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Unfortunately not who gets the most, though.

This tanker is 35kg, so it is the smaller barge.

The Bay Area is absolutely worth visiting. The Computer History Museum alone is a must see if you're into that sort of thing. The wealth inequality and housing crises don't make it…

Deep Reactive Ion Etching should turn up more results. For watchmaking the application would be bulk micromachining.

Do you have a source for that number? UNHCR lists 44,400 displacements per day worldwide in 2017 [0]. [0] http://www.unhcr.org/globaltrends2017/

Perhaps if it’s released before another key is pressed, the mode stays changed. If another key is pressed first, it changes back on release.

Somewhere in the instructions it says that your solution should run in less than a minute on ordinary computer hardware. Sometimes it's just as interesting to make your brute force…

The common thread is that robots look like people or animals. No one would call a CNC machine a 'robotic machinist' but an industrial robotic arm is still a robot because it is vis…

It was safer than additional surgeries to replace batteries.

Because Algebraic Data Types. It's bizarre that I have to give up that power when going from VHDL to C.

Iridium works anywhere on earth, it's just expensive.

What's more common outside PHP is that functions throw errors or exceptions when given invalid input, rather that trucking along and producing output that is clearly not what was i…

At least in PHP. Unfortunately in my experience the PHP documentation is not frequently read by PHP developers or even PHP internals developers. It seems to exist mainly for PHP ha…

The crazy part is that, instead of throwing an error when given input that doesn't make sense, it just silently produces garbage output.

True, but it takes a lot fewer resources to thoroughly catalog and monitor all large NEOs and divert the potentially hazardous ones. Estimates I've seen put 5km impacts at an avera…

To be fair, it's Hardware Description Language, not Hardware Synthesis Language. HDLs are mostly tools to support V&V, it's just that synthesis is the most convenient way to ensure…

I see. This is similar to my experience. Most software is made for people to use at work, usually semi-custom. Most software also doesn't depend on low latency or high graphics thr…

I'm curious, what communities and places do you know most of these developers from? And what sort of platforms do they work with?

I think the grandparent is referring to 'free as in beer.' It doesn't cost anything to tinker with programming because almost everyone already has a computer they use for other thi…

All true. The first used F9 payloads will likely be Geosynchronous communications satellites, where the smaller payload is mostly fuel for apogee kick and station keeping, and the …

Milling is great, but not very mass-efficient. Resisting the cutting forces involved in milling anything harder than light foam, requires a lot more structure than simply moving a …

I agree, the refocusing is somewhat gimmicky, but how would you like a 30-250mm f/2 lens that never misses focus. To me, this is where the Lytro shines. It enables you to use a len…

The difference is that I can actually use Squirt.io, today. I like Spritz, but it's useless to me if I can't use it on anything but their site or the email app of the next Samsung …

Consumers were not mentioned in the comment. The last sentence talks about "people" which in context means members of the tech press.

Really? of all my bills, T-mobile is the only one I could get set up automatically. It's beautiful. They never call me, I never call them, my phone just has internet.