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revised Computing technology in a world with only Gold, Copper, and Silver
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comment Appropriateness of lasers for alien plant control
Absolutely you can use lasers for weed control, in fact, here's a laser weeder you can actually buy that does 100'000 weeds an hour! - not quite man-portable, but anyone waging interstellar war is likely to have (at least a little bit) more advanced tech
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answered What is this 9-in-line latching connector?
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revised Duplicates being removed from PostgreSQL array when doing int[] - int[] but not int[] - integer
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comment Duplicates being removed from PostgreSQL array when doing int[] - int[] but not int[] - integer
I've sent the Postgres team a message, if I get a response, I'll add it to the post
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revised Duplicates being removed from PostgreSQL array when doing int[] - int[] but not int[] - integer
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asked Duplicates being removed from PostgreSQL array when doing int[] - int[] but not int[] - integer
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answered How easily could a pre-scientific people purify a substance and hence grow a pure crystal?
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comment How much can you compress information?
You might want to adjust your conversion from pm to m^2, unit conversion is always a pain because when you have >1D units, you've got to multiply the base units too! i.e. 100*150*150*(10e-12 m)^2 per bit (because square units) or about 0.44Exabits/m^2. So you'd need (10ZBytes/0.44Ebits)/(m^2/nm) or half a beer can worth of space... (unit cancellation is weird) But amazingly, a modern 1Tbyte (8Tbit) micro SD card, at 165 cubic millimeters already gets you ~6GBytes/mm^3 or 0.006ZBytes/m^3. You could store that much today with just 1 house worth of 1TB micro SD cards!
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comment Why do we need to use transmission line theory?
One way to help visualize it is: Have you ever quickly turned of a water tap and the house suddenly starts shaking? Signal reflections have a lot in common with water hammer (sort of). Water (energy) is flowing through a pipe when suddenly we introduce a fast pulse (slamming the tap shut), problem is we've still got energy in motion and that energy has to go somewhere, and seeing as a solid metal tap makes for a pretty poor shock absorber (impedance match), all that energy gets flung back the other way (reflection) - the faster the pulse, the worse it gets
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