wedn3sday

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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Former LLNL employee here: You're partially correct on accident. It _is_ single use, but not in the way you think. The NIF facility was built for the express purpose of nuclear weapon design, and any fusion science that comes out of it
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
This whole comment chain is utter nonsense. Not only is the research publicly available (so much for capitalism locking knowledge behind patents) but the research was done at a government funded lab (capitalism had nothing to do with gettin
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
$500/year! Most of the condos in my area are more then $500/month in HOA fees!
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
I think the problem here is that a huge amount of food production happens in places that were deserts before aqueducts were built. The sources of their water was assumed to be infinite, and a series of perverse incentives make is to that if
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Just release a Commander Keen game pack for the Switch.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
I also played the heck out of Goodbye Galaxy as a kid (as well as all the other commander keen games), and much to my chagrin was never able to figure out the secret of the pyramid levels. Such a fantastically designed game at every level,
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
I think one of the issues here is that the plots just arent setup right for this kind of thing. The main take away plot of the least squares fit goes from -6 to +6, when a -1/+1 change is HUGE. The change only looks small because the p
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
YES
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Part of the difficulty you're dealing with is just learning how a new system works. There are reasons for this friction, you really dont want your inhouse CA to mess up and issue an invalid cert, you want to make sure that each of your
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Personally, I love that euro notes aren't all the same size. It makes it a heck of a lot easier to tell apart notes of different denominations, especially for people with visual impairment. Imaging for a second how you would count mone
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
I just finished a Masters program at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), where this is very much not the case! Unlike the American system (Im from the US), at TCD a 70% is considered "First Class Honors" i.e. the highest grade possi
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Im not totally sold that this is useful, but Im curious. I'll see if I can convert an epub and spend some time reading with their weird font thing on my remarkable. For science!
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Seems like floating applications might works as well, a large raft of connected plastic bladders on a reservoir might work. Reduce water loss due to evaporation by decreasing light hitting the reservoir at the same time as generating power.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
When did hackernews stop enjoying strange niche software? If people think starcitizen is cool, why do you care if they pay developers to make their weird game? No one is going to come slap league of legends out of your hands and force you t
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Well, if its a ponzi scheme, its the most fun I've had blowing up space pirates in a ponzi scheme.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
A few differences between starcitizen and GTA: when GTA started development it was being made by an existing studio, SC when it started was like 5 dudes, so they've had to build the studio at the same time as they're building the
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
Ive been using these two in combination for a little while and found it to be a significant improvement to my web experience. I also use the ekill[0] extension to remove annoying flashing elements or banners that wont go away. [0] https:&#
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
I strongly agree with you. Social media, if it was used through a computer, isnt the problem, its instant access to everything all the time via smartphones. I feel like Bo Burnams "Inside" struck a chord with me and has been livin
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
I dont mean to sound condescending here, but it would have taken you 2-5 seconds to find the answer to your question. This comment is an example of bad internet discourse. However! I agree that the who-owns-the-genes question is interesting
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
Im still curious about this as well. I wonder if their insurance policy categorizes being seized during war time by a hostile government as "force majeure".
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
Please tell me we're not at the point where Elon tweets make it to the front page of HN.
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
I just looked up the cost of a '22 Chevy Bolt, MSRP is $33k for the cheapest model. I payed $42k for a model 3, so its not like a tesla is 2x the competition, and saying "twice or thrice" is pretty disingenuous when the real
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
This is one of the best/most insightful comments I've ever seen in casual internet discourse, I approve and applaud you.
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
It doesnt matter if the person themselves opposes the Ukrainian invasion, the person is representing Russia. Is it the tournament organizers job to vet the political views of every single participant to make sure they're sufficiently a
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
Azimov.
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
This seems fairly cool, and I appreciate the write up, but god I hate it so much when people write code samples that try and be fancy and use non-code-characters in their code samples. Clarity is much more important then aesthetics when it
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
My first thought was that this is just the output from the loss function for a genetic algorithm. Lots of people write grant applications, some of those get accepted, the next round of people writing applications then look at the success st
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
Sign me up. I just want to live in the forest, eat mushrooms, and occasionally dance naked around a fire under the light of the full moon. Is that to much to ask for?
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
> The leader determines the rules/laws and expects to be obeyed or else there are consequences. Rules/laws can include what you can’t wear. Dont question the mandatory dress code
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by wedn3sday 5y ago
I second your recommendation. I've been following the Folding Ideas channel for a while, and deeply enjoy his long form video format. Where most online videos like to do a brief touch on a topic, covering the surface level detail befor

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