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by mbell 7y ago
I'd guess that hydro is worse than solar/wind by this metric. While rare there have been some pretty bad dam breaks, the Banqiao Dam failure alone killed ~200,000 people.
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by mbell 7y ago
Economically speaking its mostly opportunity for natural gas.
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by mbell 7y ago
I think this is large simplification of the issue. The agreement does prevent the IRS from creating a free filing system, but requires the private companies involved to produce a free filing system for 60% of filers which is currently anyon
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by mbell 7y ago
I'm sure some won't like this comment, but there are only two that matter: Chrome and Safari. Firefox's share is about the same as IE 11 (2.0 -> 2.5%).
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by mbell 7y ago
On average IE 11 is around 2% in the US, obviously it'll vary based on the type of site but I would have expected ProtonMail to be even lower.
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by mbell 7y ago
Without knowing it you have cherry picked possibly the only good parts of Java EE. The rest that constitute a 'full blown' Java EE stack are horrific disasters (JSF, EJB, etc).
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by mbell 7y ago
Translation: In the aftermath of the hack last week they found additional major security issues that require downtime to fix. They are limiting the advanced notice to give attackers less time to try to find them before they can be fixed.
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by mbell 7y ago
They are stockpiling working chips to prepare to send them to the OEMs for verification. Intel probably has to send out tens of thousands of CPUs for this, every OEM is going to want hundreds to verify their systems before they start mass p
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by mbell 7y ago
It's analogous to a release candidate in software. Basically means the fab line has passed all tests and run some test chips but hasn't actually done a production run of anything yet. The risk of issues / bad yield is higher
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by mbell 7y ago
TSMC is already doing risk 5nm production and 3nm seems entirely viable. We won't see a 'wall' until sometime after 3nm (~2025). Depending on whom you talk to, 2nm and smaller process sizes are also viable. I wouldn't ex
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by mbell 7y ago
It's not so the partner can test/validate the cpu, it's so the partners can test/validate their designs using the cpu. i.e. It's hard to test/validate a laptop design if no CPUs exist that work with it.
132.
by mbell 7y ago
A question: How many people are there out there that understand what these devices are whom are in need of a(nother) symbol reference?
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by mbell 7y ago
This doesn't seem particularly viable as a 'sport', i.e. an athletic competition, but maybe fun as a group activity. e.g. You have 3 defenders that seem to be allowed to camp without restriction a 6' tall, 10' wide
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by mbell 7y ago
It's actually Luna, not Sputnik: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_1
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by mbell 8y ago
This is mostly urban legend. You have to really get ridiculous to apply too much thermal paste but you can use too little, so no reason to err in that direction in mass manufacturing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUWVVTY6
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by mbell 8y ago
> Normal thermal paste is conductive also, including the AS5 The vast majority of thermal paste is non-conductive, including AS5.
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by mbell 8y ago
For reference: I finished AP Calc AB (derivative calc) and BC (integral calc) my junior year in high school, audited multi-variable calc at a local college my senior year in high school (and tested out of it in real college freshman year).
138.
by mbell 8y ago
This is rather creepy if I'm honest - why are you scraping user's profile data? Is there a way I can request that you delete any of my data that may be in there?
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by mbell 8y ago
This is a rather misleading title, the article is about a single company (Idaho Power), not the state of Idaho. The state still gets ~33% of its electricity from out of state, mostly from coal plants. In terms of overall energy, the state u
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by mbell 8y ago
It's clunky to build CSS 'packs' and it's unclear how to wire in asset helpers e.g. checksum'd file names for images. It's not insurmountable, but there is no obvious best path forward.
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by mbell 8y ago
> I’d wager greater than 90% of working developers without a CS degree could not pass a test in any of these courses, or even discuss the topics at an intelligible level. I'd wager that 90% of working developers _with_ a CS degree w
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by mbell 8y ago
In Rail 6 webpack (with a framework integration via the webpacker gem) is the default system for handling JS, CSS still goes through the asset pipeline though. I wouldn't be surprised if Rails 7 drops sprockets entirely.
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by mbell 8y ago
> "passable clustering" you talk about PG which has nothing, so when you start to re-implement sharding yourself you're in trouble. Or you can just use Citus.
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by mbell 8y ago
They also leverage their 'network' of wifi hotspots (which are just all the home routers they give to cable customers). Either way I imagine they route all the traffic through a gateway on their network so are likely to have just
145.
by mbell 8y ago
Comcast / Xfinity is also a mobile provider: https://www.xfinity.com/mobile/
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by mbell 8y ago
This a false analogy. If a company places copyrighted material on their servers they would be equally culpable. Many companies have been sued / shutdown over this just as an individual would. This issue is about a third party (a user),
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by mbell 8y ago
> time complexity and performance are the same thing By definition, they are not. > Mathematically the log n is always faster :) No, it's not. Time complexity only gives you an asymptotic bound on the number of 'operations&#
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by mbell 8y ago
> I don’t want to turn this into a Redis commercial, but I will say that it (and systems like it) have a lot to offer when you start thinking about things in terms of time complexity, which you should! It’s not premature optimization to
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by mbell 8y ago
I'm aware of the trigger, `render file:` is, in my experience, extremely rare. I can't recall ever wanting to render a template file located outside the application directory.
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by mbell 8y ago
It requires a specific usage of `render` that is extremely rare. I've never seen it in a real application.

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