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by jlgreco 13y ago
Don't think so, but I don't know if it is appropriate to add those values on either. It should probably be possible to generalize the output of the engines without knowing much about their internal workings, and calculate a power
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I encountered it in university, though the example was given in a freshman level course by some kid who thought he was cleverly circumventing information's speed limit. The professor seemed quite pleased with it.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I am very confident that it would fall. Consider the slinky again. If I dropped it with a parachute to slow it.... no, replace "parachute" with "my hand", but assume my hand follows the same trajectory the parachute wou
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Note my emphasis in this snippet of my comment: "Talking about how much you make, outside the workplace ,..." Discussing wages with your employers/colleagues has advantages, and without it collective bargaining is difficult
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "Melatonin is a circadian hormone transmitted via suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in the hypothalamus and sympathetic nervous system to the pineal gland. It is a hormone necessary to many human functions such as immune, cardiovascul
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "This isn't actually true." None of what you just said refutes any of the following: "When your monitor is displaying a white image, lots of white light is coming out. When your monitor is displaying a red im
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Good question, I am not sure. I suspect that power figure is derived from thrust ( "The three-stage Saturn V had a peak thrust of at least 7,650,000 pounds-force (34.02 MN)") and velocity. This (annoyingly "furloughed"
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You ever listen to a friend, who has recently hit a rough patch, talking about their difficulty paying their bills and think "gee, this would be a rather inappropriate time to mention how much money I make." ? That is where the d
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Redshift is open-source and works well as a time-based method. It could presumably be used as the basis for an ambient light triggered version.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
When your monitor is displaying a white image, lots of white light is coming out. When your monitor is displaying a red image, lots of red light is coming out. F.lux makes white images tinged red. F.lux isn't about removing brightne
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by jlgreco 13y ago
A fun wikipedia page: 18.3 GW – tech: peak electrical power generation of the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power plant of any type. ... 190 GW – tech: average power consumption o
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Why is this notable, beyond possibly price associated with them? The only issue with rare earth metals is that at various times the supply of them has been politically shaky, though I think that is currently not the case? I'm not rea
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by jlgreco 13y ago
f.lux adjust light colors. What about the connection between light colors and what f.lux does is confusing you?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The difference I use Redshift for is how much my eyes hurt at night the second I turn it off and everything shifts bluer. Whether or not it changes my sleeping patterns, I cannot say, but it is more pleasant at least.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
That bothers you? Oh boy, let me tell you about all the patents I am violating when I fire up mplayer in linux...
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Just because one can be done without the other does not mean that doing one without the other is preferable to doing both.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If you watch the second Veritasium video, you'll see that adding a weight to the bottom of the slinky does not change any of the behavior; it still does not fall until the 'pressure front' reaches it. A heavier weight at the
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Abundance of throw-away accounts to express a potentially unpopular opinion is a good evidence of a groupthink environment. It is evidence of nothing more than somebody wanting to make a poorly considered comment without the negative
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> I wonder—why can't the flamewar detector just disable comments? In some cases it seems to, though by that time the discussion is long off the front page. I think this is a good thing, if something is on the front page then comm
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Google throws in 3 free years of 1TB storage on Google Drive with every Chromebook Pixel. There must be a reason they think people need that much online storage.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Those sort of discussions are probably most effective when had in "meatspace" (I dislike that term, but I dislike the term "real world" even more). No 'throwaways', fewer 'throw away opinions', no vo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Flag? Probably not often, and that is because controversy is not a bad thing; those discussions don't need to be flagged. That is the point I am making here, HN handles controversy very well, except certain types of topics generate
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Nevertheless, these discussions are good for clarifying your understanding of the world, just try not to expect much in the way of respect, appreciation, agreement, or understanding. That's a good point; an effective compromise
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Why are some of the most respected and the smartest commenters on this site unwilling to have an intellectually honest debate? Unwilling? No, HN is more than willing to have a good debate. The issue is that with some particular t
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I don't see any particular reason to eschew common or obvious references to history or literature because they are easy or common. If that is honestly something that bothered us, we would be complaining at the shear number of wester
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I know some people lost their ability to flag while doing exactly that (the 'flag' link is removed entirely when that happens, the removal of the ability isn't invisible to the user it happens to), but I am unaware of anybody
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Well, if we are going to truly embrace that premise, then I see little room to be upset. Discussions being flagged off is the HN system acting undemocratically to shape the discussion to its tastes. The flamewar detection system isn't
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by jlgreco 13y ago
A "controversial discussion" is what happens here when we start discussing, say, the merits of different memory management schemes. People entering a conversation in disagreement, presenting opposing views, considering other view
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The topic is undoubtedly important, but is the discussion of the topic specifically on HN really vital to our industry? I question this because such discussions seem to be, in practice , the exact opposite of productive. They are not
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> misinterpret ambiguous language If only a lawyer could clear that up for him. ...oh wait.

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