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Ubuntu Server is nice due to the commercial support that's available from Ubuntu, but Debian is also very widely used on the server. And with the newer releases (Debian Stretch and later) it's gaining potential as a desktop OS too.
Not sure what your question is. You want something like a 12 column grid? Or the visual lines?
i wouldnt expect no different opinion from s.o. called "the economist".
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If only Twitter were merely an insubstantial epiphenomenon lacking influence on the real world, but unfortunately, people can use Twitter as a tool to destroy those who offend them.
Or Linus' mail to himself: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495
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Very good points. That idea of creating something for kids that others are not/not willing to figure out, is really fascinating. Probably happens most of the time unintentionally.
I've experimented with fully responsive layouts too for my website (http://www.uptopnews.com) but at the end I just used css flex gird. I almost build a comment section where the comments are cards in a grid but that rabbit hole was too deep.
Li-Ion is hard to beat now in places where strong discharge occurs every day, but even a more pricey cell with lower self-discharge rate and longer life might be at the end of the day more economically feasible than Li-Ion in some areas since the guy climbing up 100 sensor poles to swap exhausted cells will likely cost more than the different technology.

When doable I recover working cells from old laptop battery packs, to use them in non critical applications with protected chargers (laptop cells rely on the pack circuitry for protection).
Last year I recovered all cells from two new packs that failed to charge because of a failure of the old laptop I bought them for. So I recovered all cells, put them in my charger at a slow 500mA charge (don't use fast charge if not needed, it shortens the cell life) and did a few cycles to test their capacity which was fine. Then I put them in their safety bag and pretty much forgot about them because I was reorganizing my lab. A few weeks back I saw the safety bag and recalled about the cells, so I put them in the charger and tested them: about half of them were dead and all attempts to recover them failed. Of the remaining half some were dangerously close to excessive self discharge but still recoverable and the remaining ones were still fine. In the end all working ones were recovered, but I lost about half of the cells I had; one year of storage albeit in proper environment, no excessive temperature and no load, was enough to kill essentially new cells.
Had rechargeable Li-Ion a shelf life comparable to primary Li-Ion cells, it would make them suitable for almost every use, but as of today they sadly aren't even close to that.
> explicit purpose of decentralizing power _away_ from groups who have it

If one agree to the belief that race is the significant force behind social economic status then it will seem obvious that the narrative of white privilege as having that effect.

Like any logic within a religion, it builds upon faith.
Using that argument is not absurd. You do not have to register as a lobbyist to lobby on behalf of yourself, but you do if you do so on behalf of somebody else, moreover do so for money (in USA, and many other countries.)
> Dollar General has a much larger selection than an Asian 7-Eleven.

That is surely because a 7-11 in say Japan, Korea, or China are part of vertical, dense infrastructure. You don't have miles of space in between things.

And I would be curious if Dollar General has that much more of a selection compared to some of the big 7-11 I've visited in Seoul.
After braking the turbine isn't generating the energy it needs to in order to be net positive.
Yeah I agree... especially with stuff like Starling Flash/AS3 was (and I suppose is) an amazing dev environment with robust capabilities.

I think one of the reasons "flash devs" get a bad rap is because a huge amount of the paid work for an epoch was all about making like preloaders and banners and things that were 95% timeline transitions and animations with just a sprinkling of code.

It's like taking a JS developer from the 90's and putting them in the same league of modern web app developers.

Same language (essentially, ish) but no comparison.

Especially with the last hurrah of flash which tied into native extensions for standalone builds and things - Adobe really dropped the ball with something great :\
How many years can Li reserves last?
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I interpreted Alex3917's "adverse reactions" to mean those listed on the Vaccine Injury Table - https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/vaccinecompensation... .

Those are the ones which are presumed to have been caused by the vaccination without going through a court case or settlement.
Everything is a tradeoff.

Either cycle efficiency, or number of cycles before storage drops below 80% of original spec. And storage flow definitely wins on the longevity stakes.

Personally I love the idea of a battery I can scale horizontally with relatively minimal cost / complexity.
> You really have to differentiate between the food that's offered at a dollar store and everything else.

Wouldn't you also need to differentiate between your ability to get to everything else vs getting to the dollar store compared to the population around you?
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I was looking for something similar earlier this year and ended up with SOPINE's cluster board. It only supports 7 ARM modules at a time but you can always stack multiple boards. Its also inexpensive. The SOPINE board I have has worked very well and recommend it.

https://www.pine64.org/?product_cat=clusterboard
K W Jetter was a good friend of Philip K Dick, and the character Alex Turbiner had some similarities and might have been based on him! From the review I linked to:

>A sort of Dick-like (in the sense of a largely ignored and prolific author of paperbacks and lover of music) author and idol of McNihil shows up in Turbiner. (Jeter wryly notes that authors were particularly “mean bastards” in regard to copyrights.)

