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by mnw21cam 5y ago
So, I have a couple of issues with the text. 1. The article describes the reduction in use of insulin in type 2 diabetes as a bad thing. No. It is a good thing. Type 2 diabetes is caused by having too much blood glucose, the body producing
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Sounds like something BigClive would be interested in.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Let's just imagine (for the sake of an argument) that you're just about to be given a roadside alcohol breath test by a police officer, but in this universe having just eaten fish or chicken can cause a false positive. The officer
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
What other meaning of the word "or" is there?
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
In a new build, if the house isn't going to get a gas heater (to make that 97% reduction in home gas usage) then the builder isn't going to want to bother laying a gas pipe just for the cooker. That 3% reduction comes as a saving
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
As with everything, different people are different. Thin people can get type 2 diabetes, but this is often due to inappropriate fat deposits around internal organs. In a proportion of these "skinny-fat" people, a bit more exercise
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Disclosure: I work in diabetes research. That "five types" article is very poor. They simply applied k-means clustering to a large set of people with diabetes. The problem with k-means clustering is that it can generally find anyt
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
No. Trig functions can be defined independently of geometry. One way is by considering the differential equation above. Another is through the Taylor expansion of the sin(x), which is periodic as a completely emergent property. Likewise, it
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
If you're collecting something that would be produced anyway, it's going to be a net bonus.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
That's pretty unusual in England. Most places I have tested have about 3-5 bar of pressure in the water main at the house tap.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
There's quite a stark difference between "it might go bang if you abuse it" and Chlorine Trifluoride (sand won't save you this time) https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02&#
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Fast inverse square root isn't that ultra fancy. It just happens that the IEEE representation lines up the exponent to the left, allowing you to do the obvious multiply-the-exponent thing, but in integer mode, followed by a standard Ne
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Yeah, also, most of the world used to pay a bill using a cheque. The Americans have to do everything backwards, and they pay a check using a bill.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The plug was just a bit of frozen fuel salt. The research group used to melt the plug to shut down the reactor when they wanted to go home after a day's work. Then in the morning they would heat up the containment pool to re-melt the f
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
That's a massive over-simplification, if not actually completely false. A lot of the benefits of the Thorium reactors that are being envisaged are because they are a molten salt design, not because they use Thorium. Molten salt reactor
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
A NAS isn't actually distinct from a plain drive in that particular way. A plain SATA hard drive is a cheap computer with some attached hardware, just like a NAS. Literally, there's probably at least one ARM CPU core in there cont
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Yes, but there's a difference between the expected rate of mechanical failure, and the existence of a software bug. The current fault erases everything on the drive. That can be equated fairly equally with mechanical failure. Let'
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
> Joining this game requires signing in with a player name and a validated Google Account. Two things. Firstly, I'm trying to observe, not play. Secondly, not on your nelly. There's no way I'm linking stuff to my Google ac
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Inspired by https://xkcd.com/1814/ perchance?
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Yeah, I meant later on, when the jet engine is actually taking off.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Yeah, I have been in a few server rooms that sound like a jet engine taking off. This server room actually sounds like a jet engine taking off.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Which is why when I went hiking, I attached a couple of home-made carriers to the front straps of my rucksack. One to carry a water bottle, and the other to carry a camera. Having some of the weight on the front (rather than all of it on th
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Wow, it's even more comprehensive than the Dwarf Fortress wiki. https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Stone
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Everyone trusts Google, whether they like it or not. This is the definition of trust that security operations use: A trusts B if B is capable of doing something nasty to A. Google has a heck-load of money. They could pay a disreputable aggr
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Ok, firstly - the orbital period is not given by the area of the orbit. It is given by the semimajor axis, by T = 2 * pi * sqrt(a^3 / GM). So if you start off in a perfectly circular orbit, then you need to lower your perigee by the sa
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Does this software gain any speed by sacrificing any safety? As in, does it switch off fsync in any way? Are the files guaranteed durable by the time the software terminates?
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
For reference - THP -> Transparent Huge Pages.
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"14.5 terawatts per day". Units, people, units!
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
I did a degree in computer science from one of the top universities in the world. When I started, it was recommended that we not bring a computer at all.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
This is my problem. My email address only scores 2 (it's $firstname@$surname.$2ld.net), but for some reason everyone has problems spelling my surname even when spelt out to them.

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