sambeau

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   by sambeau 3y ago

   EVE Online: training AIs to run the Galactic Empire.
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   by sambeau 3y ago

   We (the British) exterminated 750,000 in preparation for WWII. Voluntarily. "People were worried about the threat of bombing and food shortages and felt it inappropriate to have the 'luxury' of a pet during wartime" htt
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   by sambeau 3y ago

   I would love to be able to ship apps in this, with a code bundle, so we don't need to ship a full Electron engine for every app. Even better, I wish someone would standardise it so we could still write one, ship to all platforms.
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   by sambeau 3y ago

   And if you're in the UK, you can go and visit her at Duxford https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/american-air-museum
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   by sambeau 3y ago

   :wave emoji:
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   by sambeau 3y ago

   This is one of our demos from 2008, which looks very similar (though we aren't using Google Maps data, we're mostly using OS map data). It's also long before an art pass, so the textures, trees, building, road etc are just
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   by sambeau 3y ago

   As someone who worked at Realtime Worlds on the MyWorld project, this is very poignant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realtime_Worlds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MyWorld
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   by sambeau 3y ago

   Adding a ton of water to the atmosphere is going to cause more warming. Water vapour is Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas. It's responsible for about half of Earth's greenhouse effect.
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   by sambeau 3y ago

   Laws can be iterated on. Uncertainty, red tape and legal fees all seem like worth-while brakes on a potentially dangerous industry. Better to be safe than sorry.
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    by sambeau 3y ago

    This comment makes you patronisingly incorrecter.
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    The Forgotten Life of Einstein's First Wife(blogs.scientificamerican.com)

    3 points by sambeau 4y ago|1 comments
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    That is completely impossible. The UK uses 5x as much energy as it currently generates in electricity, mostly for heating and transport. I'm not saying that laying cable from Africa to the UK is the best solution, only that the UK need
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    And, UV for our skin to produce NO to reduce our blood pressure
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    Also, it was part funded by a CNG-Bio inc., a Lions Mane mushrooms and medicinal mushrooms supplier > ACKNOWLEDGMENTS > This work was supported by … and CNG-Bio grant Funding to F.A.M. > CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT > This wor
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    These are for buffering/load-balancing, not storage. Note the <500 milliseconds response time, that's way faster than pump hydro can respond, even with compressed air. A typical UK household uses close to 50kWh of energy a day,
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    Is that him again in the bottom photo, mid pack on the left, wearing sunglasses?
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    > "at 3 AM, I was driving home. Two deadly drunk 18-years-old girls in dark clothes decided somehow to crawl across a poorly lit highway" There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    > In general, the current performance has not been specially optimized. I estimate that it is about 30% to 50% of the performance of CPython. > Because stack-based virtual machine is used, the performance is hard to reach Lua, where t
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    "Monitoring of Quality and Stability Characteristics and Fatty Acid Compositions of Refined Olive and Seed Oils during Repeated Pan- and Deep-Frying Using GC, FT-NIRS, and Chemometrics" https://pubs.acs.org/doi&#x2
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    Though most concrete is reinforced with steel rebar, it can be reinforced with all sorts of other materials to strengthen it under different conditions & loads: glass rods, plastic meshes, fibres, carbon nanotubes, etc.
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    Who would create a language that only has ASCII strings in this day and age?
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    Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products(washingtonpost.com)

    109 points by sambeau 4y ago|85 comments
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    Lights on lights off is also useful, especially when in bed or carrying a basket-full of washing.
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    Sorry—many sites have that as a 'feature'. Thank you for responding and fixing.
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    Thank you. I'll take a look now :)
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    Hey, fast-try/illacloud, I know this is petty, but, if you mess with history and make it impossible for me to back out of your web page (by clicking the back button), I will immediately assume you are a untrustworthy company, and I wil
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    I loved the hockey puck mouse. I could fling it about with great accuracy. I held onto it until the touch sensitive magic mice made me switch. I've never understood why it's so hated. I think you were all "holding it wrong&qu
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    Globalism is a right-wing code word for Jewish
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    This was on one of my set texts at University in the 1990s. I still own it (somewhere) and a few others in this series. There was a companion book by David Watt which covered the implementation of interpreters and compilers and used a small
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    by sambeau 4y ago

    This isn't new terminology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_(angle)