sloucher

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by sloucher 6y ago
For people like me looking at the linked tweet via a desktop browser: the picture in the tweet isn't shown in full - you need to click on it to see the issue. And... it's horrifying.
32.
by sloucher 6y ago
Duh dee dee daah, duh dee dee daah, duh dee dee do do daaah...
33.
by sloucher 6y ago
I've worked with people for whom "compiler bug" is their first port of call...
34.
by sloucher 6y ago
"One side fits all" :-)
35.
by sloucher 6y ago
You just made those words up right now!
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by sloucher 6y ago
I worked on the computer system that determined what the spot FX rates were at the "fix". This was almost 20 years ago, I guess. (Crazy to think how many trillions of dollars were touched by my contribution). I can confirm that no
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by sloucher 6y ago
Also the UK is missing from the Mercator projection.
38.
by sloucher 6y ago
A list is useful, but would be even more so if there were some indication of the domains in which a model may be useful. If the model description included the problem they were trying to solve, that would let me judge how closely it mirrore
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by sloucher 6y ago
> the likelihood of creating lakes for hydro use is close to zero Yes, because they'd be lochs, not lakes :-) We already have some (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruachan_Power_Station ) and are talking abo
40.
by sloucher 6y ago
As I understood the article, this isn't about storing energy so much as just stabilising the frequency of the grid. (Yes, if we used more hydro-electric then that would do the job for us, but it's not the case that we need this in
41.
by sloucher 6y ago
>The team has published their results in the journal "Combustion and Flame". Sounds like a rip-roaring read!
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by sloucher 7y ago
A desktop app is able to access much more of your local system than a web page, so... :-)
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by sloucher 7y ago
>Windows from 7 to 10 nailed it Where in Windows 10? Surely not the clock at the bottom-right, in the task-bar? That's probably the bit of UI I hate the most (and on Win10 that's a long list).
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by sloucher 7y ago
Good to know that Feb 31st falls on a Monday this year :-) Love it though.