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by oxymoron 10y ago
Some of it probably could be, but the effiency of those processes are low enough that you'd still have a heat problem. Also, recall that the energy originated with the solar panels to start with. It's a very wasteful way of genera
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The reaction consumes water, which isn't exactly abundant on a space station or space vessel. You can regain the water by burning the alcohol, which can be done in a combustion chamber without reintroducing the CO2 to the air of the ha
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by oxymoron 10y ago
I think the Google Transparency Project needs some transparency: http://fortune.com/2016/04/27/google-transparency-project/
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by oxymoron 10y ago
On the topic of IO. I'm actually a fan of java.io.Reader/Writer and java.io.InputStream/OutputStream. It seems to me that most java protocols and parsers are quite composable by default due to these simple little abstractions
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by oxymoron 10y ago
In Sweden, when running wiring we'll refer to the dimensions by monikers like "one and half squared", "six squared" and so on, corresponding to "1.5mm^2" etc. It has never felt very bulky to me, and doesn&
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by oxymoron 10y ago
I second _The Wise Men_. I found it to be both a pervasive and highly entertaining read.
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Kennan's telegram wasn't published. It was written by Kennan to impress his understanding on Truman as he took office. The X article was a separate piece of writing.
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by oxymoron 10y ago
Yep. Stephenson takes me a while. I kept track whilst reading _Quicksilver_ and it ended up taking me 50 days, with the baseline being 50 minutes a day on weekdays during my commute, and the odd extra hour every now and then when I had a bi
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_Snow Crash_ is good fun, and I really liked the speculative elements. It led me down the path of becoming a Stephenson junky which, coming from someone that tries to avoid reading many big novels by a single author, breaks a bit with my ow
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It's not quite that simple [0][1], or at least it wasn't always. AdBlock Plus in particular used to rely on a massive style sheet that was injected into all tabs and frames, which degraded really quickly on pages with a lot of ifr
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by oxymoron 10y ago
I disagree. Ashlee Vance spends quite a bit of time talking about how the SpaceX approach differs in his biography of Elon Musk. Basically, Musk turns out to be manically cost aware, and a lot of what SpaceX does is focused specifically on
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by oxymoron 10y ago
The moon is a harsh mistress, indeed.
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by oxymoron 11y ago
Debugging complex race conditions isn't necessarily easy using a debugger either, since halting the passage of time has a tendency to make them go away. Why limit your toolbox? Logging statements and debuggers are both useful methodolo
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by oxymoron 11y ago
US law enforcement has an impressive track record of extending their authority through unilateral reinterpretation of the US code. Once it's been established that Apple are able to extract data, what's to prevent agencies from sla
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by oxymoron 11y ago
Thanks for the elaboration! Having read only a single book on the subject, I figured that my account would be somewhat biased, even though I tried (through googling) to verify what I wrote. I'll refer to your links and try to widen my
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by oxymoron 11y ago
On the subject on British attitudes towards the third world, an illuminating example is that of Iran. English prospectors found oil in Iran in the early years of the 20th century, a find that in the words on Winston Churchill was "a pr
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by oxymoron 11y ago
I once took a university course called "Chemical Equilibrium" which required some lab time. The labs were about examining solutions with unknown ions and figuring out what they were. A common tool in doing so is by bubbling hydrog
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by oxymoron 11y ago
That seems like a strange way to view things. What is he getting out of it now that he won't be getting out of it if neovim would take off? The only thing he has asked is that people donates to a few charities of his choice. Neovim has
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by oxymoron 11y ago
I'm guessing Italy.
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For people interested in this, I can recommend Neal Stephensons Wired feature from the 90's. As you'd expect from Stephenson, it's crazy long. It describes his travels documenting the laying of an early submarine Internet cab
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by oxymoron 11y ago
Shouldn't be that hard, right? Pocket microscopes already exists and as far as computer vision algorithms go, it's not a very complex problem.
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Practically, does that mean that the rate of collissions increase substantially once you have more than 65535 entries in a hash table with 32 bit hashes? To the point that it makes more sense to use a BST instead, even?
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by oxymoron 11y ago
Sure, that's what it comes down to. Languages with implicit type coercion do have a set of bugs not found in strongly typed languages though, but the additional safety of a strong language is -- like you say -- gained at the expense of
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by oxymoron 11y ago
Static and dynamic are theoretically unrelated to compiled or interpreted. The reason why it seems like these two are the same is that it's much harder to implement a compiled version of a dynamic language than an interpreted dynamic l
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Extract, Transform, Load
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The economist has been pretty skeptical about austerity recently.
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There are other factors here: Automation. East asia remains the manufacturing powerhouse of the world, but even that region is losing production jobs in absolute numbers. Low skilled labour opportunities are disappearing everywhere. Transpo
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by oxymoron 11y ago
I'm not sure where you're seeing all this controversy, nor do I quite understand why you're so upset about it. Nevertheless, why don't we just judge HTML in terms of its intended purpose? Before CSS and Javascript and th
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Well, there's Elastic Beanstalk on AWS which is pretty much the same thing.
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by oxymoron 12y ago
Part 1 of this series contains a link to an article called "How browsers work" ( http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowsers... ), which I read a while back. The epiphany for me was h

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