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by dasmoth 12y ago
Note that they're going to be competing a little more in the future. It was announced a couple of weeks ago that Blue Origin will be supplying engines to ULA (the joint venture of LockMart and Boeing that operates the Atlas V and Delt
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by dasmoth 12y ago
It's hard to find prices for Atlas, even more so for the so-far-unflown dual engine Centaur version which CST-100 uses, but it's clear that it's a lot more expensive than a Falcon 9.
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by dasmoth 12y ago
I'm not sure it's a particularly rare combination. There's little about technology that demands urbanism, and in the 80s and 90s there seemed to be a fairly clear picture (exemplified by the concept of telecommuting) of tech
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by dasmoth 12y ago
There has been a fairly big swing back towards "programming is a team sport" since then. My memories of the 80s and 90s was that programming was something frequently done in a suburban, or sometimes even rural, setting. Since the
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by dasmoth 12y ago
Have you actually seen a ticket at that price? The cheapest tickets I can see for today are £39.85 and for next Tuesday are £35.50. Presumably there are some £12.50 tickets available, but they're not easy to find (my understanding fro
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by dasmoth 12y ago
I fear I know the answer to this already but just on the off chance -- is there any possibility these might be sold in Europe in the foreseeable future?
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by dasmoth 12y ago
I'm also surprised we don't see more remote work in the more computational bits of academia, but there's still a widespread view that remote work is bad for team cohesion and serendipitous collaboration. Were one cynically in
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by dasmoth 12y ago
This article implies that the codes for communicating with Prospero may still be available: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2034379/Quest-revive-space-relic-lost-1996--British-launched-satell
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Clutter is taking a toll on both morale and productivity(signalvnoise.com)
2 points by dasmoth 12y ago|3 comments
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by dasmoth 12y ago
But to implement that, you still need some administration to work out who's eligible for welfare and who needs to work. Basic Income schemes potentially eliminate this requirement.
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by dasmoth 12y ago
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/histories/underways/
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by dasmoth 12y ago
>> if you don't like noise you shouldn't live in the city I couldn't agree more. It's unfortunate that it's quite hard for people working in some sectors to avoid cities -- and I feel that the New Urbanites a
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All Power to the Pack Rats(jacobinmag.com)
8 points by dasmoth 12y ago|0 comments
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by dasmoth 12y ago
Writing a (at least somewhat usable) compiler has always appealed. Would be tempting to try an implementation of PLOT -- http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT/ Alternatively, and rather more contact/resource
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by dasmoth 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game) The original version did indeed to an amazing amount with a 6502 and 32kb of RAM.
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by dasmoth 12y ago
The FS people today are likely to come across which doesn't support them is HFS+.
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by dasmoth 12y ago
Bloom filter?
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by dasmoth 12y ago
Why not try both? There's nothing like a bit of competition.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
You don't necessarily need a perfect understanding of biology to do this. Just avoiding homozygotes for any rare genetic variant you don't have flagged in your database as well-understood will go a long way to avoiding in-breed
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by dasmoth 13y ago
I agree this is a pain, and IMO a bad mistake by Microsoft. However, Windows XP was released in 2001, replaced (Vista) in 2007, reached end of mainstream support in 2009, and users have been warned it's going away for many, many years.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
IE seems no worse than Safari in this respect. Maybe better actually -- those who can't update their OS for some reason remain stuck with Safari 6.1
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by dasmoth 13y ago
An interceptor variant reached the prototype stage. Ant one point, quite a few were on order. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12
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The Dark Side of Tech Buses for Cities(ubmfuturecities.com)
1 points by dasmoth 13y ago|0 comments
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by dasmoth 13y ago
This gets proposed from time to time (was Buckminster Fuller's Dynaxion Home the first?), but I can never see how you'd move them without crating up all your possessions. And isn't that the worst aspect of moving home in a t
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Other ISPs have access to BTs FTTC (and, in the few areas it's deployed, FTTP) systems. Not every ISP offers this, but there are plenty of alternatives to BT Infinity.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Needed for a document-based web? maybe not. Needed to turn the web into a solid application platform with good support for composition and code reuse? I'm going to say yes (or if not Web Components then something that facilitates bet
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Yes. Shadow DOM is a key part of web components: http://www.w3.org/TR/components-intro/#shadow-dom-section
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Shadow DOM allows the contents of a component to be styled independently from the enclosing page. As far as I can tell, there currently isn't any other good way of doing robust, scoped CSS (short of iframes). I'll be very, very,
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by dasmoth 13y ago
Campaign for Better Transport used to be Transport 2000, which was set up by the rail unions.
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by dasmoth 13y ago
That seems like a recipe for holy-war between those who kind-of like xargs and those who think find | xargs is an abomination.

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