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by okl 5y ago
-i is short for --in-place
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by okl 5y ago
Hiding the price also makes the whole purchase process more costly (time intensive) for the buyer and it prevents impulse buying.
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Law of Holes(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by okl 5y ago|1 comments
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Cooper Vane(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by okl 6y ago|0 comments
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Making Lego Car Climb Slopes(youtube.com)
2 points by okl 6y ago|0 comments
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Light Pollution Map(lightpollutionmap.info)
496 points by okl 6y ago|191 comments
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by okl 6y ago
As an introduction to software development processes I recommend Steve McConnell's Software Project Survival Guide. You can get a used copy for small money.
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by okl 6y ago
There's also a PMBOK (project management) https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards You can find the PDF via your favourite search engine.
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by okl 6y ago
> By the way, the handy word for an 8-bit byte is “octet” (I have not observed octet used in the software industry, only in school. Don’t use it at work or you might come across as an ass...) I see it used (and use it myself) from time
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by okl 6y ago
Wikipedia has some info ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#History_of_the_conflictin... ): "The size of the byte has historically been hardware-dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size.
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by okl 6y ago
Your "opinion" is particular "stupid" (your words) since you introduce a false analogy between program code structure and natural language sentences. Let's see what CMU's SEI has to say: https://wiki
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by okl 6y ago
-Wstrict-prototypes "Warn if a function is declared or defined without specifying the argument types."
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by okl 6y ago
It's more difficult to read and edit.
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Apollo Tile II Solar Roofing System from CertainTeed Corporation(certainteed.com)
2 points by okl 6y ago|0 comments
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by okl 6y ago
According to this site ( https://news.energysage.com/tesla-solar-roof-price-vs-solar-... ) it is not only ~33% more expensive but also less efficient.
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by okl 6y ago
See also, https://www.fromoldbooks.org/
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by okl 6y ago
I think so, their name is on a lot of construction equipment.
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by okl 6y ago
There's a fun Smullyan book with that title.
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by okl 6y ago
https://www.adacore.com/uploads/techPapers/rtchecks.pdf
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by okl 6y ago
You can also declare access types as "not null" in which case initialization is compulsory. http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-3-10.html#p13...
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by okl 6y ago
There a two stacks, the call stack, and a stack for returned values of dynamic size, not very complicated, is it?
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by okl 6y ago
There's a lot of FUD spread online, partly derived from historic facts, partly total bogus. I like how Luke A. Guest ( https://github.com/Lucretia ) put it: "You’ve got to love it when people who [know] nothing abou
473.
by okl 6y ago
There's a library for that: http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/units.htm
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by okl 6y ago
VHDL was initially developed by the DoD back in the time when there was a strong push towards unification of programming languages used in government/defense contracts. Newer VHDL deviates from Ada syntax in some unfortunate ways that
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Rigid Chain Actuator(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by okl 6y ago|0 comments
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by okl 6y ago
Thankfully the author does not review academic papers anymore!
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by okl 6y ago
"Rejected" does not mean that the energy gets sent back to the producer like a parcel. "For a coal fired power station, for instance, about 2/3 of the energy released when the coal is burnt is discarded as heat in the en
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by okl 6y ago
I want to add two things: - The visualization used by the author shows US energy consumption while ~65% of mining takes place in China[0] where burning coal remains the dominant energy source.[1] - Miners run 24/7/365, they add to
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by okl 6y ago
> The energy is not wasted, it is ordered, not demanded and thus never produced.
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by okl 6y ago
As mentioned in the comments: "Maybe take a peek at Ada Generics. The generic instances are shared, and there is no boxing of types." RM12: https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm&

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