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by geon 9y ago
(Swe) Dike = ditch (Eng) Dyke = dam/sexual slur
632.
by geon 9y ago
The extra energy can be dumped into pumping water up a dam. It is reasonably efficient, at 70-80%. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectric...
633.
by geon 9y ago
Failure is often more interesting.
634.
by geon 9y ago
If the 55% is from people registered to vote, it makes perfect sense. Seriously? You need to register to have the privelige of voting in your country? That is beyond fucked up. Obviously, if you don't plan on voting, you won't b
635.
by geon 9y ago
> but in ray marching you don't cast secondary or tertiary (or more rays) like you do in ray tracing (thus limiting the processing, but also the level of realism) Not necessarily. The marching is used to sample a volume to find int
636.
by geon 9y ago
It would be interesting to have the departments of a company interact based on capitalism. Sales would invest in RnD, and buy services from IT. HR would would need to focus on high quality services, not dictating unwanted routines. Profit c
637.
by geon 9y ago
And going freelance is scary without some kind of economical safety net. Like ubi.
638.
by geon 9y ago
No need for pilots. Air ships should be even more ripe for autonomous/remote control than air planes.
639.
by geon 9y ago
Nothing feels more traditionally Swedish than Strawberries with sugar and milk on a hot summer day. But strawberries didn't even exist until the 1750s. Though, I suppose they are awesome enough that they became tradition pretty quickly
640.
by geon 9y ago
Apart from the models in the booklets, there are often instructions for more online.
641.
by geon 9y ago
The crankshaft used to be patented. James Watt had to design around the obvious implementation when building his steam engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_and_planet_gear
642.
by geon 10y ago
Javascript fatigue fatigue.
643.
by geon 10y ago
And the vast majority of websites never get 5000 concurrent users either. Your planned load obviously dictates the language as much as anything else.
644.
by geon 10y ago
Websocket is actually not that complicated. A couple of headers to upgrade the request from HTTP to websocket, then framing of each payload. But you could use something like websocketd, which spawns a process of your chioce for each client
645.
by geon 10y ago
Facebook built their own PHP-to-C++ compiler ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP ) and later a JIT compiler/VM ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_Virtual_Machine ), with a custom,
646.
by geon 10y ago
There is some merit to that argument, but the rate of extinction is very high, and whole ecologies could be destroyed, which could create problems even for humanity itself.
647.
by geon 10y ago
If you care about performance and traffic, perhaps php isn't where you should start anyway.
648.
by geon 10y ago
> PHP iirc can't even be used as a websocket server True, if you run it behind a web server like 99.999% of all users. If you run it as a cli script, you can implement pretty much anything. I saw a ftp server once. Crazy. Still, eve
649.
by geon 10y ago
I didnt even notice.
650.
by geon 10y ago
It's not doing it on Chrome/Mac. I guess it is about as annoying as menu elements changing size on hover.
651.
by geon 10y ago
You bother to check the numbers?
652.
by geon 10y ago
Alexa, buy me a dollhouse. http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/7/14200210/amazon-alexa-tech-...
653.
by geon 10y ago
Put them way up inside there, as far as they can fit.
654.
by geon 10y ago
All of those points are moot without adoption and maturity, something a new language by definition won't have.
655.
by geon 10y ago
Very few languages reach any significant adoption, regardless of why/how they were designed. And a lot of the popular languages are pretty terrible. Im also sceptical of that designing the language with practicallity in mind would make
656.
by geon 10y ago
Or they just had fun? Why does a language have to be useful for anything?
657.
by geon 10y ago
Did you look at Céu? A really cute language, I think. http://ceu-lang.org/
658.
by geon 10y ago
> When I was in teh college, I certainly didn't get enough protein Did you try? Or were you just ignorantly eating ramen every day? Getting enough protein shouldnt be hard, even on a tiny budget, if you just know what you are doing.
659.
by geon 10y ago
Or kill the cubs of competing males.
660.
by geon 10y ago
The data you get out of the database will be untyped. When the language in the database is typed (SQL) and the language outside is typed too (c#, typescript, etc), it would be nice to keep that type information. An ORM doesn't count si

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