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by gnode 7y ago
Something I've wondered is whether technology like this could eventually be self-defeating for hardware manufacturers. Rather than the evolution of graphics deriving from improved accuracy of the optical simulation fuelled by advances
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by gnode 7y ago
Parliament is sovereign over the executive and legislative branches of government. The prime minister is chosen by the monarch as the person deemed most likely to have majority support of parliament, granted powers with which to carry out t
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by gnode 7y ago
It's more nuanced than that. The debt/GDP number is talking about future dollars above the divider, and present dollars below the divider. FutureUS$ / (PresentUS$ / yr) is meaningless. The government could choose to redu
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by gnode 7y ago
Something I wonder is whether productized software needs to exist as an industry in its own right. Maybe it is enough for software to be incidentally produced in the course of other industries. The Linux kernel is today developed mostly by
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by gnode 7y ago
Given that a major criticism of closed source software is that it can contain adverse behaviour which is practically un-auditable, running less code is the minimal implementation of don't run closed source software. For some, open sour
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by gnode 7y ago
Consider supplying a fixed amount of power P to a load. If each stage loses 10% of the power transmitted, after one stage you need to supply 1.1P, after the second stage, you must supply that power plus ten percent, and so on, so you need t
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by gnode 7y ago
Capacitance is a major reason; the capacitance of the very large line doesn't need to be charged and discharged at very high voltage 100 or 120 times a second (per half wave of 50 or 60Hz). Also, an X volts RMS AC line is 2.8X volts pe
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by gnode 7y ago
I should have elaborated on my exponential claim. Resistive losses are indeed linear, however in the context of a maximum transmission voltage, efficiency is bounded exponentially. If you consider a voltage source of 1V, a line of 1ohm, wit
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by gnode 7y ago
Naively that's true, but if you consider a distribution grid with a series of transmission line segments at a given voltage, after each segment the voltage is increased to normalise it to the target transmission voltage. Each stage res
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by gnode 7y ago
It is inefficient to distribute electricity over very long distances currently, and that inefficiency increases exponentially. Perhaps in the future a global electrical grid backed primarily with solar may be practical with superconducting
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by gnode 7y ago
So if I understand correctly, the business model is to be the only seller in this exchange, with a profit margin justified by the convenience of instantly available Bitcoin funds. Would it not be possible for a competitor to undermine this
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by gnode 7y ago
You can just use features of C++ which improve the ergonomics of C; it's not necessary to buy into modern C++ wholesale. If you want to write a C program but with generic container types, just use the features of C++ which facilitate t
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by gnode 7y ago
Why would conservative use of C++ not meet this mark? It's highly compatible with C, has container types, ranged for-loops, operator overloading which makes use of container types more sugary.
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by gnode 7y ago
Corruption is one issue, but as I understand it there are also technical issues. The synthesis of derivative investments like collateralized debt obligations involves modelling the probabilities of default. If the models are wrong, such as
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by gnode 7y ago
The legal principle is simple: it make a person legally dead and so the intentional act is murder. Unfortunately the law doesn't recognise the concept that cryogenic preservation may not in effect kill a person in the long run. On the
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by gnode 7y ago
DoH servers are not open proxies, they're just DNS resolvers with support for a security layer; they are comparable to HTTPS, SMTPS, SSH, etc. servers, not to a VPN. VPNs are not a substitute for, nor a better solution than DoH in the
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by gnode 7y ago
I don't think this is at odds with "should do one thing well". Safety is not an application in itself, it is a design principle. "rm"'s purpose is only to delete, yet it still tries to ensure safety and sanity
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by gnode 7y ago
The Rust page also compares the performance of the Rust implementation using prefetching, which slightly outperforms C for some batch sizes. https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.rs#performance It would be a bit of a ch
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by gnode 7y ago
> the only thing [browsers] should do is fetch exactly the page URL that was entered and display it. I strongly disagree. Browsers deal with a hostile environment that poses countless threats to their users, and need to be safe. Arguing
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by gnode 7y ago
> You think giving birth is free? This is a straw man argument. Nobody is suggesting public healthcare is without cost. Civilised societies provide services like policing, fire and rescue, criminal legal defence, and education, because t
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by gnode 7y ago
> why is this interesting? Many people here participate in open source development. The evolution of social trends of such development communities is important to members. There has been discussion here about codes of conduct and what is
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by gnode 7y ago
It is not a well known term, confirmed by your need to define it. Obscure slang should not be used in sincere formal criticism of an individual's behaviour. Additionally, the post is attempting to minimally justify the banning while as
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by gnode 7y ago
> This inflation also seems like the direct result of the overt policy to erase the natural deflation of manufacturing and technology to keep everyone working "full time", when human labor is needed less and less. A low minimum
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by gnode 7y ago
> rising prices disproportionately affects the poor who must spend a greater percentage of their income on needed goods. Inflation has a cause, and often that cause is beneficial to the working class. For instance, a rise in the minimum
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by gnode 7y ago
Reminds me of the achievement for carrying a gnome through Half Life 2 Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_qF3onDNCo
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by gnode 7y ago
That's unfortunately often how it is, but it doesn't need to be that way. As an example, Ubuntu's donation page allows you to select how you wish your contribution to be allocated: https://ubuntu.com/download&
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by gnode 7y ago
Could you elaborate? Without delving too deeply, that article seems to suggest the opposite: > The KD can more effectively reduce glucose and elevate blood ketone bodies than can CR alone making the KD potentially more therapeutic agains
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by gnode 7y ago
The article explains that fasting is often prohibited by malnutrition and low body weight. Obviously fasting cannot be undertaken long-term, as it results in starvation. I wonder whether there is any benefit to caloric restriction / fa
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by gnode 7y ago
This breaks down with negative temperature, where adding temperature to the system decreases its entropy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature Additionally, the Big Bang is theorised to have passed throug
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by gnode 7y ago
I don't think it's fair to say Rust is still a research language any more than it's fair to see the ongoing evolution of C++ makes it a research language. Rust is being used to engineer production software (parts of Firefox,

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