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by phaemon 7y ago
The story of ping wouldn't be complete without a link to that book review: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2VDKZ4X1F992Q
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by phaemon 7y ago
Disappointed this wasn't building canoes out of ice. That sounds more fun. There was actually a plan to build ships out of ice during WWII, and then they came up with a better material which was wood pulp mixed with ice. It was stronge
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by phaemon 7y ago
When I worked support at a university, in the dim and distant past, it was our responsibility to clear the labs if a fire alarm went off. Students did just generally sit there until they were told to move. I think if you have more than a do
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by phaemon 7y ago
Archive link: http://archive.is/Is2Uk The title is "Why data scientists should never use Upwork"
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by phaemon 7y ago
This is one of the things that reminds me not to trust Microsoft.
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by phaemon 7y ago
> I disagree. Assumptions made in the video are realistic. Nope, they're the opposite of realistic because they disagree with reality. > You kinda need battery storage for your solar/wind. You kinda don't. Here in Scotl
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by phaemon 7y ago
No it wouldn't. The assumptions made in that video are ridiculous. You don't need to have storage for all your solar; you turn other sources off when you have excess supply. Or you can switch them off simply by covering them . Ba
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by phaemon 7y ago
More technical details at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45370-1
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by phaemon 7y ago
Certainly a difficult thing to convince your parents of. Not least if they agree.
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by phaemon 7y ago
When they say "extra" they mean extra generation, not new capacity. The grid isn't running flat out all the time. The highest output this year was 48GW. At night, it does about 22GW. That leaves plenty spare capacity for char
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by phaemon 7y ago
I've heard this analogy several times, but I've never met an astronomer who didn't know how a telescope works.
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by phaemon 7y ago
No, they're used in electronics. Just google "rare earth" and you'll find plenty of details.
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by phaemon 7y ago
Very nice. Note that when it says "press start" you need to press Enter if playing with keyboard.
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by phaemon 7y ago
Ok, looking at the data, Germany gets over 40% of its electricity from renewables, while the USA gets less than 20%.
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by phaemon 7y ago
Actually, as a physicist with no rest mass, I'm perfectly capable of performing experiments. I just never seem to find the time...
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by phaemon 7y ago
Yes, I'm aware you were attempting sarcasm, but it wasn't very good, was it? I thought it would be kinder to ignore it and post something useful. The phrase you're looking for is, "thank you". Cheers!
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by phaemon 7y ago
> never fucked up commands and had to blow out a repo and start over You never have to do this, because it's virtually impossible to screw up a git repo with git commands, to the point it can't be easily fixed. And I'll te
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by phaemon 7y ago
Searching should work as long as you're happy to kiboze with: grep -E '(5|s)((c|k)r?(i|1)(p)(t|7))?( ?)(k)(1|i)(d*)(y?)(i|1)?(e)?' ...or similar.
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by phaemon 7y ago
Hit hard? Surely "stung"...
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by phaemon 7y ago
I didn't assume any such thing nor does my comment even suggest it. If you find your own strawmen "petty" I suggest you try to think more clearly. It would likely improve the quality of your HN comments.
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by phaemon 7y ago
I have never once personally written for a newspaper. Freedom of the press isn't necessarily better than censorship.
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by phaemon 8y ago
Yup, I'd probably have gone with a `for` loop also. A bit shorter: for set in *_data.csv; do [[ -f "${set/data/A}" ]] || echo "${set%_data.csv}" done Edit: though I just write it out like this
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by phaemon 8y ago
An aeropress. Decent coffee almost as quick and easy as instant coffee.
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by phaemon 8y ago
...in the USA, in medical research...
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by phaemon 8y ago
Can you articulate why?
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by phaemon 8y ago
I'm not annoyed at all and added the smiley to try and soften my post. I got the Monty puzzle straight away (brought to my attention by Cecil Adams when I followed the SDMB) but I find it interesting to understand why so many intellige
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by phaemon 8y ago
Thanks to the pair of you for explaining something I pointed out to you in the first place. :) I said it was weird, not that I didn't understand it. I suspect this thought process is why numerate people get thrown by this puzzle.
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by phaemon 8y ago
An interesting variation is "what if you toss a coin to decide whether to switch or not". I find it weird that that resets the odds back to 50:50
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by phaemon 8y ago
For context, it seems that the BBC sent a takedown notice for some videos on this channel, the owner of the channel sent a counter claim that these are for political commentary purposes and therefore Fair Use. Now YouTube has decided unilat
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YouTube Shuts Down Scottish Independence Channel(wingsoverscotland.com)
2 points by phaemon 8y ago|1 comments

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