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811.
by dasmoth 13y ago
The scaling across the range would be much smoother if they released a headless mid-range machine, rather than relying entirely on iMacs (and laptops) to fill the gap between the Mini and the Pro. They seem quite actively disinterested i
812.
by dasmoth 13y ago
Sounds about right. It's nice to imagine them doing a version with a single socket and a nice-but-consumer-level GPU -- that would finally be a worthy embodiment of the mythical "xMac" -- but they've been actively disin
813.
by dasmoth 13y ago
It's been done: http://jikesrvm.org/ Historically, the performance was pretty decent. I don't know how it stacks up against Hotspot today, but I note it does still seem to be a live project after >10 years.
814.
A guess at why people hate paying for (certain) things… and a possible solution.(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
3 points by dasmoth 13y ago|1 comments
815.
by dasmoth 13y ago
Any indications of when this will be released?
816.
by dasmoth 13y ago
Energia was an amazing heavy lifter, it's a great shame the capability was lost after just two flights.
817.
by dasmoth 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_rail
818.
by dasmoth 13y ago
Needs an option for "I have a half-assembled one". I'm pretty sure I'm far from the only person in that position. (Think my RepRap just needs a quiet weekend, and for me to get over my aversion to crimping...)
819.
by dasmoth 13y ago
Tumble drier. I've never understood the things. (<-- UK-based).
820.
by dasmoth 14y ago
A fractional-reserve BitBank will only be noticeably inflationary if it can take a substantial amount in deposits, then find some people to borrow them. Since most of the "convenience" arguments for keeping traditional currencies in a bank
821.
by dasmoth 14y ago
Chromium (kind-of) supports DartVM. The fact that they're working on Dart will be a big incentive to keep the abstractions between the browser and the scripting language implementations as clean as possible.
822.
by dasmoth 14y ago
Rewards-for-mentoring seems kind-of like the academic model, or at least what the academic model at its best is trying to be. I'd agree that it has its good points if implemented well, but isn't the worry that it'll push ill-suited people
823.
by dasmoth 14y ago
No, there are complete F-1 engines in storage. They fired up the gas generator from one of them just a few months ago: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/f1_test.html There's a proposal to build new F-1B engines to power
824.
by dasmoth 14y ago
At least some Merlin engines have vectorable turbopump exhaust. That's used for roll control on Falcon 9 upper stages. Could imagine it working here, too.
825.
by dasmoth 14y ago
Depends how well you insulate things. There are plans around to get LOX boil-off to zero and keep LH2 boil-off pretty low.
826.
by dasmoth 14y ago
Legs (strong enough to land on, light enough not to zero out your payload) are a non-trivial issue. There's a Grasshopper 2 plan in the works (using a v1.1 tank) which will supposedly have rather more flight-like legs than the current one.
827.
by dasmoth 14y ago
Not a timeline. However, there have been some reports recently that the first Falcon 9 v1.1 flight (currently scheduled for this June) will attempt to flip the first stage around after separation, relight one of its engines, and use it to
828.
by dasmoth 14y ago
Doesn't that imply living in cities? Not to everyone's taste, by any means. Also, how is this going to work out for couples/families?
829.
by dasmoth 14y ago
Well, clearly not! But I don't think his objection is using solar power for space-based infrastructure. Quite the contrary! (Dragon is solar-powered, but could fairly easily do everything except maybe long-duration Dragonlab missions on b
830.
by dasmoth 14y ago
Elon pretty emphatically isn't a believer in orbital solar generation as a way to power planetary infrastructure. More here: http://www.popularmechanics.com/how-to/blog/elon-musk-on-spa...
831.
by dasmoth 14y ago
For biology -- especially the genomics side -- Perl was absolutely dominant 10 years ago. It's been gradually edged out by other things (substantially Python and R) since then. Desire for better statistical tools may be a driver here, but
832.
by dasmoth 14y ago
I imagine it works best if there are at least some "up" paths which don't lead into management.
833.
by dasmoth 14y ago
They have, at least in the great majority of the UK. You can get set top boxes to receive digital transmissions if you don't have a suitable TV. I'm sure these would work with a B&W TV if you wanted. I believe some groups (the elderly
834.
by dasmoth 14y ago
The BBC BASIC interpreter (present in ROM on all these machines) included a pretty good assembler. There may have been issues putting together a 22kb program with it -- probably had to be assembled in several chunks -- but no need to use a
835.
by dasmoth 14y ago
I think the alternative formats are normally created by readers. They'll probably start to show up soon, or you could create and submit your own. Edit: although unlike Cory's earlier books, this is under a NoDerivs license. It's possible
836.
by dasmoth 14y ago
Commercially built: mostly true Commercially operated: much less so (with exceptions, e.g. shuttle processing was kind-of commercial) Commercially designed: nope. The commercial resupply contracts may not quite meet everyone's idea of what
837.
by dasmoth 14y ago
Somewhat depends on what they find, and if they're able to usefully exploit it. But for ambition, I'd say at least a 3. Of course, you could argue that anyone who can return non-negligible amounts of mass to earth makes it to 4...
838.
by dasmoth 14y ago
Interesting attempt to answer a closely-related question: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/07/insuffic...
839.
Twitter, app.net, followers, and personal assistants(rachelbythebay.com)
2 points by dasmoth 14y ago|0 comments
840.
by dasmoth 14y ago
Looking at this, it makes me realize just how much harm the journals are doing by limiting the number of figures per paper (and sometimes charging per-figure as well). If it really meant smaller, simpler, papers it might be a reasonable re

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