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by nwallin 7y ago
> From Wikipedia: Arabs are a population inhabiting the Arab world. Also from Wikipedia: Persia, present day Iran, is not part of the Arab world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world
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by nwallin 7y ago
Reverse osmosis is super expensive. The central valley accounts for 1% of US farmland by area and 8% of US agriculture by revenue. Whatever they're doing wrong, they're also doing something right.
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by nwallin 7y ago
It's more complicated than that. The fact that we grow more than enough food for the world and most people on it go hungry is a political problem, not one related to food going to livestock instead of starving children in Africa. Place
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by nwallin 7y ago
That's not the setup. You don't have two assassins, you just have one assassin, so it's not 8 pick 2. But there are two squares the assassin can be on that give a move 1 mate. That gives the 2/8.
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by nwallin 7y ago
> Relay based, more reliable and needing less replacement than vacuum tubes I assume, Kinda sorta. Relays are mechanical devices that wear every time they're toggled. Every time you toggle a 1 to a 0 or vice versa, you risk destroyi
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by nwallin 7y ago
EGA had credible support for indexed color. It had 4 bit indexes into 6 bit RRGGBB color. Honestly, it was pretty good. CGA was craptastic though. It would have been so much better if it would have just supported 2 bit indexed color into it
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by nwallin 7y ago
Pepsi cares about sales rates of Pepsi products in $localRegion when they run an ad campaign in $localRegion. Major multinationals are sophisticated enough to correlate their ad campaigns with product sales. And they have the resources to r
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by nwallin 7y ago
Not sure if the article was edited before you posted, but the author covers this. There is a human in the loop. The swarm sends all its data to the ground station, where a human gives go/no-go. There thing that is automated is the firs
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by nwallin 7y ago
> I'll bet the engineering process of the software written for the Apollo 11 lunar lander was much closer to the bridge building process than you might think. Of course, but the Apollo 11 lunar lander was created without the aid of
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by nwallin 7y ago
It really is a nightmare. It's like time zones, only when the datum is wrong, it's not necessarily immediately obvious what the correct one should be. People, even the ones who ought to know better, don't even seem to think i
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by nwallin 7y ago
> You can't call that a C "bool" though. Correct. It was not my intent to imply otherwise. Like the person I replied to and I reiterated, that ship has sailed.
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by nwallin 7y ago
There is a concrete advantage to using a scheme where 0 is true and all other values are false: error codes. True means the operation succeeded correctly, or false because of insufficient permissions, false because there file doesn't e
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by nwallin 7y ago
If you have an 80 bit object, convert it to a 64 bit object, then convert it back to an 80 bit object, and you expect to drop zero bits, of course you'll run into problems. Posits can't fix these problems. Desktop graphics cards i
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by nwallin 7y ago
My biggest peeve about windows is how it sends my laptop to sleep when I close the lid. You're plugged into a docking station with a keyboard, monitor, and mouse connected. I have several windows open on the monitor. No windows open on
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by nwallin 7y ago
I = V/R So given relatively constant resistance, voltage is linearly proportional to amperage. Double the volts, double the amps. The resistance of the human body can vary, for instance, if you're sweating, your resistance drops,
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by nwallin 7y ago
HiDPI. It's somewhat unusual for a top end laptop to have 1920x1080 screens these days, and Wayland doesn't support 4k very well. You can upscale, but it looks like garbage, or it has a 2x mode, which draws image and such slightly
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by nwallin 7y ago
Epicenter is very far inland, approximately halfway between Bakersfield and Las Vegas. (Not Angeles) Densely populated areas are minimally affected.
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by nwallin 7y ago
Power supplies are notoriously failure prone across all possible uses. 1. By definition, they're the device with the most current running through it, and typically generating the most heat. Switched mode power supplies have efficiencie
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by nwallin 7y ago
Sadly, legal or not, tailored specs are the norm. At a previous job, our company and three other companies operated similar programs, supporting the military. Call it company A, company B, and company C. Our company (company A) were doing a
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by nwallin 7y ago
The thing that terrifies me about the state of affairs is what happens when the software gives the wrong result because it's poorly written? If a scientists has input B and expects output X, and writes code that accepts B, and it happe
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by nwallin 7y ago
There is no hard dependency between composition and vsync. You can disable composition with vsync enabled, or you can have composition with novsync. (in practice they tend to be highly correlated) However, Wayland supports neither disabling
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by nwallin 7y ago
Gentoo doesn't use systemd by default, it has its own init system called OpenRC that's kinda sorta like a framework for sysv. Despite being shell based, it's very fast, my system can get from GRUB to Firefox in less than ten
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by nwallin 7y ago
Steam gets around by having an amazing UX. Press button get game. It's easier than pirating, while most other drm solutions are generally more difficult than pirating. Steam doesn't even have particularly good drm. The media isn&#
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by nwallin 7y ago
I agree with you, however that's unfortunately not possible. The California Constitution defines the redistricting process in terms of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. We would need a ballot initiative to overturn it.
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by nwallin 7y ago
There actually is such an organism, but it only breaks down PET. (aka polyester, which is the 4th most common type of plastic) https://www.sciencealert.com/new-plastic-munching-bacteria-c...
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by nwallin 7y ago
My company is in the middle of switching from Slack to Microsoft teams. The water cooler talk is that we're paying Slack $1000-$2500 per year per user. It sounds like their business model thus far is that of p2w mobile games. Nearly al
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by nwallin 7y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you, however the FDA has problems with a lack of transparency. A pharmaceutical company can run 20 studies, and show one result to the FDA that shows safety and efficacy with p < .05. We already have an ir
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by nwallin 7y ago
> Going for "toy" code to production ready is hard. Too true. I recently implemented a feature, and I had a standalone working version 90% complete in a day or two. Getting the thing solid, tested, and integrated took the bette
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> These cannot run at the same time as the output of one feeds into another one. This precludes parallel processing of individual packets, but does not prevent concurrent processing of packets. Plugin A accepts a packet, processes it, ou
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by nwallin 7y ago
There's a name for this phenomena: Hyrum's Law. > With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody. http:

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