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by ISL 4y ago
The article headline's assertion is true for software, but it won't necessarily be true for hardware. In the hardware world, access to excellent equipment (and colleagues) can be a huge draw for top talent. If you work on optical
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by ISL 4y ago
I largely agree. There are many public utilities on the internet on which we each individually rely. Careful what you wish for, though. Ever tried to sign up for a public utility without your real name, personal identification, a physical
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by ISL 4y ago
Nuclear weapons can be countered by other WMDs, by cyberwarfare, by propaganda and misinformation, by economic warfare, and many more. Once launched, nuclear weapons are difficult, but not impossible (see ABM defense systems) to counter, bu
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by ISL 4y ago
It isn't so much a race to find the oldest document, but rather a way to acknowledge the ancient giants on whose shoulders we stand. Citing all the way back to Laozi is kind of a power-move, though. Done wrong, it seems silly and cont
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by ISL 4y ago
The transformer-coupling of Ethernet isn't a trivial fact. When building precision instrumentation, I was extremely happy to learn about this from one of our old-timers who had been working on systems since the days of the VAX. You nee
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by ISL 4y ago
It isn't every day you see the Tao Te Ching as reference #1 for a Nature paper. Here is the relevant chapter: https://www.egreenway.com/taoism/ttclz78.htm
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by ISL 4y ago
I doubt that you can do this daily -- I don't think Takeout can work differentially. Monthly or annual downloads though, can be scheduled manually simply by putting a note on your calendar. If an account goes down, the thing you'l
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by ISL 4y ago
One solution to many of these concerns is a periodic backup (via Takeout) of your Google account.
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by ISL 4y ago
In the short term, yes, but in the long term, panel-production capacity will be a key pillar of a country's independence. Buying panels from another country helps that other country realize both enduring expertise and aides their econo
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by ISL 4y ago
Goggles are an important first step -- if the wavelength is long-enough, you can sometimes get away with quite-inexpensive goggles. The short focal length helps, but you're starting with a lot of power. Careful with specular reflection
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by ISL 4y ago
Coming from a scientific/laser safety background here... How does a system like this prevent loss of control of a beam? In a university setting, I would guess that a completely open system like this would only be permitted if interlock
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by ISL 4y ago
There's a good chance that the parent franchises of all of your local chain pizza-places are doing precisely that.
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by ISL 4y ago
It is almost as if there is a market for a touchscreen that can reconfigure itself to present arbitrary tactile physical buttons.....
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by ISL 4y ago
Not a lot of bugs in space, so it is hard for them to get in....
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by ISL 4y ago
I'm fairly certain that my current Debian installation dates from ~2006, whenever I tired of running Gentoo for its amd64 support and returned to Debian, which I had used from 2001-2004. It is wonderful that these distributions maintai
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by ISL 4y ago
Rich people value time highly. Coach-class that gets you somewhere quickly can be worth a lot more than first-class that takes twice as long.
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by ISL 4y ago
The Most Important Thing is a great book. I prefer the non-annotated version. If you're a value investor and haven't yet encountered it, it is a great and accessible read. I've given a number of copies to friends.
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by ISL 4y ago
I'm very happy to see that a vulnerability introduced in a May 2022 was found, diagnosed, and fixed in a June 2022 update. After something went wrong, a bunch of things went right very quickly. Nice to have good news on a Monday mornin
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by ISL 4y ago
Lahars from Rainier might bury Renton, but definitely not from Baker :).
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by ISL 4y ago
It may actually be a negative sign for security if the maintainers of the Great Firewall regard an application as safe.
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by ISL 4y ago
That's a great idea -- the chocolate only gets better with age until you're 85 or so. Tough strategy for the 101-year-old in your life, though....
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by ISL 4y ago
Cash carries its own (comparatively small) costs -- one need only look at the lives of lottery winners or the Alternative Minimum Tax to see that even cash isn't always free.
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by ISL 4y ago
While the article's point is well-taken and frequently correct, I'll disagree in part. In the best of cases, the value brought by a gift can radically exceed the market value of the gift itself. Time with a loved-one or assistance
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by ISL 4y ago
Pulling @drey08's message up to parent-level: "drey08 38 minutes ago | unvote | parent | next [–] This is about commit comments, not commit messages."
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by ISL 4y ago
Consider finding an academic niche in which to really make this product sing; a community that is receptive to the idea. If the PoC can be shown to work in one community, neighboring fields can then point at it and say, "see, this thi
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by ISL 4y ago
Iceland doesn't seem to have any/many mosquitoes, but yowza, does it have midges (especially, as the article below says, near Myvatn). https://icelandmag.is/article/are-there-midges-iceland#:~:te... .
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by ISL 4y ago
That sentence is very readable for anyone who would be at a relevant conference. As an experimental physicist, everything but the MHV (maximally helicity violating) was readable/comprehensible to me. Theorists in the field will read t
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by ISL 4y ago
Very pleased to see news like this -- observations of this sort are where the big theoretical advances sometimes emerge.
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by ISL 4y ago
I'm sure the ship has sailed on Carbon's naming convention, but darn if that isn't a confusing article-title. It is interesting to contemplate the most-ambiguous and least-comprehensible/googleable name one might be able
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by ISL 4y ago
Smart repair shops will enable it (and document it) as Step 0 in a repair. What a great way to reduce risk and liability for everyone.

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