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901.
How to hallucinate with ping pong balls(bbc.com)
1 points by fpoling 8y ago|0 comments
902.
by fpoling 8y ago
The default search engine plus partnership deals on bookmarks and speed dials or tiles on a new page can bring roughly 1USD/year/user for a browser.
903.
by fpoling 8y ago
See [1] or just search for “vitamin D immune suppression”. I very much agree that a healthy person should not do random tests. But when there is a suspicion of deficiency, one should investigate thoroughly before taking big doses of a stero
904.
by fpoling 8y ago
One is strongly advised to measure D to get the levels of both D25 and D1,25 forms of D when one suspects D deficiency. Normally only D25 is tested, but that may miss the case of low D25 and high D1,25. This happens with some chronic infect
905.
by fpoling 8y ago
That 100% branch coverage does not include indirect calls via functional pointers or jumps to signal handlers caused by devision by zero or invalid memory access, right?
906.
by fpoling 8y ago
If the water heater uses copper pipes, the copper still gets into the water. And even with plastic pipes the trace amount of plastic may still end in the water and nobody knows if drinking such water for, say, 40 years is safe. So do not us
907.
by fpoling 8y ago
Channels in Go do not allow to prioritize messages and proper support for cancelation is highly non-trivial. Both are necessary in complex software. With mutexes one can build all these things, but lack of language support for mutexes sucks
908.
by fpoling 8y ago
Saudi Arabia is known to finance Wahhabism groups around the world, its books for children say it is ok to kill non-Muslims and even Muslims of the “wrong kind”, the terorist behind 9/1/1 were from the country, ISIS got its money
909.
by fpoling 8y ago
How exactly can one calculate such risk? At best somebody put an Exel file with a model that was wrong but that looked impressive in a presentation. But I doubt that even that was done. Somebody just put vague words that everybody was doing
910.
by fpoling 8y ago
In Chromium they are so widespread that makes the rule showing that complex code cannot avoid them and defeating the rule.
911.
by fpoling 8y ago
It is only a problem with current solar prices. With much cheaper solar one can produce, say, methanol and store enough of it to generate electricity for months. And that will be cheaper than burning natural gas.
912.
by fpoling 8y ago
EOL for RHEL 8 will be in 10 years and python2 in RHEL8 will be a fully supported package even if not installed by default. And I suspect that it is not only Redhat that will need to support python2 past 2020. For example, I guess Ubuntu 20
913.
by fpoling 8y ago
In Norway until recently even with 2 kinds the assumption was that the family needs to move to a suburb either to own house or to rekkehus, a terraced house that shares walls when few others (hills and mountains made that a good fit). This
914.
by fpoling 8y ago
Python2 worked fine with Russian input/output.
915.
by fpoling 8y ago
On Redhat and compatible systems python 2 will be supported for at least 10 years.
916.
by fpoling 8y ago
The apartments became bigger, over 100 square meters or 1000 square feet’s.
917.
by fpoling 8y ago
That and introduction of road tolls and paid entrance to city centers across Europe.
918.
by fpoling 8y ago
In Norway in cities a lot of new apartments are OK even for families with 3-4 kids. As a result some schools in the cities previously considered for closing down became overcrowded. And this is really a new development. Even twenty years ag
919.
Exoplanet discovered around neighbouring star(bbc.com)
2 points by fpoling 8y ago|0 comments
920.
by fpoling 8y ago
If the oil demand drops by 2/3, it will hurt most the expensive oil extraction methods. Meadle East companies will survive as their oil is cheapes. But fracking, tar sands and perhaps sea oil platforms will stop.
921.
by fpoling 8y ago
One does not get 5 year old Mac as a status symbol.
922.
by fpoling 8y ago
The important thing is that RAM is upgradable. New memory technologies in 5 years may make all storage to use RAM slots.
923.
by fpoling 8y ago
My anecdotal evidence is the opposite. But I do not trust that to judge about reliability in general. The prices for used Macs are consistently higher even after 4-6 years than for comparable PC and this is much better statement about quali
924.
by fpoling 8y ago
T2 is Apple’s SSD controller. I suppose Apple does not trust controllers from other manufacturers and has enough data to see that with T2 the storage is sufficiently realible not to warrant an option to replace it even at own service facili
925.
Oldest animal painting' discovered in Borneo(bbc.com)
26 points by fpoling 8y ago|1 comments
926.
by fpoling 8y ago
Hawking radiation is a pure hypothesis based on one particular assumption how thermodynamics and quantum mechanics can be applied to gravity. We have no evidence that it exists. If one follows a different school of thought, then the temper
927.
by fpoling 8y ago
This was modeled on early Fortran where all local variables were static and it was trivial to implement persistent state machines.
928.
by fpoling 8y ago
I drove VW eGolf recently. Under the hood one clearly see that VW treats electrical cars as nuisance. The was a lot of empty space and a mess of cables. That is, VM still designed a car that was essentially a IC car with the engine removed
929.
by fpoling 8y ago
What about performance of VMs that spans many cores? At work I need to compile a huge C++ codebase and it is important to utilize all the cores and almost all RAM.
930.
by fpoling 8y ago
Ancient Roman Empire was politically stable. When this is not the case one really needs very local water sources.

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