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by choeger 5y ago
That's why I think there should be two silver medals, immediately given to the winner of two semi-finals. If you think about any sport with a one-on-one final, the silver medal is for the loser of that final. But the same team/a
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by choeger 5y ago
Counter example: Danish captain at the Euro 2020 opening game.
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by choeger 5y ago
There must be some kind of counter-agent, or life as we know it would not exist.
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by choeger 5y ago
> duel use microbiology research This typo demands an xkcd!
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by choeger 5y ago
Management in turn doesn't pay any attention whatsoever to the technology. They have no idea how quality and productivity is influenced by outdated or poor choices or simply a lack of investment into maintenance. You need people that c
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by choeger 5y ago
The latter point is an important one. Rust as a language for libraries cannot work the same way as rust as a language for applications. For the latter it is OK to depend on the cargo toolchain and be opinionated when it comes to things like
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by choeger 5y ago
Well, of course they do. If 20th century SciFi literature has taught me anything then that there is nothing in high-energy physics that cannot be explained by a metaphor to some good old combustion device or, in exceptional cases, a hydraul
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by choeger 5y ago
Seriously, what's the difference between a non-local variable and a deterministic function that yields a pseudo-random value? From what I understand, we have some function f that can be evaluated by the measurement and we have another,
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by choeger 5y ago
No. Rust cannot magically avoid memory-unsafe operations when you have to deal with, well, memory. If I throw a byte stream at you and tell you it is formatted like so and so, you have to work with memory and you will create memory bugs. It
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by choeger 5y ago
Does the article do justice to the hidden variables hypothesis? In case of the hidden variables, the spin is a (3-dimensional?) value that is identified by the measurement result. In case of quantum theory we have have a probability distrib
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by choeger 5y ago
I think the food analogy is a very good one: I know how wheat is grown, harvested, turned into flour, and how to create a bread from that. I also know the same about several vegetables and even eggs and chicken. I know that I have a weak
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by choeger 5y ago
First of all, that sounds like a great plot for one of those mindless-yet-entertaining summer movies. Something like "White House Down" on a road trip. With trucks. Second, how comes that all these federal agencies in the US dem
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by choeger 5y ago
First of all, if I live in a simulation, you probably do not even exist. After all, as we are likely never going to meet in person, it would be extremely inefficient to actually simulate you, too. Second, the simulation would have to be res
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by choeger 5y ago
These tools are so important, yet I would bet that less than 1% of developers can actually use them and even less would have an idea on how to reimplement or improve them. Sometimes I feel like we are standing on a house of cards about to c
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by choeger 5y ago
It's an interesting take and there are certainly real such problems. A good example is winning the lottery. Many people that did hit the jackpot suffered afterwards. But I often feel that some "nice problems to have" aren&#x2
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by choeger 5y ago
And a backup.
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by choeger 5y ago
Huh? Solar power generation at scale is exactly such a thing. Wind power, too. Also hydroponics are a thing at the industrial scale now as is desalination of seawater. These are not magic bullets but they do fix a lot of things.
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by choeger 5y ago
I think everyone has said this in every decade of the last century.
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by choeger 5y ago
This. Even France is not able to double its nuclear power output and go completely climate-neutral this way. Let alone India, China, or Indonesia.
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by choeger 5y ago
Wow. This thing will either flop massively or change gaming. I really hope for the latter.
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by choeger 5y ago
But that only works in one direction, no? So it works if you can develop your single repo, but it doesn't help you when you depend on other projects. I think the best approach would be to have bidirectional links between the projects (
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by choeger 5y ago
How many of these train stations have been built after 1950? And what defines "large" in both cases?
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by choeger 5y ago
I don't have such a sign, but 100 passengers is still smaller than what current jets do, so it might be possible. It would be a radically more efficient design than what we currently have, though. Before we can even think of long-ran
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by choeger 5y ago
It also depends on train stations being accidentally close to where you depart/arrive. Most people don't live closer to a large train station then to an airport, I'd think.
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by choeger 5y ago
This. People tend to grossly underestimate the expense and effort to build new rail tracks in an industrialized country. Most land is owned by someone already, there are environmental concerns, other (rail-)roads and generally obstacles mus
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by choeger 5y ago
The thing is, tablets and phones are interactive, TVs normally are not. There are fantastic apps for learning on a tablet (reading, writing, counting, simple calculations, reading the clock, etc.) The kids love it to spend some tablet time
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by choeger 5y ago
Maybe this is a stupid question, but what is the "make" part? I see a lot of docker syntax and a few targets without dependencies. But make is all about dependencies. What kind of make dependencies do you support? What kind of var
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by choeger 5y ago
This will be the case in the next couple of years. Wall boxes are inherently smart (that is, controllable). So as a sink, the concept works somewhat already. But most cars won't be empty all the time. Also as source the 50kWh will only
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by choeger 5y ago
Modern reactors are also much more expensive and take literally decades to build. Right now the option is to choose between comparatively cheap solar and wind energy (and their immense land usage) and nuclear power plants that are decades o
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by choeger 5y ago
Germany. Seriously, I don't know of any other country with such a combination of industry, education, social security, and absence of natural disasters as well as poisonous animals.

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