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by strainer 8y ago
I can only wonder what it involves, but the text is clear on its physical existence: "the physicists expect that these hybrid sound waves can be experimentally demonstrated in long quantum wires or atomic traps, in which one-dimensiona
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by strainer 8y ago
Its a concern for manufacturing, containment and disposal. In few places public disposal and recycling facilities guarantee complete compliance. The materials hazard specs are not exaggerated, they are intended to be taken seriously as they
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by strainer 8y ago
If not limited to trace amounts for microscopic components, in the heat spreading role there could be demand for it in much greater quantity than elementally similar LED pigments. Most manufacturing materials do not require such careful tre
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by strainer 8y ago
"In the future, further studies which will enhance the growth of the crystal, as well as explore potential large-scale applications" Hinting at awesome GPU cooling and such, with not one mention of the materials exceptional hazard
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by strainer 8y ago
Thnky fr prvdng th sltn t m awkwrd phr[a]s[i]ng.
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by strainer 8y ago
An optn is t jst lv ot al vwls excpt at th bgnnng of wrds. Its qt esy t rd hwvr it mght nt be wrth it fr jst thrty prcnt incrs in wrd dnsty.
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by strainer 8y ago
I wrote a personal benchmark suite specifically to compare the Javascript port of Timsort to my own 'pet' Javascript sorting module 'Barsort.js' which was specialised to sorting Numbers, while Timsort also does strings q
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by strainer 8y ago
I expect compostable waste is just so messy its less work overall to keep it separate. But if it is as economical to separate after mixing as you expect, then its a business opportunity.
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by strainer 8y ago
I've not read the paper but am impressed by their presentation and the experience and community which they have already created around their 'SafeNet' browser. I'm inclined to believe their mathematical analysis of their
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by strainer 8y ago
The Golden Ratio is proposed as a special multiplier for what is otherwise known as 'linear congruential' psuedorandom number generation. I'm not clear on whether the non-repetitive property of the ratio will benefit its perf
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by strainer 8y ago
I rewrote the main trig functions in Javascript to help with cross browser determinism. They run as quickly as the native math routines while compromising accuracy to around 10 significant digits. https://github.com/strainer
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by strainer 8y ago
for ( var i=0; i<n; ++i ) {.. In Javascript this will loop from 0 to n-1 inclusive regardless of using ++i or i++, because that loop 'stepping statement' happens after the loop body. Its possible to combine the step i
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by strainer 8y ago
If we could read the coordinates of any physical object to infinite precision, we could only influence the higher digits by moving the object very carefully, beyond the digits which we have some influence over, the infinite tail of the real
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by strainer 8y ago
Who could be in danger of being mislead by the title, by not knowing Git is open source? They just wanted to say Fossil is also OS.
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by strainer 8y ago
There is certainly going to be a special atmosphere while the few unlucky engineers finish up the existing contract for legalities sake.
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by strainer 8y ago
Its not PR fluff that one of the worlds most prestigious workforces has publicly rejected this kind of work. Money cant buy that quality of publicity, it has come from the hearts and minds of the workforce.
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by strainer 8y ago
Maybe another shop can do it all the same, the important matter is that such a prestigious workforce as makes up Google has rejected this kind of work. Money cant buy belief in armistice that quality of publicity.
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by strainer 8y ago
This sends a more powerful message than if the corporation had just avoided the work in the first place. I am hopeful and inspired by the employees stand. Lights are shining through the cracks in the conflict dominated narrative of these ti
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by strainer 8y ago
This sends a more powerful message than if the corporation had just avoided the work in the first place. I am hopeful and inspired by the employees stand. Lights are shining through the cracks in the conflict dominated narrative of these ti
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by strainer 8y ago
I try to look deeper than just Western and non-Western forces. I believe Galloway and all the people concerned here do sue for peace given any fair prospect of it and recall Galloway was active against Apartheid in South Africa. Craig Murra
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by strainer 8y ago
I think he is most "influenced" by the thought of lasting international peace and security for everyone, and perhaps justice too, though I fear that is most difficult of conditions to resolve. Would that Russia critics could admit
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by strainer 8y ago
Like I said, there may or not be a reasoned historical debate behind it I dont know. He is known as an anti war campaigner, because he has been a prominent campaigner against military aggression in our time.
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by strainer 8y ago
That isn't in the spirit of hacker news discussion. That quote has a context and we shouldn't single one of the concerned notable persons out to judge them all. Galloway organised the Iraqi Oil for food program to try to relieve t
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by strainer 8y ago
Sure Galloway has a soft spot for Stalin - obviously he considers him misunderstood - history written by the victors and all that. I wouldn't know. But the issue here is how does such an eccentricity significantly connect him to the mo
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by strainer 8y ago
These notable persons (Craig Murray, David Edwards, George Galloway etc) who are reporting their personal biographies being edited unfairly on Wikipedia, are in fact well known as prominent humanitarian and anti-war activists and writers. F
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by strainer 8y ago
The aspirations which some people manage to realise of living in modest, simple, more biostable, more biophillic surroundings dont deserve to be categorised as retrograde. The glamour and possibilities of an intimate experience with natural
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by strainer 8y ago
Landfill sites amount to a very small portion of overall land usage of human industry. Beyond making sure reusable and affordably recyclable stuff is not being wasted, the wider environment is not improved or significantly relieved by expen
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by strainer 8y ago
Yurts are essentially light, durable, relocatable dwellings. Traditionally they were moved between summer and winter pastures - while not 'breaking the ground'. As you mention an idea of serious sustainability -- which is surely a
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by strainer 8y ago
Look out - I just now tested those two extra ideas which I added for equality testing and found they dont work. This version of adding a rounding value seems to though: ( a-b + rounder ) == rounder My apologies, be careful out there
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by strainer 8y ago
Epsilon is not the smallest quantity that can be represented. Its the smallest amount that can be added to a number between 1 and 2. If its added to 2 the result is 2. We need to add 2 * Number.EPSILON to 2 to add anything. 4 * E to 4, 8 *

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