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by hwc 7y ago
As long the capacitors have a width much larger than the distance between them, the energy stored is (if I recall correctly) linear. this is because the electric field is a constant vector field between the plates. Once that is not true, y
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by hwc 7y ago
I worked on PDF generating software for years. It's a horrible format that should never have been approved as an ISO standard. When in doubt, use plain text. It's a million times better in every way that counts. I wish my bank sta
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by hwc 7y ago
Paint a QR code of the VIN on the front and back bumpers at the factory. Done.
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by hwc 7y ago
If you really don't care about speed, use Zopfli as a replacement for zlib.
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by hwc 7y ago
A common issue with C++ software is the need for a stable, standard ABI, which C provides but C++ does not (except through `extern "C"`). Because C++ name mangling is not standardized and the standard library headers have tons of
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by hwc 7y ago
I taped the qrcode to the top of my access point so I don't forget where it is.
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by hwc 7y ago
How about below-average pilots? Just-barely-good-enough-to-get-hired pilots?
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by hwc 7y ago
Why didn't they do this a decade ago? Where's the apology for threatening the community with patent lawsuits?
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by hwc 8y ago
Also, can we start seeing this kind of re-usable multi-stage rocket used for achieving orbit in fiction?
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by hwc 8y ago
I indirectly contribute to Flutter (via one of their dependencies), but I would still say to make a web app first, so you can always access your app from a desktop.
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by hwc 8y ago
This is a nice technology, but paying this overhead on every transaction is highway robbery. Can everyone not in the credit-card/banking industry band together and negotiate a better rate?
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by hwc 8y ago
I really want something like that for vanilla minecraft. here's the closest I've come: https://github.com/HalCanary/mc-labyrinth
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by hwc 8y ago
I don't understand the math of this sort of launch vehicle. Any rocket launched at a high altitude still needs to accelerate up to orbital velocity, which is orders of magnitude more energy than is saved by starting out moving at a su
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by hwc 8y ago
I'm hoping it means NASA can launch lots of deep-space probes.
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by hwc 8y ago
I had a Motorola Fone years ago, but I ditched it because it did SMS so poorly.
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by hwc 9y ago
The little server that runs fiddle.skia.org is probably overloaded.
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by hwc 9y ago
"looks worse" is a pretty nebulous statement. Can you go into detail? Do you think text in Chrome looks bad?
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by hwc 9y ago
> After downloading twenty-some git repos(?) as dependencies (most of which my system already has) Skia statically links in copies of these dependencies for testing purposes only . There is a mode ("is_official_build") that
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by hwc 9y ago
Why is SHA-3 not explicitly mentioned as a candidate?
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by hwc 9y ago
It can do what HTML can do. You can have a TOC with internal links. Those links should continue to work inside the PDF.
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by hwc 9y ago
Actually, all printing in Chrome goes through the PDF generator as an intermediate step.
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by hwc 9y ago
I work on Chrome's PDF generation. Please file a bug report if you think this is an important feature.
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by hwc 10y ago
How can that entire article never mention the term UTF-16?
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Are there open tools for redistricting from census data, given a criteria?
3 points by hwc 10y ago|0 comments
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by hwc 10y ago
Elo Ratings are unbounded.
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by hwc 10y ago
This is, of course, a bashism.
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by hwc 10y ago
We did this calculation in a course I took in college. I've completely forgotten how it worked.
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by hwc 12y ago
If you are ever driving north from Phoenix, you can stop by and take a tour.
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by hwc 13y ago
Can one restart a level but skip the help dialog?