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2y ago
Looking at urban landscapes in Europe in general I expect diminishing returns with everyone placing a useful windmill. And it would be ugly as hell no matter what (imagine every roof having one of these monstrosities).
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2y ago
And thus 3x more readable than fn. And otherwise it's bkshd for a 150% reduction.
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2y ago
> Massive investments have been made. If somebody buys Intel foundries now, they pay one dollar and take debt + subsidies. Intel can write off the debt but don't get potential rewards. You are describing the start of the Vulture ca
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2y ago
The article suggest it would affect all orbits equally but does it? I find it kind of hard to believe LEO will affect MEO as suggested with GPS but I'm not too knowledgeable on this.
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2y ago
It hasn't, it has been linear for a while and is not exponential by the looks of it. Still climbing though.
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2y ago
> I developed an financial servic application with 1MB+ source of code (not including 3rd party libs) within 3 month The timeframe + loc + financial sector seems .... Off (I'm not touching that).
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2y ago
> What might be some practical advantages of what you suggest? Using half the power
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2y ago
The thickening under forward voltage explains the "recovering cap" phenomenon with some old caps. Didn't know that.
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2y ago
> And? That just sounds like they have good engineers. If you are designing a machine, you have an target lifetime. You'd obviously want the product to last through the warranty period, because warranty claims are a cost to the comp
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2y ago
It might be able to but that would require getting rid of cheap sources of energy and manufacturing which the deck is stacked so hard against it will never happen. Before humanity will do anything we have to get rid of the current ruling au
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2y ago
With respect to cad suites it's push from the top. That starts at education where sweet deals are made to force students to use one specific suite while it should not matter what you use.
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2y ago
Isn't the idea to use the sun as a lense already enough? The main problem being the focal point at 500+ au.
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2y ago
Isn't the universe (near) chaotic on those timescales and you can only predict the general flow? Or is this me mixing things up?
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2y ago
If you want to murder dozens you do not bring a hunting rifle.
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2y ago
AFAIK key extraction is not allowed by 140-2. Weird to call it FIPS approved.
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2y ago
> If you can find an exploit in zlib, there are much worse things you can do with that than attacking a torrent client. Decompressing input is assumed to be safe by default. Any (e.g. http) server supporting stream compression comes to m
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2y ago
This discussion is just "do it because some browsers do it" without any reasoning why (or why not) you should do it. Firefox approach is i guess the best compromise between user annoyance and developer annoyance but it's stil
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2y ago
> For example: a beginner developer is possibly better served by some SEO-heavy tutorial blog post Good luck finding those, you end op with SEO spam and clone page spam. These days you have to look for unobvious hidden meanings which onl
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2y ago
Yes you definitely want a possibly suicidal person to be talking to a "AI" engine who talks back with the avatar they normally hear. (This was sarcasm in case you missed it)
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2y ago
The other companies are also shortstaffed, all healthcare is at the moment, and the bureaucracy layers just keeps humming along ... Buurtzorg is however cheaper, and since you cannot scale the actual care that counts.
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2y ago
> I never got into these types of programmatic games for precisely this reason but I'd like to understand other perspectives on this. Everything you describe requires interaction with people. Those are too often toxic, incompetent,
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2y ago
Looking only at raw subsidies for the main company is bad for both western and eastern manufacturers as it skews to what is published and forgets tax breaks, local subsidies, subsidiary subsidies, subsidies down the supply chain etc.
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2y ago
That statement is spoken by people who only look at the us second quarter ev pickup truck sales and see the cyber truck at even with all others combined. Forgetting that is a tiny niche market, the time window is favourable for the cybertru
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2y ago
It has no meaning whatsoever, the payment stuff is just making sure management is able to control you. We have many companies renting out people here and you always get "seniors" who do not even qualify as juniors. Always in full
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2y ago
Anecdote from the days switching to the Euro with respect to weights: When I was working at a restaurant with high thoughput at the end of the '90s and early '00 we first had a giant coin sorting machine. That thing was innacurate
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2y ago
This does not apply to fraud. You can store the data if it is relevant to an illegal act, and since cheating voids the ToS of the server ...
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2y ago
Why not? It's effective and easy to do and while it can be circumvented it will stop some players with very little effort. Also, the article is about 2017/2018.
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2y ago
Unit test are nice to have if you want to make test coverage or have sufficient time to implement them properly. In practice they contain only vague assumptions (the test passes, but the integration stops due to those assumptions being fals
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2y ago
While I do not think my old public housing, not in the US though, looked great, it definately wasn't the helpless mess you describe even by a long shot. I think this is a different problem than you describe. Poor maintenance only resul
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2y ago
> Every pupil has free access to all of the country's local®ional public transport system... I find that kind of mind-blowing. We've had this since the 1990s for higher education students. One of the known effects is tha
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