ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This is great. It really pissed me off when David Chaum locked all the cool uses of ZKPs behind a patent wall. The DigiCash folks were peak dot com greed types, their business model was "We're going to get big chunk of change out
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I don't know, maybe all the big AI companies could come to an agreement not to poach each others employees?[1] It is always surprising to me when billionaire CEOs are complaining that their own employees are min-maxing their earning po
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
What this article highlights for me is the unintended consequence of filling our space with electromagnetic waves. As someone who got hooked by the software defined radio (SDR) bug I was amazed with all the "stuff" that is going o
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Don't buy your HVAC systems from Crane.
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I friend of mine in the infosec business spends most of their time (it seems to me) to make their malware honeypots super representative of their respective hardware. Whether its a windows XP based thermostat, a Siemen's PLC controller
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
A tote without a tot is just an 'e'. :-)
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This is an interesting paper. I had read about recycling cow urine in dairies[1] and I wonder if the yeast would be able to make hydroxypatite out of it. At the time I came across this paper I was looking at people creating financial incent
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Interesting, perhaps age related deafness contributes.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Kind of like obfuscated C code I suspect.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
The answers here have been pretty solid, a lot of what you want depends on where you live. For example, it is very likely that this is not possible if you're property is covered by an HOA. The definition of "it looks nice" is
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
So a cone sitting on its circular base is maximally stable, what position do you put the cone into that is both stable, and if it gets disturbed, even slightly, it reverts to sitting on its base?
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Okay, I love this so much :-). Thanks for that.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Heh #1 and #14 on HN :-). I always appreciate references to the actual paper.
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I was thinking exactly two stable states. Presumably you could have a sphere with the light end and heavy end having flats on them which might work as well. The tamper requirement I've worked with in the past needs strong guarantees ab
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Worst D-4 ever! But more seriously, I wonder how closely you could get to an non-uniform mass polyhedra which had 'knife edge' type balance. Which is to say; 1) Construct a polyhedra with uneven weight distribution which is stable
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I literally applied to work at McDonnell Douglas when I heard about DC-X! It went against my choice to NOT work for a defense contractor, but it was a really cool project. They were amenable to hiring me but a program manager told me in con
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Agreed, it brings the story home. What I most like about this news is that Honda has joined Blue Origin and SpaceX in demonstrating a complete "hop" (all though my all time favorite is the "ring of fire" video SpaceX did
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Okay, while it's really interesting that there are these detectable electrical "signals" this headline really needs "scientist who eats a mushroom discovers that mushrooms can talk." kind of vibe. (the champignon pu
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Anyone have a link to the paper?
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
The corollary works well too; "If it's AI, it doesn't work." That's because its the same mechanism at play. When people can't explain the underlying algorithm, they can't show when the algorithm would work
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I love these guys and gals. Just knocking down the engineering goals one after another. It's been a lot of fun watching their progress over the years. If they told me "we're going to build a energy producing stellarator in 5
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Excellent summary.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I get that people don't like the braces in TeX but ... :-) I'm only half sarcastic here, I don't like them either. I have recently been using pandoc[1] to do the things they are talking about, I had added some stuff in perl u
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Agreed, and for folks who can still remember some of Jackson's electrodynamics a really interesting visualization of field equations in "real" time.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Dang! Me and my misreading of the units. That makes more sense too.
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Yeah but their spouse :-) 75x larger dose.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
My mom told me that once I learned to read I would never be bored. Turns out that wasn't accurate :-)
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Misunderstanding, I asked him that exact question which was "Why are you working when you could be doing anything you want?" and his response was that he was doing what he wanted. It was a conscious choice. I've mentioned thi
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I don't know anyone who "defaulted" to working when they didn't have to. I do know several people who actively avoid explaining why they are working to people who don't have the choice to work or not.
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Could you say more about that? I don't think of it as patronage and I agree with this statement: "Corporations only pay you money to exert your brain towards some goal." but in my experience you can go to a corporation and

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