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by Phlarp 4y ago
How do you shield a radio receiver from electromagnetic disturbances on the antenna?
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Depends how you feel about electromagnetism? Do electromagnetic waves moving through space induce voltage on a conductor? If yes, a sufficiently powerful solar storm could easily destroy electrical transmission lines, fry every inductive m
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by Phlarp 4y ago
How is a solar storm a species level threat? Life does just fine without electricity.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
The "double-tap" issue of both a defective keyboard, and a laptop design that had the keyboard physically fused to the case had to be expensive even for Apple. My experience was a 2017 model developing keyboard issues after ~2.5 y
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by Phlarp 4y ago
A big turning point for me with Elon was actually listening to him talk. In countless interviews he's asked some variation of the question "how do you do it all" and every single time it's the most obvious softball quest
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Elon is a litmus test for nerds. You can tell a lot about an engineer by when they decide(d) Elon is a clown. No doubts the insanity started long before the cave diver defamation incident (although this was the turning point for me persona
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Gasoline fires are different than a battery fire. Battery fires are class 2 or self oxidizing. They require substantially more resources to mitigate. A gasoline fire can be extinguished with traditional fire fighting methods. Battery fires
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by Phlarp 4y ago
The primitive selection looks rather informed with the hindsight of NSA compromising the security of NIST curves
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Peer review before the white paper was published? I'd be fascinated to learn more about any such conversations.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Satoshi is (so far)
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by Phlarp 4y ago
North Korea seems to have been weaponizing it more aggressively than anyone at this point.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Yes, but implementation errors-- not fundamental flaws in the theory or underlying mathematics. It's not a statement about such things being impossible, just unlikely to come from a single individual working in complete isolation up un
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Putting a pair of sandbags in the back-end of an unloaded rear wheel drive pickup is not the same thing as driving a 9000 lb sedan.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
>That would be a large steady state heat loss! Yes it is. I don't have a large dataset of exact temp conditions and charging curves (Elon certainly does though, someone go ask him!) I can tell you if the outdoor temps are below 15F
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by Phlarp 4y ago
If it's cold enough a Tesla plugged into 120v/20a charging circuit will actually lose voltage over time. It's consuming over 2000 watts just to keep the battery at an acceptable temp for the chemistry to function. The weight
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Only lick the boot, don't swallow it whole.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Sure, and plenty of innocent people rot in jail for months before their trial because they can't afford the cash bail. That Americans are at all proud of such a system is disgusting.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
A stunning indictment of the American penal system delivered as some sort of flex?
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by Phlarp 4y ago
For rich and connected people convicted of white collar crimes it's very common. It's also common for upper class criminals to arrange the terms of their own work release-- where they are employed by a company they own and are fre
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by Phlarp 4y ago
For whatever it's worth, the federal authorities have very little budget/mandate to prosecute darknet drug distribution offenses. They go after the darknet markets themselves, money laundering / sanctions avoidance and maybe
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by Phlarp 4y ago
You forgot roadster 2.0 and the mannequin robot
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by Phlarp 4y ago
No no, those apps are for investing not gambling. If you believe that I have some oceanfront property in Iowa you could buy
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by Phlarp 4y ago
The professor is an employee. The student is the customer. Name one other industry where customers pay 5 or 6 figures to be treated this poorly.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
When we do it: Realpolitik When they do it: Gangsters
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by Phlarp 4y ago
In this case it took both the one employee out of 20k+ getting tricked and the entire (supposedly world class) engineering org that allowed admin authentication credentials to get hardcoded into a globally accessible power shell script expo
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Unverified clickbait gets more engagement. Almost by definition you get engagement from the people who identify with the unverified clickbait because it reinforces their world-view, and engagement from the people who recognize it as unverif
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by Phlarp 4y ago
>Facebook coded a rule that All algorithms are coded rules, the idea of using an algorithm to somehow launder responsibility in tech companies is ridiculous. Before companies had algorithms they had heuristics, nobody would (successfully
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by Phlarp 4y ago
>the corporate culture that made the company successful will slowly fracture as all the new hires never get exposed to it. What about all the companies that have this happen to them without any remote workers to blame it on?
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by Phlarp 4y ago
2 years I think? But there was more pressure being applied in the media. I remember multiple articles like this one (0) that circulated at the time. [0] https://theoutline.com/post/2402/the-new-macbook-keyboard-is..
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Paying protection to the mob is a good idea in general. Even if you're generally careful, you never know when a leg will break because of something that was your fault. disclaimer: I have applecare+ on an m1 pro

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