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by carl_dr 5y ago
To clarify for casual readers who might not dig into that, it’s not that Fullstaq is refusing to contribute or that they are commercial. They say : “There will be no paid version. Fullstaq Ruby is fully open source. It is also intended to
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by carl_dr 5y ago
Thanks, I see the difference now.
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by carl_dr 5y ago
https://phys.org/news/2021-06-space-orbit-oort-cloud.html The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was between 3 and 10 miles diameter. 2014 UN271 is 100km-370km. Would we have discovered 2014 UN271 earlier had its o
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by carl_dr 5y ago
If something is going to hit Earth and wipe us out, we won’t have a few decades notice.
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by carl_dr 5y ago
Saying he got the money from selling cocaine is almost the opposite to entrapment. It certainly didn’t lead them to selling him Bitcoin when they would not have otherwise - he didn’t induce them to commit a crime. What he did was show they
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by carl_dr 5y ago
I can't help with the IF without seeing what you're trying, but for your other points, press Escape to interrupt a running program, Semicolons are used as string concatenation but you can use colons to separate statements, and STO
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by carl_dr 5y ago
Thanks for spotting that. I'm a little confused then, later in the article it says "The team estimates that a system with a roughly 1-square-meter solar collecting area could meet the daily drinking water needs of one person.&quot
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by carl_dr 5y ago
This device "could" produce 1.5 gallons per day, per square metre of solar collecting area. The researchers estimate a system suitable for a family might be built for $100, so double or triple that after profits etc. I assume tha
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by carl_dr 5y ago
!!!true is equal to false in JS, and in Go (and in any other language I can think of.) In that Go example above, the author is reassigning true and false to be their opposites.
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by carl_dr 5y ago
The opt-in feature you mention was for a disagree alert for the plane’s angle of attack sensors. But, MCAS was only ever using a single angle of attack sensor as its source of truth, so if there was a fault in that single sensor, MCAS could
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by carl_dr 5y ago
I think the various discussions in these comments show that we don’t realllllly know, just that we understand what forces are there to allow it, and how to generate them.
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by carl_dr 5y ago
I wonder if the screens can be turned off independently of the refrigeration or freezer, in case something like this does happen?
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by carl_dr 5y ago
They are seemingly small upgrades, but the logical assignment operators and visual separation of numbers are really nice to have - two things I definitely miss from Ruby.
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by carl_dr 5y ago
Genuine question: what are the “long line” or the phase space of the cosmic fluid? I found the Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_line_(topology) but like a lot of such pages, they are opaque unless yo
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by carl_dr 5y ago
Maybe their old scheme, when divided by the number of videos, was getting to the point where it was feasible you could brute force finding unlisted videos. The old scheme had 7.3 x 10^19 ids (11 chars, base 64, thanks Tom Scott!). Suspicio
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by carl_dr 5y ago
(Helped by Google …) In NYC, earning about $100k a year, the effective rate is ~28% tax (ie, you pay $28k tax a year), including federal (~15%) and state (~5%), social security etc. In the UK, for £100k, it looks like it’s 27.4%. So very si
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by carl_dr 5y ago
The US and Eritrea. I knew this was a thing, but I had always assumed a US citizen living abroad only ended up paying tax to the IRS if the tax they paid to the foreign government was less than what they would have paid to the US, and only
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by carl_dr 5y ago
I didn’t see that it was stated what the surgery was for, and I am unfamiliar with deep brain stimulation. For anyone else in the same boat, for the author, it is a method of managing the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. A fascinating read.
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by carl_dr 5y ago
> OK, but Microsoft is in the best position to create great, integrated, first-class technologies that build on how great Windows is. For a few years now there has been some noise that Apple’s Pro hardware lineup isn’t Pro, that macOS is
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by carl_dr 5y ago
‘I was so totally confused lol I said “fine a month”’ Definitely doesn’t sound like a senior member of Apple's staff.
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by carl_dr 5y ago
It would be a branch, but surely it would be a flag on the process struct set when the process started, rather than a lookup each time.
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by carl_dr 5y ago
Not disagreeing with you at all - it is true. But for most people, whether or not you went to the toilet before starting your ride, or had that bit of cake at the cafe stop, has a bigger impact than the additional grams on the tyres.
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by carl_dr 5y ago
I am definitely slower - 4.5mph or so - on my 42mm gravel bike on road than I am on my 32mm road bike. But my road bike has slick tyres and the gravel bike’s tyres are more knobbly, and I run the gravel bike’s tyres at much lower pressure.
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by carl_dr 5y ago
> In Formula 1 racing, you go through multiple tires in one race. They could easily make a tyre which lasts the length of a race, but they mandate pit stops and two different tyre compounds to add interest - teams can use the mandatory p
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by carl_dr 5y ago
I guarantee the masters of marginal gains, Sky (now Ineos Grenadiers), will have spent some resources on looking at which tyres are actually faster for them, regardless of fashion or sponsors. I think it’s safe to say that whatever they rid
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by carl_dr 5y ago
I think this is a myth - you don’t pull on your pedals to make you more efficient, I think it’s the fact you are not continuously having to adjust your feet as you would on flat pedals. See https://www.bikeradar.com/advice&#
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by carl_dr 5y ago
In cycling, clipless = clipped in, which is of course confusing - I think the GP is referring to the same thing as you are. Clipped pedals refer to pedals with toe straps. Clipless are pedals without a strap, but you clip into. And flat a
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by carl_dr 5y ago
From TFA: “ We tested our tires on smooth pavement at 29.5 km/h (18.3 mph), and found no speed difference between narrow and wide tires.” A professional peloton rides at 28-30mph on the flat and significantly faster towards the end of
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by carl_dr 5y ago
I’ve ridden 25mm to 32mm tyres on the same bike, in the same season, and my (absolutely amateur, I’m 250lb and did 125 miles at 16mph) experience is that 32mm tyres are no slower, but are significantly more comfortable, and allow me to ride
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by carl_dr 5y ago
I thought calling them llamas was an error or misunderstanding by the author, but then noticed the descriptions against "car" and "cdr" and saw it was very much deliberate.

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