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by naavis 4y ago
Building renewables requires mining for precious metals and rare earths though, which is very energy-intensive. So to deploy these non-polluting renewable energy sources, you first have to pollute a lot. And it's not even clear if ther
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by naavis 4y ago
It loops while the condition is true. When an underflow happens, it stops being true.
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by naavis 4y ago
> "What's up?" is nearly universally a way to prompt someone to ask you that question back, so you can tell them about the thing you really want to say without it seeming sudden or forced. Maybe in the United States, but I
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by naavis 4y ago
> Isn't there a requirement for all cube-sats to pass radiation tests / shock tests or whatever for them to be accepted for launch? I guess the launch provider doesn't care whether your satellite will actually work and sur
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by naavis 4y ago
Okay, that covers gender as far as I can tell. But how about sexual orientation?
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by naavis 4y ago
But why would an employer keep tabs on the gender identities or sexual orientations of their employees?
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by naavis 4y ago
You can use the same image for every page on the website if you want.
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by naavis 4y ago
They don't really serve the same purpose. Vulkan is a low-level graphics API while CUDA is a much higher level toolkit for GPGPU.
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by naavis 4y ago
It adds up surprisingly quickly when you have to do a TLS handshake, download many resources on pageload etc. The TLS handshake alone costs 3 round-trips over the network.
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by naavis 4y ago
It was edited. Previously the article did not spell it out.
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by naavis 4y ago
I assume FOMO means ”fear of missing out” in this context, but the article never actually spells it out.
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by naavis 4y ago
"USB stick".
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by naavis 4y ago
So effectively they couldn't be made just anywhere, if they can't be made in the US?
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by naavis 4y ago
Because cost of living is different?
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by naavis 4y ago
The rubber soles don't mean much, though. The electric current just passed through kilometers of insulation (air). It doesn't care about 2 cm of rubber.
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by naavis 4y ago
Yup, Azure Portal has been acting up all morning, randomly not letting me in. Now there was an issue with Azure CDN not serving files but instead randomly closing connections or returning 404. It recovered pretty fast, though.
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by naavis 4y ago
It's not exactly best practice to store passwords in version control.
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by naavis 4y ago
You could use `git add -p` It lets you stage individual changes inside files instead of the whole file.
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by naavis 4y ago
Cool! How do you get in and out of the chair with the screen and everything in the way?
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by naavis 4y ago
Why does it need a name?
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by naavis 4y ago
I had exactly the same experience. It's a simple system, but felt very confusing at first.
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by naavis 4y ago
St. Petersburg is already less than 100 miles from Estonia, which is a NATO country.
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by naavis 5y ago
Physically Based Rendering was a great primer into linear algebra, statistics, sampling theory and whatnot. It's also available online for free these days: https://pbr-book.org/
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by naavis 5y ago
The same concept exists elsewhere, usually with more or less the same name.
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by naavis 5y ago
Why wouldn't they?
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by naavis 5y ago
So if you turn off your phone for 5 minutes while staying at home and turn it on again, does your garage door open? EDIT: Or do you need to go press a button on a webpage before going out for a run to make this work? The last part seems to
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by naavis 5y ago
NVIDIA provides tools that just mostly do not exist for other GPUs, making it easier to build on CUDA instead of something else.
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by naavis 5y ago
Smart speakers are very marginal products even in many very developed but non-English-speaking countries because their native language is not supported. Quick googling says Alexa supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Hindi, Ja
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by naavis 5y ago
> I feel like we're on the verge of an age where every single person is used to, and just has an Alexa/google home voice assist in their house. This mostly applies to the USA.
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by naavis 5y ago
> There’s nothing wrong with asking for clarification about reasoning, but when someone is constantly challenging every decision made by management then it becomes an impediment to getting things done. If you want to be the person callin

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