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by lorenzhs 7y ago
Link contains a bunch of unnecessary parameters but works for me. Maybe try the "clean" link? https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/A-critical-step-to-reduce-...
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
Then it must have been my error, and the correction happened in my head upon re-reading :)
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
I believe Symmetry edited their comment to correct it, or maybe I misread. Anyway, it's correct now.
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
That's not how the moon works. There's no "dark side", only a "far side" that always faces away from the earth. It's just that a moon day lasts ~28.5 earth days.
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
The US is aiming for a return to the moon by 2024: https://www.space.com/us-astronauts-moon-return-by-2024.html
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
Yes, but the caveats are not properly explained for many of these things. Playing around with settings without fully understanding what they do can lead to nasty surprises. I find it questionable to promote such things without the necessary
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
It also disabled IPv6, form auto filling, and automatic updates of Firefox. Like 99% of these projects, lots of questionable choices here. I never understand why people would recommend applying hundreds of settings without understanding wha
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
For anyone else not familiar with cordyceps fungi, here's a three-minute clip from BCC Planet Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
The Airbus A320neo production lines are booked through 2025. Airlines and leasing companies can't really cancel their 737 Max orders and buy A320neos instead. Maybe Airbus can get more orders for other models if buyers decide to go wit
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
They certainly used to be pretty worthless, but some two years ago Lenovo seems to have realised that. Being firmly on team trackpoint, I don’t use it personally, but my X1 Carbon (2017) has a nice feeling large trackpad that I’ve heard man
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
That’s misleading and you know it. Nobody suggested that we type without autocorrect. What the GP said is that you can learn to type efficiently without looking on a touch screen keyboard because autocorrect is good enough. Yeah, I had a Mo
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
For German, there's Neo 2: https://neo-layout.org/ , which is optimised towards German, English, Programming, and Mathematics (in that order). Its third layer, accessed using the caps lock key on the left or the key abo
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
In Germany, if you have less taxable income than tax deductions, you can carry that loss forward, too. It's a rare case, though, but it can save you several thousand when pursuing a second degree.
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
This is the sign for a zipper merge in Germany: https://www.swr.de/-/id=22217882/property=gallery/pubVersion... (the text says "zipper merge, no sooner than in 400m"). But we also have the arrow sig
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
Because farm work isn't really low skilled. Sarah Taber did an excellent Twitter thread on this: https://twitter.com/sarahtaber_bww/status/107598191085642547...
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
On the other hand, if you do random accesses to an index but need x, y, and z, then a struct of arrays as you propose will incur three cache misses instead of one for an array of structs. It really depends on the application which is prefer
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
No that’s the PSU block. It broke on 2/3 desks in our office within two years or so. Ikea will replace it if it breaks (10yr warranty as another commenter noted).
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
My TV's Netflix app doesn't have an option to disable the auto-playing trailers, or even just their sound (short of muting the TV). It's quite annoying.
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
On the desktop. It's synced when you set up your desktop client (you have to scan a QR code on your phone).
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
You're comparing a valuation to the size of a market. Those things don't compare.
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
Why? Which American companies did the EU split up? There was an article in the Economist this week criticising the US for fines levied on foreign businesses for misdeeds elsewhere : https://www.economist.com/leaders/20
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
That limit is on the interchange fee, not what the merchant pays their payment processor, which is still significantly higher.
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
Apparently Windows Update uses TLS without encryption (null cipher) which still provides integrity and authentication: https://twitter.com/swiftonsecurity/status/74533301869746995... . Debian's signing achieve
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
You can just email them with your CRN saying that you wish to cancel. That's okay with me.
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
Modern HDDs easily go beyond 110MB/s, but nonetheless stay well below 200MB/s afaik. It'll probably be somewhere in between. Otherwise your figures are fairly correct, if not on the conservative side for NVMe drives (a Samsun
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
Yes this is a nice trick. You can use all kinds of implicit search trees for this. See also my comment to a sibling with a link to a paper evaluating the performance of this, including the time it takes to compute that new layout: https:&#
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
Very true. Here's a paper from last year that measures the performance of searches on several implicit search tree layouts on CPU and GPU: https://algoparc.ics.hawaii.edu/pubs/18-ipdps.pdf . You can see the results
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
I don't know why this was downvoted, but the UK officially used the "long scale" (million = 10^6, milliard = 10^9, billion = 10^12) until 1974, although the "short scale" (billion = 10^9, trillion = 10^12) had becom
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
That is pre-C++11 and woefully out of date. To pick out the first two "defects" listed: std::auto_ptr was deprecated in C++11 and removed in C++17, and std::unordered_map was introduced in C++11.
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by lorenzhs 8y ago
Android facial recognition implementations are a poor joke. There was an article on here a few weeks ago where someone tricked all(?) of them using a 3d-printed head: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18693738 . Apparentl

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