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by yetihehe 4y ago
TL;DR - Putin and his environment is so insane that we should give him Crimea and parts of Ukraine or else he will nuke all of us. This could be good idea if he wasn't so insane, because if we give him parts of Ukraine (and let him hav
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Let's see the definition of "far right" > [...] far-right politics now include neo-fascism, neo-Nazism, the Third Position, the alt-right, racial supremacism, National Bolshevism (culturally only) and other ideologies or o
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Then you wait a moment until it cools down. Of course there are few easy solutions, space is very hard environment mercilessly waiting for you to make an error. You can find problems in every step. It doesn't mean you should give up
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by yetihehe 4y ago
You would need oxygen and nitrogen anyway. You could use hot nitrogen (heated resistively or as plasma), you don't need acetylene.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
In that case: blow up the balloon, melt rock outside balloon. You could make "cement" from grinding local material plus some binder, that way you bring in less mass. Radiation shielding is also a nice use for asteroid's mass.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
> It may even have shattered some of the gravel, meaning that stuff is really more like styrofoam. [...] All those stories of hollowing out an asteroid and turning it into a habitat or generation ship for 50,000 people aren’t looking so
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Potential paying user viewpoint: Why pay when you have server and can hide it behind some vpn which you share only with friends?
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by yetihehe 4y ago
> The aliens may have gone through similar steps in their evolution of their civilization so they probably know what it means if a post-interstellar species still uses a gods birthday to count time. Or they might feel that using merely
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Plus, it was a language to write systems, where "size of register on current machine" was a nice shortcut for "int", where registers could be anywhere from 8-32 bits, with 48 or 12 also a possibility.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/automagically.html I use "automagically" when some process gathers data from several sources, infers what user really wanted to do or relieves user from specifying
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by yetihehe 4y ago
I was the first to grow body hairs in primary school, so some bullies tried to make fun of me calling me yeti. Then I've used that as my nickname, but by highschool internet started coming along and it wasn't unique enough, plus o
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Also those pillars still conduct a lot of heat.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Depends on person. I've accidentally touched 220V several times and only felt a little stinging. One time I was kneeling on wet grass. But - please don't try it yourself, I'm just very lucky and probably a bad conductor, you
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Depends on what you use as "ambient". Those panels and paints emit radiation in frequencies where atmosphere is transparent, so they use "coldness of outer space" as ambient.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
> OTOH, "reflect everything" is the absolute maximum for reflection, and no other object will top that. Maybe some old night scopes with photon amplifiers could be coaxed into making "over 100% reflective" mirrors? A
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by yetihehe 4y ago
That's what they are checking with those tests. And looking at maglev trains, there will be less going wrong than humans navigating traffic.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
By trying, also sometimes called self-teaching. If you are interested in something, you just search for information on how to do something and try until you succeed. There are many failures along the way, but in the end, typically you have
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Buyer definition, sales and marketing?
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Good programmers know when to rewrite and when not from experience. > Clever code that reimplements common packages Common packages are typically not rewritten by good programmers.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
If you covered your ceiling (and wall which transmit sound) with such boxes, it would.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Pedestrians use much less space than cyclists and move slower, they typically also move away when they hear a car and most of them on such roads go in direction opposite to traffic flow so they see when a car approaches. Bicycles go in the
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Yes, they do (NSFW warning) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1CrBQiJ5YQ
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by yetihehe 4y ago
From post: "Note: Please don’t share this on Hacker News – I don’t need the grief from gatekeepers telling me I don’t know how to write a compiler. This is an account for myself and for friends. /hugs"
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Since FreeCad 0.19 I didn't have any crashes, previously I couldn't even finish simple objects without it crashing. I'm now a happy user, previously I didn't even want to touch it.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
It's about slowly lowering a dumbbell. You first lift it at normal speed, but then slowly lower it over 4 seconds, so that your muscles are working the whole way down.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Yeah, but that lipstick is sometimes enough for small stupid time wasters and those are needed too (but won't earn you money). There is no magic bullet, so if you know some more techniques you can make incrementally better games. Scree
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by yetihehe 4y ago
> I don't consider myself a person that good at writing stories (or anything other than programming) Read a book https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Games-Guide-Engineering-Exp... > often find my games bland and bor
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by yetihehe 4y ago
> Shkreli was jailed for scamming investors, not extorting the sick. Because one action robs poor, for which we don't jail and the other action robs money from rich, for which we jail.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Currently, Musk's solution is just a closed private network. Internet would be if different companies satellites worked together over common protocol.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Not 45s, but 3 minutes and it's not a production line, but a machine making pizza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4_C1BmT-R8

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