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  1. Re:so each new map needs to wait for the app store on Apple Begins Rejecting Apps With 'Hot Code Push' Feature (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    A map is data, not code.

    Or you seriously did something wrong.

  2. Re:Pray I don't change it again on Apple Begins Rejecting Apps With 'Hot Code Push' Feature (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    I think most people that consider to write iOS Apps already have an Apple computer.

  3. Re:Pray I don't change it again on Apple Begins Rejecting Apps With 'Hot Code Push' Feature (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    Because iOS users are more likely to pay for an App than Android users.

    And as long as I only sell Apps that cost below $3, I don't care that Apple takes a $1 as fee: I have no hassle with writing bills, sales taxes, credit card/debit card billing etc. And no hassle with: download, storage, bandwidth, license keys and and and

    You must be a user instead of a developer ...

  4. Answer to the wrong parent?

  5. Re:Celcius to Fahrenheit converter failed? on New Research Suggests Earth's Mantle Might Be Hotter Than Anyone Expected (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    The equivalence of weight and mass on Earth exists only because it's convenient.
    No it is the opposite around. Mass is simply defined by the weight stuff has on earth, facepalm.

    And weight and force are not the same thing.

    If I have an electric field it will exercise force on a charged particle in that field. Regardless of weight and mass.

  6. Re:Capacity factor misused again! on US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation To Follow (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Originally you said that CF has nothing to do with dispatchability
    Because they have not? They are orthogonal concepts? I can have a non dispatchable solar plant with 12% CF and a highly dispatchable bio mass plant which I use for balancing power with 12% CF ...

    Why don't you simply go back in the chain of posts and check the post I answered to?

  7. So, you need money to date your own GF or to have sex with her?
    Oh, your dating culture must be quite strange.

  8. ... that dating sites are full with sex hungry people. (Who are often pretty strange in human interaction)

  9. Re:Capacity factor misused again! on US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation To Follow (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely dispatchability is relevant when discussing capacity factor.
    Discussing? No idea what you want to discuss there.

    For example, the reason that hydro's capacity factor isn't near 100% is that it can be dispatched to load follow [wikipedia.org] so it's not running all the time

    Depends on the plant. Dams are usually load following and river flow crafts are usually base load.

    The CF is a result how you run the plant.

    Dispatchability is related to the load factor in all three types of generation that I mentioned, I don't see how you think it isn't.
    Because OP said it opposite around. He claimed CF is the reason for dispatching or not dispatching a plant. And for non dispatachble plants like a wind or solar plant: this makes no sense at all.

  10. Re:Celcius to Fahrenheit converter failed? on New Research Suggests Earth's Mantle Might Be Hotter Than Anyone Expected (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    But yeah, it was a smartass answer :)
    Because it is wrong?
    Kg is the unit of mass, which is equivalent to weight on earth.
    Newton is the unit of force. In other words: weight and mass is the same thing and force is something different (because you do not need weight or mass to exercise a force)

  11. Re:Celcius to Fahrenheit converter failed? on New Research Suggests Earth's Mantle Might Be Hotter Than Anyone Expected (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    But force is not measured in pound ... mass is. Ah, I just googled it, pound-force, lbf is used.

  12. Re:Global Politics on The City of Munich Might Stick With Linux (fsfe.org) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I mixed them up with fsf.org, lol.

  13. Re:Tabs v. Spaces on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't get it.
    You use tabs. Set the tab width you want in your editor, and thats it.

  14. Re:Capacity factor misused again! on US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation To Follow (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Capacity factor absolutely matters when it comes to solar and wind because they are not dispatchable
    Are you sure you wanted to write that? This makes no sense.
    CF is completely irrelevant regarding dispatchability.

  15. Re:How fucking dumb can a human be? on US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation To Follow (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You can not put Wind, Solar and Biomass into one kettle regarding CFs.
    Solar e.g. is usually just above 10%, Wind is around 35%, and biomass is dispatch able, that means you can have what ever CF you want.

    Solar peaks earlier in the day than the peak demand and wind has random peaks. Solar peaks for every plant individually depending into wich direction the panels are pointing. Big plants usually follow the sun, especially molten slat thermal ones. In general solar energy peaks around noon, obviously.

