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by stefs 6y ago
you're already a week late here, they already started.
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by stefs 6y ago
there are relatively simple options for energy storage: lifting things up with the excess energy, then letting them back down if the energy is needed (at night). traditionally this is hydro, but it's also possible to do it with pulleys
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by stefs 6y ago
>It probably has something to do with the fact that large engineering companies can afford to hire lobbyists and engineers cannot. i'd lobbyists for employees are called unions. you can afford to hire lobbyists by paying union dues.
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by stefs 6y ago
the decision now lies with the developer, not with the user. therefore, a malicious camera app developer would have to convince the developers of all targeted apps to support their app instead of the default camera app, which pretty much do
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by stefs 6y ago
imo this looks more like kotlin. that said, there are several projects for running php on the jvm (quercus, jphp, ...).
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by stefs 6y ago
honnold may be a special case. his capabilities of dealing with risk and fear are exceptional.
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by stefs 6y ago
imo it's a bit like an auction where the seller can accept or refuse to honor the outcome, depending on the highest bid. but is there actually "no deception"? i mean, if i order something i'm usually reasonally sure i&#x
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by stefs 6y ago
there is no single "native". you have different compilers for different languages. "native" (i.e. compiled) PHP is still slow. some interpreted languages are insanely fast. in theory, JITed languages could be faster than
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by stefs 6y ago
i don't understand your point; openjdk is free beer too. and graal-vm is an oracle project, as is hotspot?
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by stefs 6y ago
did you just tell him to let me duckduckgo that for you?
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by stefs 6y ago
gnomoria is different insofar as the gnomes don't have personality. this makes it more of a "pure" sandbox simulation game rather than a story generator (which is probably the biggest part of DF/rimworlds appeal).
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by stefs 6y ago
here's a game using this data: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.flamingos.w...
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by stefs 6y ago
the askhistorians mods adressed this - the problem is the bullshit asymmetry principle: 'Bullshit Asymmetry Principle' states the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than that needed to prod
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by stefs 6y ago
it goes both ways though: another company might hire tbray not only for his skills, but also to signal potential employees they're taking the health and safety of their workforce seriously. at least i hope this might be the case.
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by stefs 7y ago
15 years ago i used userscripts for ... kinda cheating at a popular browser game. i didn't do anything _really_ illegal, it just extended the UI. e.g. if you sent an army to rob a village, it stored the type and level of workshops and
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by stefs 7y ago
they include the trained models under the "model weights" section. imagenet is ~20mb, openimages is ~17mb. now this might be prohibitive for images over the web, but it'd be interesting whether it might be applicable for imag
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by stefs 7y ago
i don't really understand this: "The AMD k10temp driver finally starts reporting voltage/current for Zen CPUs and numerous thermal reporting improvements. This is a big step forward thanks to the community but unfortunate the
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by stefs 7y ago
i think he rather means that you should pick a new task on your own, where - if you're "a good soldier" - you'd pick the most important task yourself. that said, i, too, don't agree with this article at all.
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by stefs 7y ago
something i've read times and times again: programmers of other languages who learned rust tend to discover potentially problematic code in their earlier work.
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by stefs 7y ago
my strava says 100km cycling is ~3370kcal
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by stefs 7y ago
that's true for many countries in europe too, but we do have a lot more bike paths and drivers are generally more considerate towards cyclists than they are in the u.s. with my road bike (i.e. no suspension) i usually prefer the road o
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by stefs 7y ago
well, it does seem like some insects are not as susceptible to death by artificial lighting anymore.
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by stefs 7y ago
fair is fair, so i vote for selling .MIL and .GOV to a for-profit company. brb, i'll make one. i promise not to hike prices too much (in the first year).
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by stefs 7y ago
> “It’s A to B-ism,” said Mikael Colville-Andersen, a raffish bicycle evangelist who preaches the gospel of Copenhagen to other cities. “It’s the fastest way from point to point.” i live in a smaller city of 300k people, i own a car but
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by stefs 7y ago
> while coal waste is stored in the atmosphere and thus partially in our lungs can't argue with that > nuclear waste is stored in a safe location so, that's part of the reason many people i know are still very suspicious abo
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by stefs 7y ago
> By "worked well" I mean people paid their taxes and the overwhelming majority were law abiding. as i understand, the "overwhelming majority" (lower and middle class) are not the focus of the problem here as they rar
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by stefs 7y ago
if you start parsing names, you have already lost: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
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by stefs 7y ago
that's tax evasion
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by stefs 7y ago
afaik there's an offline flash player
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by stefs 7y ago
so i heard from friends, that the snow might actually a problem if you're outside a city; in some instances you'd be hard pressed to make it with a fat bike. apart from that i guess you just have to ride carefully, but you the sam

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