quantumstate

5 ms·

1.
by quantumstate 9y ago
There is a similar electricity tracker at http://energynumbers.info/gbgrid . The main notable difference is that this one adds embedded wind to the window power total. Embedded wind refers to power stations which aren&#x2
2.
by quantumstate 12y ago
"If you need heat, it's much more fuel efficient to just burn fuel and not bother turning it into electricity in an intermediate step." This isn't always true. Carnot's Theorem works in reverse as well, so you can
3.
by quantumstate 12y ago
It is hard to use clear terminology without getting very technical. The basic idea is that a gas power station has a limited efficiency, I think about 55% of the chemical energy in the gas becomes electrical energy. This is due to a mixtu
4.
by quantumstate 13y ago
I am from the UK and here it is 28 days minimum holiday [1]. I believe it is fairly common to have the 8 days bank holiday as fixed days and then 20 days chosen by the employee initially. After working at a company for a period in increas
5.
by quantumstate 13y ago
I'm not sure I would call the system more sophisticated than AoE, it is very similar. There are three phases; Village, Town and City which work similarly to the AoE series, unlocking units, buildings and technologies. The idea behind
6.
by quantumstate 13y ago
No, the game is set in the period from 500 B.C. to 1 B.C. and during that period firing while moving was not common. It could possibly be added for some types of high quality horse archers but isn't a high priority.
7.
by quantumstate 13y ago
To clarify, there has been support for multiplayer games for a long time. Currently you connect to other players by entering the host player's ip address. What is currently being worked on is a lobby system so you can create an accoun
8.
by quantumstate 13y ago
I work on a large piece of C++ software (millions of lines) and unfortunately this feature does not work well enough to be worth using. The first problem is that it takes far too long, much longer than the rename method and waiting to reco
9.
by quantumstate 13y ago
As an extreme counter example I visited rural South Sudan, this is one of the poorest parts of the world, people are subsistence farming so their monetary income is very low. Some people struggle to pay school fees of 20 South Sudanese Pou
10.
by quantumstate 13y ago
Why are you comparing based on size? Surely it is sensible to try and compare economically similar. Western and Northern Europe is probably the best comparison, with a combined population of something like 280 Million, not too far from th
11.
by quantumstate 13y ago
Your Wikipedia link shows that the US murder rate is 4.8, the rates for Western, Southern and Northern Europe are 1.0, 1.4 and 1.5 respectively. Eastern Europe has a higher rate of 6.4. If you are looking at economic similarity Western, N
12.
by quantumstate 13y ago
I was recently in rural South Sudan, at a place where there are no power lines within 80 miles. So the systems they use must be off the grid by necessity. There were several PV and battery setups there which worked pretty well. Obviously
13.
by quantumstate 14y ago
Higher pixel counts give less noise assuming the total light collection area is the same. Normally you get a bit less light collection area due to the gaps between pixels with a higher resolution sensor but overall I think higher pixel cou
14.
by quantumstate 14y ago
It case you haven't come across it I have found that garmintools and pytrainer work very well with my forerunner 305. I have never used anything else.
15.
by quantumstate 14y ago
Blender is primarily a 3D modelling tool. It does come with two renderers though (Blender internal and Cycles).
16.
by quantumstate 14y ago
If I go the thenextweb homepage and click the link to the article I get the url with ?fromcat=all. Banning a user because they copied a url directly is not a good solution. Many websites put some extra information in the url.
17.
by quantumstate 14y ago
Trying to look at how software performance has improved in the way you are looking at it doesn't really work. There is no point putting time into optimising things that run fast enough. There are many algorithms that have been improved dr
18.
by quantumstate 14y ago
It someone is feeling faint it is standard practice to lower their head to increase blood flow to the brain. Presumably her husband knew this. I felt faint after donating blood recently (I have low blood pressure) and they have a standard
19.
by quantumstate 14y ago
It depends what your company does. Where I work we write CAD/CAM software which gets released roughly twice a year. It is pretty inconceivable that a 3AM fix would be necessary. Even 0 day security flaws in the software (pretty unlikely
20.
by quantumstate 14y ago
I think that since a company is deciding on the structure of the interview day they have a responsibility to be transparent about the process beforehand. This is a different situation to the person being interviewed. For my current company
21.
by quantumstate 14y ago
I'm surprised that you got that impression. I'm from the UK, I have visited the US once and was in the Philadelphia suburbs. I would say that the UK has smaller homes and gardens. In the UK most people live in dense cities and towns as o
22.
by quantumstate 14y ago
I'm actually pretty surprised about the curry thing. Here in the UK we get so much US media (films and TV) that I feel like I have a fairly good grasp of what they have in America. Not having curry has shocked me though.
23.
by quantumstate 14y ago
Basically you cam imagine a market with only long term traders, there is a certain amount of money being generated by companies which feeds the profits of the market. Now add some HFTs, these make a profit (there is empirical evidence for t
24.
by quantumstate 14y ago
I work for what would probably be classed as a BigCorp. As a developer I get to spend my days programming. There are departments which handle all of the marketing, customer support, ... By the time tickets reach developers most informati
25.
by quantumstate 14y ago
I have spent the last two years at university cycling to lecture and am now cycling to work. It saves a large amount of money (~£1800 insurance+£1500 running costs). If it rains you just wear waterproof clothing. You can easily get good
26.
by quantumstate 14y ago
This is exactly the way the courses at my University (Cambridge, UK) worked. The lectures covered all relevant course material and problem sheets were given out (also available online http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/examples/ ). Each cour
27.
by quantumstate 14y ago
The specific heat is the energy needed to raise the temperature per mass. So for water it takes 4.184 joules per gram to raise the temperature by 1 kelvin. So if you heated water to 75 degrees you would have put in about 205 joules per gr
28.
by quantumstate 14y ago
I can't think of any cultures which are nomadic by choice. Peoples such as the Mongols and Bedouin come from desert regions where resources are too low density to sustain static groups.
29.
by quantumstate 14y ago
Too late, Duerr's have been selling them already. I was pretty impressed, they are genuinely easy to open. http://silvergroup.asia/blog/an-age-friendly-packaging-innov...