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by jhayward 5y ago
They are subject to much higher dynamic forces, rapidly cycling between windward and lee side. Vertical turbines have worse wear characteristics, and it only gets worse as they get bigger and need more massive airfoils.
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by jhayward 5y ago
> Sequence diagrams, as probably most other UML diagrams too, predate UML. This misses the point of UML, entirely. The point is not that diagramming was invented, it was that it was standardized. So you don't have to spend half you
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by jhayward 5y ago
> 2 - 90% of the laptops sold Worldwide aren't Apple laptops, This is perhaps the wrong metric to look at. What % of total profit is Apple capturing? Several years ago the accepted wisdom in phones was that Apple was getting ~30%
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by jhayward 5y ago
I still have that reaction every time I hear someone refer to 'green threads'.
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by jhayward 5y ago
This could only be said by someone who hasn't sat through their Nth architectural overview where half the time is spent defining just exactly what was and was not intended by a particular line+arrow between two boxes when a simple sequ
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by jhayward 5y ago
The presence of the detectors on the GPS constellation doesn't have anything to do with their GPS systems and functions. They're just a well-managed constellation with good coverage to hitch a ride upon. The ability to do locali
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by jhayward 5y ago
> The average years of life lost per death is 16 years. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83040-3 And, dismissing the death of someone by saying "they were going to die soon anyway, so what" is di
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by jhayward 5y ago
It wasn't the death rate of SARS that made it easy to control, it was the lack of an infectious period pre-symptoms.
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by jhayward 5y ago
In many, if not most, cases, the stock price of a company is a lagging indicator.
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by jhayward 5y ago
Private equity.
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by jhayward 6y ago
I've seen this as well. The West coast division of the large company I worked at tended somewhat toward 'architecture astronaut' situations, highly abstract languages and tools and was fairly cavalier toward error cases and
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by jhayward 6y ago
Everyone presenting with flu-like symptoms at the clinics and hospitals that are part of the surveillance system get tested for about 30 pathogens. No one has stopped testing for flu.
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by jhayward 6y ago
Ah, we disagree on that reading of PEP 387 then. I read it to say the API or behavior being altered must have a deprecation warning for two major releases.
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by jhayward 6y ago
> I know people don't like the specific decisions python has made recently (me too!), but the process for deprecation and implementation once those decisions are made is at least clear and unambiguous, thanks to backwards compatibil
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by jhayward 6y ago
> You realize that this new 'vaccine' bears no resemblance whatsoever to any prior vaccinations? > This new Covid Vaccine is not a true vaccine. This is a drug that modifies the inner workings of cells. Flagged as misinforma
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by jhayward 6y ago
The goalposts are actually moving in the other direction. Batteries keep eating fuel cell's target applications. And there is currently a very large PR effort by fossil fuel companies to promote hydrogen. I'd suggest extreme ske
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by jhayward 6y ago
Is it really 15 minutes? What about all the time lost from flow/focus, the hour before the meeting where you are unable to start new work, the hour after where you have to scramble to communicate/fix erroneous update info, etc. W
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by jhayward 6y ago
I am drawing a distinction between actually using an SQL database as the dynamic attribute store of the file system, vs “dumping the FS to SQLite”, which implies an on-demand traversal to me.
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by jhayward 6y ago
In my experience the limiting factor in response time is the traversal of the FS/OS structures in your step 1. It seems unlikely that anything this program is doing would be any slower than what you are describing.
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by jhayward 6y ago
I believe the parent is most likely referring to all the costs that are externalized on to the employee related to e.g., commuting; the office-induced inefficiencies related to lack of control of one's work environment; poor communicat
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by jhayward 6y ago
I don't see why a truth, expressed roughly and bluntly, is any less 'serious' than one cloaked in the trappings of wealth and class that are academia.
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by jhayward 6y ago
I don't know which form of incineration is being used but for very harmful substances it is usually pyrolysis within a sealed container rather than being burned in open atmosphere. So the results of whatever the process may be are not
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by jhayward 6y ago
Indexes over computed fields can be quite handy.
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by jhayward 6y ago
Your use of that graph is misleading. It's not a graph of CO2 emissions.
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by jhayward 6y ago
> There's a lot of power loss in transmission over long distances. No, there's not. If one were to build new transmission today one would expect low-single-digits percentage loss per 1,000 miles of distance. It's not e
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by jhayward 6y ago
I simply don't understand those people who claim to want to fix the problem but insist on only getting 1/10th the electricity for their invested dollar, and at a schedule 10x slower than renewables. It's like they are being
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by jhayward 6y ago
> has been a total disaster for Germany. What do you define as 'a total disaster'? Coal fuel consumption is down enormously, supplanted by renewables and a tiny bit of gas generation growth.
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by jhayward 6y ago
> The obvious targets for suppression should be the people who provide the least value to society. Ah, eugenics, and utilitarianism. Smells like .. the 1930's and 40's.
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by jhayward 6y ago
Don’t put your words in my mouth, please. I said substantial. As in “weighty, solid, meaningful”.
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by jhayward 6y ago
What is it that you are trying to imply? Please be straightforward. Her 50-page CV lists 4 speaking engagements in Fullerton in the last 50 years. No teaching or faculty positions.

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