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by tropo 10y ago
They left out the obvious things that tend to reduce the number of offspring: birth control, distractions like video games, fear of losses in family court, choices that lead to prison, the fact that women no longer need to please men in ord
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by tropo 10y ago
They are cache-friendly in normal Linux kernel usage. There are not distinct allocations for list links; the pointers are embedded (via a small struct) in the struct that is being dealt with. In walking the list, you normally need to look a
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by tropo 10y ago
This stuff destroys your heart valves. You need those. Here is how it messes with your heart valves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-HT2B_receptor Note that DMT is in the list, along with some similar things that peopl
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by tropo 10y ago
If you wife counts the cost of commuting, dress clothing, supplies/materials, paying others to cook/clean/care, taxes... does this even make a profit? What is the point? Meanwhile, there is an impact on family life. There are
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by tropo 10y ago
No. Wind can be circular. For example, right above the runway could be the eyewall of a hurricane.
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by tropo 10y ago
I don't see why a human has to do this. Even if they do, I don't see why it can't be done with an awareness system like the F-35 helmet. That would let you see the outline of the runway through arbitrary fog. There is no spec
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by tropo 10y ago
I don't think you need to "go from wings level to a banked turn at exactly the right moment" for this. There are two ways to make it work. As proposed, the runway is banked. You bank your aircraft well above the runway surfac
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by tropo 10y ago
Picture a snake trying to invade the naked mole rat tunnel system. There is almost no oxygen. Maybe normal parasites also die from lack of oxygen.
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by tropo 10y ago
This time around I found myself wondering if it might be automated, like "Who is hiring?" and "Who wants to be hired?". The title needs to say something like "April 2017" or "May 2017" though.
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by tropo 10y ago
Your mouse hack is funny. I take it you don't implement hardware other than the CPU for the emulator? The norm would be to disable the real mouse cursor (make it invisible) and then feed the guest mouse movement via MMIO and an IRQ. Yo
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by tropo 10y ago
What about Executor and syn68k from ARDI? It got open sourced. You'd get something like MacOS system 6.0.7 or 7.0.0 running on an emulated 68LC040. At the very least, that gets you a ROM.
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by tropo 10y ago
Well, sort of. It's forgetting taxes, house prices, and more. Places where you can buy decent stand-alone homes for $50,000 and/or have no state taxes are rather different from Mountain View and Manhatten. It's funny how peop
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by tropo 10y ago
In other words, the USA does not have a housing shortage. We just want to live in the most desirable places -- no surprise -- and we'll even be homeless to do so. Having a house of your own in Detroit is evidently less desirable than b
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by tropo 10y ago
Overbooking should just be illegal. Making things worse, airlines pick "less valuable" passengers to remove. These of course are the inexperienced fliers who are having trouble to begin with. They may have shown up 5 hours or 5 mi
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by tropo 10y ago
It's also security. That really productive remote "person" could be a whole team. Three people do the work, and another 25 are dedicated to espionage.
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by tropo 10y ago
The giant defense contractor probably has amazing projects once you get past the paperwork. If you want to change the world, well there you go. You probably won't work overtime, but if you do there are federal limits before they have t
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by tropo 10y ago
Also "no remote" of course, and then... what would you call this? I'm at a place that is heavily into IRC. Documentation goes in a mediawiki wiki. There is also video conferencing and email. You could almost call it "rem
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by tropo 10y ago
Thank you for answering that. It's still totally alien, but thanks. Small cities, under 100,000 people even, can have hackerspaces. Maybe they aren't to your standards. (local one here has CNC, laser cutter, 3D printers for plasti
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by tropo 10y ago
There is a gated community in Florida actually named "The Cloisters". It has a guard house at the gate and it is surrounded by a concrete wall. You might expect this to be in a terrible city, but no! It's probably in one of t
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by tropo 10y ago
Contested environments do not make the A-10 useless. In a "real" war, you expect to lose lots of people. Right now we are fussy, but think back to the world wars. People were dying left and right, and we accepted it as the cost of
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by tropo 10y ago
I've seen it labeled "dolphin". I asked the seller if it was really dolphin, and he said yes, so I bought it. It tasted suspiciously like fish. :-(
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by tropo 10y ago
The other engineers do their part, and then software controls it. Bad software destroys things. People get killed by accident. Then there are the security holes in things that will never get updates, the malware-infested webcams and TVs...
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by tropo 10y ago
At least the words are compatible, though the intent is probably not. Red America is perfectly happy to "protect privacy, rule of law, freedom of expression, and other fundamental American rights", and would love to "reduce t
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by tropo 10y ago
Oh yeah. "We’d also like to discuss how tech companies can heal the divide in our country. [...] We also believe tech companies have an opportunity and an obligation to reduce the polarization we've helped create." Easy as co
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by tropo 10y ago
Step 1: determine how Facebook tries to direct your political activity Step 2: do the exact opposite
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by tropo 10y ago
Child labor is probably better solved by paying kids for good grades in school. The ones getting an education would be less likely to divert effort to jobs that might take away from study time, even after they turn 18, while the ones who ar
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by tropo 10y ago
This helps build the business case for a conservative-leaning Google clone.
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by tropo 10y ago
So, I don't get it. There are obvious issues here: Angular ribs cause stress points. Good CAD software should tell you this. Some metals are able to flex a small amount repeatedly, forever, without cracks. For other metals, "small
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by tropo 10y ago
That is the best solution for Mars, but you might need to build the rover in a freezer. Tires that would be soft at Mars temperatures would be liquid or worse at Earth temperatures. For example, you might fill a normal tire mold with diesel
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by tropo 10y ago
Yes, and it is strange. First there is an inspection for the potential buyer, paid for by the buyer and thus owned by the potential buyer. This tells you if the house itself has problems like cracks and rot. Second there is an appraisal to

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