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by 3JPLW 11y ago
> a lot of corium ending up on the bottom of the vessel where it did exactly what was planned Yes, that's what happened, but I wouldn't say it was planned. Popular wisdom at the time was that the corium should have melted the
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
It seems like it'll create an uncanny valley between real control (the car immediately reacts to every little movement) and soft control (the car kinda-sorta follows what it thinks your intent behind the movement was; sometimes ignorin
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
There are many many tomes of discussion that have led to this point (I'm mbauman). In short, there is an inherent disconnect between arrays-as-containers and matrices-as-linear-algebra-operators. There are many ways that you can defin
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
Another thing they can do: it allows them to introduce new non-ARM-standard ops and immediately recompile the app store to take advantage of them. Every now and then I see a new comparison of the Swift/ObjC dispatch assembly. Now imag
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
Rotten Tomatoes was serving one of those last week. Made me very mad.
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
This is the text from a very clever 1998 OOPSLA keynote, which can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
Similar first-initial-last-name gmail address, similar issues. Fortunately my email didn't make into AM, but I checked as soon as I found out because I get so many wrong emails, and wanted to know myself before anyone else looked &quo
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
The presentation certainly makes it seem that way. The dramatic "POC" with the magic number only works with the rootkit already installed. The proceedings paper has much more detail[1]. Installing the rootkit requires some very
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
Yup, I was going by the prevailing winds and current arrow on the linked image. But if you superimpose the actual Indian ocean currents (as linked to by goodcanadian)[0], it does make quite a bit of sense. 0. https://upload.wiki
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
I was surprised there wasn't a map! I'm not familiar with the current patterns of the Indian ocean, but Reunion seems like a strange place for MH370 wreckage to end up given the projected paths from the pings. In this map, Reuni
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
Given that all the numbers are less than 2^32, there's less than a 10^-192 chance that it's a 64 bit system...
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
It is a PHP bug. You're on a 32-bit system. The bug only occurs on 64 bit systems.
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
Why even accept ranges that span more than 2^32? That seems like an easy solution to a broken function. Also fun: echo "<?php echo mt_rand(-mt_getrandmax(), mt_getrandmax());" | php is always even on my PHP 5.5.20.
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
Don't miss the comment where they decode the ShooTag magstripe to contain the DEC-SIXBIT ASCII strings "FLEA" and "TICK": http://www.tetherdcow.com/another-science-experiment/#commen... Sure to
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
I'd disagree. New tools for biologists in the last 20 years have strongly accelerated the field. The trouble in Physics is that the new tools look like the LHC.
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
Woah, new and esoteric indeed! X.0.0 is experimental development X.0.1 is pre-release stabilization stage X.1.0 is the stable release X.1.1 is development of release branch (fixes and backports) X.2.0 is the second sta
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
Full is quite relative. The Kuiper belt encompasses a ridiculously large volume of space.
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
(If you only read one article every few months, you wouldn't be hitting their pay wall)
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
I wonder if they discounted this because it was (as wikipedia lists it) an "intraslab" earthquake. I'm not a seismologist, but that reads to me like it wasn't an earthquake from the fault line directly, but rather a sec
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
Do you know how much they try to push their own changes back upstream?
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
What's the relationship between github/ruby and ruby/ruby? It looks like they've diverged quite a far ways away from each other, but that might just be an artifact of which branches GitHub uses when comparing the two.
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
That plot is terrible. I had assumed that it was butchered by the journalist… but it's exactly the same in the paper. Which axis is the number of speakers? What is the "real ratio"? I expected better from PLOS ONE.
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
Here's the whole PDF[1] - the landing starts around page 160. Neil does ask for some readings, but not many. Really crazy to read through. 1. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/AS11_CM.PDF
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
The trouble is that the battery doesn't know the voltage requirements of the device it's powering. Should it start boosting at 1.4V? Or 1.25V? I have a hunch that it already does this for voltages near 1.5. The trouble is dete
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
> I think half is a bit of an overstatement Nope, it's pretty typical. Most grants have a negotiated ~50% overhead in "indirects". I was surprised, though, to find a Nature report[1] that found the actual overhead was ty
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
(The thesis itself isn't quite complete yet)
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
The bonds only form with new tiles emerging from the bottom, so it's best to keep the bottom as clear as possible. Also, the timer will skip ahead to a new row if there are no immediate moves left, so it's best to maximize the nu
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by 3JPLW 11y ago
In the US, at least, there's a strange convention that a "cup" of coffee is 6 ounces[1]. 2 mugs is typically about 4 of these "cups". I'm not sure what convention the NY Times is using, but the quantities are
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by 3JPLW 12y ago
Man, they took the least-informative numbers from that article. Much more interesting is the difference from their predicted divorce rate (which corrects for race, gender, and income, but not age, unfortunately). Quite a few of the enginee
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by 3JPLW 12y ago
Yes, I did read that. But what I didn't understand is why you were disregarding what seems to be a key part of interplanetary travel. The point that johngalt and I are making is that "falling" isn't the only way to get

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