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931.
by lambda 11y ago
Yes, another approach is to not have to carry all of the energy with you. Solar charging is another possibility.
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by lambda 11y ago
Price and safety, I would bet.
933.
by lambda 11y ago
Let's work out how that would work, in a simplified model of the world. Let's say you have a 1000mAh battery at 10V that weighs 100g (these numbers have all been made round for purposes of easier arithmetic). Everything else on yo
934.
by lambda 11y ago
Nope. We're pretty much limited by battery technology on that front; you need bigger batteries to provide more power, but those bigger batteries mean more weight, which means more power needed just to stay aloft. For a battery powered
935.
by lambda 11y ago
Leaving this message in place as an example of how thinking about time and calendar-related programming is easy to mess up. Indeed, time and calendar related programming is quite tricky, even specifying what the behavior sh
936.
by lambda 11y ago
A lot of people who believe in FC and it's variants believe that there's a big conspiracy to silence the voices of their children. They don't think it's relevant that there was a facilitator who was just "supporting
937.
by lambda 11y ago
Note that this was most likely written by his facilitator, not by him. It was written via a technique called "Rapid Prompting Method", which appears to be a variant of facilitated communication, a method that has been debunked as
938.
by lambda 11y ago
That doesn't sound like a terribly hostile tone. Yes, there was a little bit of hostility, but nowhere near the level that would lead a support person to give up on helping you. Remember, people in support are used to a somewhat hostil
939.
by lambda 11y ago
> The other alternative is you download source, at which point the Makefile or any other piece of the build that you execute can do whatever the shell script would have done Part of the problem with this is that since it's a bootstr
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by lambda 11y ago
Yep, the dropping of the sigils was a big help in my actually giving the language a chance. It's been on my radar for a while, but went through a pretty ugly period for a while before coming out much better than before. There was also
941.
by lambda 11y ago
It is possible, with a little manual hacking of the linker and some trickery with storing strings in ELF headers, to get Rust to produces 151-byte executable. Yes, a simple "Hello World" winds up statically linking a fairly sizeab
942.
by lambda 11y ago
You're right, that site should be updated with those as other parts of the ecosystem that aren't yet mature. There's work on non-blocking IO at https://github.com/carllerche/mio , which is looking like on
943.
by lambda 11y ago
Docs are maintained here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/doc The book is in the "trpl" directory: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/m
944.
by lambda 11y ago
The reason that you see so many multicopters for the smaller ones is that they are much mechanically simpler, and thus cheaper to manufacture. All you need mechanically for a multicopter is a number of independent rotors that you can vary t
945.
by lambda 11y ago
Ah, while I was writing that sctb replied explaining that they had changed the title.
946.
by lambda 11y ago
The title currently reads "Ripple fined for acting as a money services business without registration", and the complaint says "Ripple Labs willfully violated several requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) by acting as a m
947.
by lambda 11y ago
It's a concept that's been done before: http://i.imgur.com/wteBl.jpg
948.
by lambda 11y ago
When you are on the job for the government, you are acting as a government representative and not a private person. You can be fired for what you say while on the job. However, the police unions would never allow such a thing.
949.
by lambda 11y ago
Ah, thanks for digging that up. I was not aware that they didn't support fractions in exponents; I don't think I had ever tried them for that. Luckily they do give warnings, though only if you have already set the precision (via &
950.
by lambda 11y ago
So, what is actually new here? They had already announced the various parts of this, and the only link I see in here is a GitHub repo with links to other GitHub repos that we've already seen. Is there anything new in this announcement?
951.
by lambda 11y ago
Really? I haven't heard of any bugs in the command line calculators. Do you know what kinds of bugs they were talking about? One thing to note is that they use arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic (well, base-100 arithmetic internall
952.
by lambda 11y ago
I'm not familiar with the fraction button. Is this common on calculators? I don't see it on most of the basic function calculators that I look at. Hmm, taking a look around, it looks like it might be present on a lot of scientific
953.
by lambda 11y ago
I generally just use dc on the command line. Pretty bare bones, but gets the job done. M-x calc in Emacs is a very full-featured RPN calculator. On Android, I use Droid48, a great HP48 emulator: https://play.google.com/store
954.
by lambda 11y ago
Hmm. This seems to focus on a few issues that neatly fall into a sense of "progress" in social change, in which something changes in a number of states culminating in a Supreme Court decision that causes that change to affect the
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by lambda 11y ago
Oh, I know why it keeps on happening, but it leads to a frustrating and fragmented experience. That's why it would be nice to have a common core package manager, that handles all of the tasks that any package manager will need to handl
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by lambda 11y ago
The pattern is generally that Clang and GCC will have partial support when the standard is release, and full support a couple of years later. Intel will lag behind a year or two after that. Microsoft will be behind another year or two. So,
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by lambda 11y ago
It's frustrating having the proliferation of different package managers. Each one can work well in isolation; but when you then need to integrate with your platform package manager or another language's package manager, you get a
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by lambda 11y ago
It looks more schizophrenic than bot to me.
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by lambda 11y ago
1000 times this. If you really don't care about the license, just use MIT. It has the best combination of simplicity, compatibility with every other license, and it's already known and used in just about every collection of any si
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by lambda 11y ago
> Some scholars really grok grammar, and are excellent at teaching it, yet they haven't written great novels. I'm thinking of William Strunk Jr (of "The Elements of Style" fame), for example. Not sure that Strunk, or

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