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by todd8 7y ago
Good points. It’s hard to predict where these QC developments will lead. One little aside, John Ambrose Fleming[1] is credited for inventing the first electronic tube (a vacuum tube based diode) around 1904 that initiated the development of
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by todd8 7y ago
I'd like to understand this better. Do you have a scientific citation for 12.5mm yr until 2100? Here's the latest from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration[1]. It is a graph that shows with 95% confidence there h
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by todd8 7y ago
SLR (sea level rise) is a problem, but this article promotes a kind of alarmist version of SLR, in my admittedly inexpert opinion. SLR has been going on for 20,000 years, and it may be accelerating in the last few decades due to global warm
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by todd8 7y ago
Yes I had such a MB wiper and never had any trouble with it. It provided good coverage of the windshield. Today, my MB uses two wipers, but it is nevertheless an interesting design as well. Windshield cleaner fluid is not sprayed out though
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by todd8 7y ago
Rent control benefits renters in the short term who don’t want or don’t need to move. However, property owners can’t price rents according to market conditions. This suddenly lowers the value of rental property and will mean that there is l
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by todd8 7y ago
People need cars for various reasons: trips to Home Depot to pick up home gardening gear, taking the kids and their friends to the movies, heading to the park to fly kites, traveling to the local university for graduate classes, travel for
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by todd8 7y ago
I taught myself the techniques of speed reading as a kid over 50 years ago. It didn’t really help. Fiction has too many characters and twists and turns; I can’t really read it much faster than 300 wpm or I miss something. I’m a very fast re
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by todd8 7y ago
Yes, but according to the LA Times[1], California’s population growth rate is the lowest in recorded history. [1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-...
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by todd8 7y ago
I found the the seventh paragraph quite remarkable. It claims that "one big reason" that the new state of the art weather stations have found no warming in the USA is because the USA has reduced it CO2 emissions through fracking!
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Global Warming or Bad Data?(commentarymagazine.com)
2 points by todd8 7y ago|3 comments
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A trip to Mars could cause brain damage(nbcnews.com)
2 points by todd8 7y ago|1 comments
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover detects 'unusually high levels of methane(nbcnews.com)
3 points by todd8 7y ago|0 comments
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by todd8 7y ago
See, for example, the troubles the noted explorer and translator Sir Richard Burton had. His translations of the Kama Sutra and 1001 Arabian Nights were considered scandalous in Victorian England. He was an undaunted explorer and traveled w
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Historical Badass: Explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton(adventure-journal.com)
2 points by todd8 7y ago|0 comments
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by todd8 7y ago
Good points!
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by todd8 7y ago
Did that mean that other people didn’t get to finish? Or did it mean that they simply had no choice to pay for the book you stole and then again for one of their own? Is this that different from picking a victim and demanding that he or she
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by todd8 7y ago
Do you have any citation for this claim? The results from the programming language benchmark game[1] suggest that Julia is sometimes a bit faster than SBCL, one of the fastest lisp implementations, and sometimes a bit slower. These benchmar
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by todd8 7y ago
Yeah, but I don't want to do this: The town where people live underground: Welcome to Coober Pedy [1]. :( [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFA-OB-nJ_I
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by todd8 7y ago
Texas may be somewhat isolated from neighboring grids but it does have some ability to do some solar collection time shifting since the sun take over 50 minutes to traverse the entire state. Texas spans almost the entire central time zone;
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by todd8 7y ago
Does Australia really have a giant ozone hole? It doesn't seem so according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology[1]. Also see [2]. [1] http://www.bom.gov.au/uv/faq.shtml [2] https://www.huffingtonpos
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by todd8 7y ago
A 100km/h head-on with a similar car going 100km/h should be similar to a 100km/h head-on collision with a solid concrete wall. However a car traveling at 200km/h has four times the kinetic energy as a car traveling at
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by todd8 7y ago
Yes, Hollywood isn’t very good at presenting the unvarnished truth. I felt that the movie and particularly Salier’s (fictional?) role as a competitive observer of Mozart in the movie reifys the absolute genius of Mozart in a particularly ef
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by todd8 7y ago
I've tried to introduce my kids (who are college age) to the pleasures of classical music, mostly to no avail. I just recently rewatched the movie Amadeus (a 1984 masterpiece on Mozart) with my daughter, and she liked it. I highly reco
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by todd8 7y ago
I recall reading an article on the algorithmic complexity of popular music by Knuth in 1977. It is really quite funny! See [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complexity_of_Songs
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by todd8 7y ago
For those interested in prehistoric instruments, I suggest the research by Dr. Lana Neal. It is a book (based on Dr. Neal's Ph.D. thesis) on the Paleolithic flute. The evidence includes, quite naturally, radiocarbon-dated instruments a
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by todd8 7y ago
After programming for 50 years and having a successful career, I’m not really going to need serious git skills. I still write code, all the time, but it’s for fun and personal projects. Yes Mercurial is easier to use than git, and really fo
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by todd8 7y ago
It’s the 80:20 rule, which naturally doesn’t always holds. Often, however, a small part of the code is responsible for almost all of the performance issues. By picking the performance sensitive areas of the program to code in C one can ofte
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Only 17% of Apple AirPods owners have sex while wearing them(zdnet.com)
1 points by todd8 7y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft's Bill Gates: Steve Jobs cast spells on everyone but he didn't fool me(zdnet.com)
1 points by todd8 7y ago|0 comments
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German banks are moving away from SMS one-time passcodes(zdnet.com)
3 points by todd8 7y ago|0 comments

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