gmueckl

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by gmueckl 9y ago
Hydrogen is for the most part produced from natural gas through steam reforming (only a small fraction is produced through electrolysis). And the Haber-Bosch method requires substantial heating which is also usually supplied by burning oil
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by gmueckl 9y ago
LGPL also contains the re-linking requirement as a wrinkle. This makes a LGPL library impossible to use in mobile apps. The walled garden ecosystems are in conflict with it.
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by gmueckl 9y ago
But resupply runs and crew return would be rather obvious.
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by gmueckl 9y ago
As far as I have picked up on that subject, passenger aircraft have multiple layers of protection against blades separating from the engine. The cowling is supposed to contain it. If that does not work, the fuselage in the area of the wings
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by gmueckl 9y ago
Then how do you know where to click?
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by gmueckl 9y ago
No, the function pointer is declared static. It cannot be referred to outside the current file.
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by gmueckl 9y ago
The web isn't a solution to this problem. Drive by attacks are real and easy to place via malicious ads. The only real "fix" to this situation would be to make software vendors actually liable for the correct functionality of
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by gmueckl 9y ago
AFAIK pressing F1 in Visual Studio takes you to the top Bing result for the text under the cursor within MSDN. This could be the reference you were looking for, a reference for something completely different in a different programming langu
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by gmueckl 9y ago
Serious question: I remember claims that poorer countries basically switched to smartphones instead of PCs and phones are supposed surprisingly ubiquitous there. Can anybody confirm that? Seats never made much sense to me and if the smartph
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by gmueckl 9y ago
Well, sound mixing and resampling are a thing. Other operating systems do that where it belongs: in the kernel. OSS gets it right, for example.
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by gmueckl 9y ago
1. The Diesel process is more efficient than the Otto process (the theoretical limit is much higher) 2. Taxes in Germany: Diesel fuel is taxed at a much lower rate than other gasoline. In turn, the cars themselves are taxed a bit higher. If
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by gmueckl 9y ago
I've hacked together some small VR visualizations for multidimensional data with particularly hard to understand structure and my experience with that was: 1. Moving through the data set in room scale VR is completely different from se
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by gmueckl 9y ago
Also, in my experience, no distributed competition for any service X lived up to a centralized, commercially run X in the past. Decentralization has in the past always added a layer of complexity that makes things appear slow, breaks things
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by gmueckl 9y ago
The last monitoring attempt that I heard of used a browser plugin to scrape the user's posts. The point was to monitor political parties and their ad targeting before the upcoming elections in Germany. Generally, Facebook needs to view
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by gmueckl 9y ago
I do believe that we should consider a moral obligation to optimize the sh$$ out of widely used software. Inefficient algorithms running in millions of billions of instances (cloud data centers, smartphones, home routers, smart TVs...) crea