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by keldaris 7y ago
If that scenario ever comes to pass, I think the only thing it will push richer countries to do is to invade the third world country culpable and kill anyone poisoning the atmosphere. Problem solved, cheaply.
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by keldaris 7y ago
If there existed some form of global consensus across the English-speaking world on what the inoffensive version is, I'd be happy to abide by it. In the meantime, suggesting that people on a venue as global as HN have some sort of a re
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by keldaris 7y ago
If you have good statistics on real-life failure rates between Macs and ThinkPads/EliteBooks that contradict me (hopefully going past 2015, when Mac build quality really went down), by all means share them. I don't work in IT supp
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by keldaris 7y ago
Yup, non-corporate customer support is terrible. The bright side is, everything is easily replaceable (or at least used to be until very recently) and if you don't want to do it yourself, chances are you can find a cheap third party te
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by keldaris 7y ago
ThinkPads have certainly gotten steadily worse over the years, along with every other laptop, but relative to the rest they still seem to be the most sensible choice. Personally, I just use and maintain a collection of old ThinkPads for lap
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by keldaris 7y ago
> I don't want a sexy svelte fragile expensive luxury status symbol. I want a rugged capital good that will reliably allow me to work for the next half-decade. Then why are you looking at Apple products at all? You're looking f
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by keldaris 7y ago
You can use D's betterC mode, supported by the compilers. This avoids the D runtime entirely, there are no classes, exceptions, etc. You can still use templates and CTFE if you like (which can be awesome), but there's nothing forc
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by keldaris 7y ago
Of course. The "initial findings" on what's eventually expected to become a huge multi-billion device capable of breaking field intensity records for a picosecond or two are completely irrelevant to the idea of a relatively c
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by keldaris 7y ago
> As a PhD in physics, this just sounds like nonsense to me. Energy isn't a field and to polarize it doesn't mean anything. That part is just a terrible attempt by the journalist to summarize the theoretical background of the p
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by keldaris 7y ago
A physics degree is helpful if you want to analyze the theoretical claims made in the patent (which range from trivial, through ludicrous all the way to "not even wrong"), but you don't need to do any of that to understand ju
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by keldaris 7y ago
> Isn't that a bit condescending way to address such organization? It would be if their CTO hadn't personally endorsed the "scientific" content of this patent in his letter to the patent office. In light of that, it&#
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by keldaris 7y ago
The only thing scary about this is that apparently this "U.S. Naval Aviation Enterprise", whatever it is, is a den of crackpots. As a European physicist I'm not familiar enough with how research is managed in the U.S. militar
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by keldaris 7y ago
Personally, I had no idea they even paywalled these articles at all. On the browser I run (Firefox, using uBlock and uMatrix with extremely restrictive settings, basically anything but plain HTML has to be whitelisted) everything works just
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by keldaris 7y ago
Except it's not fast - apparently it takes 1-2 weeks and if this thread is anything to go by, the customers seem not happy at all. Gluing batteries is just crazy, I didn't even know they do that these days (old Thinkpads for life)
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by keldaris 7y ago
This is sarcasm, right? "Self-driving" cars can't handle normal road conditions in most of the world, the idea that anyone would replace drivers skilled in offensive/defensive driving under urban combat conditions with a
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by keldaris 7y ago
The default answer is the new Threadripper - which doesn't have a confirmed release date yet, but should be out within the next 3-6 months. However, if you really care about optimizing for that workload, the exact answer depends on the
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by keldaris 7y ago
As a computational physicist (meaning I do science, but most of my time is spent programming), I agree with everything the parent said, but perhaps I can add some more specifics. The matplotlib example is a very good one in the sense that i
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by keldaris 7y ago
As a distinctly mediocre, lazy and easily bored amateur pianist, I've found that selecting the right pieces for building up technique makes all the difference. I only play for my own enjoyment, not to perform a specific repertoire to a
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by keldaris 7y ago
Depends on the codebase. If one of those things could qualitatively improve my codebase - for instance, by introducing GPGPU support and speeding everything up by an order of magnitude - I very well might. Ultimately, it's a cost-benef
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by keldaris 7y ago
I feel like all the language comparisons are largely missing the point, at least for me. I don't write (mostly orthodox) C++ because it's a great language. In fact, I think it's a terrible language, hampered by a myriad of sy
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by keldaris 7y ago
> 2x app launch time > Sign in with Apple is an extremely clever way to combat privacy As someone who didn't watch the event and doesn't pay much attention to the Apple bubble, I can only hope you didn't mean to say wha
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by keldaris 7y ago
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. I almost exclusively write exception-less C++ (compiling everything with "-fno-exceptions"), but correctly handling errors in constructors and destructors is absolutely an important concer
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by keldaris 7y ago
> Those same users are probably benefitting from the other thing I did that delivered value to my company. It has value for the company because it has value, directly or indirectly, for the customer. Eventually, it'll sort itself o
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by keldaris 7y ago
If you find that amazing, contemplate for a moment how nuclear fission and fusion work and the amounts of energy involved there. Apart from a few comparatively exotic things (black holes, neutron stars, etc.), some of the largest force dens
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by keldaris 7y ago
> I don't care if a CPU is running at 80% consuming more electricity when I could work for a week and make it do the same job at idle. It's an inefficient use of my time. That same week's worth of effort could be spent del
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by keldaris 7y ago
Because intimacy for adults (as opposed to your example, which is a much simpler problem) includes conversation along with a host of other behaviors. Impersonating a human during conversation is therefore a necessary condition, but not a su
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by keldaris 7y ago
Certainly. The most accessible source in the popular English press is an article in Business Insider [1] (probably reprinted elsewhere, I didn't check). It accurately refers to claims made in a very well researched book by Leatherbarro
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by keldaris 7y ago
That's not entirely correct. There is no specific level to which uranium (or any other fissile material) must be enriched before supercriticality may occur, the level of enrichment simply determines the critical mass required. For inst
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by keldaris 7y ago
That is very unlikely, at least at the higher executive commitee level. It's impossible to exclude the possibility entirely, of course, but there is no surviving evidence of it and it certainly doesn't appear in Legasov's ori
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by keldaris 7y ago
It's actually wrong on several levels. First of all, in the show the characters explicitly state that they are referring to a steam explosion. A steam explosion in the megaton range isn't just implausible, it's patently absur

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