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by jussij 6y ago
But why is is not curling? It was played on a curling ring, with a curling stone, using the curling rules against curling players. The robot just chose to play without a sweep, which I'm sure is still legal.
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by jussij 6y ago
The article states that the robot took on top ranked curling players and won 3 of 4 games. So it looks like it won without the need for brushing.
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by jussij 6y ago
There is a big difference is growing plants for human consumption when compared to growing feed for an animals and then consuming the animal meat. Basic biology says that when cattle eat feed only of portion of that feed ends up as meat. Th
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by jussij 6y ago
These are features built into the language designed to make multi-threaded code safer and easier to write.
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by jussij 6y ago
And Russian deaths running at 1538 per million.
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by jussij 6y ago
SQLite not only makes it easy to store data, it makes it very easy to search that data.
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by jussij 6y ago
And lets not forget Finland shares a border with Russia, a country that has struggled to control COVID-19.
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by jussij 6y ago
One potentially massive problem for anyone doing ecommerce from inside the UK for the EU market would be the loss of their .eu domain name. Since the EU rule is that anyone running an .eu domain must reside in the EU, after Brexit thousands
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by jussij 6y ago
I suspect that is exactly the method most developers would uses in that situation. All versions controls have a way to compare, merge and revert historical changes in and out of the current working copy.
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by jussij 6y ago
I too am struggling to understand this use of undo. If I'm reading this correctly it means applying a large number of undos to get to a previous editor state, followed by an equally large number of redos to then get back to where you s
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by jussij 6y ago
So you are in fact claiming Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri are experiencing the same 'extreme weather' blackouts as those currently going on in Texas. For example Texas has seen millions people with out power for days,
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by jussij 6y ago
So are you claiming Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri have experience state wide blackouts similar to those found in Texas in recent days? Or are you saying these states have experienced short term blackouts? I don't think the
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by jussij 6y ago
So for that event which states experienced state wide blackouts that lasted for days on end? Here is a write up of that event: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/us-polar-vorte... Not a single
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by jussij 6y ago
You are just playing word games as you just redefined the term interconnector. In power grids an interconnector is used to move large amounts of power between grids and if it can't do that then is not an interconnector. The Texas grid
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by jussij 6y ago
The head line of the article does not seem to match its contents. The article spends 90% of the time describing problems in the Texas grid. The only mention of the nation problem is this throw away line at the end: > The issue of extreme
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by jussij 6y ago
This morning on the radio and Australian scientist told the listeners he had spent 10 years working on his small part of the Perseverance mission. That would help to make the landing quite a nerve racking event.
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by jussij 6y ago
Except it was natural gas generators that caused the system to fail: As Princeton engineering professor Jesse Jenkins points out, the real primary culprit was the mass failure of nuclear, coal, and natural gas (or "thermal") powe
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by jussij 6y ago
What is happening in Texas has very little to do with baseline power generation and more to do with an electricity network not designed to handle cold weather. In this current Texas disaster those base line thermal generators like coal, gas
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by jussij 6y ago
> The Governor of Texas just got on Hannity to bad mouth a New Green Deal as people died in Texas cause no one cared enough to make sure the wind turbines worked in the cold. And there in lies the problem. From what I have read the gas t
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by jussij 6y ago
The reason this might be 'climate change' related is because the warming Arctic is impacting on the jet stream, which then leads to these unexpected hot/cold events: https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03&
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by jussij 6y ago
The stupidity of the mask debate is breath taking and the general public needs to take some of the responsibility. There is a reason surgeons wear masks in operating theaters.
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by jussij 6y ago
Considering this part of his statement I think his message might have even more subtle than that: but if health care providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk! I suspect at the time of th
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by jussij 6y ago
The day stock markets allowed high speed trading was the day they turned their markets into casinos.
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by jussij 6y ago
One minor correction which is there is no such thing as VBA.Net. There are basically three VB ecosystems. Visual Basic which many refer to as VB6 and it represents the last version every released. VBA which is Visual Basic for Application a
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by jussij 6y ago
> mRNA vaccines took absolutely no time to design Exactly my point. The most important consideration was to get a vaccine out the door fast. Not spend 4 years 'designing' a vaccine. I for one am very happy to see that vaccines
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by jussij 6y ago
I'm not sure your criticism is truly helpful. The fact so many vaccines where designed in such a short period of time is something to be praised, not criticized. Now given this type of vaccine design work usually takes many years to co
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by jussij 6y ago
> In other words, there is no way for a startup to pay a top 1% developer (but perhaps they can offer some other incentive, and I don’t mean stock options because that’s crap). Who's to say wage is a good measure of talent? I would
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by jussij 6y ago
If you look at the max data for that graph their GDP fell after 2008 and since then it has never returned to those higher levels of GDP. At a glance it looks like their GDP went from around 12% down to 6.5% on average which is about a 50% d
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by jussij 6y ago
I suspect the problem for Myanmar is not their past but their future. This link gives some insight into how they are going as a country and it is not flattering reading: http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press&#x2
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by jussij 6y ago
That 'borrowed' position has to unwind sometime in the future and to unwind it requires a share purchase. Now if no one is selling where do the shares required to fulfill these burrowed position come from? If it was not that buy p

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