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541.
by phaemon 10y ago
Ok, not geneticists, but radiative transfer is physics. What else would it be?
542.
by phaemon 10y ago
Scotland already generates more than 60% of its electricity from renewables.
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by phaemon 10y ago
It's actually POSIX standard. See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3...
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by phaemon 10y ago
Death is not an illness, it's an essential part of life. If I had the magic power to eliminate death today there is no way I would do it.
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by phaemon 10y ago
Indeed, but you never know what page someone might submit to a site like HN, so it's usually a good idea to have a link back to your main site on all pages. For example, they could like to your Forum page (which doesn't have a l
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by phaemon 10y ago
This looks pretty cool, and I'll definitely look at it as a Dropbox replacement. On the negative side, your stats page doesn't have a link back to your main page, so you won't even know how many folk had a look based on this
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by phaemon 10y ago
I found this guide which seems fairly complete: https://davidyat.es/2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/
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by phaemon 10y ago
Since they invented the term, I think it pretty much does. It's nice that "open source" is now so commonplace that people think it's a natural term to use, but if you think about it, it really isn't (something like
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by phaemon 10y ago
As mentioned in a previous comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13722469 ) git doesn't see these the same as it hashes the header+content which breaks the identical SHA trick. Of course, I first tested this o
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by phaemon 10y ago
Heh, because those are the md5 checksums which don't match. $ sha1sum shattered* 38762cf7f55934b34d179ae6a4c80cadccbb7f0a shattered-1.pdf 38762cf7f55934b34d179ae6a4c80cadccbb7f0a shattered-2.pdf $ md5sum shattered* ee4
551.
by phaemon 10y ago
You didn't read it carefully enough. It did exist. It read: "Yes, that is kind of funny way of saying that there's no reason why Python 2 and Python 3 can't coexist other than the Python project's incompetence and a
552.
by phaemon 10y ago
There is some speculation on whether Linus got it right or wrong, but I haven't seen anyone actually test this with the shattered-1 & 2 files, so I did. Git sees them as different despite them having the same hash. You can test wit
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by phaemon 10y ago
You're fooling no-one, Shimon... ;) Just a joke: the course is by Noam Nisan & Shimon Schocken The accompanying book is "The Elements of Computing Systems" and Part 1 is available as a course on Coursera. I highly recomme
554.
by phaemon 10y ago
That would be 0.02% to 0.04%.
555.
by phaemon 10y ago
I think I've spotted a flaw in this cunning plan: "For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Sam." Doesn't really work. Wait, clearly I've chosen the wrong name. I can fix this! "For neve
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by phaemon 10y ago
> increasing the level of CO2 from 0.000002% to 0.000004% What is that a percentage of? (if it's atmosphere you meant, you've gone the wrong way with your zeros)
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by phaemon 10y ago
If that's the case, then I think we can do a bit better in the UK, as I believe you can send a letter from Unst (Shetlands) to the British Antarctic Territory, which is over 10,000 miles. Though, if there's a US station in Antarct
558.
by phaemon 10y ago
Isn't that "The Non-Profit Open Software License"? https://opensource.org/licenses/NPOSL-3.0
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by phaemon 10y ago
I believe he was attempting to find the temperature of the sunlit moon, so was actually much too low. If you're interested, there's some discussion of it here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1638754
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by phaemon 10y ago
You linked the wrong paper. From that one's abstract: "We conclude that the observed greening in the Senegalese Sahel is primarily related to an increasing tree cover that caused satellite driven vegetation indices to increase wit
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by phaemon 10y ago
Kotena is: "The Developer Friendly Container & Microservices Platform. Everything you need to run and scale containers in production." Because they forgot to put that in the blog post. Top Tip! If you're doing a big relea
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by phaemon 10y ago
A hastily and poorly written bash script. These days I start every bash script with what I now think of as the "Brexit Options": set -eu; set -o pipefail The key missing one in this case was `-u`. That stops the script if y
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by phaemon 10y ago
> HBO is online now Sounds good! <goes to Google> > "HBO GO. It's HBO. Anywhere." Awesome! > "To access HBO GO℠, you must reside within the fifty states of the United States of America." Oh. That an
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by phaemon 10y ago
It very possibly depends on your local laws, but I would check with a lawyer in your country before pushing that limit.
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by phaemon 10y ago
Yes, that would have been far better. It's not like they'd have been shy about converting units like "cubits", so why not do the same with "feet"?
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by phaemon 10y ago
No, that's my point. They would not be permitted within 31m and they'd be stupid to try. That's the kind of pedantic crap that junior judges get pissed off with every day (depending on your country I guess). Round to 30m and
567.
by phaemon 10y ago
That false precision really bugs me. It's obviously not exactly 100 feet - no-one is ever going to get a measuring tape and check it - so 30m is a much better unit conversion!
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by phaemon 10y ago
> things like the focus always being in the wrong place so I have to use the mouse, or windows being placed over things I need to see But both of these are things that are fixed with Single Window Mode (which it's clear you know abo
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by phaemon 10y ago
If you're wondering about the term "before present", the present is defined as 1950 for geological purposes. I'm afraid it's probably too late to correct it to 1985.
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by phaemon 10y ago
Despite having thought of the dangers of AI, this literally never occurred to me. Humans don't create AI, machines do.

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