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by crux_ 16y ago
Disclaimer: This comment, and my other one, are the first time I've actually thought about this. The amount of tank heat loss would depend on the temperature difference between the water & the environment; a tank that's kept hot will lo
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by crux_ 16y ago
So ... any actual measurements of how much energy was actually saved? Neat hacking for sure, but it seems somewhere along the line thinking clearly about the goal of "saving energy" got lost in the details. Although I'm not exactly experien
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by crux_ 16y ago
My favorite strace story: trying to get at the underlying causes of some "Unexpected Error" messages in ArcGIS, and it turns out it's writing helpful and useful (albeit two decades old) logging + error messages to the Windows equivalent of
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by crux_ 16y ago
The main takeaway for me is that of a deeper "that's the way it is": * My understanding before: light has a constant speed and nothing can exceed that speed, but up until that limit everything can travel at a variety of speeds. * My underst
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by crux_ 16y ago
The ill-formed part of your question is the "in one second" part. From the point of view of the observer on the spaceship, the photon will be ~300k km away after one second. From the point of view of an 'stationary' observer, the photon wil
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by crux_ 16y ago
Everything means anything depending on what definition you use. That's not supporting your viewpoint, it's an excuse to avoid having to do so. It's an adult's place to speak up when they think something is wrong. And I'm sorry, but some thi
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by crux_ 16y ago
It doesn't matter whether something is 51-49% or 90-10%. There is no excuse for allowing 'statistical' assumptions to translate into a burden or punishment upon the minority. (If a culture or community does allow this to happen, then any
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by crux_ 16y ago
> If you were reading a relationship advice column, you'd assume it was written by a woman. That's not sexism. Um... in what way is it not a sexist assumption? > I really wish this ridiculous and unhelpful "There's no women in tech
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by crux_ 16y ago
> If you can't have a logical debate it's pointless to bother talking. Well, there's a huge gap between conversations and debates, and you can have one without the other. Even on the internet. And, much as it goes against your love of l
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by crux_ 16y ago
"[...] it's obvious the people around me have no clue what they are talking about [...]" Sounds to me like you're completely sure of your own correctness and of their wrongness. ;) Just saying.
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by crux_ 16y ago
You must not leave news.yc very often. ;) 99% of the time, there are few/no conversations on the internet, only shouting matches and circle-jerks.
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by crux_ 16y ago
RE: Star Trek: Yes, they do that -- only it's Isabella, the sentient space nebula, not Bob. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_Friend_%28Star_Trek:_... I think you can fairly call Tolkien racist without bringing an external debate int
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by crux_ 16y ago
> The "racism" probably comes from description of the black riders, but black describes their clothes; [...] I think you're hung up on the wrong idea for 'racism' here -- I don't believe that Tolkien was necessarily drawing explicit pa
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by crux_ 16y ago
Me being a curmudgeon: I'd actually say that the narrow technocratic definitions imposed by the "social graph" lead to generally _less social_ results. (For an example close at hand, I believe that I did an awful lot of growing up by confro
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by crux_ 16y ago
Counterpoint to a lot of folks here: I don't like the idea. This sort of thing has been around for a very very long time, mainly as a way of harvesting email addresses to spam. I remember receiving an email "crush" that is exactly this as e
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by crux_ 16y ago
I did pasteup as a part-time job during high school at a rather behind-the-times paper in the mid 1990s. It was actually a lot of fun -- e.g. flowing a story from one column to another by loosely folding it into thirds then slicing it up. L
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by crux_ 16y ago
Not to be snarky, but isn't your master password now sitting there, plaintext, in your command-line history? (Worse: when you accidentally do this in a terminal that's remoted somewhere.)
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by crux_ 16y ago
The fast'n'loose rule: if it is loose, don't hang on it or put gear behind it unless absolutely necessary! That said, there's a bunch of well-known "expando" flakes, particularly in big-wall granite areas like Yosemite, that are necessary f
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by crux_ 16y ago
Eldorado canyon is my local favourite, though I'm a big fan of most of what's in the area... ( http://mountainproject.com/v/colorado/boulder/eldorado_canyo... )
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by crux_ 16y ago
A counterpoint: On the technical front, I see JavaSE/the JRE falling hopelessly behind C# and the CLR -- fear of Microsoft and distrust of Mono have kept the playing field a bit closer to being level, but I don't see Oracle as an organizati
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by crux_ 16y ago
Bah, it's an excuse to talk/teach about my favorite pastime, I'll take it! :) But you're probably right about the trolling.
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by crux_ 16y ago
One of my favorite aspects of climbing is that it's impromptu vertical engineering. Other favorite aspects: it's incredibly meditative as it more or less demands complete mindfulness; the kinesthetics are incredible -- simply doing the moti
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by crux_ 16y ago
Technically speaking, an escalator wouldn't be moving up under your own power, would it? But: if you walk up ten flights of stairs, have you not climbed ten stories? It's important to read carefully, especially definitions. Giving a list
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by crux_ 16y ago
This is just another way of saying you will probably never climb anything yourself, as well as that you prefer publicity stunts to authenticity. Free soloing is not a publicity stunt, but 99.9% of the time, free soloing with a camera crew i
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by crux_ 16y ago
It looks kind of route-specific / very, very niche: You need a quite skinny flake, attached either too far away or too loosely to the main wall to put normal cams or big bros in behind it, all without any other reasonable protection nearby.
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by crux_ 16y ago
In case your rudeness springs strictly from ignorance: - Any time you're moving up under your own power, you're climbing. - Any time you're moving up on a suitably steep cliff under your own power, it's rock climbing. - If you're placing ge
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by crux_ 16y ago
> No one has discriminated against anyone. Then why are you spending so much effort arguing that it's acceptable to do so?
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by crux_ 16y ago
I'm not interested in debating about just how different men and women are, and in which respects, and what parts are environmental and what parts genetic. At the end of the day it doesn't matter, which is why I said "let's ignore...". If a
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by crux_ 16y ago
It doesn't matter. If the fashion world were shitting all over straight men, it would be wrong whether it was one straight guy looking to make it as a designer or a hundred thousand.
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by crux_ 16y ago
If your definition of "sexism" is something that all women would have a problem with, then by your definition there's no such thing as sexism anyway.

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