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> Production use of the software requires a commercial license from Lightbend I.e. it's not free anymore. That's what the title should say, instead we get an history lesson.
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It has no choice but to decelerate, as the train itself will decelerate up an incline (without increasing power), and they are coupled. And yes the torque balance is why steam trains could climb gentle gradients at all. However the loss of
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They did exist but were not common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geared_steam_locomotive
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There is another kind of tyranny equation - the steam locomotive going up an incline. Essentially the problem is the power output of the engine is locked into step with the speed of the wheels - the slower you go, less pushes of the pistons
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4y ago
Never knew about this website. Seems quite prominent and comprehensive.
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They should move to the UK, they would be most welcome. Harassing trans folk has been upheld as legally protected behavior.
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Thats why I like the 2/3 split. No commute on Mon/Fri, but still get the social interaction mid week.
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> Apple disrupted the market by redefining the smartphone Apple invented the smartphone. The fact Nokia didn't understand that shows why it failed.
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Seeing a link to slashdot gave me flashbacks.
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> or seeks to defraud the public What does that even mean? How does one defraud the public?
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Title should really say mobile phone gaming.
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Basically yes. Although the reverse. USA thought overwhelming technical superiority would make it easy...in fact asymmetric insurgency is very difficult to defeat.
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To be fair this is the first war to comprehensively demonstrate that advanced technology can overcome firepower and numbers. Accuracy, automation, integration, intelligence...all come together quite nicely. Did anyone predict this outcome?
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> However, unlike farming which developed independently in many places at different times, the industrial revolution happened largely in one place, once and then spread out from there This. We can ask the same question about feudal Japan
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This doesn't seem right. Instead, the author should be forced to send a copy to the whitehouse when they send it to the journal, and the whithouse should make it available for free as a government output.
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The is an error in the title - it was supposed to say "no fame".
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It's weird, Britain is usually hawkish above and beyond most nations when it comes to FA, including the US. I would have expected this from France/Germany perhaps.
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And if Russia could build half a million of them and another 2000 Mig-31s to fire them it might be a serious threat. Russia can develop high tech weaponry, it just lacks the economy and industry to really build and field large amounts of it
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1) Russia is about to lose bigley to a backwater country called Ukraine. 2) China has a tin-pot military that has not really fought an external war since Korea. No.
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No, voluntary would mean she could find someone she wants but she still chooses to be single.
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That literally means she can't find someone who wants to be with her. That is literally the definition of an incel.
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Sounds like she is being rejected by "worthy" men or she would be with one of them?
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4y ago
By writing snarky blog posts on extremist websites? Reminds me of something...
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> A woman now can realistically say, "I want a man this good, or nobody". Doesn't that make her a female incel? What's the difference?
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Wtf is this doing on obscura? You are acting like they are extinct or extremely rare. They are very common in certain areas. They are fun to flip over.
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That's not pollution - that is waste. Waste =/= pollution.
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> The argument is well known: nuclear power causes pollution It does? News to me.
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> "It'll probably take two months to build this relay because there's no syslog server library for Clojure." she says. > "Oh wow, I didn't think it would take that long." Sam says. The correct answer
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Even more so. Python is huge in Australia. Can't count front-end as Python is not applicable there.
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LOL and VS still loaded slower the VS5.0 running on Win2k on a PC made in 2002. The boot time was impressive though.
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