hatbert

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by hatbert 12y ago
It's not a stupid question. The problem is twofold: Any place that's nearby is already too expensive to make the move worth it; and any place that's cheap enough to be worth it lacks either the coastal climate or proximity t
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by hatbert 12y ago
I'd believe that, but your MBA also has an SSD, which partially masks the effect of swapping out pages. True, SSD is an option for the new iMac, but it's not included in the base price.
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by hatbert 12y ago
You could start by estimating the time cost correctly. You're assuming that the time required to select the right monitor is zero, that the time required to understand the various connection standards is zero, etc., etc., etc. The on
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by hatbert 12y ago
The Turbo Boost clock speed is only around 15% lower than the other iMacs, though (2.7 GHz vs 3.2 GHz). It looks like the same processor as the MacBook Air. The bigger problem is probably memory--only 8GB, soldered to the board, and no op
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by hatbert 12y ago
> FCs don't operate via the carnot cycle so in theory can be 90+% efficient in electricity generation. Sorry, this is wrong. FCs are not heat engines, so the thermodynamic limitations of heat engines are not relevant to fuel cells.
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by hatbert 12y ago
I doubt the feedback loop would be very severe, simply because most tuition is not used to pay for faculty. Instead, most goes to the ever-increasing army of administrators whose actual responsibilities are harder and harder to pin down.
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by hatbert 12y ago
As the density of receiver sites increases, it will likely be possible to use trilateration to identify broadcasts which are obviously bogus.
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by hatbert 12y ago
HNers tend to be technical people who like numbers. It's my experience that such people tend to dislike what might be politely called 'bovine excrement.' The lack of numbers[1] is, I think, triggering some members' &quo
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by hatbert 12y ago
> His cost argument doesn't make any sense. He is comparing some mythical 12x12' $10k panels to the same size of asphalt and is magically breaking even. That stuck out at me as well. He's sort of saying " IF we coul
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by hatbert 12y ago
> is the "hockey puck" mouse. I don't disagree that they're terrible, but didn't they end production of those 15 years ago?
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by hatbert 12y ago
I think the part most people are having trouble with is not what is contained in your first paragraph, but how the legislature/executive goes from there to "Every manufacturer, including those that never set up franchise agreement
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by hatbert 12y ago
> In 2014, this may not be the case. Level3 wants to send much more traffic to Comcast than Comcast would ever send to Level3. This is because Netflix (a Level3 customer) is asymmetric in nature. Oh, you're so right! That awful, no-
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by hatbert 12y ago
> Demand for faculty positions is pretty stable. Well, that's certainly one way of putting it. You could also say, "Academia has the potential to absorb about 10% of PhDs produced annually." That's fine for CS, wher
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by hatbert 12y ago
Actually, the Apple chargers in that link displayed the expected behavior for the USB 2.0 "extended power" (can't think of the actual title) specification. The author has a fancy oscilloscope, but that doesn't mean he&#
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by hatbert 12y ago
Well, considering that altitudes above FL1000 have been, for the last 60-odd years, considered to be outside the FAA's jurisdiction... what is the problem exactly?
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by hatbert 12y ago
Isn't that a major functionality regression? I mean, didn't we stop saying "This website best viewed in IE4 with screen resolution set to 800x600" a decade ago?
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by hatbert 12y ago
Honda sold a CNG version of the Civic here in SoCal for a while. It didn't sell very well because the tank took up most of the trunk and the range wasn't much better than most electric cars (around 150 miles, as I recall). On top
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by hatbert 12y ago
Most journals now have a "supplementary content" section where authors upload their results. Anyone can download that without a subscription. Obviously, older results are still locked up in scanned PDFs that you can only download
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by hatbert 12y ago
Have you tried looking for motors that aren't designed for 60 Hz operation? I think you might be in for a surprise...
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by hatbert 12y ago
When Musk unveiled Hyperloop, he used sleight of hand to make it look dramatically less expensive than the conventional rail system currently being built. Specifically, Hyperloop, as proposed, only runs within the central valley, from the
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by hatbert 12y ago
It's hard for me to square your assertion that the article was not a hit piece with the verbiage of the article. For example, the reporter used heavily loaded language to convey the idea (without saying so explicitly, because that wou
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by hatbert 13y ago
You're misunderstanding. There is a single circle, which people are calling two arc. That is because they know the airplane can't fly more than a certain distance from its last known position (this reduces the circle to an arc)
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by hatbert 13y ago
I realize that central Michigan has a fairly low cost of living, but that seems surprisingly low for a tenured professor.
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by hatbert 13y ago
Sure, the J variant has upgraded engines and avionics, but the airframe is the same. The article simply says that the PLA uses the "Soviet designed airframe" of the Tu-16 and the "Soviet designed [...] An-12." It state
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by hatbert 13y ago
Because Nissan was a little stupid and didn't include any sort of active cooling system for the battery. No heat pump, no liquid cooling, not even an air-cooled heat sink (unless you count the flat outer surface of the battery). Ther
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by hatbert 13y ago
Do you have the same range anxiety with a gas car? Why not?
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by hatbert 13y ago
Right, but how does the cockpit crew know that they airspeed indicators are working correctly now? They don't.
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by hatbert 13y ago
There were actually bigger planes, like the Martin JRM Mars (a large WWII flying boat) with a gross takeoff weight in excess of 165,000 lbs. They use a mechanism called a "servo tab," which is sort of like a control surface for t
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by hatbert 13y ago
The short answer is: "Administrators" I'm a nearly-finished Ph.D. candidate, and when people complain to me about how bloated and inefficient the government is, I think to myself "Wow, that sounds like a pretty good syst
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by hatbert 13y ago
Is it normal for people to realize that someone stole her phone only after it has been missing for 4 months? My naive assumption would be that people tend to report these kinds of things within a few days, or a week at most (if for no othe

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