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The Ziggurat Algorithm for Random Gaussian Sampling (2011)(heliosphan.org)
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by redcalx 11y ago
Recently I've been buying small electrical parts for hobby projects (e.g. little rf transmitters and receivers), mostly finding stuff on amazon and ebay. Most of those parts arrive with an origin address in Shengzen, usually something
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by redcalx 11y ago
It's interesting to 'follow the money' in the UK situation. If we were building more houses then prices would be lower and money would be flowing into construction and therefore the working population as a whole. With constra
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> That's a cultural construct The rental versus buying dichotomy is orthogonal to the issue of limited supply. If everyone rents there is still the same overall demand for accommodation, hence rents would be high (due to limited sup
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Unless there are reserve planes that come immediately on-line to fill the gap (or the remaining planes do more fly time).
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by redcalx 11y ago
Despite all of the progress in integrated circuits, the best we have is still nowhere near theoretical limits for computation per unit energy or unit space.
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by redcalx 11y ago
People can also function without a cerebellum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellar_hypoplasia#Signs_an...
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by redcalx 11y ago
The figure I've seen is 20%. If you burn about 2000 calories a day that works out at about 97 watts on average. 20% of that is about 19 watts. Bit more detail here: http://heliosphan.org/bodyfatenergy.html
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by redcalx 11y ago
> the balls collect a rim of sludge more easily Not sure if that's a massive issue, that would probably seal the water off even more effectively. That makes me think that this whole balls idea will limit gas exchange too, i.e. much
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by redcalx 11y ago
> Black balls will also heat up more, causing more evaporation. Question. Overall, is the heat absorption of the black balls greater than open water? I imagine it's about the same, but perhaps the issue is that the balls are concent
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by redcalx 11y ago
Right, so an orbit implies an amount of kinetic energy which you need to lose to lower your orbit; and losing kinetic energy in a frictionless environment requires some kind of propulsion.
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by redcalx 11y ago
The logical extreme version is to take the median score.
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by redcalx 11y ago
Have you factored in the CO2 footprint of solar panels? Producing pure silicon is energy intensive, then there are various metals involved, so you've got mining, refinement, smelting, and bulk transport costs. The panels also have a li
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by redcalx 11y ago
> I don't see any outbound traffic on Fiddler Be aware that software can choose to not use a system configure proxy. It's a good tool to use, but absence of traffic in fiddler is not a definitive result, not least because it&#x
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by redcalx 11y ago
Thanks. I've long wondered what soda actually is!
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Ten Quick Topics to Ruin Your Summer(gmo.com)
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by redcalx 11y ago
...or bandwidth and time lag.
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by redcalx 11y ago
I don't think it's for the type of person that reads HN. I recently asked what a spike was and what the word relates to. I didn't get a clear answer i.e. I don't think anyone properly understood what it meant. I later di
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by redcalx 11y ago
I think that's likely a 'healthier' approach - i.e. to be at ease with where you are in life an not feel like there's a set of things you need to do to make life worthwhile. There's a similarity there with the Buddh
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by redcalx 11y ago
"By now I’ve learned, the very hard way, that what you see in someone at the beginning is what you get forevermore." I've heard this a few times over the years. Slowly I'm beginning to learn this first hand, from observi
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Entropy, Probability and Deep Learning(heliosphan.org)
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by redcalx 11y ago
I envisage much grainy audio of intellectual (or pseudo intellectual?) discussions featuring on soundcloud sad-core and post rock accounts.
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by redcalx 11y ago
Do you have a view on Redis cache? It seems to be more popular than memcached at the moment.
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by redcalx 11y ago
Nice reference discussion, thanks. Sounds like we're on the same wavelength. Our main issue (IMO) is that if you get a SQL Server person in to solve SQL Server performance issues then you're likely going to go down the route of on
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by redcalx 11y ago
> stored procedures and coupling Right. Funny how 'best practice' became to use stored procs rather than generated queries. Partly because it constrains and defines the API exposed by the DB and greatly helps avoid SQL injectio
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by redcalx 11y ago
"Well-timed satellite or balloon based WiFi could foment a revolution?" Assuming the key players want a revolution, i.e. China, US, South Korea. We've seen how those sorts of revolutions can play out and they're not alw
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by redcalx 11y ago
I'm currently arguing for serious considerations of SQL Server alternatives for selected new development work (and where reasonably achievable), in order to mitigate spiralling license fees. The main issue is that mostly those fees are
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by redcalx 11y ago
A/C at my place of work is like some kind of Stanford-esque psychological experiment. Not sure about the gender split, but the A/C is definitely an endless source of disagreement. Maybe it's worse when there are multiple cont
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by redcalx 11y ago
> let's focus on the negative at every turn You mean like the dearth of humour?
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by redcalx 11y ago
> Are there governments with garbage collection and simplification of laws built into the legislative process? Sort of, e.g. see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30334812

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