hetman

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by hetman 8y ago
For the veterans. Can anyone make any ink recommendations for inks that don't bleed to the point of completely obscuring the text when the paper is later exposed to a little water?
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by hetman 8y ago
But since you can't see very much of the fire they're also not going to be very desirable for "recreational" use at the author puts it.
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by hetman 8y ago
"Holy grail" is being used as an idiom and not a metaphor here.
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by hetman 8y ago
It's really not that hard. Just ask Google to translate the time for you. Which I feel also demonstrates that the cost are not particularly high either. It mostly effects programmers and doesn't really require ongoing costs once a
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by hetman 8y ago
Because the power consumption to keep DRAM refreshed is fairly high so you'd need a pretty big battery, and because it would still be more expensive than 3DXP. It's just not practical for most use cases.
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by hetman 8y ago
It's a shame this was downvoted. It certainly adds an interesting perspective to the discussion even if not everyone agrees with the conclusion.
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by hetman 8y ago
Unfortunately, one area where Python 3 is definitely slower is the startup time (specifically module importing). This can be very noticeable on embedded systems as I discovered after porting our codebase. The remaining language improvements
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by hetman 8y ago
The idea that solar panels take more energy to produce than they are able to output would make solar panels economically unviable as the energy cost must be recovered to at least break even. That may have been true several decades ago but t
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by hetman 8y ago
Weird, I've never come across this usage of the word "nemesis" (although the dictionary indicates it is correct). Still, I think the author would have been using the more common meaning of the word "nemesis" as a ri
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by hetman 8y ago
I think logic is fairly neutral when it comes to truth. It's just a method for organising axioms. Whether the logical system you choose actually favours truth or not, really depends on the axioms you choose. Further more, even with the
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by hetman 8y ago
I don't think the fans will much care if it works.
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by hetman 8y ago
I finally got my work desktop PC quiet enough for my liking by replacing fans, heatsinks and a passively cooled graphics card. Now all I can hear is everyon else's PC's whining around me (there not even that close!).
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by hetman 8y ago
That's not how it works. Weeds don't somehow get into grains when they're collected. What they do is reduce yields of the crops we're actually interested in collecting. Lower yields for the same farming effort means high
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by hetman 8y ago
Cameras only give a sharper picture in bright light because this allows you to reduce the aperture size. The image is not sharper if you increase the shutter speed instead of reducing the aperture. This is basic physics. Bright light is not
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by hetman 8y ago
More specifically it's the bright light triggering the iris to close that improves the focus. As the aperture narrows (iris closes) the incoming rays become more collimated (less scattered) and so the image falling on your cornea appea
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by hetman 9y ago
I recently watched the original Blade Runner with a bunch of friends; none of us had seen it before. Immensely watchable was certainly not the general opinion. A few of us decided it was worth watching only because it set the background for
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by hetman 9y ago
I love websites I can only escape on my mobile by pressing the back button multiple times in rapid succession...
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by hetman 9y ago
None of the other orbits will be close enough to noticeably obscure the central star. The only eclipses worth considering would be from the binary planet's twin.
139.
by hetman 9y ago
I never got the impression this was intended to surprise or trick anyone because it's far too obvious. It just feels like a way to make the subject matter vaguely interesting to the average reader.
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by hetman 9y ago
This is cute. Being able to switch languages is a nice touch although someone needs to fix the Python one line comments not to use the C style.
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by hetman 9y ago
The biggest difficulty for people will be forming new habits. The military time convention is familiar but cumbersome. Saying "I'll see you at 17 hundred hours" is not as convenient as "I'll see you at 17 o'clo
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by hetman 9y ago
Easy, 00:00:00 is one second after 23:59:59. You can use 24:00:00 in some circumstances to refer to the midnigt at the end of a day but it would be redundant say on a clock face.
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by hetman 9y ago
I've always used C-f. Very comfortable for me but I haven't seen anyone else use it. Importantly it keeps my fingers on the home row keys. I tend to use VIM navigation in my terminal so I don't miss that binding (although the
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by hetman 9y ago
It replaces one set of quirky hacks for a different set, just in different parts of your code. So in a way it's no worse. I have to say I was sceptical of Ruby 1.9's new approach to Unicode thinking Python 3.0's approach look
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by hetman 9y ago
I'd be curious to know what the compile times are like? Does ever compile run recompile the entire code base or is there some kind of incremental compilation?
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by hetman 9y ago
Rather than a single cut-off you just scale this gradually so there is no single wealthy/not wealthy divide but an increasing expectation to carry social responsibility as your wealth increase.
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by hetman 9y ago
To the best of my knowledge, current studies seem to suggest the cause of myopia is insufficient exposure to bright light (i.e. sunlight) during the developmental phase. That's why it looks like TV/phones/etc might be the cau
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by hetman 9y ago
Then I suppose we don't need async iterators at all since this can all already be done with callbacks.
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by hetman 9y ago
I think this is a bit different. Even if the file reading code was reading the maximum amount of available data it would still have to store most of it in a local buffer and then yield only one line in a promise which would mean only one li
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by hetman 9y ago
I think the problem with yielding an array of lines is that all the code that uses the result of the function would have to be aware of this grouping of results all the way up the stack. What he was proposing was a solution that looked li

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