I would guess it’s the latter; the trains draw power from the grid to accelerate, and dump power back into the grid when they decelerate.
I would guess it’s the latter; the trains draw power from the grid to accelerate, and dump power back into the grid when they decelerate.
This is probably the blog post you’re thinking of
How come it doesn’t just know whether you tend to speed or not? Doesn’t Google know everything about everyone?
Found the sign guy
(I came here to say the same thing)
My pick too. The docking scene is fantastic, and the slingshot around Gargantua always gets me.
“We agreed Amelia; nighty percent.”
the cost to replace the carbon would be higher that what you’d get for the straw after the cost of harvesting it
The cost to replace what carbon? Plants don’t take carbon in from the soil
GMO yeast that produces animal-specific proteins is a real thing, though experimental at the moment; it’s one of the several routes companies are trying for meat alternatives
Uhhh…sudo su
Don’t be like me
Stop fucking creating terrorists. America can’t though, creating terrorists is their favorite pastime
Can spacetime be ripped or torn?
That would probably be analogous to false vacuum decay; don’t try to make it happen
an unusual finale for space flight
I mean at the time, it was the typical finale for a manned space flight
Eh. Overseas? Definitely not. If my home is invaded? You bet your ass I’m fighting the invaders.
The best book is either Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks, or Fine Structure by Sam Hughes.
Oh, you meant programming books. Maybe still try Sam Hughes, it’ll probably be more blog post than book, though
Edit: You might also like Ra by Sam Hughes; it’s magic as a field of science/engineering, and spells have programming-like syntax. Spoiler: ‘magic’ is not actually magic
Hopefully more than a word
I’ll always like Primary/Secondary.
Right? Big whoop, votes are public. Oh no, people might find out I’m an an-com from my voting patterns, instead of from my comments
MPPP is not heroin; do words just not mean anything anymore?
Interesting; here in Alberta a buggy whip is a flexible (fibreglass, at least mine is) flagpole for the back of your truck.
For shell scripts it’s because bash isn’t the only shell; if you leave out the shebang line, Ubuntu will run your script in Dash instead