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by ISL 6y ago
I have always assumed that weight-and-balance was assessed using load cells or strain gauges in the landing gear. Is that not so?
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by ISL 6y ago
Yes. This would be extremely helpful for experimentalists who spend a lot of their time pointing out, for example, that one's new theory can't violate the equivalence principle by very much at all. Similarly, it would be helpful
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by ISL 6y ago
You might not be aware, but it is possible to change the color of your top-bar in your profile once you have more than 250 karma.
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by ISL 6y ago
The primary shared component is the ring/yoke. I worked in the same lab as a substantial team of g-2 scientists for the last decade and watched them come to this result. The level of re-characterization of the properties of the entire
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by ISL 6y ago
My favorite example of this was during a lecture on waveguides, when Michael Schick picked up the section of cylindrical metal pipe he was using to motivate the cylindrical-waveguide problem at hand, looked at the class through the pipe, an
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by ISL 6y ago
It is going to open a big door for people who reimplement APIs. In particular, social-media aggregators (one app to display your Twitter, FB, Instagram, etc.) may have new protections.
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by ISL 6y ago
Companies did what we collectively asked them to do through national governance?
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by ISL 6y ago
Not just former dates, future ones, too?
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by ISL 6y ago
Seconded. Overleaf has had a substantial positive impact on my life/work.
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by ISL 6y ago
A small folding bluetooth keyboard can be awesome in this situation.
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by ISL 6y ago
Link fairly-prosecuting the perpetrators of Khashoggi's murder to the continuation of US military aid?
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by ISL 6y ago
Think of the possibilities: A simultaneous interpreter for talking to birds. This brings to mind a Gary Larson cartoon: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c1TTxKbgueE/TZ_zI1E3urI/AAAAAAAAI...
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by ISL 6y ago
I disagree that this is hyperbolic -- to be in the wilderness is to be alone and away from humanity. A starlink train is a stark expression that one can never really be alone anymore. When I was a kid, it was a fun/rare occurrence to s
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by ISL 6y ago
Those activities don't help much when you encounter the really big challenges in life. Spirituality offers frameworks for dealing with, and often embracing, many of the questions for which there may never be a satisfactory answer. Whet
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by ISL 6y ago
This is an argument against centralization more than it is against government. "One index to rule them all" seems more fraught with difficulty than, "large cloud providers are unhappy that crawlers on the open web are crawlin
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by ISL 6y ago
Imagine if Donald Trump decided that indexing Joe Biden's campaign site was unacceptable. A mandated singular public cache has potential slippery slopes.
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by ISL 6y ago
I originally upvoted, but with further reflection, I'm not certain . There is real enduring value in being a source for information that is true and trusted. It is possible that Facebook might choose that path. The harder question is
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by ISL 6y ago
That contributions are voluntary can be a strength, not a weakness.
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by ISL 6y ago
Yes. With a linux phone, there is a solid chance that I won't be forced to replace my phone in order to continue security updates. I very much look forward to pulling my software from a DFSG-approved repository. As long as there is en
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by ISL 6y ago
I think that reckoning has already begun. The number of countries requiring that fabs be built locally continues to grow.
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by ISL 6y ago
The suppression of democracy is something I'd like to see less of globally. Perhaps the strongest argument in favor of leaving it up on Hacker News is that free speech is essential to both Hacking and News. I hadn't known that suc
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by ISL 6y ago
I'm fairly certain that GP was making a joke.
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by ISL 6y ago
How well does it work? Do you suffer eyestrain at similar rates to normal monitors?
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by ISL 6y ago
Yes. There are well-known places where we think the armor might be weak and we're trying all of them roughly equally. The moment someone finds an actual hole in the armor, a lot of people will jump in and hammer on that one in particul
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by ISL 6y ago
Even if they remain vertically-integrated, if they can sell an Apple datacenter blade or produce bespoke architectures for major cloud providers, the market is large -- Apple-scale.
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by ISL 6y ago
To continue the epicycle analogy: The problem in modern physics is that the epicycles work too well. There are some big obvious mysteries and an incredibly-successful epicycle-based theory. Essentially everyone expects that the epicycles ar
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by ISL 6y ago
I recently picked up a copy of Red Color News Soldier from the library, a photojournalist's description of events where call-out mentality is taken to the extreme (many of those who ran the call-outs later suffered brutal call-outs the
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by ISL 6y ago
While the genie was never even in the bottle, it is interesting to contemplate other paths we might have taken (or might yet take): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
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by ISL 6y ago
One cannot easily discuss tanks in Iraq without mentioning the Battle of 73 Easting at least in passing. Superior armament, training, and tactics make a huge difference. https://www.historynet.com/learned-battle-73-easting.h
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by ISL 6y ago
Small talk appears, on the surface, to have limited utility. With deeper study, though, it becomes clear that it is the impedance-matching that smooths the interaction between people. There is a reason that almost everyone who works in deep

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