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by etatoby 10y ago
There's a reason slavery was* one of the most energy efficient tecnologies, until it was banned on obvious ethical grounds. * although "Estimates of the number of slaves today range from around 21 million-29 million to 46 million.
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by etatoby 10y ago
Solar Roadways!!! (Google it for some of the most entertaining debunking videos and articles)
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by etatoby 10y ago
> expecially over a timespan of years The warranty for most products is limited to one year (two in the EU by law, sometimes three if you pay more.) After that period, no company will repair or refund anything, even if it fails spectacul
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by etatoby 10y ago
This is a nice idea. It could keep running totals for other free resources as well, such as Wikipedia. I bet it would increase donations to useful projects like these.
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by etatoby 10y ago
about:config, dom.battery.enabled = false Plus ad blocking and "social button" blocking, as a preventive measure for this kind of issue. The Web is the new Wild West.
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by etatoby 10y ago
That's why Firefox mobile is the best browser for Android.
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by etatoby 10y ago
That's because custom fields in WordPress, as well as in Liferay and in a bunch of other products, are implemented as EAV, Entity–attribute–value model, which is an abomination. It is a relational "design pattern" used to imp
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by etatoby 10y ago
That's brilliant, thanks a lot! I never trusted "cloud" (read: not yours) password stores. I have been using KeePass and manual syncing, but I had my doubts about it too. This looks perfect and simple!
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by etatoby 10y ago
I was kind of disappointed that this post isn't about artificial borders that look like straight latitudinal or longitudinal lines. Those kinds of borders are quite common and I've always thought they say a lot about a country and
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by etatoby 10y ago
Elton John is promiscuous. News at 9:00.
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by etatoby 10y ago
In Japan they run on time too, because if they don't, the conductors commit Seppuku (or quit the job in shame) by their own choice. So progress and a functioning society is possible without coercing or scaring people into obedience. Wh
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by etatoby 10y ago
It's very likely he is a remainer, considering the nature of this forum. Stats show there was (is?) a clear divide between leave and remain along geographical, age, and class boundaries, which are most certainly correlated with higher
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by etatoby 10y ago
> absolutely material, fleeting and trivial physical elements What would those be? Whether they find the potential date attractive in the first place? Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words.
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by etatoby 10y ago
I don't have a good link at my fingertips, but IMHO the killer features of Go are: - super-fast compilation, so much so that you can write Go "scripts" that are compiled and run from the #! line every time you call them, fast
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by etatoby 10y ago
That looks like a host of buffer overflow vulnerabilities waiting to happen. I think I'll stick with zlib.
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by etatoby 10y ago
Spot on. Let's try not to end up as the Century of the GMO Wars.
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by etatoby 10y ago
They are synonymous because that's the current situation: GMOs are the product of billion of dollars of R&D, on which the owners fully expect a return on investment. Which means protecting the IP of GMOs, aka. sterilizing / pr
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by etatoby 10y ago
> we can not faithfully order a mix of Real and Complex numbers A mix of real and complex numbers is just a set of complex numbers, because every real number is a complex number. And complex numbers do not possess a total ordering: htt
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by etatoby 10y ago
There's a lot of cargo cultism in modern UI design.
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by etatoby 10y ago
> the name of the function again when closing the definition I think that's just a comment. It follows '%' as in TeX. But yes, nowadays programmers tend to love concise syntax (myself included), not to mention elegant synt
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by etatoby 10y ago
I see a lot of engineers calling the article FUD and BS, what with it mentioning ancient Roman buildings and mud bricks. I also see several commenters (myself included) wholeheartedly agreeing with the point it makes. I think bluthru hit
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by etatoby 10y ago
I've updated my example with this frame: https://s31.postimg.org/4kozbjqbf/x_y_lines.png that highlights 0^y=0 in red and x^0=1 in purple. Now it's even more obvious why any single answer is insufficient: 0^0
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by etatoby 10y ago
> how about we try to make the function more continuous Look at the 3D rendering in my comment. When you look at the z=x^y surface and try to make it continuous, what comes out at 0^0 is a vertical line, aka. undefined.
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by etatoby 10y ago
I've always marveled at the exponential function. Here's a 3D visualization of z=x^y that supports the 0^0 is undefined camp: https://s32.postimg.org/v9t4stdl1/x_y.gif (Made with Grapher.app and Gimp) You can
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by etatoby 10y ago
Not to take anything away from the Japanese, but we have a similar process in Italy: brew hot, then quickly chill with ice. An espresso cup is brewed with a proper, bar sized espresso machine (or with a Nespresso, which IMHO is the only thi
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by etatoby 10y ago
That's right. Several Italian sweets and liquors contain apricot kernels and/or bitter almonds as the main flavor. Most have the word "amaretto" somewhere in their name. (Amaretto is a diminutive of our word for "bi
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by etatoby 10y ago
You are right. I stand corrected.
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by etatoby 10y ago
> I sincerely hope the brexit will lead to a more democratic EU, instead of a collapse I really hope so. Right now most decisions are taken by the Commission and the ECB, which are neither directly nor indirectly elected by the people. A
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by etatoby 10y ago
I expect Scotland to split and join the EU shortly. Just look at the map in the linked article.
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by etatoby 10y ago
A text file, a webpage, or a database table can only contain textual data in a given encoding. That's because every byte stored in the file, for example byte number 188, either means "¼" (as it does in ISO/IEC 8859-1, ak

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