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Nuclear pulse propulsion (Project Orion) is a different concept to nuclear thermal. Pulse works by using bombs to generate your energetic reaction mass in bursts, whereas thermal uses a more normal fission reactor to superheat some reaction mass that then passes through an ordinary rocket nozzle.

You're right that both are worrying until they're out of atmosphere.

OCaml has first-class modules & functors (functions on modules). I can write something like:

  let f (type t) some_arg (module M : Stringable with type t = t) = M.to_string some_arg

This will have the type signature

  val f : 'a -> (module Stringable with type t = 'a) -> string

In this case the module type Stringable looks like:

  module type Stringable = sig
    type t
    val to_string : t -> string

Functors are just module types so can be used in the same way. Module types fit in as normal values, you don't have to pattern match on them. This works:

  let id x = x
  
  id (module Int)

The trick was to insert a USB drive, tell BTRFS it's block storage and delete away. Once you're done you tell it not to use the disk and you're good.

This is why I'm back on ext4 now, too.

Apple does not have their own in-house search provider

RTGs[0] use the thermoelectric effect to generate electricity from the decay heat of radioactive isotopes. This new material would allow better power generation using RTGs.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858226

I think uBlock Origin with one of the annoyances lists blocks this

As I just learned: Android limits password lengths to 16 characters, so you can't use passphrases.

I've heard this argument before, and please forgive me if this is insensitive. Are people with disabilities eased by non-paper straws not able to supply their own? Perhaps steel ones that can be reused many times? I appreciate that allowances for disabilities must be made, but I can also understand that general popular use of plastic straws is harmful to the environment.

Why are paper straws the wrong solution? Even if they take a little more energy to produce they at least don't leave long-term waste behind.

They haven't passed judgement on Parliament's actions, just the executive's.

There's pi-hole but it's only a DNS blocker

This helps: https://www.justwatch.com/

What is your phishing protection? Making sure you read the URL?

Fugly isn't 4chan English, it's just slang. I grew up hearing people use it in real life.

I'd be unsurprised to hear it in TV programming aimed at teenagers, so perhaps he learned it from that

What makes you say that? Tensions are pretty low at the moment.

The BBC is financially controlled by the state. The Telegraph has nothing to do with the state, however.

To save others a rapid Google: MVNO is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operato...

Except if you read the article you'd realise this is not active damping. They're optimising the movements using a physical model so that they don't need active damping at all.

Well, there is a responsible way: use it like a charge card.

And given most companies run managed browsers on managed systems, the user agent is going to collide too

My ancient 5-disk box uses an average of 60W.

Modern hardware should pull even less.

> The articles in The Guardian have little to do with fact

That's a very strong claim that I don't believe is made in good faith.

What tools did you use to write the apps? I assume you had access to a good web toolkit?

Which is specifically the body text size, no?

Because for some people, open source is not about freedom of use of the software, but freedom of source. They feel that existing FOSS licences can't protect against modification without release in the case of cloud usage, so they use this licence to protect the openness of modification.

Because the Mozilla brand is more trusted than a random website with ‘Pwned’ in its name. Also, it's being built into Firefox so having a website for it too seems like a good idea.

I'd generally prefer discussion on Hacker News was kept civil. If the parent had a reputable source for their assertion, I'd be interesting to see it. A lack of a source is also interesting.

Either way, asking for a source is better than just saying 'I don't believe you'.

Do you have a reputable source for your assertion?

The author means 60 frames per second, which has the units of Hertz. You sometimes see this unit used for screen refresh rates in your system settings.