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by fnj 9y ago
Multiple? A Main Battle Tank such as the German Leopard 2 weighs 62,300 kg (137, 347 lb). Even a puny WW2 Sherman medium tank weighed in the neighborhood of 70,000 lb.
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by fnj 9y ago
XNU is a hybrid kernel incorporating large elements of Mach (microkernel) as well as BSD (monolithic kernel).
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by fnj 9y ago
Does it have an HDMI connector? The description is extremely poor.
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by fnj 9y ago
> We've failed: open access is winning and we must change our approach "What do you mean, "we", white man?"
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by fnj 9y ago
Physical? You could jam a lot more storage in a 3.5" drive than you're ever going to see, but it would not be economically practical, and the MTBF and reliability would be very poor.
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by fnj 9y ago
You completely missed the drawn of HDDs with the ST506 5MB, and the big breakthrough when the much faster 10MB ST512 replaced it? Those were the exciting days.
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by fnj 9y ago
What other possible way is there to pronounce it?
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by fnj 9y ago
"Gaz" for gas/gasoline.
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by fnj 9y ago
Reminds me of the ludicrous idea of medical savings accounts. Hardly anyone below the top 0.1% could ever hope to "save" enough money and put it away to cover a medical or legal disaster or a really bad accident involving personal
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by fnj 9y ago
Honest question: If you aren't going to share data between/among threads, why use threads at all? Why not just fork-abd-exec?
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by fnj 9y ago
It's not even fully C++11. Massive fail.
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by fnj 9y ago
> It passes shared_ptr via reference Talk about not getting it.
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by fnj 9y ago
> Mine is beat and barely holding together and it is at 97_000 miles. You are ridiculously hard on your capital equipment. It must be nice not to have a care in the world for your expensive possessions. Personally I couldn't bring m
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by fnj 9y ago
I would say perl6 was stable as of the Christmas 2015 release of rakudo.
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by fnj 9y ago
I found this a nifty intro to perl6. I am a 70 year old retiree and have 37 years of C programming and some C++, perl5, and other languages. This is the first time I've been able to make the slightest headway digging perl6.
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by fnj 9y ago
Didn't you bother to run SMART and see what the power-on time was? Just for curiosity if nothing else.
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by fnj 9y ago
That's odd. I certainly wouldn't [feel bad, that is].
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by fnj 9y ago
I don't see any control keys at all in that picture! This has to be a joke.
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by fnj 9y ago
- over 40% thermal efficiency - significant reduction in CO2 CO2 production is directly inverse-linearly related to thermal eficiency. It is silly to list both.
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by fnj 9y ago
An electric power transmission is hardly hybrid. You just have two extra conversions in your transmission, mechanical to electric and electric back to mechanical.
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by fnj 9y ago
> a Tesla uses about 300 Watts a mile @ 55 Mph This is nonsense. The dimensions are wrong. Watts are instantaneous power. To be meaningful, you would have to give either kWh/h or kWh per mile or km. Besides that 300 W is only 0.4 hp
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by fnj 9y ago
> So this is ... diesel without the NOx NOx is not peculiar to diesel engines. Gasoline engines also generate NOx. All internal engines make NOx. As long as you burn fuel + atmospheric air you get NOx. The atmosphere is 78% nitrogen. Som
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by fnj 9y ago
> so it seems that Oracle could in fact sue. Says the SFC. But Oracle has had plenty of time and they have not sued. In fact, they have not criticized Canonical for integrating ZFS.
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by fnj 9y ago
> One theory is that Canonical has essentially forced Oracle to decide whether it wants to crack down on inclusion of CDDL-licensed code being shipped with Ubuntu's stock kernel, so Red Hat may be waiting to see if Oracle sweeps in
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by fnj 9y ago
They can't legally use anything except CDDL. If anyone could just pick and choose to alter the licensing, there wouldn't be any point in having licences.
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by fnj 9y ago
> I disagree with the use of the word "deprecating" Then you disagree (literally) with Red Hat's official statement as a matter of fact (not opinion). From Chapter 53, RHEL 7.4 release notes: "Btrfs has been deprecate
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by fnj 9y ago
> Zfs on Linux has data loss bugs. Please don't spread untruths. Somebody who doesn't know better might actually believe you.
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by fnj 9y ago
No idea on earth why you are downvoted. My sympathies for your challenged vision. Your objection is well founded, and your suggestion has merit.
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by fnj 9y ago
> "human-readable" file sizes). Nothing is more human readable than "123,456,789", so I think the problem is just the way you go about making them human readable. I couldn't agree more that lurching between B, kB
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by fnj 9y ago
Sounds a bit extreme, but I am always puzzled by people who think dark backgrounds are just fine. Light all the way for me! What would people think if all web pages on the internet had ugly black backgrounds?

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