It's ironic and fitting that PKD has been reincarnated as a robot and new versions of his mind and his work have been reconstructed by infringing on his intellectual property rights with machine learning.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/sep/14/copyright...

https://www.vox.com/2016/6/1/11787262/blade-runner-neural-ne...

K W Jeter also wrote some authorized sequels to Blade Runner (the movie, not the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._W._Jeter
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Some clever brain thought drivers should be part of the kernel. I personally think that's what's prevented Linux from conquering the desktop because of GPU vendors having no stable API to build upon. That is also the reason Android phones get no updates. It was a horrible decision.
The supreme court of the USA has ruled that vaccines are unavoidably unsafe. That is a fact that one should think about for a minute.
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.NET has the concept of pluggable GC since last CoreCLR release. I highly suspect that other runtimes will have the same.

I also have my doubts but more regards performance of a shared WebAssembly GC in regards to different runtimes.
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You're still inviting trolls.

"What an amazing pitch!" becomes "what an amazing witch!" (or worse). Well-known users would hate it because they'd be mocked for stepping into the troll trap.
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And yet, from the article:

"investigators do have more to work with after they recovered a fallen and damaged drone from the north side of the airport."
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David MacKay has done some great work, but I feel I need to present some of the criticism he has received, for balance. In particular, there is a perception that he is biased towards nuclear energy (understating its drawbacks, while also being unnecessarily dismissive of renewables).

People can consider these articles for themselves:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-david-mackay-br...

"Professor David MacKay: Britain ‘must go nuclear’ to control climate"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/03/idea-of-...

"Idea of renewables powering UK is an 'appalling delusion' – David MacKay"

The latter, from 2016, includes the line:

"There is this appalling delusion that people have that we can take this thing that is currently producing 1% of our electricity and we can just scale it up..."

For reference, according to:

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/wind-solar-overtak...

"Renewables’ share of electricity generation shot up to 29 per cent, while nuclear sources accounted for around 21 per cent."
> essentially the thing you have to avoid is "new" which is sort of the heart of the language ...

You can use placement-new syntax and ~Object() (direct call to the destructor), together with malloc/free, or any other memory-allocation primitive, just like in C. You don't have to use the inbuilt new operator.

Still, C++ should be considered a near-legacy language these days. Rust (even in its no_std subset) is progressing rather quickly.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18741718
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I love how he ends all that with "Really."

In my books, Linus was always alright, but I like more polite yet firm Linus even more. Best of both worlds.

Merry Christmas to Linus and all Linux contributors (!), and thanks for one of the greatest gifts of modern time.
That's, like, an entire half a second man! /s

I am sure that the .NET Core team is not going to rest on their laurels with this technology; usually they are pretty good at optimizing stuff. Right now, it's only a proof of concept that's still in beta.
Koa is appreciated to it's true value by the community.

Express was the most popular at the start and after StrongLoop got acquired by IBM it made sense for everyone that express was the foundation of Node.JS.

It's sad knowing how much bloated express is and every single Node.js library uses it from Next to GraphQL server etc...
At first I thought it was something that could be done in real time. Like, you walk up to any painting with the AR glasses on, do the gesture and it would extract a figure and animate it. On closer inspection, the artworks are also virtual in their example videos. I was hoping they would be real, it feel less impressive when none of it is really present.
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Solar has far more deaths per terawatt than nuclear too (fitters falling off roofs really jacks the figures up). People need to look at the big picture or the entire lifecycle. All things considered nuclear is the cleanest and safest form of power we know.
Does anyone know if a similar thing exists for RDF?

I'm looking for a distributed scalable P2P triple store (or graph database) to store and retrieve RDF using SPARQL.
I learned not to allow scarcity impair my judgement.
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> The question should be: How did MongoDB become so successful?

Ability to store Algebraic Data Types and values with lists without a hassle of creating a ton of tables and JOINs. Postgres added JSON support since, plus there are now things like TimescaleDB, which didn't exist previously.
Another potential problem is that "new" can throw an exception.
>... and solar roofs/home battery systems (for which Li-Ion is much more convenient)...

You may need to substantiate that claim.

If you mean it's easier to find a vendor for lithium batteries for home use, you're probably correct.

In terms of life span and constraints around usage, discharge, and recharge, I'm not convinced that Li-ion is more convenient.
What's the incentive to host this content?
It is especially absurd in the case of Schellenberger. So yes it's absurd. Look him up.
Sri Lanka is a major tea producer, why do you think that this would be a poor quality product ?

