Beldin

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by Beldin 5y ago
Indeed. I've heard that there was a lead time of about 12 years on the EUV machines at ASML. I had a tour of one off their facilities once (generic recruitment thingy). Back in early 2000s they were working to correct for errors where
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by Beldin 5y ago
Somewhat. You can have a charge to your account reversed, but it's not a common thing and the process isn't trivialised. Source: almost accidentally undid an in-shop payment because their processor was based in a different town wh
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by Beldin 5y ago
A star is an abundant source of energy. Outside star power (potentially stored in chemical bonds such as in oil), a civilisation may make use of their planet's heat (geothermal power), their planet's tides, nuclear fission, or nuc
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by Beldin 5y ago
I remember a presentation by the head of security of an Internet-only bank years ago, about banking malware. The latest malware was a man-in-the-browser style one: it intercepted your input and changed what you saw on-screen. This was used
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by Beldin 5y ago
Pre-pandemic, I used both Bluejeans and (Blackboard.com's) Collaborate Ultra. Bluejeans already let you use your phone years before. Neither required an account for anyone but meeting organiser. Collaborate Ultra doesn't even hav
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by Beldin 5y ago
We'll also have to take food for the whole duration, or develop a taste for hydrogen atoms alongside a functioning Bussard ramjet. Oh, the rocket equation really doesn't like option 1. (Hypothesis: any process we can devise to tur
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by Beldin 5y ago
Destroying dikes is part of the Dutch defense plan, actually. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieuwe_Hollandse_Waterlinie Of course, officially, "this plan is abandoned" nowadays. Nevertheless, I'd bring
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by Beldin 5y ago
Having to send new troops just to evacuate embassy personnel before your old troops have finished leaving isn't the proudest moment ever, I'd think. That is: the humiliation isn't in retreating, but in things collapsing even
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by Beldin 5y ago
I've seen that as FANGMAN - adding NVidia to the mix. I never considered it before, but the image of a man with fangs that slowly sucks the life out of you also might fit, depending on your PoV.
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by Beldin 5y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/floorter/status/14237077259896545... "It's a bit awkward to see a Facebook representative dunking on Apple about privacy. But in the end it doesn't really matter if WhatsA
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by Beldin 5y ago
I am in CS. If a student of mine posted "ISIS shit", I'd want nothing to do with that person for personal reasons, irrespective of professional consequences.
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by Beldin 5y ago
What is it that ensures licensing is required? Patents? Because patents on x86 technology predating amd64 should be expired by now... and without patent protection, another company would be allowed to reverse-engineer it, no?
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by Beldin 5y ago
The (very) few times I've submitted something, it was to share something I was enthusiastic about. Following submission I will check the submission once myself and correct obvious mistakes. But other than that: why bother? The submissi
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by Beldin 5y ago
Oh definitely it takes more effort than Sci-Hub. Should've mentioned that in the post. For a single paper, googling for the pdf, failing that, searching for author page / institutional repo doesn't take much effort. A few min
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by Beldin 5y ago
Not to take away from Sci-Hub, but even without institutional access, there are often alternatives: - more and more research institutes have a public repository of articles. - plenty of authors put their own (preprints of) papers on their p
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by Beldin 5y ago
Sounds weird... Do you know to what extent those are correlated? That is: is the contractor told every time the filter thinks it has found adult entertainment? Or was your case exceptional?
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by Beldin 5y ago
Aside: The distinction between safety and security I know: - safety is "the system cannot harm the environment" - security is the inverse: "the environment cannot harm the system" To me, your distinction has to do with t
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by Beldin 5y ago
I came across a synopsis of this book a week or so ago, read about the time differential and it got me wondering: what's the explanation for the time differential? We know that time passes slower in stronger gravitational fields. A neu
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by Beldin 5y ago
Given previous incidents where renowned sites spread malware via ads (eg. bbc), accepting ads on your system is simply unacceptable from a security point of view. I've never heard of anyone being reimbursed by a website that unwittingl
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by Beldin 5y ago
I had a hiccup pressing a button once. Was kicked back to initial screen and the student was "locked" - which requires an admin to reset. So: maybe, but the back end is probably too flakey. Official recommendation is to use IE for
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by Beldin 5y ago
I was grading an online exam yesterday. You're lucky. This program used an SPA. The core workflow is hidden and split over multiple "tabs". Tabs include: question, given answer, score awarded. That's right, none of thos
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by Beldin 5y ago
It has little to do with will, and much more with building a scientific career. Unless you meant that the way academia is structured is the problem here. Because it is and it leads to these excesses. Publishing, itself an acknowledged probl
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by Beldin 5y ago
Not all journals (and venues) are equal, just like how not all canyons are the Grand Canyon. When planning your holiday, the canyon matters. When submitting your paper, the venue matters - is it the right audience, and does it maximalise th
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by Beldin 5y ago
What I'm missing in this story is how owning land made women wealthy. I can believe that land was expensive, but I'm not sure how owning lands generates income - except by selling it. Or would this be the type of land that comes
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by Beldin 5y ago
I think most production cars cannot sustain that - to say nothing of their tyres. I guess most top out somewhere around 200-225 kph (124-140 mph). And tyres even sooner - 160-180 kph is my guess.
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by Beldin 5y ago
My first thought was "what would the speed limit be?" 130 km/hr (80 mph). So, in addition to the obvious benefits, this speed limit apparently also reduces CO2 emissions. Honestly, not sure why anyone would argue against this
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by Beldin 5y ago
Similar experience here. Upon first boot, (i.e. during setup of windows) MS insists upon a microsoft account. Typically, you're not in a position to google around for how to not have that. After all, you're in an OS setup screen,
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by Beldin 5y ago
I don't think a yes/no vote on a complex issue where there was blatant propaganda (bordering on misinformation) in support of either side really tells you much about how citizens feel about the actual complexities of case. Phrased
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To put that slightly differently: warnings/popups are never needed unless you're taking data from your visitor which has nothing to do with the function(s) your offering the visitor. The GDPR spells out when you're allowed
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by Beldin 5y ago
The article lets me wonder: what is a molecule? I can see how one might arrive at Sc1.5Al0.5W3O12 - but that suggests that one Sc and one Al atom are shared between two of this stuff's molecules. Anyone an idea why you wouldn't co

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