reporters know what Intrade is. If you were going to spend money to move the market, those are the people you're most trying to influence. I'm still personally skeptical of the whole manipulation theory, however. It
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by bodyfour 14y ago
I believe you're thinking of the Sun 3/80 (aka the "sun3x" architecture)
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by bodyfour 14y ago
Of course, Madison is one of the most liberal cities in any state. I've lived in both Madison and Milwaukee. Now I live in San Francisco. I don't think Madison is any less liberal than SF. The big difference is that most of the areas
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by bodyfour 14y ago
...until the hacker calls up your registrar and convinces them to reset your domain management password.
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by bodyfour 14y ago
Would they buy terabytes of music? No, but few people of any income level would. However it should be remembered that once upon a time, college students were a major market for recorded music. Twenty years ago when I went to college (ug
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by bodyfour 14y ago
> it's my understanding that producing bytecode is as easy as--if not vastly easier than--producing code in another language Maybe true for unoptimized code. However, Java and C# compilers have received years of work to make efficient
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by bodyfour 14y ago
For decades people have said that compiler's code generation is at par... and it slowly has become more true. I read a lot of disassembly listings and I'm often pleasantly surprised at how clever some of the code is. However, there's also
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by bodyfour 14y ago
TLC is (confusingly) 8-level flash, not 3-level, so it's still an integer number of bits per cell.
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by bodyfour 14y ago
All of the vendors are still using power-of-two MLC (i.e. 4 or 8 levels) right? I wonder when we'll start seeing 3 level (1.58 bits/cell) or 5 level (2.32 bits/cell) MLC start appearing? It's more complex to visualize, but the controller
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by bodyfour 14y ago
Yes, setexit() and reset() were the precursors to setjmp()/longjmp(): http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/3/reset
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by bodyfour 14y ago
I think a lot of C programmers would find reading the source to the V6 ed interesting: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Trees/V6/usr/source/s1/ed.c 1333 lines of C, basically no library use at all (no printf, not even malloc -- the

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