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by deviledeggs 5y ago
I never knew that about exhaust velocity. So as propellant mass efficiency goes up linearly, power use goes up exponentially? does that make fast interstellar travel impossible?
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Japan gets more flak because it's physical and historical isolation plus high cultural homogeneity have resulted in unique societal quirks. Going to western Europe feels like the US. Going to Japan from the west still feels like travel
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
This seems to imply millennials are lazy. They're the most educated generation in US history, and at the same time, the poorest in at least 60 years. COVID relief funds are only paying them more than their normal wage because they got
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Is that not true? Google and Oracle had a 10 year multi billion dollar legal fight over ~20 lines of code identical between Android and JVM. A non rich individual has basically zero chance of challenging GitHub on these blatant violations,
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
It's not outrage bait. The thing reproduces GPL licensed code verbatim.
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
This is the crux of copilot. When I saw it copying RSA keys I knew, it's overtrained. Most of the comments are waxing about philosophical possibilities of copilot copying GPL. Reality is clear in the case, it's copy pasting thousa
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
I don't really welcome our new corporate overlords, but why does anyone give a shit what Chinese govt thinks? They're hilariously corrupt, natavist, and frankly crazy. To the point that you can't even admit Taiwan has been an
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Copper is already expensive enough to have an impressive recycling rate. Over 90% last time I heard
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Friendly reminder that the #1 reason for impacted ear wax is people sticking their fingers in there. Ear canal skin grows outwards. If you never stick your finger in your ear, eventually everything will work it's way out. The people sp
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
I think he meant to waffle about kimberlite pipes, diamond mines. Otherwise no that sounds crazy
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
You're not even allowed to tell people about the fee on a page soliciting donations. Google and Apple are a monopoly. We need antitrust.
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
This should be at top. I miss pfsense, but they been the trailer trash of routers for a while now
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
I am. Cars are a big hobby for me, a big part of my life. Chevy is the only company not going out of their way to make things too complex and locked down to repair yourself. Chevy is the only manufacturer with viable aftermarket parts for m
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
> For some reason they've really only been widely available in the US in the past few years. I think it's cheap energy. In places like Japan they've been using heat pumps a long time
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Heat pump water heaters mentioned in the article are better for efficiency. They typically use half the energy of a normal water heater. And they cool the air around them, so if you live in a hot area they save more.
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
It's not different :) Water can absorb enormous amount of energy. And releases huge amounts as it evaporates. And the lake is in contact with massive land surface that also absorbs ton of energy. The deeper parts of Seneca lake are iso
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Hear me out, I don't buy this. NY would have never approved operating a power plant that did such damage to the lake. Notice they mentioned "surface temperature". Many lakes are naturally stratified in summer. Especially lake
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Oh definitely. Rust was the first to be trendy enough to get traction though. I'm not bashing previous attempts to replace c. Dependency management, packaging, and testing are what really made Rust take off. The best of any language I&
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
We voyaged the world in wooden boats for a long time too. It was absurdly laborious and dangerous.
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Hahaha. I lived there and we called it that all the time. More common among friends living on south side tho
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Chiraq isn't an insult, that's what people living there call it.
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
I'm convinced Chicago is unfixable. The south side has been so poor for so long it's basically a third world country. The best solution is a planned dismantlement of the irredeemable parts of the city. And relocate those people so
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Kiwi Farms exists to make fun of people with mental illness. It's the same as a site that makes fun of people with cancer. Totally digusting place
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
C is a terrible language. It's portable assembly. I've done some small OSS projects in C and as soon as I realized Rust was stable enough I tossed them and rewrote in Rust. Rust feels like a modern language, like Go or C#. C is ba
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
We didn't know what electricity was 300 years ago. And the best way to get around was riding on the backs of other animals. We're maybe 70 years away from being a multi planet species if technology keeps advancing at the same rate
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Possibly not. Most asteroids are far out, and the giant planets tend to knock them our way. Mercury is also a smaller target. Earths atmosphere protects us from all but the biggest rocks. Micrometer impacts on Mercury are a real danger, but
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Top of article > By his death and resurrection, Christ has purchased our redemption and freed us from our sins By the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization Hahahaha. Maybe it's coming time for a restriction on HN a
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Please do it! We did fine for thousands of years without targeted advertising. Technology is being abused like a dystopian sci fi novel to improve bottom lines. It's wholly unnecessary.
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Clickbait reply: Zstd is a huge advance in compression, but not for reasons you think. Yes it's fast, yes it has a pretty good compression ratio. But it's greatest strength is streaming feature. It supports sending chunks of data
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by deviledeggs 5y ago
Here's a couple pages I've found on drug repurposing for COVID https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-020-00007-6 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7474498/

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