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by scatters 10y ago
So there's three things here: upfront cost, running costs, and decommissioning costs. The running costs of renewable generation are nonzero even if the fuel is free, as there's considerable maintenance cost. The long run cost - an
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by scatters 10y ago
Opportunity cost. Those resources could conceivably be better spent building roads, railways, factories, protecting wetlands, rewilding forests, educating children... There are plenty of current, pressing problems to solve; why solve a prob
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by scatters 10y ago
The problems affect a fairly narrow band of latitudes; specifically, those where the average long-term temperature was just below freezing i.e. the southern margin of the permafrost. 1-2F is indeed within natural variation, but historically
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by scatters 10y ago
Doesn't your car have Bluetooth? Or rather: how old does a car have to be before it doesn't come with Bluetooth as standard? Every rental I've had in the last five years has had Bluetooth to my recollection, and I don't
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by scatters 10y ago
Even at closest approach, there won't be any appreciable change in the night sky over a human lifetime. Note that in the gallery at the bottom of http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/milky-way
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by scatters 10y ago
The exception support code is a constant overhead. The remaining difference in size will come from the unwind tables - but it's difficult to compare apples with apples there, because a program written to not use exceptions will need ad
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by scatters 10y ago
Yeah, nice to see they've found a way to square their consciences with stealing from the taxpayers of Europe.
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by scatters 11y ago
C++ standardization votes on a 5-point scale: Strong For, For, Neutral, Against, Strong Against. I think it's important to be able to express the lack of an opinion, although I guess you could do that on a 4-point scale by abstaining.
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by scatters 11y ago
> I wonder if there's a way to make it work where all the usages are replaced by 'float_t'. Yes, in fact you don't have to change anything else. The trick is that on x86-64 float is promoted to double for argument pas
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by scatters 11y ago
The interesting thing about changing return types is that you can alter the return type of spectral_contrast to float_t without affecting behavior, since float is promoted to double for argument passing (it's passed and returned in the
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by scatters 11y ago
"[If] anyone in his workplace was bothered by his shirt, they should have talked to his manager, and those actually affected could have resolved the issue like adults." You're implying that only people within ESA could have b
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by scatters 11y ago
The moderators' time and effort is valuable too. If someone reacts to a normal ban by creating new accounts and continuing their previous behaviour, what use is there in telling them that their behaviour is not acceptable if they refus
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by scatters 12y ago
Sure, casing is complicated; but determining whether a codepoint has the uppercase property is easy - just use u_isUUppercase(). Where it does get complicated is determining whether a codepoint or a digraph of multiple codepoints is a lette
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by scatters 12y ago
The Route Blanche outside Chamonix gives a great view of the Glacier des Bossons, coming down off Mont Blanc: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@45.9079772,6.8476677,3a,41.4y...
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by scatters 12y ago
That's just Apple being typically arrogant (and other font designers following them, sadly). The way to write a flag in emoji is to combine the two letters of its country code; e.g. for the French flag you write REGIONAL INDICATOR F +
616.
by scatters 12y ago
That's U+1F615 CONFUSED FACE - it's not supposed to be sad. Android and Symbola render it with a straight, slanted mouth - I'm not sure why other fonts make it sad looking.
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by scatters 13y ago
UK here. It's definitely been in use as journalistic jargon for a while, typically in the form of a headline "Explainer: <topic of article>", e.g. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycen
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by scatters 13y ago
If you aren't taking a 30 minute break every 3-4 hours then I really don't want to be on the same road as you.
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by scatters 13y ago
On conventional platforms, sure, but there's nothing in the standard stopping int being larger than size_t. It would make plenty of sense on segmented or small-pointer architectures, like x32 (word size 64 bit, pointer size 32 bit).