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by proaralyst 4y ago
The main site didn't load for me, but this archive did: https://archive.ph/tCM6b
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by proaralyst 6y ago
Nuclear pulse propulsion (Project Orion) is a different concept to nuclear thermal. Pulse works by using bombs to generate your energetic reaction mass in bursts, whereas thermal uses a more normal fission reactor to superheat some reaction
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by proaralyst 7y ago
OCaml has first-class modules & functors (functions on modules). I can write something like: let f (type t) some_arg (module M : Stringable with type t = t) = M.to_string some_arg This will have the type signature val f : &#x
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by proaralyst 7y ago
The trick was to insert a USB drive, tell BTRFS it's block storage and delete away. Once you're done you tell it not to use the disk and you're good. This is why I'm back on ext4 now, too.
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by proaralyst 7y ago
Apple does not have their own in-house search provider
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by proaralyst 7y ago
RTGs[0] use the thermoelectric effect to generate electricity from the decay heat of radioactive isotopes. This new material would allow better power generation using RTGs. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotop
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by proaralyst 7y ago
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858226
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by proaralyst 7y ago
I think uBlock Origin with one of the annoyances lists blocks this
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by proaralyst 7y ago
As I just learned: Android limits password lengths to 16 characters, so you can't use passphrases.
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by proaralyst 7y ago
I've heard this argument before, and please forgive me if this is insensitive. Are people with disabilities eased by non-paper straws not able to supply their own? Perhaps steel ones that can be reused many times? I appreciate that all
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by proaralyst 7y ago
Why are paper straws the wrong solution? Even if they take a little more energy to produce they at least don't leave long-term waste behind.
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by proaralyst 7y ago
They haven't passed judgement on Parliament's actions, just the executive's.
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by proaralyst 7y ago
There's pi-hole but it's only a DNS blocker
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by proaralyst 7y ago
This helps: https://www.justwatch.com/
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by proaralyst 7y ago
What is your phishing protection? Making sure you read the URL?
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by proaralyst 7y ago
Fugly isn't 4chan English, it's just slang. I grew up hearing people use it in real life. I'd be unsurprised to hear it in TV programming aimed at teenagers, so perhaps he learned it from that
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by proaralyst 7y ago
What makes you say that? Tensions are pretty low at the moment.
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by proaralyst 7y ago
The BBC is financially controlled by the state. The Telegraph has nothing to do with the state, however.
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by proaralyst 7y ago
To save others a rapid Google: MVNO is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operato...
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by proaralyst 7y ago
Except if you read the article you'd realise this is not active damping. They're optimising the movements using a physical model so that they don't need active damping at all.
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by proaralyst 7y ago
Well, there is a responsible way: use it like a charge card.
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“Be Water ”: seven tactics that are winning Hong Kong’s democracy revolution(newstatesman.com)
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by proaralyst 7y ago
And given most companies run managed browsers on managed systems, the user agent is going to collide too
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by proaralyst 7y ago
My ancient 5-disk box uses an average of 60W. Modern hardware should pull even less.
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by proaralyst 7y ago
> The articles in The Guardian have little to do with fact That's a very strong claim that I don't believe is made in good faith.
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by proaralyst 7y ago
What tools did you use to write the apps? I assume you had access to a good web toolkit?
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by proaralyst 7y ago
Which is specifically the body text size, no?
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by proaralyst 7y ago
Because for some people, open source is not about freedom of use of the software, but freedom of source. They feel that existing FOSS licences can't protect against modification without release in the case of cloud usage, so they use t
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by proaralyst 7y ago
Because the Mozilla brand is more trusted than a random website with ‘Pwned’ in its name. Also, it's being built into Firefox so having a website for it too seems like a good idea.
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by proaralyst 7y ago
I'd generally prefer discussion on Hacker News was kept civil. If the parent had a reputable source for their assertion, I'd be interesting to see it. A lack of a source is also interesting. Either way, asking for a source is bett

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