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A friend that has a degree in engineering and law who works as a patent lawyer had this to say. Interesting physical real world problems are NP hard. That's why we have patents. So…

I saw a string of emoji that supposedly when copied to a file and renamed .exe prints out hello when run.

I keep coming back to the idea he's advocating using long function names as a substitute for comments. Instead of // do the thing followed by 5 lines of code to do the thing. You'r…

Every cycle of violence leaves them in a worse position than before.

You need about 50-55kwh to produce a kg of hydrogen. Urea molar mass is 60. And the formula is CO(NH2)2. 4 moles of hydrogen per mole. So 6.6% hydrogen by weight. 1000kg of urea ne…

Used to be Palestinians could freely travel between the West Bank and Israel. That ended after the First Intifada when general travel permission was revoked. And you needed persona…

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Elop knew what his job was. Sell Nokia to Microsoft.

25 years ago if you wanted to sell a product you had to ship samples to buyers who would beat the crap out of it and if they liked it they'd place orders for 100s of thousands a mo…

I think if you define energy as force X distance then integration alone will give you the squared term. How I got banned from some reddit channel. Flip this around ask if a ball we…

The later version of Wordstar had a style template system which I thought was nice. So where Word Perfect had tags and more tags. Wordstar you just applied a predefined style to a …

When I think back to when I was 10 and every boy I knew idolized Norris and I instinctively hated his guts I feel better about myself.

Just making the point that the cost of solar panels to power a car is a fraction of the purchase price of the car. If the world can afford to manufacture 100 million light vehicles…

You seem to think the conflict will be decided by the vibes and sentiments of people who don't matter.

I think 1600 watts of solar panels produces enough energy to drive an EV 12000 miles a year. Your car though would have to be always plugged in during the day. But probably 3200 wa…

Undefined behavior according to WG14 but perfectly fine on most architectures. Even on architectures that don't support it (what the fuck ARM cortex) the compilers do support it.

With modern CPU's unaligned accesses only matter when it straddles a cache line address not a register address.

Large family sizes dilute family wealth and leave children at a disadvantage to their better capitalized peers.

I just remember buying 16MB from a wholesaler operating out of a nondescript warehouse. I'm pretty sure they had a runner delivering your order from elsewhere in the building. The …

The difference between solar+batteries and oil and gas is the former is a durable good and latter are consumables.

Buying electric cars, installing solar, and switching to heat pumps are one of the few things you can materially do to screw the powers that be. The the other one is limiting your …

Problems with unaligned pointers are basically a hardware defect. Signed overflow is an issue because academics are unhappy computers only can do finite math. Issue with types and …

I think housing isn't an ordinary durable good the way economists think. If there was a shortage of toasters you couldn't make money by churning toasters like you can if there is a…

There is a tenancy to believe Israel is a vassal state that does the US's bidding. The actual record says not really. And also Israel is only able to resist being conquered by it's…

The Obelisk at the Vatican weighs in at 360 tons. And was moved from Egypt to Rome by the Romans around 40AD. And then moved to it's present location in the 1586. The Romans moved …