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811.
by gnode 8y ago
> And atomic hydrogen reacts with pretty much anything. But we don't store atomic hydrogen; we store molecular hydrogen (H2).
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by gnode 8y ago
> I was hoping Rust was it, until I started to feel scared I recommend you stick with it. Your understanding of it will improve with practise. Memory safety isn't free -- there's either a language complexity (borrow checking),
813.
by gnode 8y ago
Is C2 memory safe? It's not mentioned in the design goals, and appears to just allow free use of pointers.
814.
by gnode 8y ago
I don't think this really answers the question. While you can be careful with C, it's still inherently dangerous, as you're relying on nothing more than your own human scrutiny to not fuck up. A memory safe language should ma
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by gnode 8y ago
I'd say that this is Rust. Ensuring at compile time that references are handled in a memory safe manner (borrow checking) requires a certain amount of complexity. There are of course plenty of memory safe languages more syntactically a
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by gnode 8y ago
It seems to me, that to some extent the cost of launch feeds into the cost of satellites. Spacecraft have to have reliability in the extreme because it's so expensive to put them in orbit, and they're very expensive to service if
817.
by gnode 8y ago
When it's a cultural norm to not talk to other humans, and the go-to solution is to breed non-human animals to replace that companionship, I would suggest that the major problem is the society of isolation. To say that people can'
818.
by gnode 8y ago
I'm not sure how true this is. As the car's weight increases so too does the grip, as it's a function of down-force multiplied by the roughly constant coefficient of friction of the tires. Conceivably, the car's weight m
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by gnode 8y ago
> But braking is a solved problem. That's not to say Tesla haven't decided to re-solve it / implement it themselves anew. The rest of the auto industry has been doing ABS much longer than Tesla has existed. It's also
820.
by gnode 8y ago
Going into an era of launch vehicle re-usability with SpaceX seemingly so technologically far ahead (still the only party to retro-propulsively land an orbital launch vehicle), part of me feels that this dominance is entirely deserved for h
821.
by gnode 8y ago
That's probably also to do with Waymo's cars being developed primarily for ride hailing fleets. With a private ownership model, requiring owners of variable technological faculty to manually apply updates would be less practical.
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by gnode 8y ago
I don't think anyone's suggesting it was intentional. Parameters for managing the brakes may just have been set badly, or the anti-locking algorithm written poorly. A possible explanation is they may have optimised it to improve h
823.
by gnode 8y ago
My understanding is that car brakes can generally exert more braking force than the tire's grip on the road. A long stopping distance may represent a problem with the anti-lock braking system (which is likely software controlled, and c
824.
by gnode 8y ago
According to The Free Dictionary, "ordnance" is a syncopated version of "ordinance". https://www.thefreedictionary.com/ordnance Also: https://www.etymonline.com/word/ordnance "
825.
by gnode 8y ago
Yes; Mickey Mouse is covered by copyright law, via the copyright on the original work he appeared in -- Steamboat Willie. While the protection of the copyright of Steamboat Willie in itself is probably of no consequence to Disney, it's
826.
by gnode 8y ago
I don't have a problem with copyright covering characters, but with the excessive copyright term. My example of Dracula is that he is regarded by most as a classical character, like Frankenstein or Scrooge, not a modern character to be
827.
by gnode 8y ago
I was referring to a local basis. I.e. in most cases, plots of land of equal size on a given street are of similar value for similar purposes. My point is that people don't typically monopolise land to the extent that a prospective lan
828.
by gnode 8y ago
> It's only infringement if you actually copy someone else's work. This is inaccurate. Copyright has been extended to cover fictional characters for instance. Consider that at the copyright term of 144 years proposed, the chara
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by gnode 8y ago
I don't think it's sensible to refer to all ownership of land as monopolistic. In most cases land is fungible. There are many landowners in my town of plots of land which are largely interchangeable. Saying someone has a monopoly
830.
by gnode 8y ago
Do you have any more details?
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by gnode 8y ago
Does this still apply in cases where the suspect has been found not guilty / charges dropped?
832.
by gnode 8y ago
Am I missing something, or did they just update the page? The intel page specifies a Intel® Iris™ Plus Graphics 655 as the GPU, from what I can see.
833.
by gnode 8y ago
Links are great, but please provide some explanation in future (or edit in one now), people generally don't like surprise links.
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by gnode 8y ago
> your right to say it. I think what's more relevant is the right not to say something publicly, and by extension the right to have thoughts free of external judgement and consequence.
835.
by gnode 8y ago
This makes me question what is should mean to "win" in a genetic sense. The dog may be high in number, but its genetic selection has been artificial, controlled by humans selecting for favourable traits. Similarly, could we consid
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by gnode 8y ago
Working at sea; an Antarctic base; Mars; etc. is very much a niche for which specific exceptions can be made, but is irrelevant to almost all employers. In most cases security is the greater concern.
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by gnode 8y ago
> it's mostly my own personal nostalgia rather than it being "better" I believe from a UX standpoint the win95 UI was better. Microsoft did a lot of actual usability research in evolving the UI of Windows 3.1 into that of
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by gnode 8y ago
An alternative to this is the mineral oil PC, where you submerge the whole thing.
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by gnode 8y ago
Peltiers are only really worth it if you need sub-ambient temperatures (i.e. extreme overclocking). You then need to carry away the heat of the Peltier in addition to that of the processor, making expelling the heat even more difficult than
840.
by gnode 8y ago
I've been interested in passively cooled PCs for a while now. Particularly, I've been considering building a computer which outputs its heat into a wall using heatpipes and a metal plate heat spreader. Although I can't find a

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