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by nitrogen 5y ago
Are there closed loop reactor designs that don't need to dump heat into a body of water?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It would be really fascinating to see hourly/monthly percentages as a stacked bar chart.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The existence of worse problems does not make other problems go away. It's reasonable and desirable to strive for a better future no matter how good the present is.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Welders/fabricators and machinists use trig to set up accurate angles. In general, if one has never seen something from middle/high school math used, one isn't looking very hard. See these videos for examples: Sine bar (This
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Pointers are usually stored in 64-bits on 64-bit systems, but some of the bits may be unused depending on hardware. Each CPU/platform has its own limit for the size of the virtual and physical address space. But the standard size of
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The displayed width alone is not enough information to tell a ligature from a single character.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Symbol-dense languages and coding styles, especially those that differ from the mindset of the font designer, are probably more likely to trigger spurious ligatures.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I set off the hazard lights in the '94 BMW I fixed up in college when I turned up my subwoofer too loud once, so I think the accelerometer-triggered lights are, or should be, widespread already.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Do browsers block access to 192.168/16 or 10/8 etc?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
We may be getting to the point where more speed is not as important. To an extent this is true, but part of this is just how long US broadband speeds stagnated, especially upload speeds, killing off any product ideas that required high
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I think they're going for one millipede being one one-thousandth of a full pede.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Is there another way to view the full article? I'm only seeing the first paragraph with no errors or popovers, and I'm not about to disable uBlock for medium.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Are they capable of realtime GPU-rendered graphics out of the box, or just video?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There's also a link to a plot element of The Andromeda Strain by Crichton.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This music really traveled. I'm in the US, and instantly the song started playing in my head when I saw the title. This song, and others like it, downloaded from BBSes when I was like 10-12 years old, introduced me to a much vaster w
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Flight attendants can smoke off duty if they want. There are also other ways to limit the spread of viruses apart from vaccination, like testing, distancing, masks, ventilation, etc. There should be a gradient of choice, maybe with triage
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Superdelegates were also problematic, as was a constant drumbeat of the self-fulfilling word "unelectable." But that's ancient history at this point and the current challenges are different.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Excessive vehemence fuels that machine, though. It's just too easy to take an authoritarian stance when we already agree with the stance and would stand to benefit, but that is counterproductive in the long run and just amplifies pola
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Nobody uses that word that way in common conversation.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
their goal is simply to not be told what to do The urge to resist force is a vital element of US culture as a check on runaway governments. You see it in many movements, on both sides for or against. Women don't want to be forced t
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by nitrogen 5y ago
We're all on the same team here, there's no need for this hostility back and forth. Binary patching, JAR patching, disassembly, library interception, syscall interception, whatever, these are all tools that are on the table. You
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by nitrogen 5y ago
With languages that output a single binary by default such as Rust and Go, we would have been screwed. No way to scan, no way to self-help update. ELF binaries are just collections of another sort. You can scan for symbol names or assemb
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If you're spraying a rapidly solidifying goo, you'd need to be darn sure you don't cover the target's face or you're back where you started.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Probably depends on which time zones are in daylight when you visit.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Not entirely. If the selection process ensures that the brightest (and luckiest) minds are all together, they will still be able to benefit one another over time, even if they didn't gain access to capital or connections beyond their
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by nitrogen 5y ago
People aren't denying progress, they're denying the idea that inflation should treat that progress as a decrease in prices.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Assuming no other events that would cause a large swing in death rate It's not obvious this is a tenable assumption, though. Depression and isolation can also increase mortality for things not directly related to depression and isol
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Not the OP, but I am a fan of leaving breadcrumbs everywhere. That is, every bit of documentation should point to other bits of documentation. Code comments point to the corporate wiki and vice versa, commit messages point to issues, issu
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Peer support is really undervalued in the modern world. Empathy and advice from people similar to oneself can be just as, if not more, healing as professional support, for certain situations.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It’s taught me a lot about my limits to take on constant streams of bullshit and I’m hoping to move on soon and heal the damage. Best of luck from someone who's been there! With hindsight you'll be able to draw lessons for self

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