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by brorfred 8y ago
Not an answer to your question, but it seems like ifixit.com sells batteries for your model.
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by brorfred 8y ago
CFCs effectively function as a catalyzer and aren't consumed by the process, hence the hole is more of a Ozone sink. Wikipedia explains the effect of large-scale transport in the stratosphere well: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by brorfred 8y ago
Here is a good stackexchange answer about the lab experiments that led to our understanding of ozone depletions: https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/49777/the-chlo... . Here is a text from Berkley: https
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by brorfred 8y ago
As others have said earlier in the thread – CFC's doesn't pool at the poles. The processes that creates ozone holes require certain conditions (extreme cold and darkness) that only occur by the poles. ( https://en.wikipe
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by brorfred 9y ago
Wouldn't the default assumption be that you can use either a scalar or vector?
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by brorfred 9y ago
I use both homebrew and macports. The main benefit with macports for me is the ability to work with different versions at the same time. You can have applications requiring gcc4.5, gcc4.9, and gcc6 installed. The package manager handles mo
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by brorfred 10y ago
Have you ever met the Swedish police? Does the term "baseball gang" say anything?
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by brorfred 10y ago
I do the same – write down a long password where upper and lower case letters a mixed liberally. Type it a many many times but don't memorize it. Now you have the password as muscle memory but have no way to tell anyone what it is. Mak
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by brorfred 10y ago
Princeton doesn't have any professional schools so no law degrees, medical degrees, or MBA's to fill the ranks with...
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by brorfred 11y ago
It's worse than that- Google+ broke the basic syntax in google search. Adding + before a word used to make it mandatory. They change it to quotations marks so they could have +username instead of @username for google plus. That still b
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by brorfred 11y ago
And the Papers app http://papersapp.com
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by brorfred 11y ago
Seems like the original article is way more positive than the click-baity title by The Register: "So to get 1 kWh of usable storage in a lead acid battery you are looking at spending closer to $800. This makes the Tesla more like 2&#x
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by brorfred 12y ago
This is my experience. It is so much easier to get a Post Doc up to speed in Fortran, than pretty much any other language. The best case scenario is that professional programmers write the frameworks and infrastructure, and that non-program
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by brorfred 12y ago
The intel compiler is considered to generate runtimes that runs about twice as fast as runtimes from gfortran. Haven't seen any recent tests of CLANG/LLVM yet. The statement that compilers, not languages, are optimized generally h
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by brorfred 12y ago
Apple Watch is at least rated to IPX7.
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by brorfred 12y ago
People that buy Macbook Pro's?
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by brorfred 12y ago
Well, Snow Leopard had is problems as well: "Data losses in Snow Leopard bug" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8304229.stm I'm going in the other direction. Used to always wait one or two versions before
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by brorfred 13y ago
This seems to at least be a good start: http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Essay_-_Did_the_US...
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by brorfred 13y ago
Computer purchasing in Academia is strictly controlled by procurement rules and other types of regulations. One magic number is $5000- universities normally doesn't charge overhead for capital investments above this, but the full purch
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by brorfred 13y ago
isn't having a form field for discount codes at checkout a very common approach? I'd say that 90-95% of the websites I normally buy stuff from use it. Amazon does...