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by fpoling 8y ago
I had XPS-13 9350 with a glossy screen. The reflection of ambient light sources was terrible. Plus, as the screen max opening angle was small, I often could not just tilt the screen sufficiently to direct the reflection away. I ended up get
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by fpoling 8y ago
Rapid changes are expected after a selection bottleneck. There is less genome diversity between native European and native Australians than between apes in one herd.
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by fpoling 8y ago
In Mongolia people eat only meat from horses, sheep and camels. Mongolia is at the top charts regarding the dearth from heart deceases and cancers especially the liver cancer. And this is in a population that was exposed to this diet for th
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by fpoling 8y ago
Taxes on cars in Norway depend strongly on fuel consumption and engine power. Canopies are really rare. What is typical is vans or cargo vans in all sizes. That is, something with a roof and front-wheel drive. As roads here are good, there
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by fpoling 8y ago
In Russia there is an old saying/adwise how to live in prison: Don’t trust, don’t fear, don’t ask for. (Не верь, не бойся, не проси.)
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by fpoling 8y ago
I meant a typical truck without 4-wheel drive. 4-wheels are much more expensive in Norway due to taxes. But there is another problem with trucks. It rains a lot in Norway especially on the west coast and in mountains. And it really sucks to
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by fpoling 8y ago
In Norway even in countryside people do not get pickups. It could be that trucks are just not very good in winter with snow and ice on mountain roads. Or people are not going to pay for extra fuel consumption with prices like 7 usd/gal
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by fpoling 8y ago
The ads in NYT can still be targeted to the article content. Surely it may be less efficient then personalized ads but then the newspaper does not pay ad broker.
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by fpoling 8y ago
One can earn money on options that expire before the publication. If the market has not expected any surprises, such options can be rather cheap.
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by fpoling 8y ago
JS is very bad at this analyses of the external state. With Elm syntax it is less an issue. The biggest drawback of the explicit state is that the separated GUI stages has to be named so the code can refer and match on them. This naming re
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by fpoling 8y ago
What is nicer to test and maintain? To test render() in the clicked state with the explicit state I can call it with the corresponding state. With the implicit state at the very least I have to write a driver to run render() into the clicke
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by fpoling 8y ago
Elm is fascinating since it shows that with the right architecture functional programming for GUI is possible without hatches like monads or hiding state in closures or green thread stacks. Another things is that in Elm the state of the who
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by fpoling 8y ago
I suppose it can, but in practice it works with any sane compiler that reasonably deals with reinterpret_cast and aliasing as long as aliasing requirements for the stub and the real thing are the same. The latter can be enforced with static
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by fpoling 8y ago
For cases when performance matters one can replace the members with a stab of the same size and alignment and cast the the stab to the real defition in the implementation.
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by fpoling 8y ago
Opera contributed jumbo build feature to Chromium. The idea is to feed to the compiler not the individual sources, but a file that includes many sources. This way common headers are compiled only once. The compilation time saving can be up
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by fpoling 8y ago
In Belarus there are quite a few of BMW and Audi approaching 30 years or more. According to a person that works in a shop specializing in their repair the biggest issue is rust. The engine and other parts are mostly original with minimal re
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by fpoling 8y ago
The new WiFi installations do not run old protocols. Surely they may support the older versions, but by default the newer protocols are used. Compare that with IPv6 when after 20 years the protocol is still disabled by default on ISP provid
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by fpoling 8y ago
It is not only about intermediate boxes. Just consider how relatively smoothly various parts of WiFi stack was upgraded or how 2G->4G transition happens with mobiles phones. The biggest problem with IPv6 is that it a different protocol t
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by fpoling 8y ago
Have other languages or libraries anything like the proposed anti-feature RFC that bans adding features in a particular direction? Go with its ban on generics that they hold for 10 years comes to mind. Anything else?
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by fpoling 8y ago
Interesting. It makes sense then to launch such satellites closer to poles. That explains why there are plans in Norway to build a space launching site at around 70 latitude near Tromsø.
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by fpoling 8y ago
Still SpaceX routinely recovers the first stage after launching geostationary communication satellites. I thought GPS should be lighter as they are closer to Earth and needs to send much less information in their signal, so the power requir
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by fpoling 8y ago
SpaceX had to use a fully expendable Falcon for this launch. What makes a GPS satellite so heavy?
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by fpoling 8y ago
By "similar hacks" I meant something like embedding a custom loader into a fully static binary that runs the interpreter and loads its libraries from the embedded filesystem while patching libc calls.
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by fpoling 8y ago
For Python and other interpreters one does not need containers. LD_PRELOAD and similar hacks is sufficient to redirect reading of script files into reading from a file system embedded into the executable.
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by fpoling 8y ago
The problem with using separated user accounts for isolation is that various applications assume that they either run as root (like various package managers) or need to start child processes with different user id. Sometimes this can be wor
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by fpoling 8y ago
Yes, I stand corrected. Essentially an optical system will bring Moon's surface closer, but even if it brings the surface within 1 cm from the wood, the defused Sun light scattered from that surface is not enough to ignite the fire.
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by fpoling 8y ago
The article reasoning can be shortened to observation that passive optical system does not change the wavelength of photons and to trigger a fire the wavelength has to be short enough. But the conclusion of the article is wrong. The surface
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by fpoling 8y ago
The moon surface is not in equilibrium as there is thermal flow towards moon interior.
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by fpoling 8y ago
The question is to what extend the moon surface is imperfect reflector. For example, if the mirror has a hole, it will be an imperfect reflector, but you can compensate for it using a bigger lense.
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by fpoling 8y ago
On the outskirts of Solar system things are far and move slowly. It prevents getting sufficient precision quickly.

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