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by pja 6y ago
Who cares? Feel that code density ! More seriously, yup: if you read the architecture manual this instruction can take a long time. It's also a pain for a OoO (not superscalar!) cpu to keep track of all the dependencies. It made comple
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by pja 6y ago
Energy gravitates. Photons have energy, therefore photons gravitate. Photons only have zero /rest mass/, not zero total mass.
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by pja 6y ago
(What follows is a layman's understanding; I have a physics degree but never studied particle physics to the kind of depth required to give an authoritative answer to this question.) Because any attempt to quantise gravity via the meth
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by pja 6y ago
Ha. People have been making exactly this complaint for as long as C++ has been around. Meanwhile the language just keeps rolling on, picking up new features like some demented Katamari Damacy character. It’s a puzzle. One can only conclude
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by pja 6y ago
It's not compulsory in the UK to wear cycle helmets. There has been the occasional attempt to pass such a law in the past, but none were successful. Cyclist organisations are very averse to helmet laws, seeing them as marking cycling o
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by pja 6y ago
I suppose you could open the back and unplug the aerial cable from the motherboard. Unless they’re using one of those tiny surface mount aerials of course :(
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by pja 6y ago
They don’t have sources, because the available scientific evidence strongly suggests that they’re wrong. The classic study on this used pythons to measure the energy cost of digestion. Cooked meat was significantly cheaper to digest than un
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by pja 6y ago
IIRC it's easier (smaller energy cost) to absorb nutrients from cooked food than raw food. So there's an immediate evolutionary advantage to eating cooked food - you get more energy out of the same total food calorie input.
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by pja 6y ago
2 days before, the CBD confiscated a pile of real "fake airpods": https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-seizes-... so this is clearly a thing. Unfortunately OnePlus have got caught in the
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by pja 6y ago
Picking hunks for resolving merge conflicts is far easier in Magit than using the CLI. Obviously you’d normally do the latter in an editor anyway, but since you’re already /in/ your editor it’s then seamless to continue the merge
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by pja 6y ago
I think the point is that most ordinary C-code should already conform to this access pattern. The side comment about aliasing is a great big hint in that direction. (This article is grist to the mill of my "every CPU eventually evolves
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by pja 6y ago
It’s quite fun & Alexander Armstrong has great fun hamming it up a little as Sinclair.
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by pja 6y ago
Derek did his PhD on the public education of science. He’s been honing his craft for a /long/ time & it really shows.
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by pja 6y ago
Apple’s re-cycling program has always been corporate green-washing. It’s far greener to make the maximum possible use of your very resource intensive products. That would eat into Apple’s profits however, so they go out of their way to make
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by pja 6y ago
Yes, that’s why you can’t do it in 3 dimensions (without self-intersection) - if you have an extra dimension to hand you can invert the sphere using the extra dimension to avoid self-intersection I believe.
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by pja 6y ago
This is definitely outside my area of competence, but I believe that jets that manage to escape the stellar volume only form under a very specific set of circumstances: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst_prog
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by pja 6y ago
It’s totally plausible. But if the core of your star is sufficiently massive then the initial collapse takes it over the Chandrasekhar limit & it forms a black hole immediately. Then the rest of the stellar material just falls into it.
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by pja 6y ago
You can buy this expertise off the shelf: you recruit plant managers from the rest of the car industry & give them a free hand. Or alternatively you can put the time into reading some of the many, many publications that have detailed ex
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by pja 6y ago
It’s always easy to blame the workers but, in the vast majority of cases, poor quality output is a management issue. Other car manufacturers have managed to create production lines that churn out high quality vehicles every 90 seconds (or b
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by pja 6y ago
As a point of reference, HumbleBundle charges 5% for the Humble payment widget. They handle hosting your data, all the payment systems for taking payments from most of the world, handling chargebacks on your behalf etc etc. If you want to s
501.
by pja 6y ago
It’s weird, people report all these issues, but in the past I bought Thinkpads for years & they always "just worked". Took a risk & picked up a Dell XPS 13 a couple of years ago, and that "just worked" too. It’s
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by pja 6y ago
Every building needs upkeep. Whether it’s a castle or a cottage. If you don’t keep up the repairs, eventually the roof fails, rain gets in & then it’s a relatively quick slide into total ruin.
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by pja 6y ago
Honestly, to this native speaker, articulated was a perfectly good word choice in this instance & one that I might have made myself. I agree; I don’t think the alternate meaning of 'jointed movement' is going to occur to the m
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by pja 6y ago
You "call out" something that you’ve spotted. I suspect that the OP has merged one idiom into the other :) As a native speaker, "spot" by itself or maybe more formally a verb like "notice" would be something th
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by pja 6y ago
Exactly. Peroxide oxidises everything - including the parts of you that you need to live.
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by pja 7y ago
Completely out of stock on Amazon (UK). Supply chains really haven’t had a chance to react to the change in demand & won’t be able to until Chinese manufacturing has a chance to ramp up to meet demand I guess.
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by pja 7y ago
The zlib1g name has something to do with the libc5 to libc6 transition that affected all of Debian back circa the year 2000 I think. The libssl-dev thing is because (usually) you can only have the headers installed for a single version of a
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by pja 7y ago
Yeah, the B-frames were my thought too, but ordinary sensor noise would hopefully make the individual frames different enough. If you’re doing green-screen background switching, or transmitting a static image then it’s definitely going to b
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by pja 7y ago
The Good Place made a point of this! They (kind of arbitrarily ) placed the last date it was possible to exist without exploiting other people’s misfortune in some way back in the 1600s.
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by pja 7y ago
Yes, obviously. That doesn’t alter the fact that /this/ Q is worse than all the others to date.

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