Isamu

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541.
by Isamu 5y ago
> gold is the least reactive metal Platinum I believe beats it. But it is rare to find in antiquity because of the high melting point.
542.
by Isamu 5y ago
Thanks for brightening my day! Honestly- I can use the laughs today.
543.
by Isamu 5y ago
> He refused to give details about the type of drone, but they have been widely described as military-style and as having large wings.
544.
by Isamu 5y ago
Because we were at the mercy of NCSA Mosaic, Netscape launched as a Mosaic killer. Then as Microsoft awoke in alarm because they were at the mercy of Netscape they launched Internet Explorer, effectively killing Netscape which spun out Fire
545.
by Isamu 5y ago
The one in Gettysburg is still around, recently restored. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Cyclorama
546.
by Isamu 5y ago
So what is right wing discourse in India? How would I distinguish it? Not to be disrespectful, I just would like to know since I have such a large number of Indian friends.
547.
by Isamu 5y ago
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I think it’s a mistake to elevate anybody to hero. We can praise a work or a deed but we really have no visibility into someone’s character usually. And anyway the narrative of the great man is bunk meant to s
548.
by Isamu 5y ago
> Transformer steel is not all born alike. Manufacturers will provide data sheets about their products (often on their web sites), where you can see what they offer. There are usually many grades, with vastly different loss characteristi
549.
by Isamu 5y ago
The examples of surviving wicker fence walls are amazing.
550.
by Isamu 5y ago
And a Merry Christmas to you too! So glad I can read katakana now!
551.
by Isamu 5y ago
> prevent CSAM content from reaching their servers This is an approach to avoid having some law enforcement agency using CSAM as an excuse to be granted access to paw through those servers. Otherwise it’s hard to deflect such requests.
552.
by Isamu 5y ago
Using volcanic rock in concrete was done to lighten vaults and domes, e.g. the Pantheon. This is distinct from using volcanic ash in the concrete mix which was essential for the long lasting strength. Arguably Roman concrete was discovered
553.
by Isamu 5y ago
> it’s natural enough in a libertarian world to believe that something that benefits you must automatically be ‘right’ for the whole world. That belief is a version of what I call ‘automaticism’ - the idea that if you leave things alone
554.
by Isamu 5y ago
The idea that today’s innovations are incremental and the innovations of the past were leaps is not quite right. History of technology is a hobby of mine and I have been struck by how incremental all the big innovations of the past really w
555.
by Isamu 5y ago
It’s okay to say quadruped, rather than Boston-Dynamics-like, because there are significant differences and this is interesting in its own right.
556.
by Isamu 5y ago
[edit in response to the almost random downvote that I seem to get at first] Point is that soda can engineering responded to the embarrassment of the ubiquitous littering and made a product that took care of it. The evolution of the soda ca
557.
by Isamu 5y ago
Okay yeah bacteria, but cockroaches are just a trope. Why jellyfish? That’s piqued my interest.
558.
by Isamu 5y ago
When I was a wee lad the soda cans were not yet engineered to retain the opener ring, and at every national park or scenic view there would be thousands of soda can rings, in addition of course to the millions of cigarette butts.
559.
by Isamu 5y ago
I find comments like this interesting - what is so implausible about this? It’s just a bit of radio chatter, nothing amazing happens, just a funny anecdote that a pilot tells when speaking to an audience. Maybe because it’s a polished story
560.
by Isamu 5y ago
That reminds me - I need to upgrade my NAVI so that I can access the Wired.
561.
by Isamu 5y ago
Agreed, for this application (texting) a simple approach is probably best. You have to look at the particulars of your domain, it’s not one size fits all.
562.
by Isamu 5y ago
Is this what they are doing? Seems unlikely that you would transmit so much overhead when the data rate is so low, unless you needed to overcome a lot of noise. It’s about the numbers, there’s trade-offs for each specific application. I wou
563.
by Isamu 5y ago
Yes, if an error is detected there’s an automatic retry. I just want to remind others that checksums or any scheme has undetected errors, in which case a retry doesn’t happen. The human in the loop will say, that was garbled, could you repe
564.
by Isamu 5y ago
> Because all transmissions are secured by checksums and automatic query, no transmission errors are possible. Just a reminder to people implementing systems with error detection: undetected errors are always possible. Checksums may be j
565.
by Isamu 5y ago
> SIMs can send SMS on their own using a feature called “proactive MO-SMS” So many interesting tidbits in this article. This is what I come to HN for.
566.
by Isamu 5y ago
The small “sugar pumpkins” are generally used for canning. I think those are harvested with much less waste.
567.
by Isamu 5y ago
They did a reveal during the keynote of the states they are currently supporting for IDs. It is standard Apple to be secretive until the announcement.
568.
by Isamu 5y ago
Sounds like something you’d use a Kalman filter for. Except maybe because a Kalman filter expects Gaussian inputs, something fancier is used to deal with nonlinear inputs? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter
569.
by Isamu 5y ago
Middle and upper management are mostly concerned about risk, because the environment they are in rewards being “done” more than trying something that could have a bigger payoff. That is, the downside of accepting risk tends to outweigh the
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by Isamu 5y ago
> There has to be some reason why Saigon 1975 and Kabul 2021 were such a mess. Sure, the US was exiting one region while under fire from fighters from yet another place that sought to “liberate” the region. Chaos from locals that hoped t

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