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animatedb

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    Comment #39033199

    sorrownding: neat

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    Comment #36958977

    Superconductor means low resistance. Low resistance means less loss due to heat on a wire. Room temperature superconductor also means more efficient magnets for motors, coils, endi…

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    Comment #33540969

    I want the hardware to protect me perhaps with a key or handle or something. Talking to the hardware: Give me a block of memory that I can append to the end of. Another piece of co…

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    Comment #32694195

    There are now leadless devices that communicate with each other using RF.

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    Comment #32668431

    You are thinking much too small, friend. Spin the earth faster and we can finally get rid of leap seconds.

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    Comment #31902651

    I actually fixed one of those games once. It was really easy since both tanks had duplicate hardware, so signals could be compared between both tanks.

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    Comment #31276593

    If you are talking about large sets of numbers, then the speed up will be far below 1%.

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    Comment #28487744

    I imagine you may know a lot about this, but what OS/machine were they using to develop it? PDP-11?, CPM? What editors did they use? Line editors? Which machines did they use to te…

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    Comment #28282483

    The magnet is usually used as a mitigator to turn off the device in case the device is doing something wrong like producing pulses too fast. There is typically RF communication tha…

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    Comment #28282462

    The magnet is usually used as a mitigator to turn off the device in case the device is doing something wrong like producing pulses too fast. There is typically RF communication tha…

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    Comment #27900090

    I know that the open function on files is very slow. This makes opening many small files very slow.

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    Comment #27079568

    Typically it is not ok considering cradle to grave of all materials, labor, transportation, etc.

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    Comment #26496069

    Or a bit of the ego of the writer is getting in and becoming the story.

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    Comment #26322859

    To be honest if it wasn't so good, we wouldn't have evolved to consume so much of it.

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    Comment #25784977

    Allow people to vote and follow different bellwether classifications.

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    Comment #25003354

    I like it a lot. Use it with --disallow-untyped-defs to make sure more is caught.

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    Comment #24655829

    You may have missed one more part. When you see a black and white picture, you assume that the black, gray and white are not real. When you see color, it biases your brain to think…

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    Comment #24593274

    There is the mypy static type checker that works very well with Python. It works with the typing module that allows unions of types, and other methods. Using the --disallow-untyped…

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    Comment #18765105

    When I was a kid I used an erector set to make a car that moved directly into the wind using a similar technique. Many people don't think that is possible either, but with proper g…

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    Comment #9662589

    How much money do you have in the bank, and what is your bank account number? If anything can be hidden in the internet, then who decides which things can be hidden?