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by jeroen94704 12y ago
Thanks, I'll give him a try when I have the chance.
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
Categorizing Heinlein and Clarke as "modern" is a bit unfair to the current crop of SciFi authors, In my view. Authors like Iain M. Banks, Stephen Baxter and Peter F. Hamilton (all Brits, coincidentally) go way beyond anything Hei
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
Good catch! I suspect it is more like they wanted to convey the message Windows 10 can also be used in embedded applications currently covered by e.g. Windows Embedded Compact 7. Someone in marketing did an image search for "embedded b
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
From the article: "The new AMS results may ultimately help scientists narrow in on the origin and features of dark matter" So yet another link-bait headline.
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
It is the blind spot of the Web/Silicon Valley/Startup world that not all programming is web programming. While the Googles and Facebooks of this world get all the press, there is a stupendous number of developers working on good
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
It's changed now. At least on the bloomberg site.
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
AFAIK, it was already established they do not have enough fuel to circularize the orbit at the correct altitude, let alone correct the inclination (which takes large amounts of fuel).
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
No, refueling is not an option. - There is no way for the satellites to reach the ISS - There is no way for the ISS or the crew to reach the satellites - The ISS does not carry equipment to refuel satellites - The satellites are not equiped
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
It should be noted that "cannot be eradicated" is something different than "cannot be cured". I've read other articles that seem to point in the direction that cancer is simply an intrinsic side-effect of the way ou
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
With the masses of the comet and the spacecraft being relatively close, it's hard to tell whether Rosetta is co-orbiting the sun or orbiting the comet itself.
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
"My hunches have gotten better" is perhaps the best description of the value of experience. I am 38 myself, and sometimes, when I am surrounded by a new batch of fresh 20-somethings, I feel a little like the author of the original
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
Cool, thanks for that! Another one of life's great mysteries resolved.
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
No, that's not what I mean :). Unless that is funny in a different way when signed of course.
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
This reminds me of a question I once posted on reddit, but never received an answer to: Given that a many jokes are based on peculiarities of a language (puns, but also unexpected uses of certain words), are there jokes that only funny in s
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
Yeah, sadly enough.
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
That, exactly. And I simply cannot fathom how the response to a flash-bang grenade in a cot with a child in it can ever be "well, obviously there was no way for us to know there were children, so don't blame us" instead of &q
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
It may be partly "somebody else will fix this", but also largely "is this really what it seems"? It could be a genuine robbery, or a piece of improv street theatre, or a sociology experiment. And since nobody else is res
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Police arrested Dutch man with Bitcoin mining farm for money laundering(translate.google.com)
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by jeroen94704 13y ago
Wow, anyone who can watch that without becoming epileptic is immune :). Interesting effects though.
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by jeroen94704 13y ago
A slight elaboration about the way your eye works: The cones are not on-off affairs, and they are not limited to specific wavelengths. Each type of cone has a response curve, and these curves overlap (see e.g. the Wikipedia article about Co
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by jeroen94704 13y ago
Exactly. The idea that you should "eat your own dogfood" doesn't make a lot of sense if the product is (to draw from my personal experience) an x-ray machine, mechanical respirator, semiconductor metrology tool or electron mi
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by jeroen94704 13y ago
I guarantee that anyone who puts in their proverbial 10,000 hours will be able to play the violin. For certain values of "play", of course. As with beating the world record holder of any sports discipline, the real top performers
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by jeroen94704 13y ago
Wife/kids.
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by jeroen94704 13y ago
All good points, however Bret Victor has specifically been showing off alternatives to low level programming by building very high levels of abstraction. He has even apparently said that he thinks the development community is purposely keep
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by jeroen94704 13y ago
This is why I think Bret Victor's stuff, while incredibly cool and interesting, will have a tough time living up to his vision.
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by jeroen94704 13y ago
Anyone know if there is a triple monitor (3 external displays, not 2 external + 1 on-board display) solution for the Surface pro? From what I read it doesn't work with the Club3D MST hub, even though it does have a mini displayport con
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by jeroen94704 13y ago
Yes, but higher buildings require a larger footprint. You cannot build a spire the height of the Burj Khalifa (828 m or 2,717 ft) with a floorplan that offers natural light everywhere all the way from the bottom to the top floors.
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by jeroen94704 13y ago
A bit of a tangent, but this is the reason why there are no real high-rise buildings in Europe (The tallest building in the EU is only 1004 ft high). There are laws that determine the minimum amount of natural light an office should have. S
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by jeroen94704 13y ago
The best commenting experience on YouTube is already available through the CommentSnob browser plugin. No action by YouTube necessary.
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by jeroen94704 13y ago
Yes, this is bad, as everybody has a right to a fair trial. However, I think it is _far_ worse that it is EVER, in any way, shape or form, deemed acceptable that innocent bystanders get killed in order to get rid of a single individual, no

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