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by glimcat 13y ago
You need mass that's at a lower temperature. Vacuum is an insulator.
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by glimcat 13y ago
1. Ask nicely. 2. Ask via lawyer. 3. Ask via judge. It sounds like you've already tried the first two options.
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by glimcat 13y ago
The limiting factor there is radiative temperature x radiative area. For something the size of a small star, sure, you can pick up 300K. For something the size of a plausible ship, the surface area is astronomically smaller, while the tem
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by glimcat 13y ago
Some of it, yes. But they tend to have low efficiency, thermally-dependent efficiency, and the need for a temperature differential. They operate in response to a temperature gradient, not just heat. Using Wikipedia for a quick-and-dirty fig
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by glimcat 13y ago
Waste power is heat to first order. If there's a lot of it and you're not making it go elsewhere, assume that the system and it its environs are going to get a bit toasty. Sometimes you also get things like radiation and vibration
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by glimcat 13y ago
Check whether your school or department has grants for conference travel. They often do, and it's definitely worth it if someone else is footing the bill. If it's out of pocket - it really depends on what else you'd need the
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by glimcat 13y ago
> criminal allegations that turn out to be false That's not the issue. The problem is that it gives the government the ability to arbitrarily circumvent the usual ethical safeguards and legal protections which come into play when br
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by glimcat 13y ago
This is a very common issue, and you shouldn't feel bad about deciding it's not for you. It's also common to have guilt or self-identity issues for a while after leaving. Math is kind of a broad area. Some people coming from
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by glimcat 13y ago
Tor has bad latency & availability characteristics for everyday use. You probably shouldn't try to push your 60+ year old mother into using it unless she's e.g. a journalist or political activist. When Tor is actually appropri
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by glimcat 13y ago
Does it just handle it, or do you push that value point by marketing that specific use case to customers who are currently having a hard time doing large batch processing with existing solutions? If you don't market a feature, or if yo
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by glimcat 13y ago
There are many FOSS libraries for image resampling. Of those, many use iterative processing approaches which let you show the user a "viewable resolution" preview while continuing to generate the final-quality result in the back
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by glimcat 13y ago
Maybe. What's the benefit? Who specifically would benefit from using it? (don't say "everyone") The standard is probably using ImageMagick & an appropriate wrapper. Why is using your solution better? Take into accoun
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by glimcat 13y ago
That's often the best way to handle it, yeah. I'm curious what motivated the switch-off - compared to the LTV-weighted number of users attracted or retained, was it consuming too much support time, compute resources, dev maintenan
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by glimcat 13y ago
I started using Mailgun recently - and I wasn't aware that you had this as a feature, or I would have been using it. The only use case you really market is as an API. At least that I've been exposed to, across several channels, af
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by glimcat 13y ago
If you're going to be building or maintaining apps in JavaScript, it's absolutely worth your time to learn tools like Backbone, Angular, Ember, or something else in that vein. If you're more concerned with building a business
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by glimcat 13y ago
It depends on the project's complexity, and also on how many generations of developers have dogpiled horrible kludges onto the original code base. For simple apps, it doesn't matter much. Do what gets you in front of users soonest
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by glimcat 13y ago
I'm not surprised - HN often ends up with posts or comments which are outspoken against Chinese government policy. Also, it will probably boost their engineering productivity by 10%.
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by glimcat 13y ago
Dogfooding doesn't have be limited to "software for software developers." A lot of it is "software for software businesses" or "software for problems which occur in software businesses, but which are not unique
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by glimcat 13y ago
Detect: Look for high frequency access with low variability in the delay between same-type resource requests. It's a relatively simple heuristic, but great precision & recall for classifying scrapers vs. manual access. Block: You c
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by glimcat 13y ago
no license; can't use
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by glimcat 13y ago
HOV lanes are nominally intended to encourage more ecological use of transit resources, with congestion relief as a coincident effect (fewer cars on the road -> less pollution, lower energy usage, reduced rate of needing new transit infr
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by glimcat 13y ago
If you ever get to the point where you'd legitimately love to be fired, quit. It's scary, but often worth it.
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by glimcat 13y ago
I've tried, but: * Typing speed turned out to rarely be a meaningful limit on my productivity with coding, writing, or general tasks. * Using a nonstandard layout for my home desktop meant reconfiguring several laptops as well, then st
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by glimcat 13y ago
It's not about what you want, it's about what they want.
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by glimcat 13y ago
There's already a Facebook for pets. It's called Facebook. No, really. Facebook is swimming with accounts for peoples' cats and dogs and iguanas and goldfish. Ditto for Instagram, Twitter, etc. etc. etc. - people use the site
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by glimcat 13y ago
It's easier than that. One argument you'll hear a lot is that publishing the salary table is more fair to employees. Employers know what they're paying everyone, you don't, so they have more information than you during t
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by glimcat 13y ago
This situation is a result of two things: * Businesses want to get spending in before the end of the year for tax & budget reasons. * Customs surrounding holiday giving and charity, with disposable income from holiday bonuses. So this i
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by glimcat 13y ago
They're also looking for whether people become friends on Facebook. The dominant factor here is going to be the rate at which the participants send and accept connection requests on Facebook. Some people send them to everyone they meet
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by glimcat 13y ago
Bill Howe did a solid intro course for the University of Washington. Videos and other materials are available on Coursera. https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci The one thing I'd really change is to tighten up t
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by glimcat 13y ago
Most of the classifiers I've seen used in industry aren't even k-means. They're fixed heuristics (often with plausibly effective decision boundaries found via k-means). Consider the Netflix Prize, where the most effective alg

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