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by timb07 8y ago
Eight. Sure Clarence Thomas is there, but he rarely speaks. It was news when he asked questions in 2016 for the first time in 10 years: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/29/468576931...
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by timb07 9y ago
Or, since it's reprinted with permission, here's the original article: https://theconversation.com/its-time-for-third-party-data-br...
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by timb07 9y ago
I just tried again, but still no email. Don't your metrics on sign-up rate show a problem? Or is it just isolated to me somehow?
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by timb07 9y ago
Please also check your waitlist signup form processing -- I've tried it multiple times, but haven't received an email yet. (Yes, I've checked I've typed it correctly, and it's not in my junk folder.)
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by timb07 9y ago
"A source familiar with the government's investigation" doesn't imply it's a government source. Recommended reading for understanding attribution: https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-read-news-story-abou
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by timb07 9y ago
And because obituaries are pre-prepared, they're sometimes mistakenly pre-published.
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by timb07 9y ago
A similar experiment (but to only detect the effect of altitude, not to measure it) was done about 12 years ago, described here: http://www.leapsecond.com/great2005/
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by timb07 9y ago
But that report is only looking at fossil fuel reserves, rather than industries that consume those fossil fuels, thereby releasing greenhouse gases and causing climate change. Further, there are other sources of greenhouse gases not related
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by timb07 9y ago
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss... : * Electricity and Heat Production (25% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions) * Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (24% of 2010 global greenhous
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by timb07 9y ago
That's a list of the potential reduction in emissions various solutions offer. You'd need to add together all the solutions relating to electricity generation (for example) to determine the impact of electricity generation as a wh
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by timb07 9y ago
My understanding is that the text should be cut out with scissors instead.
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by timb07 9y ago
Nothing has been leaked here. The source document has been publicly released. Insufficient care has been taken in redacting parts of the document. Responsibility for that falls to whoever redacted the document, not for whoever was able to d
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by timb07 9y ago
For old UNIX nerds, this could cause some confusion: KRE is Robert Elz, originator of timezone support in BSD UNIX.
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by timb07 9y ago
I too loved "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach", and read it all the way through before the semester even started. Each chapter had a pithy quote at the start, and my favorite was the excerpt from the EDSAC instructio
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by timb07 9y ago
> the A380 is surely cheaper per passenger than a plane half it's size Actually it's not. Both the 787-8 and 787-9 (just below and just above half the A380's size by passenger numbers) are more efficient per passenger mile
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by timb07 9y ago
The 777X program is already well advanced, with first flight expected sometime next year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777X
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by timb07 9y ago
Not quite: the new Identity system is available in the non-enterprise version.
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by timb07 9y ago
Aluminum has also been considered as an energy storage material, specifically one that is easily transported: http://evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=765
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by timb07 9y ago
What if we approach the question from a psychological perspective instead, and assume that human brains can't process the number 6? You can have five apples, but nobody would ever suggest giving you another apple, because that would be
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by timb07 9y ago
And presumably Turpin's PhD examiners weren't aware of the flowchart in the JPEG standard either.
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by timb07 9y ago
Andrew Turpin's implementation of a minimum-redundancy code (a.k.a. "Huffman code") is here: https://github.com/turpinandrew/shuff
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by timb07 9y ago
It's rare that the funny response is actually more likely to be the accurate response. One possibility is that the fan shaft failed, and since the fan was no longer attached to the plane that it had been pulling through the sky, it wen
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by timb07 9y ago
Actually, adding engines increases resilience, or the ability to tolerate failure. The extra complexity of extra engines actually reduces reliability, since there are more components that can fail.
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by timb07 9y ago
I think it only points out a problem with the science-policy interface. Science has correctly identified that dodgy results were being published, and they're being retracted. Ideally peer review would have picked up those problems befo
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by timb07 9y ago
I hope Trump doesn't read this article as a how-to guide.
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by timb07 9y ago
If longbets.org was really serious about long-term bets, it wouldn't be restricting years to only 5 digits. Haven't they heard of the Y100K problem?
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by timb07 9y ago
And further confusion: An ʻokina (U+02BB, as found in "Hawaiʻi") is neither an apostrophe nor a left quotation mark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOkina
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by timb07 9y ago
It's a little bit off-topic since the article was primarily about quotation marks and coding, but it would have been good if it mentioned that an ʻokina (as found in "Hawaiʻi") is neither an apostrophe nor a left quotation ma
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by timb07 9y ago
What a terrible paper title. For anyone wondering, this has nothing to do with microkernels. From the abstract: The clock frequency in modern workstations is stabilized by an uncompensated quartz or surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonat
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by timb07 9y ago
I'll be catching up with one of the Lanyrd team at a conference in a couple of weeks; I'll ask him about it.

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