Your other examples may be valid as stuff to avoid.
No, it’s quite reasonable given the long history of companies covertly funding FUD campaigns about competitors. Those don’t need to be complete fabrications like Steven Milloy’s “junk science”, either — it’s easy to give a negative impression by quoting the scariest cases rather than average or ignoring work which is already being done to address concerns. You can say “I’m just quoting experts” and still pick the most extreme voices in the field to highlight.

The way to avoid this is disclosure: say “I make money from a competitor” prominently so people can read the article with that bias in mind. This guy doesn’t acknowledge it at all in the article or his bio, which is not what you do if your goal is to have an honest discussion.
> This article paints it all as segregation / race issue which is inaccurate where it is really an issue of purchasing power of the community

The purchasing power of the community, especially in the US, does reflect that it very well indeed could be a segregation / race issue still lingering.

You have to remember that especially in the South, segregation was not that long ago for the tail end of baby boomers (1960-70's in Louisiana and 1980-90's in Mississippi). Coming from a small town in the South you can see many local and state policies still are evolving from housing & hiring policies, geographical issues, and educational issues before the civil right era.

> dollar stores have their origin and largest footprint in rural America which is predominantly white.

Based on the maps shown in the article were Dollar General has a higher density of stores [1] vs a racial map of the US [2] that does not seem to be true. It seems that Dollar General has a higher ratio (in terms of their presence) where black people live.

[1] https://twitter.com/jerry_shannon/status/1075743979151466496

[2] https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/
Interesting complaint, but didn't ultima also have a system where you could only raise skills by killing things over and over? It's successor - Everquest was even more hostile to having fun. Wow softened up this horrible trend
What the turbines use the energy for?
There are few questions:

- photovoltaic cell degradation (which, beside external breakage, is the cause of recycling): so far it seems that cells degrade very slowly, 30 years and still 80% original power

- manufacturing: if everything is melted/glue/fused .. it's hard to recycle. Maybe that's not a physical necessity but just old practice

- silicon purification is said to be a energy hog, and uses lots of various Cl based acids. Some say these acids are handled properly nowadays (quite plausible). The energy side .. I wonder when we'll see a solar farm powering a PV cell plant. e^e

What about other PV substrate? are perovskite toxic ?
One thing I always do when they happen is read through the comments anyway, sometimes people bring up some rather insightful things about a language, editor or whatever. Having heard from an emacs user why he prefers it over vim made me really appreciate emacs. I'll use either vim or emacs though, just don't care personally as long as I can: open a file, edit a file, and save a file. I also use full blown "bloated" IDEs.

Of course I ignore a lot of comments, but try to go for the ones that seems intelligible.
For performance, I prefer Fastify rather than Express (https://www.fastify.io).
Which technically can mean a lot of things, that drone could have been there for a while, and just been found when they combed everything for a drone.
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The visual lines. I seem to remember a few frameworks i saw a while back which allow you to control these grid lines and help you do them according to the golden means.
You are cherry-picking a bad example.
They are testing a new machine learning algorithm to see if it can infer that page from the other pages.
> The suggestion there may not have been any drones at Gatwick Airport was a "miscommunication by police", a government source has told the BBC.

> During a conference call between ministers, chaired by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, it was agreed the 67 drone sightings were legitimate.

(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46670714)

As much as "it was all a false alarm" would make a killer headline (and clearly has, even in speculation), it doesn't seem that anyone actually believes that. Just a poor choice of works.
> Please post some citations to back up your performance claims.

According to TechEmpower benchmark[0],Node.js-MySQL is two time faster than express-mysql.

Others benchmarks of TechEmpower tend to point exactly the same result in terms of performance for express.

[0] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r17&hw=...
Why do you need yet another library? Not invented here syndrome? A simple Github search gives me literally thousands of results: https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=css+grid
What I don't understand is why you need a whole new version of Linux for support for an specific brand of touch pad.

Why aren't these things a driver?
I would urge you to look him up. It is absurd regardless of the long history.

And if you want to claim that you also have to claim that on the other side, i.e. the environmentalists.

But with Shellenberger it's an especially absurd argument which you would know if you actually knew who he is and what he is fighting for and how.
> For example, once you’ve allocated and de-allocated C structs a few times, you realize it would be good to have functions to do this allocation and de-allocation. You basically end up re-inventing C++ constructors and destructors.

Conflation of resource allocation on the one hand and construction (a.k.a. initialization) on the other.

Good C programmers do not re-invent C++ constructors and destructors, because they don't think what C++ constructors do is a good idea to do.

