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peletiah··on A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
How are these triggered? Motion-sensors?
peletiah··on How do we explain email to an “expert”?
I don't have that problem, mails from my private server are delivered to people's gmail-inboxes without fuss.
peletiah··on Bringing Nixie tubes back to life
Wow, impressive quality in details and finishing. And all made in a small shop in rural Czechia. I wonder how the guy financed all the equipment and time in the first place, he looks pretty young.
peletiah··on Ask HN: Anyone moving their company out of the UK following Brexit?
Michael Dougan argues it will be very difficult for the UK to arrange trade agreements within a short time period, as they hardly have enough competent negotiators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USTypBKEd8Y
peletiah··on The Godzilla of Solar Ovens
Try the "Continue to site ->"-link in the upper right corner.
peletiah··on Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid
The Viennese police have sent out a warning on twitter and a press release shortly after this went public: https://twitter.com/LPDWien/status/745907477833719808
peletiah··on System Overload
There was this great video last year, illustrating how outdated and error prone the signalling technology in the NY subway is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjx3S3UjmnA
peletiah··on Introducing Kindle Oasis
Calibre solves that for me. Also I barely buy books on Amazon thanks to it.
peletiah··on Introducing Kindle Oasis
> It's fallen out of my hand too many times to count.

Glad I'm not the only one :-)

peletiah··on Introducing Kindle Oasis
Doubt the weight makes a difference for luggage - but definitely if handheld for a prolonged time.
peletiah··on New Python REST API and CLI micro-framework
Hmm, does it offer anything over Pyramid/Cornice? Pyramid is also quick and easy to start (i.e. "Micro") and allows to extend a project to a full featureset when necessary (Auth, Routing, Model,...).

edit: Sorry I don't add anything more constructive to the discussion. Hope author does not feel discouraged, writing OSS and then getting asked "What's the point?" sure is disheartening.

peletiah··on Learn Raw React – No JSX, No Flux, No ES6, No Webpack
> you can cut that syntax down to almost the expression power of JSX.

What was the benefit for you over simply using JSX?

peletiah··on The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
Well his blogpost above was a well-layed out argument. Surely you could provide at least some links to counterarguments?
peletiah··on A Hydrogen Bomb by any other name
Not precisely. Most of the energy of a thermonuclear bomb comes from fission, the fusion reaction mostly serves as a booster for neutron flux, escalating the fission reaction further than in a pure fission weapon. Even more so when the enclosing capsule (The tamper) is made of U238 instead of lead, as the high neutron flux leads to fission in the tamper (The Tsar Bomb would have had a yield of 100MT instead of 50MT had it's tamper not been replaced by lead, an intentional restriction).

A proper hydrogen bomb would be purely fusion.

peletiah··on A Hydrogen Bomb by any other name
Interesting how one can write an article about thermonuclear bombs and calls them hydrogen bombs all along.
peletiah··on Germany is turning on its monster stellarator
Here's a comment on that by Prof. Dr. Sibylle Günter, Max-Plank-Institut für Plasmaphysik (In German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sweAVoaVB34

The current schedule is to have an operational power plant in 2050.

peletiah··on Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book
There's a lot of fluff in this article, but little technical details. I'd be curious how the hinge works, and although a whole section of the article is dedicated to it, I explains nothing.

> It’s also, claims Panay, a first. “It’s never been done before. This product is the first ever where the GPU is in the base and then a second GPU is in the top.” The result is a “balance” between hardware and software.

Yeah. Right.

peletiah··on SSD: How to Optimize Your Solid State Drive for Linux
Well, the author also insists to install gksu and leafpad.
peletiah··on Street View, North Korea
You can see the same in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan - perfect tarmac in the capital, but outside of it, the road is lousy, even on transit routes (Iran-Uzbekistan) - we cycled there in 2013: http://poab.org/log/c/0/60#2
peletiah··on Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck
But there will be far fewer cars, as it's no longer necessary to own one. Less parking space, narrower paved roads (Traffic will also be more efficient), less car sustained industry overall.
peletiah··on GitHub hit by DDoS attack
The Great FireWall of China - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall
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