doctor_eval

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2011.
Do Not Feed the Climate Trolls(sciencealert.com)
2 points by doctor_eval 7y ago|3 comments
2012.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
Well, there are also pilots who haven’t died yet.
2013.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
Welcome to the Aperture Laboratories Aircraft Enrichment Centre!
2014.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
“Coal is the future of life on Venus!”
2015.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
Perhaps, but if we discovered a mechanism that was orders of magnitude more efficient or higher bandwidth then any rational species would just naturally use it to replace EM communication. I mean just imagine some alien engineer trying to u
2016.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
And that’s _exactly_ what they want you to think.
2017.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
I’ve always felt that the reason we haven’t heard from aliens is because they know New Physics and they use it to communicate. Given how much of the universe is made up of dark energy, dark matter and other unknown physics, it seems reasona
2018.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
Successful test!!
2019.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
The American war, which the OP is actually about, was arguably a fight against Japanese aggression in the Pacific, and arguably caused by a US blockade targeting oil imports to Japan. The entry of the US into the European war happened well
2020.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
As if there wasn’t already enough death in that god forsaken war.
2021.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
GoFundWe
2022.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
I’ve written so much code in Tcl/Tk/Expect - but it was all pre-Java; literally before Java 1 was released. Tk was used in lots of Linux apps, most notably Zircon, an awesome IRC client. I used to think that knowing Tcl was a kind
2023.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
There is a lot of internal enthusiasm for open sourcing our tools, but we are heads down at the moment so it’s just a matter of time (or lack of). I think we will time it for the next pgAU conference so we can talk about it at the same time
2024.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
This electric aircraft gets 60 minutes endurance and is flying today (apparently): https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-04/first-electric-plane-...
2025.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
But if you have enough energy, isn’t it possible to synthesise fuel directly using CO2 and H2O? No need to use biomaterial as feedstock... assuming the energy is renewable. Maybe I’m overly optimistic? Eg here is how to create methane http
2026.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
No, I did look at JOOQ briefly, but MyBatis came somewhat recommended and perfectly scratched the itch I had at the time. So I don’t have an opinion either way with JOOQ. I am however super happy with MyBatis, we’ve been using it 2+ years i
2027.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
I see the claim that we need fossil fuels for airlines and rockets raised frequently, but once we have widespread renewable electricity, what’s the barrier to creating fuel from air and water, using electricity? AFAIK, it’s not really foss
2028.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
We’ve taken the view that audit should be done in the database layer using, for example, triggers. Audit at the application layer is less resilient then at the SQL layer, IMO. In fact, an important part of our transition away from ORM was t
2029.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
I agree. Don’t know why you’ve been downvoted. Your experience directly mirrors mine. What I did find interesting was the pushback I got from my team when I told them that I wanted to drop the Java ORM (JPA). One guy, who I respect, was sup
2030.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
We went from hibernate/eclipselink to MyBatis - and have never looked back. Needing to deal with the idiomatic behaviour of JPA, HQL and the target SQL is a nightmare. We’ve literally removed tens of thousands of lines of Java code by
2031.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
Safari/DDG user here. Presumably Firefox could load the search results into a container that throws away all the cookies after the search is done. Doesn’t it work like that for FB? Presumably, the real problem is that this would be aga
2032.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
The apology includes a promise to raise an equivalent amount of money and to donate it to charities involved in trafficking.
2033.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
I see what you did there.
2034.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
Hell yeah. Since deleting my FB account - and thereby being ostracised socially - I’ve spent a lot of my idle time thinking about what a decentralised, private-by-design, Facebook-like social network might look like. Is it feasible to host
2035.
Ideas explain spiral galaxies without the need for dark matter(theconversation.com)
7 points by doctor_eval 7y ago|0 comments
2036.
by doctor_eval 7y ago
I feel that your thesis is broken by definition: if there is such a small pool of people with this level of experience - so small that they are worth the money and are super difficult to replace - shouldn’t they have already made all their