    When your demand is peaking depends on country and consumer behaviour. E.g. in Germany the load curve of the combined solar plants more or less follows the consumers.

  16. Re:tabs4lyf on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you accidentally substitute "space" for "tab" and vice versa in your post?
    Your post makes no sense.
    It is actually just the opposite way.

  17. Re:One word on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No Huge Leaps Forward In CPU/GPU Power? · · Score: 1

    Nevertheless that "bloatness" only uses hard disk space.
    In other words: you don't notice it at runtime.

    And again: this has nothing to do with laziness. It is Zeitgeist. Get used to it.
    The bosses of the guys you look down on demand it. Most programmers would love to act different, but they are not allowed to do so.

  18. Re:Fuck The Purists on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The Shakespeare language is actually very funny.

    But, I understand what you want to say. HyperCard was a superb programming environment/framework. But the xTalk languages, that includes AppleScript, are a pain in the ass to program with. AppleScript is incredible powerful, but learning all the quirks is completely impossible.

    For the guys who do not know about "Hypertalk" aka xTalk, as there are various variations of it, and don't know about AppleScript: those languages aim to be natural english language. Every application on macOS is scriptable, but "contributes" its own "dictionary".

    Scripts in those languages are super easy to read, as they literally are "plain english". But writing a script without google/stackoverflow is close to impossible. Unless you only work with those languages, obviously.

    This is a script to find and show a certain tab you have open in Safari:

    set question to display dialog ("Find Safari tab:") default answer ""
    set searchpat to text returned of question

    tell application "Safari"
    set winlist to every window
    set winmatchlist to {}
    set tabmatchlist to {}
    set tabnamematchlist to {}
    repeat with win in winlist
    set ok to true
    try
    set tablist to every tab of win
    on error errmsg
    --display dialog name of win as string
    set ok to false
    end try
    if ok then
    repeat with t in tablist
    if searchpat is in (name of t as string) then
    set end of winmatchlist to win
    set end of tabmatchlist to t
    set end of tabnamematchlist to (id of win as string) & "." & (index of t as string) & ". " & (name of t as string)
    --display dialog name of t as string
    else if searchpat is in (URL of t as string) then
    set end of winmatchlist to win
    set end of tabmatchlist to t
    set end of tabnamematchlist to (id of win as string) & "." & (index of t as string) & ". " & (name of t as string)
    --display

  19. Re:Multi core programming is too much work on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    He buys a new computer, facepalm. Oh, an old one .....
    That was easy ;D

  20. Re:Tabs v. Spaces on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not insightfull, but ignorant.
    In every IDE and that includes "low level editors" like vi/vim you can decide in the settings how many spaces are "displayed" for one tab.

  21. Re:tabs4lyf on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Erm, I don't get it.
    What is the difference between "indentation" and "alignment"?

  22. Re:Comma-separated vs. tab-separated on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Har har har har!

    On a cloudy (but surprisingly warm) sunday, you made me laugh again (y).

  23. Re:tabs4lyf on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Which tools except editors do you use to "look at code"?

  24. Re:Edge on Which Linux Browser Is The Fastest? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    and with the OS only being supported for two cycles eventually forcing a hardware buy (the old hardware doesn't support the newer OS, and the older OS version is no longer patched/supported) I said good bye to Apple. I've used this Linux + VM strategy on several machines now and have never look back or missed my Mac since (in fact its running linux now too).
    I tried that too, at the beach. What kind of sun glasses do you wear? Mine where either to dark (to see the screen properly) or to bright (was still blinded by the reflections of the sun on the sea).

    Bright future, indeed!

  25. Re:Edge on Which Linux Browser Is The Fastest? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    and with the OS only being supported for two cycles eventually forcing a hardware buy (the old hardware doesn't support the newer OS, and the older OS version is no longer patched/supported) I said good bye to Apple. I've used this Linux + VM strategy on several machines now and have never look back or missed my Mac since (in fact its running linux now too).
    That only happened during the switch from 68k to PowerPC and from PowerPC to intel.
    I doubt there is an Intel Mac out that does not support the most recent macOS.