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by snaily 10y ago
We are not! The "8-12 feet tall" tells part of the difference. Bilberries, or "European blueberries", is pretty much ground cover at 2 feet or so (and supposedly covers about 20% of the entirety of Sweden).
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by snaily 10y ago
> toot sweet "Tout de suite" has never before sounded so appetizing!
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by snaily 10y ago
> Vallee Blanche, best and longest of-piste in Europe Longest, by virtue of being very flat. Scenery is great, but the ride is (sometimes literally) pedestrian.
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by snaily 10y ago
Not really, unfortunately: http://www.seatemperature.org/asia/singapore/singapore.htm
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by snaily 11y ago
The rocket equation applies when you're continuously accelerating your fuel to ever higher speeds. The work in supersonic flight is fighting drag, which while many times larger that for subsonic does not have an appreciable weight depe
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by snaily 11y ago
Right, the benefits of podcast over radio are easy to explain. The parent post's point is not that it is hard to market over radio, but rather that it is hard to action on the advertisement, since the listener likely has their hands fu
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by snaily 11y ago
A counterpoint in the form of a "humorous" travel guide for a Eastern European fictional country: http://www.amazon.com/Molvania-Untouched-Modern-Dentistry-Je...
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by snaily 11y ago
Are you referring to the "(100*drive-failures)/(drive-hours/24/365)"? There's no multiplication of total # of drives and # of failures in there. It's all just a scaling: you have a number of broken drives
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by snaily 11y ago
Per month, I take it?
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by snaily 11y ago
This counterpoint is edging towards meme status (just try googling). The usual counter-counterpoints to parachutes: * Parachute hardware adds non-useful weight * Salt water landings increases refurbishing costs * Active guidance ("hitt
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by snaily 11y ago
The Falcon 9 does not rely on differential thrust - the center engine (and the others, I believe) can gimbal ("rotate").
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by snaily 11y ago
https://lookback.io lets you do that on mobile. The neatest implementations have it show up if the user shakes the phone.
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by snaily 11y ago
One should also take into account that the return to flight is going to be with what is called "Falcon 9 Full Thrust" - essentially, Falcon 9 v1.2 - a lengthened and upgraded rocket. Some of the extra delays have undoubtedly been
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by snaily 11y ago
Given how quickly software engineering as a discipline moves, it's not unreasonable that most users at any given point in time (for any given library) are in those first few years. Optimizing for the "newbie" case is not a fa
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by snaily 11y ago
Like Starship, who made the rounds last week: https://www.starship.xyz
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by snaily 11y ago
There's something about multidimensional geometry and great theorem names. I bring you the ham sandwich theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem
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by snaily 11y ago
Keep - much more scannable at a glance.
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by snaily 11y ago
Here's a set of slides on how Spotify does it with playlists: http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/JimmyMrdell/playlists-at-sp...
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by snaily 11y ago
You do realize that speed and revs are linear as long as you're in the same gear? If you're "in the middle of the rev range" at 300 and double your revs, you're going to be going 600 km/h.
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by snaily 11y ago
> It is a large country and has existing infrastructure. The latter part is the real elephant in the room here - the former reason is by now a cliché putdown when it comes to infrastructure investment in the US. Kazahkstan and Uruguay ar
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by snaily 11y ago
Even so, a company will want to avoid losing the trademark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark#Avoiding_gen... (Lego is one of the examples as a success story for this approach)
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by snaily 11y ago
The point is that the desire to use a OTP typically hinges on it being "uncrackable". By using a PRNG (even if it is a cryptographic stream cipher) to generate your pad, you've just re-introduced the same "crackability&q
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Timmy – Trusted Timestamping via TLS in Rust(github.com)
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by snaily 11y ago
...all effort being equal. And assuming, of course, that comments are read (on average) once.
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by snaily 11y ago
I can't make sense of this statement in the article - it seems to be off by two orders of magnitude. A typical smartphone battery (Xiaomi Mi4i) is specified at 3.12Ah @ 4.4V. Multiplying, we get an energy content of about 50 kilojoules