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Comment Earthquake and fire resistant buildings (Score 1) 150

by rajram56 on Sunday January 12, 2025 @05:30AM (#65082401) Attached to: California's Wildfires: Livestreams from Burning Homes and Dire Text Messages - Sometimes Erroneous

Instead of shooting down every comment that says - "build using different material" and suggesting that the commentator must be illiterate it might be good to consider that the possibility. This is not such a wild view.

Comment Re:Sustainable energy - without the hot air (Score 1) 60

by rajram56 on Friday January 03, 2025 @12:27PM (#65059685) Attached to: UK's Electricity Was Cleanest Ever in 2024

It is indeed out of date but I still find the first principles approach very good. It was written in circa 2008. One has to adjust for now when reading it...

Comment Sustainable energy - without the hot air (Score 1) 60

by rajram56 on Friday January 03, 2025 @09:33AM (#65059363) Attached to: UK's Electricity Was Cleanest Ever in 2024

It is worth reading David MacKay's book (available online), Sustainable Energy. - without the hot air...

Comment Time for a Calvin quote (Score 1) 143

by rajram56 on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:01PM (#61282170) Attached to: Pentagon Confirms Video of Pyramid Shaped UFO Is Real, Taken By US Navy Pilot

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Bill Watterson.

Euler's Partition Function Theory Finished 117

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 21, 2011 @05:29PM from the that-was-quick dept.

universegeek writes "Mathematician Ken Ono, from Emory, has solved a 250-year-old problem: how to exactly and explicitly generate partition numbers. Ono and colleagues were able to finally do this by realizing that the pattern of partition numbers is fractal (PDF). This pattern allowed them to find a finite, algebraic formula, which is like striking oil in mathematics."

The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design 242

Posted by kdawson on Monday July 26, 2010 @02:45AM from the how-to-pack-five-eggs dept.

I'm Not There (1956) writes "Jeffrey Zeldman brings up the interesting issue of the paradox between Japan's strong cultural preference for simplicity in design, contrasted with the complexity of Japanese websites. The post invites you to study several sites, each more crowded than the last. 'It is odd that in Japan, land of world-leading minimalism in the traditional arts and design, Web users and skilled Web design practitioners believe more is more.'"

A Quick Look At KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 122

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 09, 2010 @06:39PM from the delicious-candy dept.

dmbkiwi writes "The latest in the 4.x series of the KDE Software Compilation is due to be released in early August 2010. With the first beta of this release recently unleashed, I thought I'd download the openSuse packages and see what 4.5's got in store for us."

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