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by deeviant 12y ago
Not necessity. Imagine a spacecraft using a standard inertial propulsion system. It shoots mass one way and it goes in the opposite direction. If it had something like a thrust signature, it would be in exactly the wrong direction for the i
542.
by deeviant 12y ago
Why do I feel that this is the 5th time scientists have found the first evidence for liquid water on Mars?
543.
by deeviant 12y ago
Let's see here. * 1 shitload = 1.68 shitslugs * 68.5 shitslugs = 1 fuckton So, there are about 40.77 shitloads in a fuckton. Just don't ask me to convert to metric shitloads, that gets hairy.
544.
by deeviant 12y ago
I don't know. I read a lot of amazon books from newish authors. I have had to put more than a few books down because the author was putting a lot of words down, but not really saying anything. I think the content/word-count ratio
545.
by deeviant 12y ago
Black holes are almost the perfect battery. Small black holes decay very quickly, a black hole the mass of, let's say a small mountain, would decay almost immediately, releasing it's energy as hard gamma via hawking radiation, who
546.
by deeviant 12y ago
Yes, but they actually provide a very small amount of current per weight, as it's just a decay pile creating heat which is then fed into a TEC, which have very low efficiency (like really low something well below 10%).
547.
by deeviant 12y ago
As I understand it, much of the "battery breakthroughs" are generally along the lines of attempting to create a balance between capacity, discharge-recharge rate, safety and cost. The conversion efficiency of most batters is prett
548.
by deeviant 12y ago
Learning kung fu or the violin isn't beyond most people either, but I'd rather not have that be the prerequisite for being able to be productive on my team. Most companies don't prioritize paying a potentially highly compensa
549.
by deeviant 12y ago
It's a question of risk vs reward. Your body has an extremely complicated and mostly successful system of defence. If a pathogen enters the body and is not attacked, it may easily kill you, for this reason pathogens, once identified, a
550.
by deeviant 12y ago
It's not an inflammatory response, it's an immune response. The inflammation is simply a side effect of the immune system swinging into action.
551.
by deeviant 12y ago
How Google actually hires: Lean heavily on brand name and the preconceived prestige of a google position, give the same stock interviews that most companies give that are heavily tilted towards false-negatives rather than false-positives, a
552.
by deeviant 12y ago
Hmm, I don't know. I'm pretty damn productive just programming in notepad(equivalent).
553.
by deeviant 12y ago
Then your Haskell expert leaves and then you learn why I hate Haskell(or insert any fringe programming language here).
554.
by deeviant 12y ago
I wouldn't exactly call a duplicitous and wilful act of attempting to subvert a trade name and associated business from those who approached and enriched said subverting party in good faith a "founder-spin-off."
555.
by deeviant 12y ago
I wish they bothered to state the expected energy density of these batteries. The fact that they didn't leads me to believe it's quite low compared to something like li-ion.
556.
by deeviant 12y ago
I really could not have said it better. Programmers seem much more likely to feel the need to prove they are smarter than their peers than the average population and functional languages seem to be a very popular I'm-smarter-than-you b
557.
by deeviant 12y ago
A huge portion of my concurrent programming experience in the C-realm(not C++, C), and I spent very little time battling the language. I really don't think the language is the biggest aspect to concurrent programming, although it can c
558.
by deeviant 12y ago
“This is a platform that’s owned by artists,” - Jay Z I think he meant, "This is a platform owned by established, rich, and ageing artists, whose resolve to assist up-and-comers should rightfully be questioned." Not to say this ca
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by deeviant 12y ago
Pretty soon, offices will be filled with chairs the fit two and three-person keyboards. I don't even want to think about how the whole "open office" philosophy will influence future restroom design.
560.
by deeviant 12y ago
Redshift is like a prison, but with excellent accommodations. It's a great platform but it pretty much the perfect example of vendor lock-in.
561.
by deeviant 12y ago
My point is instead of trying to play whack-a-mole and forcibly herd your customers into an intended path, why not just offer clearly a visible path that provides them with something they care about at a price they are willing to pay. In my
562.
by deeviant 12y ago
Customers don't care about your conversion rate, nor should they.
563.
by deeviant 12y ago
Relatively equal, or close enough to not be measurable by casual observation influenced by the variances of long-term memory.
564.
by deeviant 12y ago
Perhaps a war against warring then?
565.
by deeviant 12y ago
As somebody who has a SO who works at Google, thus giving me a bit of insight into the culture, I can factually say that gifs and lolcat-like memes have already started replacing the English language there.
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by deeviant 12y ago
NSA advocate: But it's OK, only the NSA can decode the data and they only use the data for legitimate nation security. Some nerd: The code has been cracked and anybody can download a program to decode them, giving access to private and
567.
by deeviant 12y ago
In the name of Science (and Cthulhu) I sacrifice you!
568.
by deeviant 12y ago
I've had cats for all my life and I would assume to be "infected" by this point, but I can say, without reservation, I have never enjoyed the smell of cat urine.
569.
by deeviant 12y ago
Perhaps cats are just cute?
570.
by deeviant 12y ago
Perhaps a war against wars is justified?

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