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by snewman 5y ago
Air pressure, a few details aside, must be equal to the weight of the air molecules sitting above the spot where you are measuring it. If we add more gas to the atmosphere, sea level air pressure must increase. One way to think about it: th
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by snewman 5y ago
This doesn't work. First of all, you'd still have the same mass of CO2, so the insulating effect wouldn't change. Those molecules would still be there to interfere with infrared radiation trying to escape into space. Second o
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by snewman 5y ago
> According to the EPA [1], electricity accounts for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions. Yes, but realistic plans for addressing climate change generally entail converting a lot of other activities to electric power; this is on the table fo
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by snewman 5y ago
Except that (presumably) there is no guarantee that any spot instances are available. You could wind up in a state where you have no instances running. No user-facing production service can tolerate that.
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by snewman 5y ago
I imagine the reason they make so much from the store is that the gas station is drawing people in? It's expensive to build and maintain the gas station itself, they wouldn't do it unless it was an important contributor to the bus
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by snewman 5y ago
The problem here is not taxation, it's the artificially constrained housing supply in the Bay Area. Too many people are chasing too few houses; they would remain unaffordable to most even if the tax rate were zero, because prices would
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by snewman 5y ago
I'm honestly baffled by this argument. Do you click through 100% of the links that reach the front page? More to the point, do you expect/desire that most HN readers should do so? Presumably not; so, we must expect that readers --
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by snewman 5y ago
It's a tradeoff. In my view, the primary function of the title is to help a viewer understand whether the topic is of interest to them and therefore it is worthwhile to click the link. A more-informative title will better serve this cr
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by snewman 5y ago
I'm not sure this follows. It's a fair point that any easy-to-find bugs in large, time-tested contracts will have been found. Any medium- or hard-to-find bugs also will probably have been found. But there might still be a very-har
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by snewman 5y ago
Human skin temperature is considerably lower. (Or to think of it from another perspective, the system which is insulating your core temperature includes layers inside your body – skin, etc. – in addition to clothing, blanket, etc.)
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by snewman 5y ago
Thermal insulation, whether we're talking about a blanket, a winter jacket, or the foam stuff in your walls, generally involves a layer of some thickness within which there are many tiny spaces full of trapped air. It's difficult
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by snewman 5y ago
Where do you get the $200 million figure? Bear in mind that it is only the Starship (upper stage), not the Super Heavy booster, that would be landing at the destination and hence potentially subject to abandonment. Also note that Starship,
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Canon Successfully Develops the World’s First 1-Megapixel SPAD Sensor(global.canon)
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by snewman 5y ago
Whatever the issue, presumably it did not arise during testing. That seems to point toward something that would only happen on Mars... so, yeah, maybe radiation?
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by snewman 5y ago
Yes, but in this case that was just good luck. As the article mentions, the low-altitude behavior is because of concerns regarding dust. It was not intended to provide robustness in the face of glitches in the optical navigation system.
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by snewman 5y ago
A thousand times this. Best screwball comedy ever. Also You Can't Take It With You. Now you've seen one Cary Grant and one Jimmy Stewart. To finish up you can get both of them with Catherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story.
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by snewman 5y ago
Distribution. It is so, so, so much harder to get most users to install an app, especially for casual purposes ("please add your notes to this doc") which is often how people first come to Docs.
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by snewman 5y ago
After leaving Google I founded scalyr.com. To get an idea of the type of work we're doing, this old blog post holds up: https://www.scalyr.com/blog/searching-1tb-sec-systems-engine... .
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by snewman 5y ago
Thanks! The "floating workspace" aspect has always driven at least as much usage as the "collaboration" aspect. That came as a complete surprise to us, but it turned out to be very important to adoption. At some point I
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by snewman 5y ago
> With a canvas-based engine, the editor is no longer relying on the contenteditable spec right? Correct. In fact, contenteditable went out the window a decade ago when the "#2" engine (low-level DOM manipulation) was launched.
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by snewman 5y ago
This is why I love HN. :-) However, I can't claim credit (or blame, but I would argue mostly credit) for that code. There have been three generations of the Docs editor that I know of: 1. The original, which I was involved in, was an u
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by snewman 5y ago
I'd love to have a good answer for you, but I learned the basics all the way back in the '80s. Seems like I've seen references posted occasionally on HN, hopefully someone has a good link.
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by snewman 5y ago
Speaking as one of the original three authors of Google Docs (Writely), but zero involvement in this project (I left Google in 2010): I'm seeing a lot of comments asking how JavaScript-on-Canvas could possibly outperform the highly opt
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by snewman 6y ago
In general in biology, when there is long-standing dispute as to whether a certain system relies on Mechanism X or Mechanism Y, my impression is that the answer almost invariably turns out to be that X, Y, and previously-unsuspected Z all p
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by snewman 6y ago
Now Flinging TEUs
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by snewman 6y ago
It was fine if you were a kid (small hands)...
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by snewman 6y ago
I take your point with regard to the economic incentives at play. But at the end of the day, it seems likely that the net effect of this article will be to drive more readers to the new Subspace blog? (A sort of Streisand effect.)
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by snewman 6y ago
Correct.
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by snewman 6y ago
Per Wikipedia: > In computer science, a memory leak is a type of resource leak that occurs when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in a way that memory which is no longer needed is not released. In most of your sce
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by snewman 6y ago
But it's much easier to forget-to-free: Foo* foo = new Foo(); ...code that uses foo... This is a memory leak in a non-GC language, but not in a GC language. In a practical sense... is it your personal experience that memory le

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