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Can you report back the TPM serial number to the webserver? If so, why isn't this used as an immutable ever-cookie that can't be deleted?
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> I have to contrast this attitude to CPython, who, while I'm sure they never originally said that their code was designed to run on s390 (risc-v, pick your architecture..), would not go ahead with a change that froze out these use
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Django was the big one back then. But it was not clear at all that Flask would be the other winner. There were a lot of articles discussing Flask vs Bottle vs web.py. > like the javascript situation where there was genuine paralysis of c
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> Only Django and Flask had much mindshare. That's the status today. A few other major ones back then - Zope, Tornado, Bottle.py, Pylons, TurboGears, CherryPy, web.py, Werkzeug.
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10 years ago there was a new Python web framework every month. Now that space is pretty much stable (dead). The fact that JavaScript front-end is going through so much churn just shows that it's not obvious yet what the proper design l
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> I have not seen this pace in other languages/environments. For example, in Python It happens in Python too. For example in ML, in 2015 everybody was using torch, then Keras, then TensorFlow, then PyTorch. Pandas now being replac
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More importantly - if you don't pay for HN, you are the product.
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You can install Twitter app from Windows Store if you want Spaces on Windows.
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Has there been any research about how metamerism issues relate to display technologies (TN, IPS, OLED, Qdot, ...)? It seems to me that color spaces (CIELAB, ...) totally ignore this aspect. We've all experienced how an OLED screen is d
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CO2 concentration seems to depend on actual location: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-maps-of-global-histo...
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Maybe it has a big China flag on it?
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Maybe they want to capture it intact (most likely). Maybe they are doing signals intelligence on it. Maybe it's a (fake) Chinese school project, and the world wide media will be like tomorrow "US gov shoots down Chinese little gir
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No, you'll get arrested. Even if it's Chinese, you're not allowed to mess with it, only the gov is.
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But a medium size company cannot afford building an industrial plant and recoup the money in a reasonable time frame. Like in software: a 5 developer team is more efficient and has less overhead than Facebook, but a 5 dev team can't bu
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One could say that a company serving 10 million is a megacorp.
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> We could still feed them before What do you mean by that? Before the industrial revolution starvation was widespread in human populations.
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> societies relying a lot on animals, so having a lot of fertilizer as a byproduct Animals also eat. There was never an abundance of fertilizer before industrial processes.
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There is no such thing as a monotonic clock on a regular computer. You need extra hardware for that (GPS, ...). All the regular Linux/Windows monotonic clocks are broken in some scenarios and will go back or just not increase. https:&
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> The Haber process,[1] also called the Haber–Bosch process, is an artificial nitrogen fixation process and is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia today. > Nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues orig
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But on the other hand we couldn't be 8 billion without megacorp scaling and efficiency.
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https://youtu.be/zocutif0cQY?t=49
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For those not in the know, this is the favorite living/gathering place of London's Champagne socialists.
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> This is why Tarantino, Nolan, and P.T. Anderson still only use film. Or maybe they are just old and incapable of adapting anymore. There is a saying: "Physics advances one funeral at a time". Meaning that you need to get ri
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When you look at the flickering pattern a laser pointer makes on a rough surface, that flickering pattern is similar in nature to the double slit interference, and you are seeing it with your eyes. Don't forget that the interference pa
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> How is it possible to both detect a photon and then allow it to travel to the human eye? Leonard Susskind explained it like this in one of his lectures (they are on YouTube, he's an excellent explainer): From the moment the photon
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How legit is this site? There is this blub in their About which is not very reassuring (I never heard of them): > World News Era is the world leader in online news and information and seeks to inform, engage and empower the common men a
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Has anyone tried making bubbles out of the lipids that cells use for their membrane? And in fact can you actually buy those lipids?
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For UK it's 4% physical banknotes/coins [1]. I would assume it's about the same for all developed countries. Which is why sometimes "ATMs ran out of money" if there is a mismatch between physical demand and supply.
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My interpretation of that paragraph is the following: The money that you don't deposit but you pay a company eventually also ends up in a bank account, of the company, of it's employees, of it's suppliers. From the banking sy
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> Misspelling a variable creates a new one. IDEs/linters help with this one. > Type annotations are ignored, so nobody bothers If one really cares you can use MyPy to force errors on bad types. Type annotations are very useful fo
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