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by osrec 4y ago
But is gravity really providing energy? It's only because of the sun that certain things are able to rise to a higher level of gravitational potential energy, and then drop back "down", thereby releasing the potential energy
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by osrec 4y ago
What's the rotary encoder for?
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by osrec 4y ago
In my experience, the best Linux support has been from brother. Also, their printers seem more light weight (in a good way), and their compatible ink is cheaper. Good for basic documents etc, but probably not for printing photos.
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by osrec 4y ago
How much additional dev overhead is there in using cpp for the web? How difficult is it to manage updates etc? What are the benefits in your opinion?
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by osrec 4y ago
Why will renewables not solve anything? What about nuclear?
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by osrec 4y ago
I'm sure El Salvador will have a few...
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by osrec 4y ago
He is ignoring the haters. He continued despite their comments. He is mindful that the haters exist (which you have to be, in order to ignore them), but is ignoring them with respect to the advice they offer. The haters were also wrong. The
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by osrec 4y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. In the UK, I find it especially irritating that the biggest selling point touted for going to university by a lot of people is the "social experience", not the education! Either way, most of the education s
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by osrec 4y ago
Why anyone would pick that over a bunch of very mature open source offerings (with much larger developer communities) is beyond me.
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by osrec 4y ago
Lol, your comment made me smile. I was simply interested in the concept, that's why I asked!
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Ask HN: Can I vent a portable AC into a thermos flask?
1 points by osrec 4y ago|4 comments
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by osrec 4y ago
Perhaps if the UK government more competently spent it's money, it wouldn't need to replace the lost revenue. The NHS track and trace app, which cost around GBP 40 billion, is an absolute sham. I've worked with NHS trusts tha
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by osrec 4y ago
Interesting. I think I would still be interested in the total energy held by the battery, plus the amount it is expected to degrade year on year. I'm still not sure why you say Wh/y would be a more appropriate unit, given that it
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by osrec 4y ago
Could you elaborate please? Why is there no real power output?
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Ask HN: How are world leaders able to visit Ukraine?
9 points by osrec 4y ago|16 comments
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by osrec 4y ago
Yes, assuming the 100m comprises of adults only, which is probably how they would have reported it.
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by osrec 4y ago
I feel bad for him, as he's going to generate a lot of ill will towards himself in his twilight years. He seems to have bitten off more than he can chew and really exposed himself, to the point that his own daughter seems to be distanc
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by osrec 4y ago
I imagine that airing it out on TV is somewhat cathartic for him; perhaps also a way in which to get closure on the topic. I also feel like he wants to inflict some of the pain he felt back on his parents, and embarrassing them on TV is the
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by osrec 4y ago
Please elaborate - why is there almost zero privacy?
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by osrec 4y ago
Yes, agreed. I was just saying that client side rendering makes more sense; which library you choose is up to you.
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by osrec 4y ago
Interesting point of view, but I feel you're missing the point. Do you find all native applications rude to customers?
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by osrec 4y ago
I don't know if Reddit has some A/B testing results that suggest otherwise, but they are making their website more and more unusable as time goes on. I am not a regular user by any means, but every time I get sent a link to a post
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by osrec 4y ago
It doesn't put you back where you started at all. One thread aggregating the results from other workers and applying them to the DOM is not at all the same as a single thread doing all that work on its own.
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by osrec 4y ago
On my machine the first link loaded in under a second. On my mobile it was about 3 seconds, but it didn't feel especially sluggish. Even then, I'd say stackexchange has a somewhat inefficient implementation, in that they're t
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by osrec 4y ago
If I was building this feature, I'd also pick client side rendering, simply because at GitHub's scale, rendering on the server side will require a bunch of servers, which will need to be managed and looked after. By offloading the
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by osrec 4y ago
Google the Fetch API.
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by osrec 4y ago
I sometimes feel "belief" is a term used for things that are not readily provable, but also impossible to disprove. E.g. I believe God exists. An axiom, in my mind, is a stronger, more widespread belief, for which there are no k
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by osrec 4y ago
Just imagining working in this way seems to induce a feeling of queasiness/nausea within me. Perhaps it's because I've just had a big breakfast!
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by osrec 4y ago
Yeah, because they're probably using libraries that are heavily using those keywords under the hood, in order to supply functions with the correct 'this' context.
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by osrec 4y ago
More specifically, bind creates a new function + context, that you can hold a reference to and reuse, but you cannot do this with call or apply.

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