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by xioxox 7y ago
Stars aren't powered by gravitational energy - that would only give a lifetime 20 million years for the sun (Kelvin Helmholtz timescale). Fusion is what powers the sun.
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by xioxox 7y ago
I mostly use Opera on mobile, as it's the only browser I've found that can properly scale and reflow text.
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by xioxox 7y ago
Whether venues are double blind is extremely field dependent. In my field no journals are to my knowledge. However, many people use an initial rather than a first name, so it's difficult to assign gender unless you already know the per
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by xioxox 7y ago
It's very impressive. The Russians also fixed the insulation on their Proton rocket carrying Spektr-RG with some glue and launched a day later! They had to wait a month after the previous problem, however, which required a battery repl
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by xioxox 7y ago
I haven't done much special customization on the ThinkPad, other than updating the BIOS in Windows (it's dual boot) and changing the BIOS sleep setting. The sleep setting disables "Modern sleep", where the computer stays
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by xioxox 7y ago
Interesting on the battery lifetime. My ThinkPad Carbon X1 gen 6 can do 10-12 hrs in Ubuntu, though I had to switch the bios sleep mode to Linux. Maybe the lack of an Nvidia graphics card helps.
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by xioxox 7y ago
I use this a lot at work. I ssh into a server from my linux desktop and run things there, including GUI applications. Over a local network it works fine. It's much nicer to have local and remote applications displayed in the same way.
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by xioxox 7y ago
The Halifax Clarity card does this, and they have highstreet branches.
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by xioxox 7y ago
German banks also like their 5 character passwords! Fortunately you also need a per-transaction TAN code which makes this a bit better (though many people have this on paper or via an SMS, though perhaps paper is not that bad).
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by xioxox 7y ago
I had one of those answer a question boxes on my MoinMoin wiki. It was something like, "Enter an element which combines with oxygen to form CO2". The spammers worked their way round that pretty quickly. There must be humans who ar
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by xioxox 7y ago
In X-ray astronomy we often use Wolter Type 1 optics based on grazing incidence. These can be made with various techniques depending on the spatial accuracy (point spread function) required, e.g. foils for low accuracy or even stacked silic
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by xioxox 7y ago
Veusz, because I wrote it!
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by xioxox 8y ago
You would miss partial or manipulated passwords (e.g. base64 encoded) with that approach, but it's a first step.
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by xioxox 8y ago
Trains need a lot of infrastructure, meaning maintenance and construction costs (i.e. tracks and stations). Also, as they are slower, wage costs can be higher than planes.
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by xioxox 8y ago
The deal is the only one possible with her red lines. She should have reached agreement on the red lines before starting the negotiation. She shouldn't have called Article 50 before getting an agreement across the parties. ~50% of the
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by xioxox 8y ago
I think she has handled this dreadfully. She should have built a parliamentary cross-party consensus on what option to pursue well before now. Her only negotiating tactic with parliament is pushing things up to the deadline and saying my de
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by xioxox 8y ago
I think there's a role for consumption of meat and animal products. There's also a lot of land which cannot be used to directly generate human food in any sensible way, e.g. in the uplands. Furthermore, animals have an important r
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by xioxox 8y ago
Deb/apt might have been nicer to use, but as a packager I found the packaging format extremely horrible to work with. There's a very complex interaction between the various files which define a package. It's extremely hard to
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by xioxox 8y ago
SimpleSSHD is a simple ad-free open-source SSH server for your Android phone (available on Google Play). It's very useful. It only supports public-key based authentication, so you can't use a password, however.
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by xioxox 8y ago
I remember working with the Amstrad PCW, which had an interesting layout for the video memory. The pixels in the 90x32 character monochrome display were stored in character order. The 1st 8 bytes were the leftmost character, the next 8 were
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by xioxox 8y ago
I use 1.5 scaling in KDE and it mostly works fine except for a bug where horizontal lines appear in the terminal.
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by xioxox 8y ago
I have to use Fortan as part of my day job and mostly don't like it. What I hate most of all are the lack of any decent string data type and built in C++-STL-like data structures library. It would be great to have hash maps, etc. The p
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by xioxox 8y ago
Translation is the only thing I open it for. The Google Translate website doesn't work as well as the real time functionality in Chrome.
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by xioxox 8y ago
If I travelled into the centre of Munich every day (I'm in the 7th ring out of 16), it would cost me 1400 euros a year (a full network ticket would be 2700 euros!). That seems rather similar to London.
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by xioxox 8y ago
You could read Ken MacLeod or Iain M. Banks to get some Western views on that.
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by xioxox 8y ago
There are quite a lot of star clusters in M33/Triangulum (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3029 ), so some of the bright dots may not be individual stars. There are stars which are bright enough to dominate the ligh
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by xioxox 8y ago
I'm not convinced. It takes effort for me to break apart blackbird into two separate words in my head, as they are so commonly found together. When speaking "black bird" I would insert a long pause between the two and emphasi
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by xioxox 8y ago
Also missed my Veusz GUI plotting package and library. https://veusz.github.io/
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by xioxox 8y ago
This page [1] puts the 10nm Intel density as 100.8 million transistors per mm^2. Your number is 40.1 million/mm^2. [1] https://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/119699-intel-10nm-density-27...
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by xioxox 8y ago
I get 12+ hrs with my Lenovo Carbon X1 (6th gen). There is a necessary BIOS update for better Linux sleep behaviour, however.

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