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by dtparr 11y ago
Are you referencing the PS3 forcing the option to either keep the ability to run linux or stay on the PSN, or was there something else?
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by dtparr 11y ago
Is your robots' score signed or unsigned?
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by dtparr 11y ago
Only if you pronounce it "Ess-Kew-Ell" and not "Sequel", though, right?
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by dtparr 11y ago
Just as a fact-check, TBC was well before the merger (Jan '07), and WOTLK came out in Nov '08 a few months after the merger in July '08 (dates per Wikipedia). Likely by the time they merged it was far enough along that you c
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German Train Crash Leaves 10 Dead and Scores Injured(nytimes.com)
1 points by dtparr 11y ago|1 comments
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by dtparr 11y ago
For reference, the Space Shuttle SRBs were 2800k each at launch and bumped up over 3000k. This chart is a little nuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Srbthrust2.svg
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by dtparr 11y ago
Hmm, now I'm curious what the heat map for, say, > $100k cars looks like, though I'm guessing perhaps something like: https://xkcd.com/1138/ Maybe what I really want is 100k cars per capita?
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by dtparr 11y ago
Given that it's never noon/midnight across the entire country, do you mean that at each point independently, usage is double at local noon vs. local midnight, or do you mean that there exists a single point in time where usage is
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by dtparr 11y ago
No, if an employee produces something patent-worthy as part of employment, when they file the employee is listed as the inventor, but the employer is the assignee, so they own it from its inception. There's no "buy for $1" t
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by dtparr 11y ago
I'm similarly ignorant on all the intricacies of driving a train, but my understanding is that the coupled nature of a train vs. a rigid body make the dynamics more difficult to deal with than you might imagine. That being said, I don
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British Researcher Gets Permission to Edit Genes of Human Embryos(nytimes.com)
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by dtparr 11y ago
So, I certainly wasn't trying to claim that the letter was a well-written persuasive one. However, I was more shocked with the implication that engineering management can't be expected to read past the first line of a memo if it
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by dtparr 11y ago
Interesting. I'm curious, do you find the technical content to be the 'thickening agent' or the style? I work in a related field, and am vaguely familiar with both the general makeup of this type of rocket and this accident
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by dtparr 11y ago
Leaving aside the fact that the subject includes 'Potential Failure Criticality', the key impact line "The result would be a catastrophe of the highest order - loss of human life" occurs less than 150 words into this. It
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by dtparr 11y ago
No. At least in the original plan[0] presented by Elon Musk, he indicated that anything longer than about 900 miles would be better served by supersonic air travel, which wouldn't require a whole new infrastructure. But for closer ci
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How Zano Raised Millions on Kickstarter and Left Most Backers with Nothing(medium.com)
5 points by dtparr 11y ago|0 comments
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by dtparr 11y ago
Meet the (up to 16.7cm) titan beetle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_beetle http://www.odditycentral.com/animals/bugs-the-size-of-your-h...
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by dtparr 11y ago
I'll admit to always being a little confused about this point with reference to StackOverflow. It's a question and answer site that generally involves small, self-contained bits of code. How is answering the question not giving
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by dtparr 11y ago
I'm curious about some of those numbers. In particular, it seems unlikely that one is more likely to become US President than an astronaut given that we have an order of magnitude more astronauts than presidents. Are the populations
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First known hacker-caused power outage signals troubling escalation(arstechnica.com)
2 points by dtparr 11y ago|0 comments
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by dtparr 11y ago
For future reference, the return part is made up of 3 burns. The first two use three engines, and the landing burn uses just the one. Coming back, it's obviously much lighter without all the propellant and 2nd stage/payload weig
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by dtparr 11y ago
There's a blog post[0] from Chris Lattner from a few years back that touches on this. The summary is: "People often ask why the compiler doesn't produce warnings when it is taking advantage of undefined behavior to do an opti
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by dtparr 11y ago
Regarding the factually incorrect bit, could you elaborate? I was under the impression that the energy required was proportional to the square of the velocity, so a 10x increase in velocity (from ~Mach 3 to ~Mach 30) would result in a 100x
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by dtparr 11y ago
Ah, thanks. I was focused on the rocket landing and misread the parent.
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by dtparr 11y ago
When stories with titles like "Your Move, SpaceX: Blue Origin Just Secretly Landed a Reusable Rocket"[0], "Blue Origin Beats SpaceX In Landing Reusable Rocket"[1], "Move over SpaceX! Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin suc
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by dtparr 11y ago
What about it hitting the ground bothered you? It apparently touched down at 4.4 mph which is a little slower than if you stepped off an 8in. platform. Basically find a standard staircase and slip off the bottom step and that's a touc
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Manhattan DA demands Congress require mobile phone backdoors(arstechnica.com)
5 points by dtparr 11y ago|0 comments
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Introducing the Plex Media Player(blog.plex.tv)
182 points by dtparr 11y ago|151 comments
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by dtparr 11y ago
Out of curiosity, is there some reason a 15sec preroll on 7 shows is so off putting? Are they some of the main things you'd watch? Is it the principle of ads in an "ad free plan"?
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Introducing the Plex Media Player(blog.plex.tv)
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