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by smaddox 8y ago
> And like most things, the moon will be close enough to a greybody that you could use the surface temperature as a first order approximation. No, it won't, and no you can't. The OP already pointed out that the Moon is too cold
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by smaddox 8y ago
Except the moon is acting as a (partial) reflector, and so is part of the optical system. So, really, you're limited to the temperature of the Sun, not to that of the moon. So the conclusion is still potentially incorrect.
453.
by smaddox 8y ago
And for each CI compile, how many times have devs done an incremental compile? Probably a lot.
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by smaddox 8y ago
I did not get any auto-playing audio on mobile.
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by smaddox 8y ago
I can't agree that drug regulation hasn't increased safety. Safety incidents are still quite common with unregulated "supplements". See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zicam and https://w
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by smaddox 8y ago
Wow... That is pretty convincing and damning...
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by smaddox 8y ago
The purpose of the "regulation" is to circumvent the US constitution, without actually amending the constitution.
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by smaddox 8y ago
Huh, very interesting. Definitely not intuitive by comparison to electric charge.
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by smaddox 8y ago
What happens if the gravitational mass is the exact negative of the inertial mass for some fraction of matter, though? Does that break GR?
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by smaddox 8y ago
It's possible that the dielectric is indeed necessary to isolate the gate from the source/drain, but I can't say for sure.
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by smaddox 8y ago
Well, considering the hardware sandboxing is also imperfect (Spectre, meltdown, rowhammer), you don't really have a choice but to use at least some software sandboxing. If you can use only software sandboxing, then there are potentiall
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by smaddox 8y ago
Yes, the fields required are large. But because the distance is so small, the voltage difference can be quite reasonable.
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by smaddox 8y ago
All non-conductive materials are dielectric to some degree. Strictly speaking, so are conductive materials.
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by smaddox 8y ago
Open publishing and commenting would be a good start---having a dialog, like is done at conferences. Older academic journal articles (pre 1900) read much more like discussions than like the hundred dollar word vomits of modern academic publ
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by smaddox 8y ago
Yeah, Rust doesn't have built-in range types, but it's fairly straightforward to write a macro to generate them. I've done this for array indices being passed over the network, in order to automate validation and minimize the
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by smaddox 8y ago
These sorts of bugs seem like an inherent side effect of implicitness, in this case of implicit type casting in C/C++. Rust mostly solves this specific class of bugs by requiring explicit type casts. As a consequence, in Rust, unlike i
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by smaddox 8y ago
This is an important and often overlooked aspect of system aging. Heat dissipation is the primary performance bottleneck of modern CPUs (in truly CPU-bound tasks). There's a reason liquid nitrogen/helium cooling can enable dramati
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by smaddox 8y ago
Optical switches are not a contender for general computing. Scaling beyond the diffraction limit (approximately half the wavelength) requires plasmonics, which is arguably more lossy than traditional transistors. If anything ever subplants
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by smaddox 8y ago
Nice in theory. Very difficult to get anywhere near that efficiency in practice. Best of luck to them, but I'm not holding my breath.
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by smaddox 8y ago
You do realize that table salt is a "chlor- compound", right? Yes, refining silicon requires the use of dangerous chemicals. No, that does not make it "dirty" in the way that burning coal is dirty, i.e. expelling carcino
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by smaddox 8y ago
Yeah, it's not clear if a self-landing retrobooster would have been possible given the components available at the time of the space shuttle's design, not to mention the vast improvements in computer modeling and simulation that w
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by smaddox 8y ago
> Pilots on the Lion Air flight were receiving erroneous speed readings, a problem that had occurred on three previous flights, according to the Indonesia National Transportation Safety Committee. They had radioed air-traffic controllers
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by smaddox 8y ago
If the mission statement is superceded by other implicit values, like creating shareholder value, it's not much of a mission statement. The whole point of a mission statement is to make your primary values explicit.
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by smaddox 8y ago
No, it's not. It's a lightly veiled threat.
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by smaddox 8y ago
The studies I'm familiar with all indicate that any income above a fixed amount, typically around $70k, has no effect on happiness. In other words, once all basic needs are fullfilled, income has no measurable effect on happiness.
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by smaddox 8y ago
If that's true, it's only a matter of time until they get sued and lose a large class action suit.
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by smaddox 8y ago
In such instances, giving a placebo definitely seems better than an opiod, but in my opinion, it definitely isn't helping the patient and is likely hurting them by distracting them from the underlying emotional cause. At least when giv
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by smaddox 8y ago
PWM could be combined with a capacitor in order to smooth the voltage out. Or sufficiently high PWM frequency can be used (10s of khz), in order to avoid eye strain. The former approach might negatively affect the efficiency, though, depend
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by smaddox 8y ago
Exactly! What's the point in having a graphical user interface if the possible interactions are not discoverable through the GUI itself?!
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by smaddox 8y ago
That is somewhat unfortunate, but if I take a bit of time to think about it, it seems like a necessary consequence of a successful open source project/movement. Perhaps, in cases like those, you could find a way to split the base proje

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