mike-the-mikado

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by mike-the-mikado 3y ago
'This' paragraphs are fragile to editing. Ensuring that your text is robust to updates (e.g. insertion of an extra paragraph) is good practice.
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by mike-the-mikado 3y ago
Perhaps in terms of the importance to effort ratio. How long does it really take to maintain an adequate glossary?
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by mike-the-mikado 3y ago
If price of failure on a coin toss is less than the value of success, then flipping the coins as rapidly as possible is a winning strategy. (I've worked on failure after failure, but the occasional success has more than compensated fo
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by mike-the-mikado 3y ago
Owls rely on their very good low-light eyesight to find their prey. Bats use echolocation to detect and evade them. If it's dark enough, the bat has the advantage.
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by mike-the-mikado 3y ago
I'm not sure on the point your making (phallic or Chinese sounding), but I hadn't realised that DONG energy was originally Dansk Olie og Naturgas A/S (DONG), meaning Danish Oil and Natural Gas.
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by mike-the-mikado 3y ago
It is interesting to note that all higher lifeforms have evolved to die (presumably to avoid out-competing their descendants). From this perspective, mechanisms that prolong life in favourable circumstances but curtail in difficult times, m
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by mike-the-mikado 3y ago
Avoid clicking on links that look like clickbait.
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by mike-the-mikado 3y ago
It looks they have spotted this gap in market. It will be interesting to see prices when it becomes available.
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by mike-the-mikado 3y ago
These are small, but I don't see them specifically marketed as portable - i.e. robust enough to withstand the sort of treatment a laptop is expected to withstand.
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Ask HN: Does anyone make portable PCs?
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by mike-the-mikado 3y ago
As the article explains, their solution suffers from a lack of symmetry about zero. The obvious solution to which is to use indices of ..-3/2, -1/2, 1/2, 3/2, ...
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by mike-the-mikado 3y ago
It is claimed that a lack of trees leads to a lack of rain (leading to a lack of trees) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/20/our-bigg...
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by mike-the-mikado 3y ago
I suspect that you are younger than me (59) and that you have been influenced by US usage.
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by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
Electric cars were failed technology for about a hundred years. But with better battery technology, combined with a need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, they are the future. If something can only work effectively at huge scale, there a
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by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
Interestingly, in Tolkien's letter to his publisher (142, in "The Letters of J.R.R. Tollkien", selected and edited by Humphrey Carpenter), "I did not mean the suggested revision [which he had sent them earlier] to be pri
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by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
Nice game
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by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
See https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
For comparison, it looks as if Punta Arenas ("the most southerly city in Chile" according to Wikipedia) is about 53 degrees south. 53 degrees north puts you around Nottingham, England (or a little north of Berlin).
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by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
I recommend Kernel Density Estimation as an alternative to histograms if you are specifically interested in the density - e.g. which values are particularly likely to occur (perhaps for multimodal distributions). https://en.wikip
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by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
I think your maths is off. For the same shape, surface area = volume ^ (2/3)
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by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
If the high-tech part is the fuel cell, then extending range would be simply a matter of adding relatively low-tech gas tanks. Heavy, but not something that would fundamentally limit the range. Or are their innovations in hydrogen storage
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by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
Funding, staff shortages and Brexit don't seem to get a mention in the article. The Government blames the NHS for the problems, but the NHS has no control over its funding. Tory idealogues are determined to increase privatisation, reg
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by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
It is remarkable how many things listed in this manual will still work, more than 40 years on, in modern emacs. It is probably not surprising that the basic text navigation is unchanged, but it had incremental search (on C-S/C-R). Ma
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by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
I think the author makes of common mistake of talking so generally that readers cannot think of any specific examples. He would help his case by giving specific examples of problematic programs.
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by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
Arguably the war is happening because we had prepared for it insufficiently.
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by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
I believe that tank tracks break frequently and the tank will carry the spare parts required to make a repair.
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by mike-the-mikado 5y ago
A CIA employee working at listening station based at an RAF base in the UK (presumably listening into transmissions from e.g. Russia) is rather different from spies based at the Russian embassy in Washington.
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by mike-the-mikado 5y ago
My new Panasonic TV has dual-mode remote control - IR+Bluetooth. Bluetooth means that you don't need to point the remote as accurately. Plus you can use a phone as remote control.
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by mike-the-mikado 5y ago
In all this, I've not seen any mention of what "KVM" means...
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by mike-the-mikado 5y ago
As a thought experiment, I imagined a Government/Central bank auctioning (for $) bitcoin denominated bonds. These bonds would be repayable (in bitcoin) on demand. Presumably each bond would fetch a value (in $) corresponding approxima

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