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by pdpi 4y ago
You don't need to store CO2. You need to store the carbon somewhere and get some O2 for free. There's about 2.5g of oxygen per 1g of carbon in carbon dioxide, and carbon takes the lion's share of hydrocarbons' mass, so I
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by pdpi 4y ago
As I understand it, there's been some recent studies that suggest it might be better to stop early (which is interesting, but that hasn't become standard practice, so I'll just keep doing what the actual professionals tell me
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by pdpi 4y ago
You can easily end up with leftovers from a prescription if stop taking them midway through the course once you're feeling better. Those left overs can then be used to self-medicate. I could speculate on how else it happens, but the im
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by pdpi 4y ago
I’m not sure it’s as true now as it was 20 years ago, but I do remember seeing several campaigns raising awareness of the risks of antibiotic abuse. At any rate, you’re not necessarily contradicting GP. You can both know that antibiotics do
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by pdpi 4y ago
Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and originator of queueing theory. The language is named after him.
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by pdpi 4y ago
You don't need to know about every disaster, but even just the Therac-25, the Mars Climate Orbiter, or Knight Capital would cover a fairly wide variety of root causes and real-world consequences.
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by pdpi 4y ago
That read to me as deliberately absurd. Aaronson's academic journey was... fairly nonstandard. The circumstances under which he learnt about this are likely to be correspondingly nonstandard. "We all learned about Gödel in our Und
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by pdpi 4y ago
The jury in the Texas case awarded the family around $50M, and the $965M in this case is a bit over 2x that, at $120M per family. So it's definitely a lot higher and I'm curious to see if there's anything that caused that. Mo
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by pdpi 4y ago
A large problem with this whole idea is that there is no one single blue or green involved. iMessage shades the bubbles depending on position, and shows both the blue and green bubbles as darker at the bottom of the screen, and lighter at t
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by pdpi 4y ago
> On Windows ULONG_PTR is not an unsigned long*, it is a pointer-width unsigned integer. So the equivalent to rust's usize?
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by pdpi 4y ago
So the equivalent to rust's usize?
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by pdpi 4y ago
> Revisiting the idea recently, Pandora, YouTube, TikTok etc have all made a business out of building a customized feed for YOU. It's become the exact opposite of what the original article predicted. Reality is even worse than that,
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by pdpi 4y ago
Except that that's the opposite of what's going on. The CPU performs better with the "wasted" mitigations turned on.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Sure. But it wasn't that long ago that the way you acted on elections coming up would be to adopt a "tough on drugs" posture.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Even if he only has power to issue pardons at the federal level, this sort of measure has plenty of value as a symbolic gesture. It kind of signals a mentality shift.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Easiest comparison is the JVM. You can run Java wherever you have a JVM, be it the browser or the server or a desktop application. WASM is basically the moral equivalent of JVM bytecode, so you need the moral equivalent of the JVM to run it
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by pdpi 4y ago
> but "meme" itself is a singular unit of culture Yup. It's not a coincidence that it sounds like "gene". The idea was precisely to treat it like that - memes get passed from generation to generation, get mutated
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by pdpi 4y ago
Not all the sidequests are great in H:ZD, but there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in the end cinematic that explains one of the collectibles and makes it suddenly be much more meaningful. (SPOILER: You see a circle of metal
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by pdpi 4y ago
They do, demonstrably, have some sort of say. The M1 Macs have had deliberate support for 3rd party OSes since more or less day 1 (just not exposed/advertised), and Apple made some early changes to enable Asahi. Some recent comments by
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by pdpi 4y ago
One move is 12 bits at most. 3 bits each X/Y, two XY pairs for source and destination.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Indeed, maths never "decreed that sine and cosine have to take radian arguments". But thinking that makes any sort of point is a fundamental misunderstanding of maths. There are infinitely many sinusoidal functions out there. You
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by pdpi 4y ago
When you’re growing you have different nutritional needs in general, and it’s kind of hard to get some micronutrients from plants. I wouldn’t be surprised if those two things put together meant that vegan diets are problematic for children
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by pdpi 4y ago
The angle between the barrel and the scope is already pretty extreme for a rifle. Can’t imagine it being particularly pleasant to shoot with the scope mounted at the sort of angle you’d need for the shot you’re describing.
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by pdpi 4y ago
The concept of Ubuntu also occupies the same sort of space. Which makes sense when you consider Mark Shuttleworth is South African. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy
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by pdpi 4y ago
Lord Vetinari in the Discworld lives by the mantra that "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Other characters noted that, under his governance, "things that didn't work ... got broken."
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by pdpi 4y ago
> Reference counted pointers themselves are usually not atomic, only the reference count updates are. Fun way to start an argument where everybody is wrong: ask a group of C++ programmers whether std::shared_ptr is thread-safe.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Yes, and trying to create duplicate resources is a client error.
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by pdpi 4y ago
The elgato is doing something completely straightforward — video output to video input, done. With only a few details, it’s almost like a regular webcam where the controller is in the usb plug rather than the webcam’s body. The SD thing has
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by pdpi 4y ago
There’s a bunch of advantages even with bad video from meet or zoom. Big sensor + nicer fast lenses means you require a lot less light. Nice fast glass means you can blur out the background optically without all the artefacts introduced by
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by pdpi 4y ago
That seems pretty roundabout, when you have solutions like the Elgato CamLink that just takes an HDMI input from your camera and shows up as a completely standard USB Video Class device to the OS.

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