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Comment #44115775
You mean you must record the timezone? Because the TZ offset can change throughout the year (e.g. due to daylight saving time).
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Comment #43746644
Copper kills funghi too, and that's a problem as funghi are important element of healthy soil.
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Comment #41915546
Thorcon [ https://thorconpower.com/ ] has a plan for this, but they're still years away.
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Comment #41817502
Ralph Waldo Emerson is as relevant as always: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
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Comment #41771858
How does this compare to Instant ( https://www.instantdb.com/ )?
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Comment #41689872
> the team will eventually fix the tech debt when there are not enough feature tickets to exhaust capacity I have yet to visit this misterious universe you describe.
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Comment #41666971
Thanks for the detailed info, this was the stuff I was looking for but couldn't find quickly. >> is difficult to re-process > That's not a problem. You just don't reprocess it. The…
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Comment #41664940
In my opinion TRISO fuel is bad because it has very low burn-up and is difficult to re-process. These things together mean it has quite low utilization of enriched uranium.
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Comment #41340991
Since then 500 million people or more have been taken out of poverty. They are competing with you for resources. That's why what was going on in the US in the 50s is no longer poss…
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Comment #41180189
Because all masses accelerate at equal rates in a gravitational field either: 1) Inertial mass and gravitational mass are exactly equal without an explanation why or 2) The acceler…
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Comment #40847707
> How do you explain airplanes that can fly with wing with symmetrical cross-section profile? > How do you explain airplanes flying upside-down? Angle of attack is what causes lift…
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Comment #40803480
> For this portion I don't necessarily do TDD, because I remain unconvinced that writing unit tests first is inherently better than writing unit tests afterward. I would argue that…
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Comment #40197926
I would say it's an excellent entry level split ortho keyboard, but it's quite large. Later you can go to a 50 key one or lower.
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Comment #40197899
I'm probably much older than you, and I found the reduced travel or the alternative layouts much more important than speed. Your hands will thank you one day.
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Comment #40197842
I found Workman horrible for same-letter bigrams. After testing a lot of different layouts I've settled on a slightly modified Colemak-DH.
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Comment #40197793
I've built exactly that, but need to polish it a bit before releasing. Hopefully will have time to do it soon.
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Comment #39489914
> Another way, if you know what the code is supposed to do, why write it down in two places? This would be like criticizing double-entry accounting by asking "if you know what the …
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Comment #39264148
> SpaceX ahs yet to get us some place we haven't been in space, or at the very least one we have not been to in a long time. It got us to a place where the cost of a rocket launch …
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Comment #39101047
I believe in German-speaking countries the X-ray machine is called Röntgen? E.g. in a hospital you will have directions for "Röntgen".
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Comment #39096631
1/12th of the weight of 6.02214076×10^20 carbon 12 atoms.
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Comment #39082200
Because they trusted the FAA up to that point.
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Comment #39082186
Airbus was an underdog, and it's always easier being the underdog? If Airbus becomes dominant for decades like Boeing was, it's likely that it could start experiencing the same pro…
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Comment #39071180
> One of the reasons Google has long term big center in Zurich, if grass would be greener (since cheaper it is) in say Germany or Austria they would build there I don't think Googl…
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Comment #39071162
It's very easy to fire in Switzerland. The notice periods are usually longer than in North America, but everyone having unemployment insurance where they are paid ~80% of their sal…
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Comment #39026868
You could try using Thumb instructions, they are 16 bit.