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by sleavey 8y ago
It'd be interesting to see a cost comparison to the USSR's program around the same time, leading up to the development of the first Soviet nuclear bomb.
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by sleavey 8y ago
I've found Beancount [1] to be a nicer version of Ledger. It is similar syntax but it enforces rigid rules to ensure you don't make as many mistakes. You can also use Fava [2] as a nice local web-based account browser. [1] http:&
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by sleavey 8y ago
Spell check just needs a dictionary installed, not a plugin. This takes about three clicks.
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by sleavey 8y ago
Came here to ask about 3D. Weird that the article doesn't mention the 3D or n-dimensional case.
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by sleavey 8y ago
Seems so. Honest question: what's to stop the manufacturer (or anyone who knows the manufacturer) from making copies and selling them themselves? Do business owners who sell this sort of thing on Amazon just have to stay ahead of the c
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by sleavey 8y ago
I've been using first party isolation ever since it was ported from Tor. It's excellent, but be aware that it breaks stuff, usually JavaScript, on about 5% of websites (anecdata). I find this to be well worth it, especially to fin
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Investigating the noise residuals around the gravitational wave event GW150914(arxiv.org)
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by sleavey 8y ago
How's that working out for you?
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by sleavey 8y ago
I went to university intending to study computing science, but switched to physics half way through under the assumption that you could teach yourself computing science more easily than physics. I wouldn't change what I learned for the
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by sleavey 8y ago
I guess, meet and exceed housing demand and improve less affluent areas. This involves government money but most seem happy to let the public take the bill in the form of continuously inflating house prices instead.
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by sleavey 8y ago
Three or four more detectors is definitely not easy. The current ones were built, tuned and retuned over 25 years, and with approximately $1B spending on the US side alone (ignoring efforts in Europe, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Malaysia, etc
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by sleavey 8y ago
Agreed. The "secrecy" thing is just hyperbole from New Scientist. What LIGO are doing with their data is completely standard practice in the community.
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by sleavey 8y ago
Recaptcha is a horrible experience if you block tracking. Sometimes I fill in literally 10 pages of CAPTCHAs and it still can't work out if I am a bot or not. It's not even clear to me why having tracking cookies is even a sign th
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by sleavey 8y ago
I am ignorant of this particular aspect of C and most of C in general, but shouldn't the kernel developers try to follow the C standard instead of just a compiler's?
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by sleavey 8y ago
I really like it. About 9 months ago I started working on a plugin for my workplace to turn the platform into a logbook for our researchers, and got to build from scratch for the new platform, so to be fair I am not experiencing any of my p
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by sleavey 8y ago
Surely there must be a checklist to follow before maintenance like this that involves either locking the fire buttons, unloading the ammunition or with some kind of reliable software switch. Either possibility, that such a procedure is not
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by sleavey 8y ago
Maybe burning fuel to reduce the chance of explosion during the emergency landing? That's quite common.
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by sleavey 8y ago
Not so much of the highlands speak Scots. Here is a map [1]. Indeed, the Wikipedia article states it is sometimes called "Lowland Scots". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ScotsLanguageMap.png
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by sleavey 8y ago
I'm Scottish, but I work with a lot of Germans and every so often I try to learn some. I have found that Scots has a lot of similar works to German, sometimes more so than English. I guess this must be because it comes from Middle Engl
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by sleavey 8y ago
Of note is the Minecraft website from 2011 [1], where Markus Persson said: "Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source. I'm not very happy with the draconi
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by sleavey 8y ago
I see. Are there any major differences in the two licences? I'm interested why the OP specifically mentioned GPL forks of Firefox.
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by sleavey 8y ago
Firefox isn't GPL?
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by sleavey 8y ago
I guess they're comparing stock Brave (which blocks ads and trackers by default) to stock Chrome / Firefox (which don't - well, Firefox does block some trackers now). Blocking ads categorically improves page load time.
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by sleavey 8y ago
The paper I linked describes it a bit more, but it's unfortunately behind a paywall. I'll summarise it here. They used a camera connected to a LabVIEW interface to view the trapped particles, but they control it using a laser and
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by sleavey 8y ago
As an undergrad I worked in a lab where they built an iPad app to control optical tweezers [1, 2]. It's a cool example of the possibilities of this technique - allowing you to manipulate nanoscopic particles suspended in fluid. [1] ht
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by sleavey 8y ago
I guess the Nobel committee are acutely aware of the injustice they served to Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the prize awarded for the discovery of pulsars. She did most of the work and analysis as the student, and her supervisors got the credit.
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by sleavey 8y ago
The Art of Electronics. My field is experimental physics so this introductory textbook is often the starting point for our designs for photodetectors, power supplies, amplifiers and the like. I'm excitedly waiting for the X Chapters fo
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by sleavey 8y ago
Ads where the presenter speaks them and says how they have personally enjoyed the product make me suspicious. Is it really true that you enjoyed the razors or the meal kits more than any of the competition? Or are you giving it false legiti
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by sleavey 8y ago
Agreed. I dabbled with Pyside2 recently and it was refreshingly well structured compared to PyQt4, which is what I last used when I built a GUI a few years ago. It looks like the community might finally get behind one, good, open library fo
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by sleavey 8y ago
There are some cool global minimisation algorithms which can handle certain types of problem where the initial guess is far away. Some involve switching between different algorithms until the cost function is close to its minimum. I did try

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