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by roel_v 7y ago
Wikipedia says 122db, but I don't think that's correct. Other sources say 73db, and describe the sound as less loud than that of the bullet impacting the woid of the target, at least with fresh baffles. (Too lazy to include links,
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by roel_v 7y ago
Just a little over time, and it was fixed budget. Timing wise still much better than the norm in our industry.
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by roel_v 7y ago
Having been on the winning side of a contract once for a bid that was clearly 100% written by a competitor, the Big Dog in our industry, in such a way that they absolutely thought only they could ever be meeting the terms - and then winning
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by roel_v 7y ago
Of course you can construct an argument for anything if you can just make up things. The fact here is that there is only one reality: your option 1. Those are the rules for any closed bid procurement processes. Who is going to bid for anyth
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by roel_v 7y ago
Can anyone tell me what Rigol I should buy and to what I can turbo-charge it through firmware hacks? Is it possible to buy something entry-level (say, $500) and make it into something that I can decode Modbus messages with, and also look at
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by roel_v 7y ago
"Humanity's understanding of this disease is much more sophisticated than the two comments above this would imply." I think we can generalize this to pretty much every comment made in this thread, and others like it, regardle
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by roel_v 7y ago
Yes, the numbers I am quoting are as compared to other years, adjusted for macro changes in population makeup, etc. The gold standard for reporting on this.
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by roel_v 7y ago
In the Netherlands (for March) mortality for all age cohorts is up, average of about 10%. Lower cohorts mortality is down but not enough to offset the others. Causality is by definition impossible to ascertain at this aggregate level, but n
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by roel_v 7y ago
That's not how any of that works nowadays. How do you deal with agricultural commodities futures in such a model, the 'flip side' of which (crop insurance) is central to businesses in certain commodities? Sure you can say &#x
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by roel_v 7y ago
It's very different from academic research, yes. But the demo scene produced things that were at the very limit of what computers were capable of at the time, and they were/are every bit as 'innovative' as some of the to
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by roel_v 7y ago
Belgium counts deaths not in hospitals much more accurately. Really, looking at worldometer numbers and comparing between countries makes no sense whatsoever, yet everyone (including media) does it anyway.
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by roel_v 7y ago
OT, but as someone who worked on it, what in your opinion was the reason for the failure of ORBit and Bonobo? I very frequently find myself wishing we (as an industry) had stuck with CORBA and (D)COM, instead of finding ourselves now writin
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by roel_v 7y ago
Yes, this is what Delta E in the CIELAB color space is meant for. But in RGB color space this concept doesn't make sense; well, only if you would accept a non linear similarity metric - but then what is the metric for, if you need to a
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by roel_v 7y ago
That restricts you to 8 bits per color channel, and more importantly, to the RGB color space which is non linear. Comparing colors in RGB color space is nonsense in the first place ('comparing' here is 'judge by human percept
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by roel_v 7y ago
What does 'telling a color apart' even mean? I did a mini project some time ago, where I basically did some custom color quantization (it was to reduce an image into a configurable amount of discrete colors, to make a pixel quilt
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by roel_v 7y ago
And even worse, there is a guy in there who still has a job, has the money, and isn't paying rent because of "solidarity" with the florist! What sort of weirdness is that? I feel sympathy for those in precarious finances who
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by roel_v 7y ago
FriendS? As in, multiple? I mean we all know one or two crazy people, but if people in your social circles believing that dog saliva is healthy is a common thing, or even the norm, I'm wondering what the cultural context around those c
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by roel_v 7y ago
Who lets their dog lick their mouth? That's absolutely filthy.
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by roel_v 7y ago
Didn't the software need to distinguish between vhs and dvd by the mid 90's?
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by roel_v 7y ago
"The problem with C++ is all the bending backwards they do to keep old code compiling and working" Uh, that's not a problem, it's (as you say) the main reason people use it and why they burn out on flavor of the day lang
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by roel_v 7y ago
Preliminary results from a Dutch study I was reading about a few hours ago, in Dutch, that I came across through news.google.nl - although because I'm in a different timezone now, google news has been refreshed, and I can't find t
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by roel_v 7y ago
Also, it seems that people with low severity symptoms don't build up a lot of antibodies, so they're not sufficiently immune. So out of that 10%, only some count towards the herd.
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by roel_v 7y ago
I'm in a house right now, sitting out the virus thing, that cost $60/night, which used to cost >$250 just 2 months ago... I'm renting longish term (few weeks), but still - that's a deep discount...
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by roel_v 7y ago
Oh I understood you worked on it full time, yeah I understand writing one as a hobby project. Thanks for replying.
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by roel_v 7y ago
How does this work? Spending 4 years, full time from what it seems, on a book with a (let's face it) niche audience. While having (again, it seems from the post) a family with children, living in a first world country, flying regularly
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by roel_v 7y ago
The Dutch word for doing gymnastics is "turnen".
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by roel_v 7y ago
How do you do q/a and voting?
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by roel_v 7y ago
"Now we're circulating guides about how to set up secure rooms and webinars, so I don't anticipate this will happen again." My sarcasm calibration is a bit off lately, you surely didn't mean this seriously (I mean,
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by roel_v 7y ago
I have a Herman Miller Mirra 2 that I like a lot. But it's very personal, you should go try several out, which in most of the world you can't right now. Higher end chairs also come in multiple sizes, making it even more important
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by roel_v 7y ago
How much more expensive is this grocery chain compared to others, if anything?

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