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by fpoling 5y ago
This only works if MIR radiation can escape, like happens outdoors unless the air is very humid. As the glass and walls reflects/absorbs MIR, curtains that emit that type of infrared will do nothing unless you hang them outside the win
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by fpoling 5y ago
I already posted to another sub thread, https://www.ge.com/gas-power/resources/articles/2016/power-p... - gas power plant with 62% efficiency. The best coal plants can archive 47% efficiency, https:&#x2
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by fpoling 5y ago
https://www.ge.com/gas-power/resources/articles/2016/power-p... is over 62% efficient.
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by fpoling 5y ago
The modern gas power plants archive over 60% efficiency. It is with coal that one gets at best 45%.
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by fpoling 5y ago
The famine in Yemen and Sudan is a result of logistic breakdown when the war etc. makes it very expensive to transport food. US produces enough food to feed like 2-3 billions people. It is just the vast majority of it goes to feed animals t
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by fpoling 5y ago
On Error Resume Next is similar to NaN. In some situations the code can be much simpler if after a lengthy calculation one just test for an error result with no error checks in between. In modern languages that evolved into various forms of
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by fpoling 5y ago
Early Fortran required such implementation. In it everything was statically allocated by the compiler including the function return address.
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by fpoling 5y ago
By the same principle it should be possible to listen to reflections of the signal propagating in the Ethernet cable that external vibrations introduce. But I guess the noise in the cable is much greater and the frequency of the signal is l
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by fpoling 5y ago
You do not necessary need more fuel to slow down. Mars atmosphere can absorb few extra km/s above 5 km/s with typical landing maneuver as long as the heat shield can handle that. On Earth Starship must handle 8 km/s re-entry
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by fpoling 5y ago
On my visit to SF I saw a warning an a building that it did not satisfy earthquake safety standards of the government of California. A colleague explained that this was a common thing with old buildings in SF.
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by fpoling 5y ago
In US in many areas the earthquakes safety requires to build lighter houses. Plus many areas are subject to tornados and hurricanes when it is rather pointless to build anything that lasts 100 years. On that time scale the house will be des
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by fpoling 5y ago
In has been popular in the whole former USSR. But for some reason in past it was not considered as a suitable material for houses, only for storage facilities etc. But it could be just a cultural perception. For example, my father built a t
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by fpoling 5y ago
The article implies it was sort-of landfill: This literal trash foundation is unfortunately how big parts of numerous American cities have been built.
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by fpoling 5y ago
And it is still slower for small glue scripts. On my Windows 10 box hello, world script finishes with Python2 in 73 microseconds (the best time of 5 runs) versus 238 ms for Python3. That translates into noticeable slowdown of compilation ti
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by fpoling 5y ago
The problem was not that Python3 had broken things. The problem was the scale of breakage and inability to use both python2 and python3 code. Moreover only after a few years since Python3 release it became possible to write libraries compat
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by fpoling 5y ago
In the book “Burn” Herman Pontzer mentioned that modern hunter-gatherers in Africa gets over 50% of their calories from starchy vegetables and honey, not from hunted animals.
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by fpoling 5y ago
Plus mono diets like eating only rice or potato are effective at loosing weight. What processed food brought is very unnatural combination of a lot of refined carbohydrates and a lot of fat especially in the form of polyunsaturated seed oil
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by fpoling 5y ago
Milk contains carbohydrates and even Eskimo children need it.
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by fpoling 5y ago
You can recover from panic! in Rust on the thread level.
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by fpoling 5y ago
In practice I have not found that running destructor is problematic. In many cases the destructor is the default one that just destructs the fields. When the destructor should be non-default the constructor can leave the object in the move
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by fpoling 5y ago
You can also use out parameters to tell about errors.
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by fpoling 5y ago
Notice how 25% of price is spent on various forms of advertisement. Most owners of supermarkets are not stupid. If they see that they cannot pass fully transportation price increase directly to consumers they may cut advertising budgets.
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by fpoling 5y ago
There was a study in Denmark that showed that only about 20% of a price one pays in the supermarket went to producers of the food and like 10% was spent on transport. 25% were taxes, 25% was spent on advertisements, the rest was the shop ta
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by fpoling 5y ago
In Russia there are dry fasting resorts that allow people to fast without drinking water for 7-11 days under medical supervision. Most people do it for medical conditions, but some indeed as a way to quickly drop weight. Note that such fast
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by fpoling 5y ago
Soviet Union tried that with semiconductor industry in 1970s and 1980s. They managed to clone 8086 CPU but failed with 286 even after Soviet intelligence had stolen detailed blueprints for Intel manufacturing processes. Similarly Russia fai
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by fpoling 5y ago
It is not that simple regarding ECC. Since ZFS uses more memory, the probability of hitting a memory bug is simply higher with it.
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by fpoling 5y ago
When runnaroo.com was shut down I was surprised that it was done by single person who managed for some searches to return better results than Google. Which among other things shows that patents are bad for innovation in new and quickly chan
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by fpoling 5y ago
This all assumes that without Google this would not happen. But I fail to see why is this so. Linux happened without single corporation controlling it.
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by fpoling 5y ago
In Mongolia especially in rural area local people eat only meat/fat from horses, sheep and camels and drink heavy fermented horse milk. They do not eat any fruits or vegetables (it is hard to grow those in a semi-desert). They also avo
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by fpoling 5y ago
Fish oil may also contain heavy metals due to accumulation of those through food chain. Some companies claim to filter those, but with algae there is no such risk at all.

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