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by scblock 7y ago
As the article discusses, much (though not all) of the issue he has is with the display value in UIs or published data.
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by scblock 7y ago
I would consider storing (as part of the database) or defining (as part of the display code) the number of significant digits for coordinates part of good GIS design.
453.
by scblock 7y ago
Depends on the equipment. Sub centimeter with the right equipment and appropriate reference station. 3 meters, typically, with consumer equipment.
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by scblock 7y ago
Bacigalupi's near-future fiction is all too believable.
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by scblock 7y ago
Absolutely this. Or I'll get a CAD export in "Wyoming State Plane" but no indication that the designer decided to work in inches, not (US survey) feet. I spend more time than I ever would have guessed playing datum detective.
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by scblock 7y ago
Interesting, but as a daily user of one of these Dell laptops, I would never do this. Its some of the worst hardware I've ever had the misfortune to use.
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by scblock 7y ago
Wyoming has very low air density, which reduces the power generation potential. It also has a tiny population, limited transmission capacity, difficult terrain, and short building seasons. That said, there are transmission system upgrades f
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by scblock 7y ago
This is true, though most of the newer Great Plains wind developments are in the mid-40 percent range and up right now.
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by scblock 7y ago
For the most part the federal Production Tax Credit is the only subsidy of substance that applies to wind farms in the US.
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by scblock 7y ago
Yes and no. Anything over 200 feet requires FAA review and approval, including of lighting. Up to 499 feet the rules are simple and well understood. Between 500 and 699 feet the rules and review are more difficult, and there are a number of
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by scblock 7y ago
Here's the actual press release from Duke. It has a little more information on the technology, though it's still not super detailed. https://news.duke-energy.com/releases/duke-energy-renewables...
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by scblock 7y ago
This is a very short article with an absolute dearth of information and an extremely misleading and baiting headline. If someone is willing to do the legwork to locate some real information these projects, this technology, and what Duke is
463.
by scblock 7y ago
Even when you can swap a battery out in 5 minutes you may have a long processing time. I had to wait over 4 weeks for Dell to get me a replacement battery this year for a similar issue because battery supply itself was constrained.
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by scblock 8y ago
If you've ever used facebook then you'd know that your description "99.9% benign user generated content" is completely wrong.
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by scblock 8y ago
As others have noted this is a hilariously bad post, because in practice Windows (which is so enthusiastically praised here) is incredibly inconsistent in font rendering program by program, and on most non-hidpi screens looks like trash. Es
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by scblock 8y ago
Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19216827
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by scblock 8y ago
> The Galaxy Fold doesn’t fold completely in half, however, so there is a small gap in the center of the device when it is closed. Seems to be the key limitation in every folding concept/product announced or released so far. The tec
468.
by scblock 8y ago
Deets is just a shorthand for details.
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by scblock 8y ago
Web developers "building for Chromium" is a travesty. It's every mistake made when IE was dominant, repeated. Just do a find and replace from Microsoft to Google. If you are a web developer, please don't do it, and don&#
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by scblock 8y ago
I'm not sure how this made it to the front page. It mashes up several things about passwords, some of which are dangerous, some of which are smart. It acknowledges the strength of a system like diceware. Then it concludes 'Don&#x2
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by scblock 8y ago
I wouldn't expect them to fix anything. When you have the ethics of a company like Facebook it's much easier to claim you're going to fix something and then keep doing it. You can't cut off the money faucet if that'
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by scblock 8y ago
I guess it depends on your use case. I'm interested in having my own gallery I can share, rather than a Flickr page. I prefer "my photo gallery site" to "my pictures on Flickr", so for me the custom domain and brand
473.
by scblock 8y ago
Smugmug allows custom domains, including support for https. It also allows for custom branding and layout design (your name here, powered by Smugmug). I wasn't able to get a bare domain (e.g. domainname.tld) to work directly, so i set
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by scblock 8y ago
Amplifier designers most certainly are. Class D has significant energy efficiency advantages, and significant sonic challenges. It’s taking an analog waveform, whether decoded by a DAC or starting as pure analog, and chopping it into a seri
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by scblock 8y ago
Oh geez they could have left this statement out: "When I wrote my previous article, class-D audio was fairly new, and audiophiles were still arguing about whether class-D amps could sound as good as class-AB or class-A units. Nobody is
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by scblock 8y ago
To clarify, the previous, and still linked from this page, document is not “some Christian bullshit” that the SQLite founders made up, it is a from a very old Christian text, as explained on the linked page. I do believe that adopting an ac
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by scblock 8y ago
We're talking about Google here. It's not remotely hard to believe that Google would screw things up for people to try to get them to use more Google things.
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by scblock 8y ago
I’m trying to get my company to do the same, and also start a recurring donation to the project. No traction so far, do you have any advice?
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by scblock 8y ago
Most of our stuff is focused on calculation and interpolation on raster data, so a lot of numpy with appropriate hooks. Porting varies, sometimes it’s as simple as changing a couple of function calls to gdal, sometimes it’s trickier. I’ve o
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by scblock 8y ago
QGIS is truly excellent. I'm a frequent ESRI ArcGIS user, but I'm pushing to put QGIS more in our workflow, including field work. And I use it for personal GIS projects as well. As ESRI moves farther away from making useful produc

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