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bullsbarry··on The Air Force has a plan to make jet fuel out of air
The fact that aircraft get lighter as they burn fuel increases their effective range since a lighter aircraft requires less fuel to fly.
bullsbarry··on Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study finds
The earth is at the center of the visible universe.
bullsbarry··on Why Nuclear Power, Not Renewables, Is the Path to Low-Carbon Energy (2020)
Infinite.
bullsbarry··on mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018)
The first generation were definitely first world only, but it looks like there are variations being developed that are more appropriate for less developed areas. The m1283 vaccine is currently under trials and is supposed to be stable at refrigerator temperatures.
bullsbarry··on Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs
I've been thinking about this, then it dawned on me that the current live game has everything in WoW classic, and then everything in every expansion after it. The amount of video and high resolution textures in the current version of the game dwarf the original.
bullsbarry··on Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America
To me this actually makes me respect beers like Budweiser even more. They've managed to take a fairly temperamental style of beer, mass produce it in breweries spread around the world, and wind up with a product that is damn near uniform everywhere I've ever had it. It's not my preferred style, but I don't think I've ever had a truly bad one.
bullsbarry··on Eatsa, a fully automated restaurant, opens today
So for those of us on the east coast, this is what Wawa has been doing for years now. Except now you can't mill around watching them prepare your food.
bullsbarry··on New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto
Yes. We must make sure to reserve such celebrations for truly important things. Like the World Cup and Olympics.
bullsbarry··on How to talk to an open source project as a large scale or interesting user
I wouldn't be so sure about the 'an' before hotel. That may be regional as well. I'm from the southern US and use 'a' there. However, 'an' would be used whenever the 'h' isn't voiced, which in my case would be words like honorable and honest.
bullsbarry··on Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries
You're missing the context of this being grocery items. For most people a multiple day wait for their groceries would be unacceptable.
bullsbarry··on Tesla Adds Titanium Underbody Shield and Aluminum Deflector Plates to Model S
Modern luxury/sports cars have active suspension systems that allow for adjustments in firmness, response, and in this case the ground clearance of the vehicle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_suspension

bullsbarry··on Formula 1′s Leading Team Has a Big Secret
NASCAR is a terrible example in this case. I'm not what you would call a huge fan of the sport, but I did work for the organization for a while and the racing itself is very much not "top technology". In fact, many would say the appeal is in the restrictions placed on the technology allowed for the teams.
bullsbarry··on It’s a part of my paleo fantasy, it’s a part of my paleo dream
Not at all. The point OP was making is that these 3 cultures are decidedly NOT paleolithic, and it's disingenuous to use them as examples of the effects of the paleolithic diet on cardiovascular health.
bullsbarry··on Hidden features of C#
If an exception isn't caught, the caller will receive an opportunity to catch it, and so on until it hits the top of the call stack and the default handling occurs (a nasty, unhelpful error message is displayed)
bullsbarry··on Backbone vs Knockout
My company is looking to move one of our core apps from Silverlight/RIA Services to ASPnet MVC/Javascript client and we're looking to use Knockout, since it maps well mentally to what we've been doing with XAML in Silverlight.

In light of this article, what is a good application structure to use on the client if we do decide to go with Knockout?

bullsbarry··on Using an LCD’s poor viewing angle to your advantage
If you make a mistake, repeat it and call it your own arrangement.
bullsbarry··on Detroit in Ruins
This reminds me of the "Eyesore of I4" which is a high-rise building under construction for the past 10 years just outside of Orlando, Florida.

http://andrewlerner.blogspot.com/2010/05/eyesore-of-i-4_07.h...

bullsbarry··on Hackers Can Kill Diabetics w/ Insulin Pumps? Facts vs. Fear Mongering
It's a little less severe than that. First the device has to support remote management, then the device has to have remote management turned on, and finally the attacker would have to have the device's serial number (which seems to be used as a security mechanism) in order to successfully send the device commands.

Also, if you don't like needles, don't watch the youtube video at the bottom of the post :|

bullsbarry··on Columnal: a fluid CSS grid, that scales from widescreen laptops down to phones
At the end of the day, CSS frameworks like this generally aren't as useful for web developers as they are for developers like me who don't do web development full time an just want something that takes the pain away. The reason you don't see a need for it is because you're not the target audience for most of these frameworks.