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by rm445 10y ago
Allegedly (association) football coaches seventy years ago would make players train without the ball all week, on the grounds that they would be keener to actually play football come Saturday. Of course they ended up under-skilled. My poin
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by rm445 10y ago
It seems paradoxical. Access to amounts of matter and energy that would be absolutely transformational to the world (solar system) economy... but no economic case to go and get them? Perhaps this is something with a huge payoff that doesn&#
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by rm445 10y ago
Despite the well-known schoolboy doggerel (Latin is a language / As dead as dead can be. / First it killed the Romans / And now it's killing me!), there has always been a live community of Latin speakers, via the church.
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by rm445 10y ago
Autocad and Excel have native Mac versions.
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by rm445 10y ago
Yes, that's the core of the issue. The US is a big monobloc, an economic superpower with not only the most advanced economy but also a lot of the history tied to developing the world's industries. Other places saw more benefit to
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by rm445 10y ago
5/16" is the world's most compatible thread. The numbers are close enough that, in the most common thread pitch, you can usually get away with using it interchangeably with M8.
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by rm445 10y ago
Shout out to another base-12 fan. If only we had 12 fingers it might have happened. Arbitrary divisions of angle aren't very interesting, since the radian is so fundamental. But there is an angle system using multiples of 100: gradians
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by rm445 10y ago
Just as a point of interest, I believe there are special forms of garbage collector that are suitable for hard real time systems. The principle is to regularly use a bounded amount of time for collecting - in line with the latency requireme
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by rm445 10y ago
Well said - that's a point worth making. But not necessarily a big worry with this particular article - Eco's fame as a novelist and the sheer strength of his prose will tend to bust through filters regardless.
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by rm445 10y ago
Some of the things she advocates are quite extreme. Like keeping no more than 30 books.
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by rm445 10y ago
David Kelly definitely died. At the very least, he was hounded into suicide under intense media, political, professional and personal pressure, without even getting into conspiracy theories.
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by rm445 10y ago
One thing that is odd, is that as far as I can tell during the run-up to the referendum, no-one made the intellectual case for free movement of people to live and work throughout Europe. The 'Remain' camp made occasional and frank
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by rm445 10y ago
A reasonable strategy, so long as one accepts from the outset that no human could be a sufficiently competent dictator, and even if occasionally someone was 'close enough' then succession crises would de-stabilise the system. We n
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by rm445 10y ago
This is probably already possible in several language implementations just by telling them to turn off their garbage collector. After all, the essential rule behind garbage collection is that all variables are available to a program for eve
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by rm445 10y ago
Yes, apart from the coincidental sharing a name with Elon Musk's car company, a moderate amount of magnetic field strength is an odd thing to care about putting into orbit. I think it's just some poor, ad-hoc made-up notation. I h
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by rm445 10y ago
Each NP-complete problem is in fact a family of problems. In the sense that you could compute an optimal sales route between a small number of cities or optimally pack a very small knapsack in your head. I believe the point the posted artic
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by rm445 10y ago
The potential energy of a mass m at height h is mgh . Play with this and you'll immediately see it doesn't seem useful. e.g. storing a 50-tonne weight at 10m gives you less than 1.5 kWh of energy.
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by rm445 11y ago
There must be an in-between case where a small problem is solved by remembering the method. The kind of thing where you end up looking up the double-angle formulae or checking the definition for integration by parts. I guess the programming
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by rm445 11y ago
Fascinating, thank you.
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by rm445 11y ago
Development of inflatable volumes is a reasonable step towards us becoming a spacegoing species. If you have a decent bag and enough air to pressurise it, you can have as much room as you want in space. There's no external pressure wor
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by rm445 11y ago
Clause 6.2.4 of C11, paragraph 2: > The lifetime of an object is the portion of program execution during which storage is guaranteed to be reserved for it. An object exists, has a constant address,33) and retains its last-stored value th
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by rm445 11y ago
Yet conversely, your point is an example of the very 'balance routine' mentioned in the article. Let's say that Trump is an egregiously bad candidate. (Please note I'm trying to make a logical point, not give informed co
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by rm445 11y ago
Lots of comments and everyone is debating based on their intuition. Basic income is a fascinating idea, but it seems like advocates would love to see a huge place like the USA commit and pile in, when a small trial run would be much more se
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by rm445 11y ago
If someone doesn't recognise it as fiction in the third paragraph - a decade of deflation and hyper-deflation? - they're unlikely to be able to take much away from the article anyway. (And that's before the end of the paragra
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by rm445 11y ago
> No matter how I look at it, I can't see any net good for voters when public employees unionize. The benefit goes to the workers (not the voters, except inasmuch as the workers form a moderately large part of the voting public). Th
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by rm445 11y ago
I put it to you that pens are intrinsically difficult for quality of production systems. Their nature (portable, lose-able, lend-able, steal-able) calls out for cheapness and disposability. Their size and ergonomics call out for precision m
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by rm445 11y ago
It's quite clever really, suggesting so much while not actually saying anything at all. Imagine someone pulling out their undergraduate notes to show you some basic equations, and describe it in the most florid way possible - you get s
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by rm445 11y ago
> The Netherlands? We only speak Dutch here. :-) ... he wrote in perfect, neutrally-accented English :-)
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by rm445 11y ago
Opposing hypotheses: that violence is a choice driven by self interest; that violence happens when someone is angry enough they don't think things through; that violence is an expression of some primal instinct. I think all of these ar
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by rm445 11y ago
You should put up some tech specs. Positional tolerance, profile tolerance, edge breaks, plate flatness, surface roughness specs (polished and unpolished). It doesn't need to be marketing speak: as you say it's a precise process a

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