khafra

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1741.
by khafra 18y ago
An alarm clock's function is to wake you at a specific time. A snooze button's function is to delay that wakening. It's as rational as popping up an "Are You Sure?" dialog box.
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by khafra 18y ago
I can't wait to read a post on the use of Markov chains or Bloom filters to prevent boring posts.
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by khafra 18y ago
Materials science needs to get on the ball and invent Adamantium, from Marvel Comics. Then we can have compressed air-powered airliners.
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by khafra 18y ago
I'd imagine it's because anyone who's paid a gas or electric bill in both summer and winter for the same dwelling knows how much heating and A/C cost. Thus, individual expenditure of comfort-related energy depends not on awareness but on wi
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by khafra 18y ago
The Quasiturbine engine can be run on compressed air, and in transportation applications, it should ( http://qtusa.promci.qc.ca/QTEfficaciteComparative.html ) have better than 50% efficiency. But great power density and awful energy density
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by khafra 18y ago
Conservatives might anticipate with pleasure a system where the policeman is also judge, jury, and executioner, but I would dredd it.
1747.
by khafra 18y ago
...which is sort of incredibly cool, if you take the view that diminishing energy supply means the economy will only sustain itself by focusing off expansion and onto efficiency and paradigm revolutions.
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by khafra 18y ago
Holy cow. Firebug is the most complicated, counterintuitive web tool I've ever seen, and Dragonfly is even worse? I almost wonder if it's built for a different brain structure, and I'd find it comprehensible and coherent.
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by khafra 18y ago
I don't even see the code anymore; just blonde, brunette, redhead... (In all seriousness, the karma number quantifies the approbation of your peers; and a good reputation is highly valued by most people--and rationally so, I'd say).
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by khafra 18y ago
Dammit, I was almost expecting him to admit to being a fone phreak.
1751.
by khafra 18y ago
"The Wisconsin scientists used a dose on mice equivalent to just 35 bottles a day." "[if other compounds are effective] a mere 5 glasses a day might be equivalent." With those as the lower bounds for efficacy, does it count as having a long
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by khafra 18y ago
> things we have in common Right, like the undeniable facts that vim is better than emacs, Macs are fundamentally more secure than Linux, the gphone will be better than the iPhone, 37signals is overrated, ruby is better than python...
1753.
by khafra 18y ago
...and now this one's on top, with the former post in second place. My mind boggles at the possibilities for recursion.
1754.
by khafra 18y ago
I posted "Quisquis custodiet ipsos custodes" on reddit, then immediately decided I wanted to check my spelling--I was already the top result in Google.
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by khafra 18y ago
Eugeroics. Use adrafinil when you need to be awake and alert, let the sleep take care of itself.
1756.
by khafra 18y ago
One's topical. One's incidental, and something everybody's already heard ad nauseum.
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by khafra 18y ago
I'm not certain of that. In every focused forum I've frequented, when a sense of community grows, the focus turns inward instead of staying on the stated subject. I think, for instance, that the chans' insistence on anonymous posting and
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by khafra 18y ago
The way I understand it, the disastrous part is that we've been releasing millions of years worth of carbon all at once, by burning the fossil fuels that had sequestered it underground until now. Of course, this still presents the difficult
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by khafra 18y ago
Horses are quite inefficient; in fact, all animals are. The only reason it's cheaper to ride a bicycle someplace than a motorcycle is because of the lesser weight and speeds; if you created electricity with a human-powered generator like [
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by khafra 18y ago
Perhaps the Shell geoscientist, Dr. Marion King Hubbert?
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by khafra 18y ago
How many ground-up rebuilds of large, highly popular projects succeeded in the 3 hours between those two comments, to change the ratio?
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by khafra 18y ago
There's a fat chance you'll ever have a slim chance of applying that universally to natural language.
1763.
by khafra 18y ago
Functional humor.