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by cmarschner 4y ago
The body also needs some other nutrients than the carbs you‘d find in potatoes and rice…
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by cmarschner 5y ago
People don‘t understand that Google is in a game of user data: you can only win this game if you have the largest market share, plus a plethora of additional data sources like ads. Microsoft invested 10s of billions into bing to get to the
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by cmarschner 5y ago
ArXiv has this wonderful property: It works. It‘s simple. Everybody understands it. It is steady. People build tools around it (e.g. arxiv-sanity.com, Google scholar…) which make it even more useful. It has spin-offs like biorxiv that are c
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by cmarschner 5y ago
This is a net positive for Russia. Instead they should plaster Russia with stores.
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by cmarschner 5y ago
It takes in the order of 20 years to build new nuclear power plants. By then fission will be stone age from an economic point of view, PV and wind will be much cheaper than they are now, electric vehicles can serve as batteries on the grid,
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by cmarschner 5y ago
I‘m glad there is still cash. Imagine in a situation like this where the internet-based payment systems are seized, lines break down, there are power shoartages etc. People would invent a new form of cash.
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by cmarschner 5y ago
Thank you this is what I love HN for
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by cmarschner 5y ago
Question in this regard: current theory seems to predict a singularity with “infinite” space-time curvature (IIUC) in the center of a black hole. This seems utterly improbable to me. Is it common sense to treat this as a given or is it cons
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by cmarschner 5y ago
In today‘s news, the new German minister for the environment: “ He does not see the consensus on the nuclear phase-out crumbling. "I have never heard from a politician from a democratic party that he is calling for the reconstruction o
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by cmarschner 5y ago
That‘s pretty much what is done in countries with a recycling industry. It might be a bit more manual (you might have containers on the street for glass for example) but an entire industry is supposed to make it happen and burn the rest and
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by cmarschner 5y ago
Well there is labor shortage for the exact same reason - if paying workers fairly means it is not worth hiring them then there is no business, hence no demand for workers. Labor shortage just means that the market is not in equilibrium wher
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by cmarschner 5y ago
This seems to be your opinion when one can read it also differently. After Fukushima she and her government (backed by the coalition partner FDP) started a risk re-assessment process that involved two commissions (the reactor security commi
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by cmarschner 5y ago
She changed course when she took over and supported nuclear first, then changed her assessment after Fukushima.
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by cmarschner 5y ago
So, to summarize, 1. Germany is a net exporter 2. Germany has reduced the production from fossil fuels from about 70% to about 37% within 30 years. 3. At the same time it cut nuclear power from around 28% to about 10. 4. It looks like witho
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by cmarschner 5y ago
The sentiment on HN on this topic has traditionally been negative, and comments that support the move get downvoted. The fear of nuclear energy is deeply rooted in Germany and cannot be simply ignored. The "Anti AKW" (anti nuclear
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by cmarschner 5y ago
On a tangent, I‘m surprised how much SD cards are failing to keep my photos intact. I found a couple old ones and saved them to cloud storage but it was too late - at least 10% of the jpegs are screwed up with artifacts, some of them are no
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by cmarschner 5y ago
(What is meant here is Modified Newton Dynamics, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics )
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by cmarschner 5y ago
“Running Amazon s3”… wow, it’s hard to think of many roles that are more fundamental to today’s Internet infrastructure (never lose a byte!) and at the same time quite dull (it’s an object heap after all. Nothing else to see here).
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by cmarschner 5y ago
I must correct myself again: Here [1] is an interview with Krier, in German, which paints a very different pucture - that he is rather left-leaning, that he detested the political stream that Speer was part of, but that he was able to disti
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by cmarschner 5y ago
Very worth reading indeed. Sigh. That makes me even more sad. I had high hopes of Poundbury, and reading that Krier, who has published smart ideas about urban planning, was apologetic towards a super nazi like Speer (and he was, as a new do
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by cmarschner 5y ago
Oh yeah I can totally relate. If you want to dive deeper, follow Twitter accounts like @wrathofgnon or @createstreets. Just be prepared to leave the cozy liberal bubble of software… the scene is… more diverse. There seems to be a correlatio
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by cmarschner 5y ago
I literally read “present-day Australia” and thought: now that‘s surprising.
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by cmarschner 5y ago
Thanks, the fact that you registered just to answer means a lot to me :-)
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by cmarschner 5y ago
I‘m more interested in geometric structures / architecture, so the sculpt mode isn‘t very useful as I realized today (after watching a video about it). This is all about taking a sphere with lots of vertices and pushing them around. I‘
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by cmarschner 5y ago
When looking (briefly) at the API documentation, I was mostly interested in mesh manipulation - and there it says "Currently, for more advanced features such as mesh modifiers, object types, or shader nodes, C/C++ must be used.&qu
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by cmarschner 5y ago
I‘ve spent countless hours learning Blender over the past few months (being completely oblivious of other 3D software to that point), mostly through many excellent Youtube videos like from BlenderGuru, and I think it is the most wicket piec
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by cmarschner 5y ago
Why would a Blender class in high school be mandatory??
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by cmarschner 5y ago
I‘m 44, IC turned first-line manager and back to IC (several times) and now quite happy in the IC role, occupied with difficult, large-impact projects that span multiple teams and require roadmaps for 1-2 years. I have learned a great deal
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by cmarschner 5y ago
So, not “facebook” like it used to?
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by cmarschner 5y ago
At the core of Lucene, as you index a document, it creates first an index containing a single document, and everything else is merge operations (operating in log N - merging larger and larger chunks). So the nice thing is that you can use t

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