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by nwallin 6y ago
I am speaking specifically about Betelgeuse. I do not believe it's possible for Betelgeuse to cause 3-4C global temperature increase. Assume Betelgeuse explodes in a typical Type II-P supernova. This will give it an absolute magnitude
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by nwallin 6y ago
> Not to speak badly about Lebanese welders, The article states that the welders were Syrian. I am guessing they are refugees just trying to get by. Even assuming they were well trained and safety minded, it's reasonable to assume t
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by nwallin 6y ago
There's a world of difference between "we will notice it" and "we have to be worried about it". Betelgeuse will explode in a faint Type II-P supernova, which is the least dangerous type. The thing to really be worri
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by nwallin 6y ago
It will not update all of them, just some. Clicking through the device manager on my work computer, it seems the driver for "Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller" was not up to date, and had not been updated by Windows Upd
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by nwallin 6y ago
So if you want to download precompiled static binaries and "install" them into your home directory or /usr/local/bin that's fine. You can do that, and it works, although now you're stuck in the same quagmi
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by nwallin 6y ago
Regarding embedded, you generally only have one program. So dynamic linking buys you precisely nothing in that space.
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by nwallin 6y ago
Graphics card drivers is a solved problem. Intel/AMD "just work". Nvidia works okay-ish if you don't mind closed source drivers and unless it's a card nvidia has dropped support for. In both cases, switching to Wind
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by nwallin 6y ago
Change tracking is a second class citizen in Word. My question is, if change tracking is so important, why use Word instead of any of the dozens of workflows where change tracking is a first class citizen? I used git as an example in my pos
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by nwallin 6y ago
I guess I'm misunderstanding then. Word's core feature is wysiwyg. Word as a document format is necessarily unstructured - "hey I'm gonna increase the font size of this text over here by like 12 or 14 pts or whatever and
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by nwallin 6y ago
Do you use any wysiwyg features of word, or is it literally notepad+git with a UX/UI that people are familiar with? What's unusual about authoring, editing, and publishing such that Word is better than the alternatives? I can&#x27
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by nwallin 6y ago
I don't know. Financials aside, I don't even know what this is supposed to look like from an organizational perspective. IMHO the biggest problem Lyft and Uber are facing is not an increase in cost, it's a reduction in flexib
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by nwallin 6y ago
You claimed the law has not changed. This claim was false; the law has changed. If you had wanted to discuss workers rights, you should have led with that.
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by nwallin 6y ago
Lyft is also a target of this injunction. It isn't clear yet that Lyft will begin complying with AB5.
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by nwallin 6y ago
The law has most definitely been changed. If the law were a human, it wouldn't be old enough to walk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Assembly_Bill_5_(20...
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by nwallin 6y ago
Barrier synchronization is always going to wreck parallel performance. When possible, it's good to break up your work so that data dependencies are explicit and fine grained. So instead of breaking up work like this: IIIIJJJJKKKK
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by nwallin 6y ago
A neutron star "merger" is a collision between two of the hottest, densest objects in the universe that are still objects. These collisions are incredibly messy and energetic. Stuff gets blown everywhere - a lot of stuff. Once fre
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by nwallin 6y ago
Assuming your keys are short strings, 1M elements is 32MB plus btree overhead. If your keys are longer strings, (URLs are typically too long to benefit from short string optimization) 1M elements is still 32MB, but now it's also a poin
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by nwallin 6y ago
> > There was no C12 anywhere in the universe until the first stars began dying. > ... outside of the stellar cores manufacturing it. Stellar cores do not produce C12 unless they've already started dying. If there is hydrogen
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by nwallin 6y ago
Roughly 1% of the Sun's output is from the CNO cycle. The original C12 came from the triple alpha process. Three helium atoms collide to form C12 more-or-less directly. Technically, two helium atoms combine to form Be8, which combines
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by nwallin 6y ago
The problem is that it's a transmission vector. If it was observed that, for instance, dogs were a transmission vector of COVID-19 but rarely suffered severe effects, it would be critically important to shut down all the dog parks. Not
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by nwallin 6y ago
Most of the digits sound distinct enough that they don't get confused- except "nine", which can sound like "five" over a bad radio link, and is therefore pronounced "niner".
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by nwallin 6y ago
I used to be an imagery analyst. You're spot on about infrared imaging. Normal dirt, rocks, and plants show more contrast than human vs environment. The only way to tell that the blur you're looking at is a person is if they start
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by nwallin 6y ago
Disks aren't that sensitive to motion. At my last job, we had 2 airplanes with 5 computers each with 6 disks each mounted in an aircraft. These were regular servers from Dell, not special hardened or resilient hardware or anything. So
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by nwallin 6y ago
I think I'm glad C++ doesn't have that feature. Can you provide a ... slightly more real world example of what non-local returns are for? As described it sounds equally capable of shooting both varmints and one's own feet.
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by nwallin 6y ago
You mean like this? https://godbolt.org/z/jvG3hY
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by nwallin 6y ago
Lambdas are (among other things) nested functions. The "tendency to confuse the two" is a feature, not a bug. Bob knows how to draw quadrilaterals. He uses this skill to draw rhombuses, rectangles, and parallelograms. IMHO you&#x2
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by nwallin 6y ago
> The first thing he did was host a long-weekend work party to fix it up. I flew up from my home in Oakland, California. With a group of friends, we tore out exposed nails, cladded interior walls, built a deck and an outhouse, and hung s
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by nwallin 6y ago
My discrete mathematics professor was like that. He would regurgitate a proof onto the whiteboard. Then he'd do it a few more times with proofs of other things. He has an identical twin brother, who is also a math professor at the same
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by nwallin 6y ago
The fact that this is done on a computer with a PRNG is significant here. (unless the game sources entropy from the environment, which is unlikely) The PRNG has finite state. This means that it must be cyclical. This cycle of of states will
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by nwallin 6y ago
In this instance, you're only concerned with the average case. Worst case is infinite: you just always take the path back in the direction of the entrance, and never even get past the first inlet. Best case is O(n): you always take the

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