While C++ allows to separate allocation and initialization ("placement new") that goes against the grain of the language and its ecosystem. You're still left with constructors new-ing nested things themselves, and you're still left with exceptions from constructors while a simple return value would be better.

> A typical C or C++ programmer simply will not write anything more efficient or more robust than the methods in these libraries if they decide to roll their own.

A typical C programmer will write something different in the first place. Something that doesn't take ages to compile. Something that doesn't do allocations behind their back. Something that doesn't spew out nigh unreadable error messages if they got a simple thing wrong. Something that doesn't encourage clever code that isn't doing anything useful. Something that doesn't require loads of boilerplate and duplication (thinking of const for example) for the simplest task.
As for the premier dragon company, isn't it typical for Chinese companies to have names unrelated to their business, but which sounds good to stick investees who wants to invest in IT?
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The Linux kernel absolutely does have a heap, most memory the kernel deals with is kmalloced.

As for small memory systems, even MISRA and the NASA guidelines say no memory allocation after initialization; having a bump pointer heap is very nice. Global operator new overrides are really nice in embedded systems too, I had one for the RTOS I worked on that let you specify memory region, alignment, etc and it worked by default for allocating any C++ object for free. Obvs you have to leave code behind that new's after initialization, or frees, but that's nothing new to small systems.
They are drivers. It's just that the drivers are now in-tree, so they will work out of the box.
You can put anything you want in an npm package.
No, the biggest killer of PV cells is natural degradation

Photons and other energetic particles knock Silicon atoms out of lattice, and tear the junction layer.

There is no 100% efficient trick against that so far in any common semiconductor. Lithium dopant was once used in space PV cells. It almost halves the decay rate, but even that was not considered enough to warrant using it over simply having bigger area of less durable, but more efficient cells.
Not using the archive feature of the site so I can't comment on it, but the rest of the site works as it should.

I mainly use it for discovering new content via "popular" tab and my own hacky chrome extension to filter "recent" bookmarks and display those with N number of users who bookmarked the same link.

Sure it could use with some much needed updates to both the site and the api at some point once Maciej saves the American political system eventually.
For caffeine, it’s hard to say, but probably at least a liter a day of Coca Cola or similar. For cigarettes, peak usage of half a pack a day. Quit both cold turkey (many years apart). Quitting soda gave me pretty significant headaches for about a week. Quitting cigarettes had no noticeable side effects other than cravings and some antsiness every hour or so. Note also that I have since relapsed on both, but was cold turkey for at least 6 months.
> the money aspect is critical

Any reputable PhD or DPhil in computer science is fully funded. You don't need to think about a part-time job or self-funding.

> In my experience it is very difficult to be accepted when you propose specific research and it is outside any existing scope.

This is more common in the UK and isn't seen as a problem here.
Linux had a different model than windows. It doesn't really have separate drivers. This has a number of upsides and downsides, let me mention just one.

Windows used to have a really bad reputation for stability. I'm sure a lot of this was windows's fault, but a lot of this was bad third-party drivers that crashed.

You might remember that nvidea does have a driver for Linux. The approach they took isn't really supported, which is one of the reasons why graphics drivers are always such a nightmare under Linux.
Even if he is then it still shows that it's not as rosy as many likes to claim.
It is a driver. It's just that it is released for production with this version. Linux bundles most drivers, unlike say a microkernel, which would hand the job off to userspace.
In the year 2018, the technologies I learned:

I learned the Neataptic neural network library and gained experience in text classification using an artificial neural network.

I learned the D3.js charting library.

I learned the express-session NPM package and gained the capability to implement user accounts and HTTP-based user sessions.

I learned SQLite for creating database subsystems for heavily constrained server environments such as the Orange Pi Zero single board computer.

I learned the Blender 3D modeling and animation utility and obtained the capability to create basic 3D models and animations.

I learned the Babylon.js 3D game development framework and obtained the ability to make 3D browser games.
The problem is not only cleanness but also scale and sustainability: we need continuous power so if we go for solar panels we need to imaging a earth-wide electrical network with veeeeeery small losses.

IMVHO solar panel are interested in modern houses (well insulated) as thermal source to heat both sanitary water to head the house itself with a good ventilation system. Photovoltaic may be interested a small scale local backup for low power devices like emergency illumination, communications and perhaps as a companion to thermo-solar for small pumps to make water circulation and perhaps home ventilation. Nothing more.
> Conflation of resource allocation on the one hand and initialization (a.k.a. initialization) on the other.

a.k.a. RAII (Resource Allocation Is Initialization). Which is very often what you want anyway.