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by mnw21cam 3y ago
That's great. Now do one on why Microsoft Teams grinds away with 100% CPU on my laptop for a few minutes just to bring up my calendar, or why Outlook on Android freezes for a minute or so when looking at a single small email.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
A fair proportion of CS is precisely oriented around the fact that computers are not easy in ways that non-CS people don't realise, and provides methods for quantifying and trying to cope with that. I refer you to https://
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For the first test flight of an aircraft, it's quite common to test a very limited set of parts of the aircraft, and retracting the gear might not be on that list. Also, if the gear is left down, then that's one less thing that co
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The key determinant that tells you whether trains or planes are more cost-efficient is population density. If you have two cities far apart with not much in-between, then it's cheaper to build a couple of airports. If you have loads of
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
No, I just get a blank white page instead.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
No package for Debian-like systems yet.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The article you link starts off by defining mass as rest mass . I think the article shows very clearly that photons have no rest mass, using several different arguments. However, a photon has energy, so therefore it must have not-at-rest
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Photons have zero rest mass. But they're never at rest, they are always travelling at the speed of light. They have mass equivalent to their energy, which is related to their wavelength.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I remember about 20 years ago I was taking my bicycle on the train, and this involved a transfer through London. You can't take full-size bicycles on the London Underground, so I cycled across London from Kings Cross to Waterloo, and I
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I think I agree with all your points, but I also think we should be doing all we can to encourage all those people who can and want to cycle to do so, and to make it as safe and convenient as possible. That's regardless of whether you
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
1: That's not what the manual says. But you're probably right anyway. I haven't cracked the box open to check. 2: Yes, you're right I'm sure.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The article is about when multi-line is disabled .
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The input being matched is "cat\n" and the regex pattern is one of: "cat$" with multiline enabled "cat$" with multiline disabled "cat\z" "cat\Z"
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Some machines have a heated slot where the tube of gel is meant to be left so that it isn't cold when used.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
But also "unintentional fall" from roofs is the reason that solar power has more deaths per energy produced than nuclear power.
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It depends. Brake fluid absorbs moisture, which lowers its boiling point. You don't want it boiling from brake heat when you're really trying to stop. If you live somewhere humid then the whole reservoir can slowly absorb too much
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I recently accidentally drained the battery on my car while I was fixing unrelated stuff on the door (and therefore had the door open for 3 hours). I bought a "jumpstarter kit" which is basically a 12000mAh LiIon battery (3.7V) an
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
That XKCD is so old now that the alt-text: > Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit. is hilariously even more true.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I quite like the hobbit calendar. 12 months of 30 days each, plus 5 (or 6) extra days that don't belong to a month and are celebration days. Mid-year day and the leap day don't have a day of the week, so each date always is the sa
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Indeed. For example, Cranborne Chase Dark Sky Reserve isn't that dark at all. At darkest, it's at about Bortle 4, which means that the Milky Way is visible, but not that impressive, and if you have reasonably youthful eyes you cou
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The Earth's orbital velocity around the Sun is ~30km/s. You need to cancel almost all of that out in order to shift to a trajectory that intersects the Sun, and that trajectory still has you impacting the Sun at quite some speed.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The font history is missing Intellifont (1987) which nobody seems to use any more.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
"There's no cure" for type 2 diabetes is true only on a technicality. Type 2 diabetes is defined as a progressive disease, which means that if you actually practically cure it, it is still technically defined as "in remi
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
There's probably several different shows that match this description, but you're probably thinking of Star Trek DS9, Season 6, Episode 13, "Far Beyond the Stars".
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At midnight in-between 28th February and 1st March.
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The canonical book for this is "Rolls-Royce - The Jet Engine". It's an old book, but the principles are all there. And hey, someone has put a PDF up on the internet of it, findable by Google. http://www.valentiniwe
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Just like from the surface of the Earth. The atmosphere doesn't really diminish the brightness that much. So, while you should be careful including the sun in a photo from a camera, it really depends on the focal length and aperture of
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That's partially the difference between geostationary orbit (35,786km away) and low Earth orbit (1,100km away). Just that extra distance means that the radio waves take an extra 230ms to get to the Vialink satellite and back. The time
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Stargate did this in the episode Seth (season 3, episode 2).
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Schlock Mercenary https://www.schlockmercenary.com/ dealt with this particular theme quite thoroughly. One of the protagonists invents a "Teraport", and promptly a "Teraport Area Denial" is invented to p

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