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Comment · 1 year ago
You mean you must record the timezone? Because the TZ offset can change throughout the year (e.g. due to daylight saving time).
Comment · 1 year ago
Copper kills funghi too, and that's a problem as funghi are important element of healthy soil.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thorcon [https://thorconpower.com/] has a plan for this, but they're still years away.
Comment · 2 years ago
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."
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
> 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.

Comment · 2 years ago
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.

There's not enough uranium in the world to last us more then a few decades if we leave 60-80 percent of it unreacted in spent fuel.

Comment · 2 years ago
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.

Comment · 2 years ago
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 possible.
Comment · 2 years ago
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 acceleration is just an effect of a curvature of space.

Imagine two bodies thrown exactly Northward on a sphere. Although their paths are parallel they would approach each other, as if there was an acceleration. This acceleration would be the same whatever their mass is.

Comment · 2 years ago
> 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. If you have a surface angled against the relative wind, it will produce lift.

Comment · 2 years ago
> 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 TDD doesn't imply writing unite tests - it's about writing any tests first.

If you have acceptance tests already written out, you're already doing TDD.

Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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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