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by olau 11y ago
I feel we're getting into strawman assertion territory here. I've worked with statically typed and dynamically typed languages, and the fact is that there's some overhead involved in static typing. You pay that overhead upfro
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by olau 11y ago
If you're the father, sleep on the couch (or buy another bed). Then when you're more refreshed, you can try and help out the mother (I'm assuming breast feeding here). If you're the mother, try really hard to get some ki
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by olau 11y ago
If you fall asleep almost immediately after going to bed, it's a sign that you need to sleep more. According to a lecture by a professor in sleep I watched many years ago when Google Video was still alive.
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by olau 11y ago
Django is really easy to deploy manually too. Download the tarball, untar it, make a symlink from inside your project dir to the "django" subdir. If you want to try another version, you just change the symlink to point to the othe
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by olau 11y ago
"...and so a true implementation in C with the right compiler optimizations would for sure be faster than the python code." True. But this assumes that time is not a constraint. I think you need to think of it this way (as a thoug
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by olau 11y ago
One possibility being investigated by Siemens is thermal stone storage. Basically you dig up a gigantic hole in the ground, line it with insulation, put the dirt back in and send hot air through it (500-600 C). Then when you need the power,
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by olau 11y ago
I don't think you framed it correctly. What matters is always matching the consumption curve. Due to high capital costs, that's really expensive to do with nuclear plants (that's why people talk about baseload, i.e. constant
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by olau 11y ago
I call bullshit on that. Nuclear safety is not to be taken lightly. The reason we haven't had more disasters than we've currently had is precisely because people working in the field take this stuff deeply seriously. And they need
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by olau 11y ago
Awesome! Perhaps this could end up in a place where the focus is on the cars and the technical performance, rather than human driver skill. For those of us who are more interested in engineering challenges than the celebrity driver of the d
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by olau 11y ago
I think it would be more effective to educate the mass media. Western-world terrorist attacks work by playing on the dynamics of the mass media, and the mass media is definitely playing along, licking up the clicks and views. Pragmatically
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by olau 11y ago
Feels like nitpicket but: volume of air is in itself not a problem. There's not a whole lot of energy in air. The issue with heating/cooling is the surface area. With active heating/cooling, what really helps is better insula
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by olau 11y ago
The real problem is that to get anything resembling economical use out of a nuclear plant, you need to output 100% almost all the time. New plants are too damn expensive to just let them sit there.
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by olau 11y ago
I don't think that comparison is quite right. As far as I'm aware, Tesla is selling cars to people who want to drive cars. Real cars, with muscles. Google isn't selling anything, and again, as far as I'm aware, it's
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by olau 11y ago
From the article: "Such groups can be more nimble than government bureaucracies. They also have more credibility -- something that the intelligence agencies of some Western democracies have squandered with skewed findings, serial viola
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by olau 11y ago
Thanks, I've started on Marcus Aurelius a couple of times, and it does indeed seem like a bunch of somewhat cryptical notes to self. Enchiridion seems relatively straight-forward in comparison.
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by olau 11y ago
Not sure whether you're just using the term incorrectly, but I see this claim repeated a lot so forgive me for explaining: you do not need baseline power. Baseline power is the observation that if we have less than ideal power plants t
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by olau 11y ago
My field is CS. Clearly undergraduate-level biology books. For instance, try a book on zoology. The multicellular organism is amazing. Think of yourself - a big blob of cooperating cells, each a little complex wonder in itself, originating
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by olau 11y ago
Interesting that they once made bicycles. Does anyone know who would be the Miele of bicycles?
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by olau 11y ago
It seems to work well in the video here - the doors are pretty flexible, equipped with motors and sensors so they can adapt: http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx
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by olau 11y ago
Clearly for better. Most of the Google projects I've come across over the years are close to the throw-it-over-the-wall end of open source development, as opposed to Red Hat which seems to me to mostly let individuals participate. Thei
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by olau 11y ago
They would probably have difficulties answering questions about why they did something in a particular way, though. The conversation you can have afterwards is probably the most interesting part, also for the good apples.
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by olau 11y ago
Of course there are blunders in Python. It's an old language by now. But a great deal of what makes Python really easy to use is that a lot of thought has gone in to getting many of the essential details right. For instance, take compa
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by olau 11y ago
As an Emacs user, I can tell you that Emacs is superior in every way, except perhaps for emulating VI, but even there it's doing a good job. Next question?
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by olau 11y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this. WebAssembly is in itself probably a good thing, but yeah, as is evident from the replies you're getting, for lots of people readable sources simply isn't a priority or even a
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by olau 11y ago
Interesting way to think about it. IMHO systemd is taking much of the hacks and weird glue that has historically held distributions together and replaced it with an active upstream project. Maybe some of the solutions they've come up w
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by olau 11y ago
I visited an orchard a couple of years ago. The owner stored his pears at 0 degrees celsius and apples a little bit warmer - 4 degrees celcius if I'm not mistaken. Since that day I've put my apples and pears in the refridgerator,
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by olau 11y ago
I should perhaps add that in Denmark there's an academic economic elite of researchers (with titles as "wise men", no kidding) that get a lot of attention from the press, and since the set of people elected to the parliament
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by olau 11y ago
That's why you need to be more sneaky about it. In Denmark you used to be able to deduct interest 100% as far as I'm aware. According to http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentefradrag it's then been gradually
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by olau 11y ago
I sometimes wish Javascript would take more hints from Python in getting some of the details right. For instance, it would be nice if == would work so that ["foo"] == ["foo"] and { foo: 1 } == { foo: 1}. But I suppose fi
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by olau 11y ago
About maintenance of wind turbines: but when you compare the actual costs of O&M on wind turbines they are actually still pretty cheap compared to traditional energy sources, and it will likely get cheaper as the tech matures and common

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