grkvlt

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I love animals but I kill them too – Hunting Alaska style(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by grkvlt 9y ago|1 comments
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by grkvlt 9y ago
OK, that's a good point, but I still think in this case it's better to simply say that people have "a phobia of holes or objects with a pattern of holes" rather than translating the word holes into Greek to create a comp
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Gains and losses, remember. There are tasks where the use of a visual IDE just makes things easier to comprehend and use. Emacs will not give an increase in efficiency across the board for all tasks, otherwise we'd all have switched
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by grkvlt 9y ago
This speed management is actually handled by an autopilot (i.e. computer) in U2s, using 'mach hold' mode.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Supersonic wind tunnels have existed since the 1920s and Mach 3+ versions were built in Germany during World War 2 for the V2 project. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_wind_tunnel
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by grkvlt 9y ago
The act of translating some random noun ('hole' in this case) and the word 'fear' into Greek does not automatically mean that a recognised mental disorder involving fear of that particular thing exists. In fact, Wikipedi
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I suspect this is part of why some businesses find it hard to accept open source and take it seriously. If these were hosted on some non-GNU page, that would be fine, but the fact the organisation itself hosts them gives off a very amateuri
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Thanks, that's really interesting - there's some amazing technology going into what I had previously assumed was a fairly boring static (modulo the rotation, of course) component of these vehicles.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
But, 3D in a browser is much easier since the GPU takes care of it. Low-latency audio is much harder.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Meh. The only entity this is worth USD 30k to is DJI, really. The issues found were an exposure of personal information on their servers, not s backdoor into the drone firmware or anything exciting like that, it seems. So no TLA employees w
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by grkvlt 9y ago
The statement from Elon Musk at the car's announcement was 'Has anyone here watched Spaceballs? What's faster than Ludicrous? That's right, Plaid!' So in the Roadster, there is a 'Plaid' mode which enables
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by grkvlt 9y ago
So the tires are acting like torsion springs then?
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Today, the fastest lap time of the Nurburgring by an electric car was set by a Tesla Roadster driving itself round the track in 8m30s. The autopilot software developers are said to be 'very proud' of the achievement.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
No, no - it's just the 'only exists in CGI' I have an issue with, since people are arguing against factual evidence. But, this is a prototype, so of course I expect the performance figures are going to change, and speculation
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> vision is comparable to Jobs, but execution — not yet Dunno, Jobs failed at execution more than once. Look at the Lisa for example. The Roadster could be the NeXT cube of the EV world?
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by grkvlt 9y ago
They're both incorrect, I think. Acceleration rate would be the rate of change of the rate of change of speed, or what is known as 'jerk' in engineering. I guess that would be the time that it takes to go from 0 to the '
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Wow, the buckling of the tire wall in the last two pictures is crazy. I guess that happens because there is enough friction to stop the wheel moving, and the axle is trying to turn it faster, causing a shear force. With normal tires, I assu
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by grkvlt 9y ago
It's interesting that people are so quick to dismiss this as merely a rendering, with the videos being CGI. Is that because the videos are 'too good' perhaps, or it just looks too much like a racing game car on the X-box? You
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I'd suggest the exact opposite - if you can afford one of these cars, you must be working very hard at be very good at whatever you do for a living.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
The new Roadster is definitely real, not a render. They were driving them around, at speed, and showing off the acceleration, at the announcement!
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by grkvlt 9y ago
They absolutely seem to, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXWfL-1ieuE for example...
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Here it is: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2013/nov/06/jap... or http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/fusion/Janken/index-e.html It's from the Ishikawa Watanab
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Meh. The whole 'he who must not be named' thing is drawing on the idea in magical thought that by uttering the 'true name' of some evil entity, you somehow grant it power. So not mentioning Voldemort by name is a way of
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by grkvlt 9y ago
There's a concept called the 'use-mention distinction' [0] that is very important here. It is fine to mention the word 'nigger' in the context of reporting speech, for example, but not fine to use the word, in
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by grkvlt 9y ago
What's interesting is that they are basically saying 'we are big enough and rich enough that trying to sue us is pointless if you are poor, because we can always outspend you ten to one' while still making it seem like a good
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Her life is planned out by whom, though - she's your daughter, if you think she wants to be out riding her bike, why are you signing her up for and sending her to extracurricular activities? And there are plenty of self-directed outl
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Actually, it's pretty consistently designed and laid out - that's not something you can fault Google for these days. Here's a screenshot of Google https://i.imgur.com/tiVr0bd.png to compare with DDG https:&#
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Presumably England, where 'public' schools are what would be termed 'private' or fee paying schools in the USA ;)
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I think they will still have a steady supply of talented people who consider themselves patriots and whose politics align with the NSA and CIAs stated missions. Just because their politics don't agree with yours doesn't necessaril
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Yes. You're missing not being brought up in the United Kingdom either before or shortly after decimalisation. pre-decimalisation currency in the UK involved Pounds, Shillings and Pence, based on the old Roman Librae, Solidus and Denari

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