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by cperciva 1y ago
Yeah, that's one of the issues they raised. The other issue was that they often get called in for jobs where battery tools simply aren't powerful enough. (e.g. clearing a completely overgrown yard as opposed to regular lawn main
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by cperciva 1y ago
A lot of cities have banned them now, at least for personal use. (Last time this was debated in my area, some businesses had justifications for why they couldn't just use electric tools, but none of those applied to regular homeowners
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by cperciva 1y ago
Traditionally, most FreeBSD developers would actually run OS X on their laptops That was definitely true five years ago. At this year's FreeBSD developer summit in Ottawa I saw more Framework laptops than Apple laptops.
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by cperciva 1y ago
Technically it's already 15.0, but 15.0-CURRENT is scheduled to branch off 15.0-STABLE, which then branches off 15.0-RELEASE.
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by cperciva 1y ago
People die of exposure.
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by cperciva 1y ago
A reactor scram isn't necessarily enough -- you still have decay heat to worry about. In the case of Fukushima, the fission chain reaction was stopped but without cooling pumps the decay heat was still too much.
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by cperciva 1y ago
Is that including the hundreds of thousands of kids that Putin kidnapped? They may be immigrants, but it's hardly fair to say that they wanted to move to Russia.
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by cperciva 1y ago
Yes that's correct.
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by cperciva 1y ago
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-12-480r
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by cperciva 1y ago
As a scientist, I appreciate his attempt; but as a musician I can't help thinking that he has a horrible sense of pitch.
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by cperciva 1y ago
Nothing wrong with saying that an absence of electron is moving. Both electrons and electron holes are just excitations in a quantum field anyway... ;-)
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by cperciva 1y ago
which is the whole point of hybrids Part of the point, not the whole point. Regenerative breaking is absolutely a win; but there can also be a significant benefit from allowing the ICE to remain in the RPM "sweet spot" rather t
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by cperciva 1y ago
To the people downvoting labster's comment: He's making a joke about left-handedness being referred to as "sinister" due to the Latin origins (apparently this may originate from how Romans wore their togas). He's n
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by cperciva 1y ago
You can’t just memcpy the bits... You certainly shouldn't , but sadly this is something which people do.
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by cperciva 1y ago
You say that, but recent regulatory history suggests that building power lines in the USA isn't necessarily something which can be done.
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by cperciva 1y ago
In addition to "some code frobs internals", non-opaque FILE also allows for compatibility with code which puts FILE into a structure, since an opaque FILE doesn't have a size.
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by cperciva 1y ago
Singapore and Vancouver are also pretty high in the rankings.
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by cperciva 1y ago
Meanwhile in more civilized places we have trains with zero staff on board, just remote monitoring (and trains which emergency stop if they lose contact with the control centre).
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by cperciva 1y ago
In Canada at least, you can opt out of having your new card number shared when you replace a card.
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by cperciva 1y ago
I don't think the credit card networks would care about that if it weren't for the risk of chargebacks. Credit card networks have no problem with processing payments for churches!
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by cperciva 1y ago
"Not as advertised" chargebacks. That industry is also full of subscription scams (e.g. someone thinks they're ordering a supplement for $5.99, but they're actually getting signed up for $39.99/month...).
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by cperciva 1y ago
There was no hype at all about the white plastic they put in your teeth instead of gold or amalgam. When these came in, I remember my dentist being clearly very excited. There was absolutely hype... we just weren't the target for it
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by cperciva 1y ago
Unrelated apart from the words "rock" and "construction": I wouldn't be surprised if we see dry stone construction becoming very practical thanks to advances in computer vision and robotics. Dry stone construction i
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by cperciva 1y ago
I was making a joke about AWS Lambda. It doesn't necessarily start up a new VM for each request, though; it can launch a new VM but it will reuse an existing VM if the same CGI-bin (oops I mean Lambda function) has been executed rec
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by cperciva 1y ago
Hey, it could be worse. Some people launch entire VMs to service individual requests.
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by cperciva 1y ago
Snarky I'll admit, but it was a serious question. Inverse is quasilinear time; the exponential is quasiquadratic. Maybe he didn't know about the EEA?
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by cperciva 1y ago
Just what do you think the running time of modular inverse is?
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by cperciva 1y ago
99% of the time will happen in a single multiply Far from it. Asymptotically it's a proportion 2/log(N) of the compute cost.
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FreeBSD 14.3-Release Announcement(freebsd.org)
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by cperciva 1y ago
My favourite in this genre comes from a physics DPhil student I knew in Oxford: He insisted that it was permissible for him to work in the lab on Shabbat because after all he was really just studying the works of God and so it was no differ

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