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by mrec 6y ago
I don't pretend to have much of a grasp of what the article is describing, but it sounds very "frictionless spherical cow in a vacuum". I'd be amazed if this technique could be applied to something as messy as turbulence
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by mrec 6y ago
If by snapshot you mean a full (static) physical description of the scene, then the "air" part of your "arrow suspended in air" will have wake turbulence behind the arrow and not in front of it, and I'd have thought
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by mrec 6y ago
> The best route still appears to be paying for whatever paid services Mozilla comes out with (VPN, Pocket, ...?) Maybe. There still doesn't seem to be any guarantee that money raised this way would go toward Firefox development.
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by mrec 6y ago
It does sometimes get itself into a state where that harmonizing doesn't happen, even with nobody muted. I haven't worked out what the trigger is.
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by mrec 6y ago
But, as we lament every time this topic comes up, it's not even possible to donate to Firefox. I don't know whether that would bring in significant cash, but it's frustrating that the option isn't there.
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by mrec 6y ago
I've just stopped buying anything that displays a Clubcard price. It's pesky but doable for now. That may change, of course; I don't see them getting much pushback on this so I expect them to keep doubling down. A non-Tesco s
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by mrec 6y ago
The upcoming movie only covers the first half of Dune ; they're hoping to make a second movie but AFAIK it's not locked in yet. Publicity seems to be keeping rather quiet about this, for obvious reasons.
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by mrec 6y ago
Thanks! I hadn't seen that, but yes, the magic phrasing is clearly derivative. I wonder why they bothered given that it was pretty clear what the metaphor was about.
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by mrec 6y ago
I think it's best summed up by a tweet I saw last year: Non-magic users: collect crystals, call their pet a familiar, draw pentagrams Magic users:the most magical things I keep in my house are rocks, and I keep a hammer next to them
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by mrec 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog#Experiments_and_a... Overall, results seem inconclusive. I don't see that Hutchinson's result (frog becomes increasingly active as water is heated by 1°C per minute)
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by mrec 6y ago
*Stories of Your Life and Others
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by mrec 6y ago
I think GP is talking about severity of symptoms if you get COVID, rather than your chance of getting it at all.
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by mrec 6y ago
Ah, OK, slightly confusing choice of word then. As I see it the crucial question re abortion is when a clump of cells becomes a person ; I don't think there's ever a stage where it's not (biologically) human.
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by mrec 6y ago
I wouldn't consider paying extra taxes on behalf of employees political, no. Lobbying re immigration is a fair point though; I'd been considering this discussion in the context of companies pushing a political view onto their empl
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by mrec 6y ago
> Is wearing a mask during a pandemic politics? Is calling someone by their preferred pronoun, or recognizing same sex marriage politics? IMO, no, no and no. Where it becomes politics is when you start trying to force others to follow yo
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by mrec 6y ago
How is that a continuity break? It's not like the camera is a real, solid entity in the movie's fictional world.
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by mrec 6y ago
No, separate project, although both Servo and Gecko (the C++ Firefox codebase) are aiming to use it. This diagram [1] kvark posted the other day might help. (I think dotted-outline boxes indicate external components, but couldn't swe
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by mrec 6y ago
I'm not sure azul is being actively developed any more; the repo looks a bit tumbleweedy. The best place if you want to keep tabs on this area is probably https://www.areweguiyet.com/
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by mrec 6y ago
And the i740 two decades ago. Intel does not have a great track record with graphics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740
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by mrec 6y ago
Is there any vendor who doesn't do that? I remember conversations with Nvidia driver peeps on the OpenGL boards 20+ years ago, and it was very very striking that they would always, always , flatly refuse to implement any kind of &qu
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by mrec 6y ago
> 20 movie-length episodes per season Is that a typo? Inspector Morse had a total of 33 episodes across 7 seasons and 5 specials. Seasons averaged about 4 eps each. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Inspector
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by mrec 6y ago
I'd have assumed that it's largely because humans can spread to new niches via cultural evolution, which happens vastly faster than the old-fashioned biological kind. Much quicker to make a fur coat than evolve one.
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by mrec 6y ago
Ah, I was there pre-Euro.
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by mrec 6y ago
Major ones? I use FF pretty much exclusively and haven't hit one yet.
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by mrec 6y ago
Beer too IIRC - you can buy it by the crate and return the empties to get a meaningful deposit back.
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by mrec 6y ago
Agree on all points. It's not quite as deadly as back in the old browser wars, because HTML5 is much better specified than its predecessors, but it's definitely a major problem.
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by mrec 6y ago
> a different Chromium fork Well, that's a depressing sentence to read. The vultures may be circling, but Firefox isn't dead yet.
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by mrec 6y ago
> They lasted until 1453 - incidentally only 50 years before Columbus sailed Sidenote: incidentally not coincidentally. The closure of the Silk Road and other important East-West land routes as a result of the Ottoman conquest was one
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by mrec 6y ago
And about half a cheap sword, which puts the current top comment ( "steel swords and the like were quite valuable" ) in perspective. Iron and its upstream inputs were expensive, yes, but labour costs kicked in too for fiddly thing
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by mrec 6y ago
I can't quantify it, but I get the impression that the Rust community is starting to turn against unnecessary use of generics and proc macros of late, albeit largely because of their impact on compile/link times rather than readab

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